Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1936, Page 19

Washington News LABOR UNIT BAGKS VOTE FOR DISTRICT ATA.F. L. SESSION Central Union to Take Plea for Representation to Tampa, Fla. COLEMAN IS SELECTED CONVENTION DELEGATE Plans Announced for Label Ex- hibit and Carnival Nov. 18-21 in Typographical Temple. As the Nation’s voters go to the polls in a national election today, plans were under way to take to the an- nual convention of the American Federation of Labor, in Tampa, Fla., November 16, an appeal to Congress to grant national representation to residents of the District of Columbia, who are denied the right of franchise in the Nation’s Capital. Frank J. Coleman, secretary of the Central Labor Union for many years, was unanimously elected last night at a regular meeting of the central body as its delegate to the Tampa convention. He planned to take to the convention a resolution approved by the Executive Board of the Central Labor Union, and ask the A. F. of L. to champion the rights of voteless ‘Washington. The Central Labor Union has been on record for years as approving na- tional representation, Secretary Cole- man explained. Coleman Is Unopposed. Coleman was unopposed for elec- tion as delegate. He was nominated at the last meeting, two weeks ago. Elaborate plans were announced for the union label exhibit and car- nival to be held in Typographical Temple November 19, 20 and 21. Many booths already are scheduled, not only by labor unions themselves, but also by business firms regarded as friendly to organized labor. Albert N. Dennis, chairman of the Execu- tive Campaign Committee of the league, said that plans for the show are being pushed with “real enthu- siasm.” Others speaking for the ex- hibit included Howard W. S. Risdon, president of the league; Howard F. Cudmore, secretary-treasurer, and Carl H. Klein, chairman of arrange- ments. On motion of W. W. Keeler, chair- | man of the Public Utilities Commit- | tee, the executive board was author- | ized to draft a resolution previously | authorized, asking the A. F. of L. to petition Congress for abolition here of one-man cars. Keeler said he undeérstood several more men would be reduced in pay when taken off the regular employ- | ment list and placed on the “extra | list” next week, due to one-man cars. | Entertainment Planned. Clyde M. Mills, vice president of the | Central Labor Union, announced a | dance and entertainment, sponsored by the new Mechano-Pen Club among | newspaper personnel here, would be held at the National Press Club No- | vember 20, when stars of radio and | the stage will be featured. " A delegate for Taxicab Drivers’ Local Union No. 343 explained activi- ties of his organization. Reports also | were made by many local unions. John Locher, president of the Cen- tral Labor Union, presided. ABATTOIR PROBERS T0 DRAW REPORT| Special Committee to Meet Today After Study of Baltimore Plant. ‘The District Commissioners’ spe- cial .committee named to study and recommend a course of action on the proposal of Adolf Gobel, Inc., to re- aopen and extend” an abattoir near Benning road and Kenilworth avenue northeast, plans to meet tomorrow to draw up a report. * The committee visited Baltimore | yesterday to study a similar plant there, each member making a study of & different character. So much opposition has been of- fered to the establishment of the plant that the Commissioners have rejected a permit for its opening, &nd-the Gobel company has sued for a‘writ of mandamus, which is still pending in District. Court. “ Dr. George C. Ruhland, health offi- Ger, studied the Baltimore plant from & health standpoint. He acted as chairman of the committee. Other members and their official capacities were: Vernon E. West, assistant cor- poration counsel; Capt. Hugh P.| Oram of the District Zoning Commis- | sion; John Nolen, jr., of the National Capital Park and Planning Commis- &ion, and Augustus D. Black of the sanitary engineer’s office. — TRANSFUSION GROUP OF 150 IS FORMED Forty and Eight Organizes Blood Donors, Classified for Instant Service. A body of 150 blood transfusion Yolunteers, who are being typed to give free service to needy persons, has been organized here by the Forty and Eight of the American’ Legion under the direction of R. J. Chaillet, chel de guerre. Permitted to give service to any one or any hospital, these men are being placed in types one, two, three and four, so that transfusions may be easily obtained without the present inadequate system of request and fadio broadcast which obtains per- | city. WHTE SLAVERY RADS BY GAVEN BEGUN OVERL . Facts Obtained in Gang Round-ups Lead to Many Arrests. HOOVER SAYS TRAFFIC IS ON LARGE SCALE “Public Not Sufficiently Aroused to Grave Sociological Prob- lems,” He Declares. BY REX COLLIER. