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G-MEN OPEN WAR ON RACKETEERING Field Is Wide Open, Hoover Declares, After In- vestigation. BY REX COLLIER. The “G-men,” having delivered smashiang blows at kidnaping and bank robbing, are trailing gangsters into another field of crime—industrial racketeering. J. Edgar Hoover, head G-man, re- turned from New York yesterday with first-hand information on racketeer- ing conditicus reported to be acute there. He said his agents are investi- gating various types of racketeering affecting interstate commerce in vari- ous parts of the country. ‘The field is wide open,” he re- marked, “because kidnaping, extortion and baak robbery are being brought ‘under control.” ‘The Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion will bring all available resources to bear on racketeers who attempt to “muscle in” on legitimate interstate | businesses by exacting tribute under threat of violence or by actual acts of violence, such as bombiag, gunfire or halting of shipments. Interstate Angle of Cases. Hoover said his study of the situa- tion in New York was in the nature of a “bird dog survey,” in which he sought to ascertain whether the field covered by complaints there was one in which Federal agents have juris- dicticn. He indicated some of the offenses appear to have an interstate angle which would bring them within the scope of the Federal racketeering act. Under this statute, the Justice De- partment is authorized to arrest and prosecute persons who interefere with interstate trade or commerce “by vio- lence, threats, coercion or intimida- tion.” The law, passed in June, 1934, provides for imprisonment of violators for from 1 to 10 years or assessment | of a $10,000 fine, or both. Constitutional limitations of the act prevent the F. B. L investigators | from handling cases which do not in- volve interference with delivery of goods across State lines. They are powerless to act where threats or violence are aimed at stores, res- taurants or other businesses of intra- state nature. A grand jury in New York is in- vestigating violations of State laws against racketeering. Poultry Racketeering. New York racketeers have centered much of their activity about the poultry business, in which tons of birds raised in New Jersey and other nearby States are shipped into Man- hattan for consumption there. This type of violation, it is said, comes within the purview of Hoover’s agents. The “chiseling-in” variety of racke- Arms flung high in the accepted salute, THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON. D. dusky Fascist girls from Italy's African colonies cry out tneir enthusiasm for Premier Benito Mussolini. He reviewed them in & camp near Rome on his return from the recent war maneuvers in the Italian Alps. —A. P. Photo. This Changing World Uncle Sam Now Courted by Same European Na- tions Which Dubbed Him the *‘Popacious Ethiopia (Continued From First Page.) carrying freshly killed whole cows. These were promptly carved into Yankee” Over War Debts. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN, HE way Uncle Sam is now courted by the European na- tions would not make one think it is the same “Uncle Shylock,” the same “rapacious Yankee” of a few years ago, who had the | temerity to insist that the debts in- curred by foreign nations during the | last war should be paid, at least | partially. * ok ok ok Foreign prime ministers and secre- taries of state now receive American | charge d’affaires with a broad smile and tell them unhesitatingly the most confidential moves their countries in- tend to make to “preserve the peace of the world.” “Our policy and your policy Tun along the same lines,” our diplo- mats are assured by British and the French statesmen, “We want peace and will do our utmost to preserve it.” Those few diplomats who were in the service-20 years ago remember only teer was in his heyday during the reign of Al Capone and his gang, but the break-up of that mob, due both to income tax prosecutions and inter- gang warfare, caused the underworld to turn to other ways of making “easy money.” Kidnaping for ransom, extortion conspiracies and bank robberies be- came so commonplace that Congress enacted special laws giving the De- partment of Justice jurisdiction in such crimes. The spectacular round- up of kidnapers, extortionists and bank robbers that followed brought a marked decline in these offenses. ‘The racketeering law was passed long after the kidnaping act and was designed to meet the developing crime problem along the industrial front. According to Joseph B. Keenan, As- sistant Attorney General in charge of the criminal division, however, the | law has so many limitations that the Federal Government is greatly handi- capped in its war on racketeers. “MASS MURDERS” BARED | BY DIARY OF GIRL, 17| Rumanian*Prisoner “Got Bpiritual Satisfaction Out of Killing,” With Fair Decoy. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, September | 28—1It was the blood-curdling diary of a 17-year-old girl, police disclosed tonight, that uncovered the 21 “mass murders” for which Basile Tcaciuc is being held and to which, they said, he has confessed. Parents of the girl found the diary, in which she kept a record of the fan- tastic killings, and notified authori- ties. 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There are still some idealists who believe the League of Nations is going to survive the shock of the Italo- Ethiopian conflict and that eventually America will be found at Geneva. The theory at present expounded is that because of differences of interests between the Western and the Eastern hemispheres there might be two League of Nations which, while taking care of the specific problems of each hemis- phere, will work together for the preservation of peace. * ok X K Such a move is considered neces- sary since it is obvious that nations of the Eastern Hemisphere are re- | luctant to assume the maximum re- sponsibility for problems concerning mostly the Western Hemisphere, and vice-versa. The Manchurian and the Chaco wars are & sufficient justification for that thought. Despite the grave warning given by former Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson that the reluctance of the European nations to curb Japan will have far-reaching consequences in the future, the League made a spectacle of itself and allowed the Japanese to do whatever they wanted. 3 s Stimson’s warnings appear now prophetic. He had seen right from the very beginning. But the Yangtze and the Amur Rivers were not as im- portant to Great Britain, France and the smaller European nations as the Nile and the Rhine. And in the lobbies of the League of Nations it was whispered that America wanted Europe to pull her chestnuts out of the fire in the Far East and risk a war with Japan in order to protect Uncle Sam’s commercial interests there. In the Chaco War there was the same lamentable failuze of the iE | League to stop the bloody jungle con- flict. In that particular case the situation was still worse, because of the concealed jealousy which existed between the United States and the Igeague of Nations. o * *x ¥ X But, say the idealists who still be- lieve in a warless world, if there were two groups to take care of the par- ticular problems of each hemisphere, such situations could not exist and the responsibilities undertaken by one group as a whole could be shared r | without fear by the other group. East will remain East and West will re- main West, but their paths will meet in a common cause—peace. * k% % In the deafening noise of Europe's rattling sabres a few responsible men still remember the cost of the last war. George Lansbury, the leader of the British Labor party, has just issued a pamphlet containing some interest- ing figures: 10,000,000 men were killed in action; 20,000,000 were wounded; 9,000,000 children remained orphans and 5,000,000 women were widowed; 10,000,000 people were driven from their homes and 13,000,000 civilians died as a consequence of the war. * ok ok x The last session of the League of Nations brought more visitors and sightseers of a special type at Geneva Colors or black and white, Get our Ire¢ llll(%ltel and samples. olumbia Planograph Co., 50 L St. N.E, Metropolitan 4861 1 fe) than any other meeting of that body. The feminine element was, as usual, predominant and the handsome Anthony Eden was the main center of | attraction. He had to dodge his ad- mirers who were all desirous to either | get his picture of his autograph. “My, what a charming movie star he would make,” sighed an attractive | | Polish blond. Poor Laval, the French prime minister, was the most downcast member of the Geneva gathering— more downcast even than his Ethiopian colleague. Upon leaving the last meeting, he | felt so wretched that he decided to | walk to his hotel—a thing he had | never done before—and upon grriving' at the Hotel des Bergues he took three | consecutive strong drinks—an equally rare feat for the dark-complexioned Frenchman. * X ¥ X But while sincere pacifists are hav- | ing these day dreams, war drums | sound louder and louder