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents who have seen active service on the kidnaping front have been mobilized against a less spectacular, but equally vicious racket—white slavery. This is not a new war or a special drive, according to J, Edgar Hoover, director of the F. B. I. It is an inten- sification of long-continued efforts to stamp out what he considers a major crime menace in this country. “Drive?” Hoover repeated in an in- terview. “No, this is not a drive. In fact, I don’t like that word in law enforcement. It seems to imply a tacit admission of previous laxity. While it is true the F. B. L recently has been engaged in a round-up of white slavers, this has been the result of long and careful inquiries and the collection of evidence we regard as ironclad.” And when the F. B. L. collects evi- dence with which to prosecute, it | usually is of the ironclad type, as the 97 per cent record of ‘convictions dur- ing July, August and September would indicate. As a matter of fact, with the last of the big kidnaping rings —the Karpis-Barker gang—efTectually smashed and with bank robberies steadily declining, the G-men are finding more time to give to such non-emergency cases as white slavery, automobile theft and bond and jew- elry racketeering. lack of men, the F. B. I. was forced to delay action on thousands of such line.” Collected Much Evidence. During their hunt for hideouts of such gangsters as Dillinger, Floyd, Bailey, Kelly, Karpis and the Barkers, Hoover’s agents accumulated a mass of collateral evidence which now is being used to good advantage against Nation-wide rings of racketeers who are trafficking in women. ey Almost daily there come reports froms widely scattered parts of the tion about raids on “night clubs,” “inns” and other “joints” listed tersely in the records as ‘“disorderly houses.” Scores of arrests have been made recently in Connecticut and New York in the Federal round-up of higher-ups in the white slavery racket. While these activities take place in the North, another force of agents has been mobilized to block the sea- sonal migration of white slave rac- keteers to Winter resorts in the South. “Some of these rings confine their | operations to one locality,” Hoover said in an interview. “Others fol- low the seasonal influx of visitors to ocean and gulf resorts. Both types engage in the most pernicious prac- tices, luring young girls into lives of degradation and crime and trans- porting them from one State to an- other in violation of the Mann act. Hoover Asks Aid. “The public is not sufficiently aroused to the grave sociological, health and crime problems involved in operation of these vice rings. The interstate traffic in women for im- moral purposes has reached astound- ing proportions. The citizens can aid us greatly in combating this traffic by reporting to the F. B. I suspected violations of the law. We will investi- gate thoroughly in each instance.” Hoover's men believe they have struck a telling blow at the Winter resort traffic with the arrest recently of alleged members of the so-called Nahas gang, which had its headquar- ters in Michigan City, Ind. This gang, functioning under a “night club” cloak, has been charged with transportation of women from Indiana to Miami dur- ing past Winters. Moving swiftly at South Bend, Ind., Washington and Miami, Fla, bureau agents have taken into cus- tody four alleged members of the gang, including its reputed chieftain, Paul Nahas, convict well known to Miami police. Nahas was captured in South Bend. A confederate, Dave Narcus, declared by officials to be a booker of prosti- tutes in Miami, was taken in that In jail here are James Nelson Ostrander, alias “the Million Dollar Kid,” and Dan Cassetta, arrested at & Chesapeake Bay resort. The latter two, Hoover - asserts, have been closely as- sociated with Nahas and have served time in Miami for their activities. Some Women Leaders. Not all the “big shots” of the vice racket are men, Hoover points out. There was, for example, Mae Scheible, friend of the notorious counterfeiter, “Count” Lustig, and operator of a white slave headquarters in Pitts- burgh for a decade prior to her ill- fated New York venture, which netted her a heavy sentence. The widespread Connecticut round- up, Hoover says, has crushed'a vice syndicate headed by Alexander De Nicola, long a leading figure in the prostitution racket in that State. With the co-operation of State police more than twoscore men and women were arrested under Federal laws—and wholesale pleas of guilty have resulted from more than half of them. An indication of the increased vig- sons who have to be typed before a trahsfusion is possible. Donations amounting to whatever patients can afford are invited, Handicapped by | cases while its men were “on the firing | - The Foening Ftar WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1936. hedek As Nearby VYoters Started Trek to the Polls Threat of Rain Brings Out Record-Breaking Early Ballot. BS the Associated Press. Unusually