in the jungles | of Ethiopia, in the plains of Italy, in | the mountains of Tyrol and fn the | Scottish hills. * ok * % Although officially there still is an | embargo on the export of war ma- terials to Ethiopia, cases with small rifles, machine guns, light artillery and much ammunition are being sent | into Ethiopia on camelback and by small boats. They are being smug- gled into Selassie’s empire under the benevolent eye of the British and the | French authorities. X X K % Selassie has finally made up his mind to open his secret war chest and pay cash for the necessary war ma- | terial. This hoard, the location of which | |1s said to be known only to the Em- peror and a few of his most trusted men—Westerners—contains a vast | quantity of gold, silver, diamonds and | other jewels. It has been accumu- lated by past Emperors for centuries just for such an emergency as the | country is facing now. -— KiNG FLIGHT SETS MARK BY 4,000 FEET Acronautic Association Finds He Flew to Altitude of 15,082 Feet. National Aeronautic Association officials announced yesterday that Ben King, Washington sportsman pilo:, broke the world altitude record for seaplanes weighing less than 552 pounds by almost 4,000 feet in his flight last Tuesday. Bureau of Standards officials who calibrated his barograph found King had flown to an altitude of 15,082 feet, The oid record of 11,255 feer had been held by France since De- cember, 1930, Whaleboat Record Lowered. SAN DIEGO, Calif., September 28 (#).—Lowering the existing record by 7 seconds, a whaleboat crew from the U. 8. 8. Salt Lake City today won the coveted Battenberg Trophy, nosing out the defender and two other challengers by a comfortable margin. Time of the Salt Lake City’s 12- oared whaler was 14:05 for the mile- and-a-half course. The trophy, until today, was held by the U. 8. S. Con- cord. . CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Meeting, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Hamilton Hotel, 9 a.m. Tea, Pan-Hellenic Association of George Washington University, May- flower Hotel, 4 p.m. Memorial service, American War Mothers, Wardman Park Hotel, 8 p.m. TOMORROW. steaks and thrown to the warriors who washed them down with copius drafts of tej, potent African drink. The Emperor was greatly gratified at news the League of Nations is considering the dispatch of a com- mission of observers to fix respon- sibility for any aggression on the Italo-Ethiopian frontier. He was said to consider that four impartial observers would be suffi- cient, two to be flown to Aduwa on the northern front and two to Ogaden | in the south, Determined to avoid any untoward incident, Selassie yesterday summoned guards to attend Count Luigi Vinci- Gigliucei, the Italian Minister, who | sat near the Emperor as thousands of Ethiopian warriors brandished primitive weapons and shouted their allegiance during the Maskal review. His Empress, Mennen, expects to fly to Dessie on October 10 to or- ganize military hospitals. DUCE GESTURES TO BRITAIN. Indicates His Willingness to Nego- tiate Accords. ROME, September 28 (#).—Premier Mussolini stretched a friendly hand toward Great Britain today and an- nounced he had already offered to negotiate accords to quiet her fears over the African problem. At the same time, he disclosed, Ital- ian troop movements to Africa are “being accelerated,” and warned the Assembly of the League of Nations to keeps its hands off. (The Council is now negotiating for a settlement.) Speaking through a communique of the fifth and closing September cab- | inet session, Il Duce sought to localize the apparently imminent Ethiopian conflict by an agreement with Britain. The cabinet made four points: 1. Italy offers to make accords with i Great Britain. 2. Italy warns the League Assembly not to interfere. 3. Italy spurns Emperor Haile Selas- sie’s proposed neutral zone and his suggested” withdrawal of troops from his frontiers. The communique called the Ethiopian offer one for “a strategic purpose, not & pacific one.” 4. War preparations are speeded. The cabinet assured the League Italy would not abandon it: “Until the day when the League itself as- sumes full responsibility for ‘measures’ that strike at Italy.” ITALIANS QUIT GENEVA. being Aloisi and Rocco Leave as Others Prepare to Go. GENEVA, September 28 (#).— Italy's delegation to the League of Nations startled Geneva tonight by | either leaving, or preparing to leave, for Rome. Baron Pompo Aloisi departed, ac- companied by Guido Rocco of the foreign office. Headquarters of the delegation announced the others would leave tonight or tomorrow. Return Is Uncertain. If and when the delegation will re- turn was not clear. The action cre- ated great surprise, especially in view of the communique of the Italian cabinet today saying the delegation would remain here for a period. Aloisi yesterday had vigorously pro- tested the action of the Steering Coms mittee in recommending that the Assembly adjourn, subject to imme- diate call, rather than end its session. This action was carried out today. The assembly left for home, prepared to reassemble at an instant's notice, while the Council of the League, re- solved into a committee of 13, labored on in its work of making a report. Conflict Is Reviewed. Recommendations will be drafted by the Council next week. It reviewed the Italo-Ethiopian conflict today, making a basis for its,work. In some circles it was pointed out that with the Assembly in adjourn- ment and the Council in committee there was no reason why the Italians should not go home. Italy is not on the Council Committee. Boy and Dog Tragedy. PRATT, Kans. (#).—Eleven-year- old Virgil Wood was on his way home to Hutchinson today {o join his fam- ily in a “no dogs allowed” apartment. When the family planned to move, Virgil ran away with his dog. Found yesterday, he reported his Luncheon, Electric Institute, Carl- ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Luncheon, Newcomers' Club, Carl- ton Hotel, 12:30 p.m. Pashion show, Nancy Carter Shop, Mayflower Hotel, 2 p.m. Dinner, District Division, Young Democrats, Mayflower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Meeting, Dollar Ship Club, Hamil- ton Hotel, 7:30 pm. Dinner, Shade Shop, Hamilton Hotel, 6 pm. Meeting, City Firefighters, Hamil- ton Hotel, 8 p.m. Banquet, American War Mothers, Wardman Park Hotal, 8 pm. pet had been killed by a motor car. e e A A O Furnace Parts TERMITES (Flying Ants) Termites can thrive all Winter in 2 heated house. It will pay you to take advantage of our free in- spections. TERMITE CONTROL CO. A Washington Owned_Company Natl Press Bldg. Nat'l 2711 “‘Ask_Our Customers” C., SEPTEMBER 29, BRITAIN CONTINUES WAR PREPARATION Progress Is Unhampered by Friendly Gestures of Italy’s Cabinet. By the Associated Pre! LONDON, September 28.—Evidences of martial preparation continued in Great Britain today, despite friendly gestures by the Italian cabinet. References of good will to Britain in a communique of the Italan cab- inet, and assurances Rome had no designs against Britain, failed to elicit official reaction here. In authoritative quarters the view was expressed that the action in Rome would be wholly or largely ignored, in 5o far as it dealt with Britain, be- cause of what was called the refusal of Italy to deal with the real issue at stake in the Italo-Ethiopian turmoil. Vital Issue Menace to Peace. ‘The vital issue, these quarters as- serted, is the threat of disruption of peace within the League of Nations, rather than Anglo-Italian interests. The British viewpoint, as interpreted in this quarter, was that Italy's recent actions concern Britain, not because of any threat to her special interests in Africa, but rather because of her responsibilities to the League. With talk that Britain must im- mediately embark upon a shipbuilding program to bring her Navy up to full strength, the admiralty began calling for tenders for construction of the 21 ships. It is probable that the cost of the vessels, which won't be finished for two years, will be around £10,000,~ 000 (about $50,000,000). They will include three cruisers, nine destroyers, three submarines, one survey ship, one submarine depot ship, four sloops and several smaller ves- sels. At the same time Britain learned through social columns that Sir Rob- ert Brooke-Popham, inspector general of the air force, has left for Egypt for an unheralded inspection trip. Air Forces Assembled. | The visit coincides with many re- | cent indications Britain is assembling air reinforcements in the vicinity of Cairo, which controls the vital Suez | Canal link. Italy’s communique failed to disturb the customary week end lull at the foreign office. Officials believe the dispute has en- tered a period of temporary calm, giv- | ing all concerned an opportunity to | pause and reflect. | | | rival of Anthony Eden, minister for | League affairs, from Geneva for a re- port. Prime Minister Stanley Bald- win may reconvene the cabinet Tues- day or Wednesday to hear Eden and chart a course. Britain, it was learned, has ap- | proached the French government to | find out in what way France would | assist in carrying out her League obli- gations in the event of a fight in the Mediterranean. EGYPT EAGER FOR TREATY. | Anxiety Over Possibility of Italy's At- tack Dominant. CAIRO, Egypt, September 28 (#).— Egypt’s “real anxiety” in the Italo- | Ethiopian crisis, a high officlal said today, “is to conclude a projected | treaty with Great Britain enabling us to assume our own responsibilities in case of a national emergency.” “It is most definitely in our inter- | est to go hand in hand with Britain— in fact we have no choice in the mat- ter,” an official said. Egyptians have been so worried safe- guarding their own interests in the event of an Italo-Ethiopian war, they have evidenced no marked partiality for either the Italian or Ethiopian causes. While Egypt's million Copts keenly sympathize with their Ethiopian brothers of the same church, the great with their own security and Britain's ability to assure it, Defense measures harnessing Egypt's British troops stationed in this coun- try are progressing daily. —_—_ 30 PAROLE PETITIONS GO BEFORE BOARD TUESDAY Applications of Prisoners Will Be Studied at Meeting at Lorton Reformatory. . Application for release of 30 pris- oners will be considered Tuesday at a meeting of the Board of Indeter- minate Sentence and Parole, at the District Reformatory at Lorton, Va. Hugh F. Rivers, secretary to the board, said the board would hear ap- plications filed by the following: John Bell, Winston Andrews, Charlie Gross, William Diggs, George Payson, James Seay, Thomas Jenkins, Riston C. Scroth, Freddie Steadman, Eddie Gladden, Raymond Diggs, Robert White, Charles W. Skeen, Marcellus Leo West, Hita Johnson, Solon Rich- ardson, William Jackson, Charles Cook, Alonzo Dunbar, Daniel B. 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N.A) —Twenty miles west of this cap- ital, on the floor of a valley green with immensity of pastureland, a group of rectangular, metal-roofed buildings is the only sight within eyeshot which seems touched by the hand of Western man. These buildings house the school for mounted artillery practice. The Ethiopian state, for the first time in its long history, pursued the lore of the Pranks—the red-faced men of the Crusades. and, unless oge suddenly tumbles down upon another planet, there could be no greater contrast. So lavish is the Ethiopian Valley (at 10,000 feet altitude), that its thatched tukul huts stretched upon the plain seem & part of the vegetation, blossomed by an incredibly prodigal nature for the myriad bees droning among rippling miles of luiin. For here on this high plateau man lives with less effort than any other mountaineer might dream of. In 50 miles this correspondent saw only one sheepfold, in a valley teeming with broad-tail sheep and beeves knee-deep in grasses. Farm Land in Valley. The slopes of the high encircling mountains would be taken for pas- ture land in any other quarter of the globe, for the valley itself is actually farm land, deep alluvial soil dark with fertility, the grasses so tenacious that there are no ugly washes, the drain- age canalized into deep, ditches paved by the encroaching turf. | The sudden appearance of three | Swedish officers around & turn in the road reminds one that Ethiopia now seeks Western lore. These Swedish gentlemen may be teaching the arts of war, but assuredly there will be arts of peace accompanying them. One climbs out of a car shaken from the road ruts to greet these Scandinavians, all blue-and-white in King Gustave's service, and realizes for the first time what has been miss- ing in the mind’s eye: It is the hand of man upon the face of a farm land, those byres and folds, silos and cribs, and all the scattered gear of hus- bandry. These Swedish gentlemen have come to teach the craft of indirect fire, but one refuses to think of them as soldiers. Rather, they are the red- faced men from a far continent, breeders of cattle as well as inventors of dynamite, husbandmen no less than warriors. They may be school- ing the Emperor’s best cadets in the fire of mountain artillery; teaching lads of Sheba's strain to know ranges, parabolas, exterior ballistics. But as- suredly, if they remain in this val- ley through the dry seasons, they will give their pupils lessons in other, more profitable exercises. Their school itself is a marvel of tidyness in a ‘valley where Nature's lush carelessness is equaled by the bounty with thankless ease. The bar- racks are scrupulously neat, bunks | policed meticulously, blankets and | kits forever on inspection. Have Aptitude to Learn. The class itself is conducted on a balcony. At one of the class rooms a sand table is contoured to represent a mountain pass. At the other end | of the veranda 20 dark youths stand | | with alidades and rulers, while a slen- | | der Scandinavian, patrolling the floor, | calls out ranges and fuses. Response | is almost instantaneous, in a French which amazes. They have aptitude, these black | mountaineers, for a learning long | denied them. Whatever their elders— white-cloaked feudal barons, followed by herds of motley fusiliers—may think of Western man and his lore, the seed has fallen upon fertile ground in this high valley of in- credible richness. It will not be long, one thinks—as the students cry | sharply in French the ranges, bursts, fields of fire—before these dark lads from the high Ethiopian kingdoms will put this trigonometry to a sweeter | purpose, this rigid sanitation to a wider horizon, than the school of the soldier. It is not to be thought that the valley is alien to the use of arms. This scene, for all its tranquil green, Itas known sling and arrow, lance and spear, flintlock and high-powered cartridge before ever Haile Selassie asked King Gustgve for instructors. ‘The rifle is at the €rook of every shep- herd’s arm as he watches the flocks of his family, The child standing by tethered ponies, the youth following the cows, each carries & lance in his right hand. Barefooted and togaed, with the grace of those who wear Turn your old trinkets, jeweiry and watches into MONEY at— A.Kahn Jnc. Arthur J. Sundlun, Pres. 43 YEARS at 935 F STREET START A HECKING ACCOUNT with as little at— $s keep any balance vou want. Our Metered Service Charge Makes This Possible @ USE A BANK. .. ® GET A RECEIPT @ SAVE TIME ® SAVE TROUBLE TY BANK ® Sth and Mass. Ave. N.W. 9th and E. Cap. Sts. 3608 Georgia Ave. ® 8th and G Sts. S.E. @ 10th and Pa. Ave. ® 3401 Cona, Ave. Ethiopia is unlike any other country, | indisposition of those who take her | hiopians Anxious to Learn Secrets of Western Fighting Art of Indirect winding clothes, all male inhabitants of this valley sleep upon arms. 7,000,000 Males in Ethiopia. There are, as near as census takers know, some 7,000,000 males in Ethi- |opla. One can discount children of |less than . 4—the rest, whether | bondsmen or masters, are warriors. | Perhaps it is their ignorance, or, again, | their isolation, which gives their fa- thers such arrogance and pride. Atany rate, as the cadets stand, barefoot in khaki, and call the ranges and the loads, one realizes that the Swedes | are really acquainting them with the | viclous, destructive power of Western weapons, warning them practically against the anclent style of free-hand attack. But they are hardly heeding it. It is guns they think of, of them- selves firing these guns. Along & green ridge one catches the glint of their little vicious mountain guns in practice position, abead of | them the tripods of their lesser amli- ates, the automatic riffes. Wandering from the veranda and | through the green drill fleld, one stu- dent finds a little child in white sun | helmet and red rubber boots making & posy of lupin and dandelion. The wind whips back her helmet. Her hair is the yellow hair of children come | to Ethiopian pastures with their fa- | thers from the bright age of steel. Be- | yond her, guns were glinting in the | hot African sun, and behind her men | | of Teutonic stock spoke in French to | | race unchanged since Solomon's | . The West, having had Euclid from the East, was bringing it back | with a vengeance, besought to do so. | | But the valley was green like any other, with children playing in the | | (Copyright. 1935, by the Nort! Newspaper Alliance, Inc. Movietone News.) — POLICE JURISDICTION CONFERENCE ASKED| District Heads Seek to Reach| Agreement With Park and Federal Officials. The Commissioners took a definite | step yesterday toward an exchange of police jurisdicition between the‘ | metropolitan and park police as be- tween hundreds of small Federal hold- ings and District roads runmngl through large Federal properties in| the District. Edward A. Dent, District surveyor, was designated as a representative of the District government to confer with C. Marshall Finnan, superin- tendent of Nation Capital Parks, or | one of his assistants, for such an ex- | change of police responsibilities. In a letter to Arno B. Cammerer, director of the National Park Service, | Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen asked |for a conference with the Commis- | sioners. 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