heavy voting was re- ported in Virginia cities early today as the electorate, apparently fearing rain later in the day, hastened to write its verdict in the intensely- fought presidential campaign. Richmond poll observers said the general election vote before 9 am. was “extraordinarily heavy,” and 3,170 had voted at Roanoke before the same hour. The ' total cast at Roanoke in the Smith-Hoover elec- tion in 1928 was 11,059. The 300 ballots marked at Fred- ericksburg before 9:30 o'clock con- stituted a record number there for-so | early in the day. At Danville, where Demcoratic and Republican leaders | expected 4,000 to vote, the march to the polls gained rapidly in volume be- | fore midmorning. ~8,200 Workers in Field. The United States weather man's prediction at Richmond that rain | would not fall in the Old Dominion before nightfall cheered Democrats who had sent an army of campaign workers estimated by Horace Ed- wards, State director, at about 8200, into the field. The party sought a | Roosevelt majority comparable to | that of approximately 114,000 in 1932. With the exception of a crush at | several precincts, Lynchburg, home | city of Senator Carter Glass, moved | rather slowly to cast its votes beneath cloudy skies. On the other hand, hundreds stood in line at the polling places in Roan- oke, center of the sixth district battle | between Representative Clifton Wood- rum, New Deal champion, and his Re- publican foe, T. X. Parsons. A total of 323 voted there between §:48 and 8:30 a.m,, at the rate of nearly three a minute. A determined battle by Republicans to put several members into some of the nine House seats now held by Democrats, and the public’s absorbing interest in presidential campaign is- sues appeared likely to pile up a record high vote in the Old Dominion. Anderson and Byrd Close. Culminating the campaign marked by literally hundreds of speeches, Col. Henry W. Anderson, Richmond Re- publican, and Senator Harry Flood Byrd led opposing appeals to the elec- torate last night. Anderson warned against a “system of social and economic slavery” under the New Deal. Byrd predicted “an- other collapse of agricultural prices” if Landon were elected and his farm program put into operation. Senator Carter Glass, supported by the anti-New Deal Jeffersonian Demo- crats, occupied the unique position of being the only Democratic nominee without Republican opposition. Congressional nominees of both ma- Jor parties closed their campaigns with expressions of confidence of the result. Vigorous contests in -the fifth, sixth, seventh and ninth districts ended with both tickets claiming sufficient strength for election. Rain May Cut Vote. Predicted showers offered the chief obstacle to campaigners’ plans to bring their followers to the polls, and with a favorable turn in the weather, ob- servers predicted a total close to the more than 302,000 ballots cast in the Hoover-Roosevelt race four years ago. Regardless of the outcome, Repub- Sisters were the first to vote this morning at No. 2 precinct in Clarendon, Va. Left to right: Maj. F. H. Goff, election judge, and Lulu and Agnes Thomson. . 2 As Ernest Hackett, judge, watches, James C. Rogers, Republican pre= cinct chairman, casts the first vote at the Chevy Chase fire hall. TRANIG SEHL CHANGE URCE 12-Room Houses Proposed for Girls’ Institution by Welfare Group. A resolution asking the District Commissioners to consider the sub- stitution of one or two 12-room houses for the single 25-room structure re- cently proposed and approved by them for the National Training School for Girls was carried last night at the regular meeting of the District Public Welfare Association at the American Red Cross national headquarters, Seventeenth street between D and E. The motion was made by Capt. Rhoda Milliken of the Police Women'’s Bureau in an open forum following addresses by the two speakers of the evening, Miss Katherine Lenroot, chief of the Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor, and Miss Louise McGuire, consultant for the Social Security Board. An amendment was proposed to alter the resolution sim- ply to ask the Commissioners to reconsider the matter, as it was felt that argument in favor of the larger building had not been heard. Miss Milliken declined to accept the pro- posal, however, and the group went on record in favor of the smaller house. As first speaker on community re- sponsibility for delinquent children, Miss Lenroot stressed the importance of “family life” and individual at- tention. She urged smaller case loads for 3ocial workers and pointed out the need to get at the child before the series of environmental experiences which end in its compulsory appear- ance in Juvenile Court. The public must be made aware of the problem, she said. Miss McGuire attributed delinquency to inequality of social status and of inherited capabilities in a country which confers the maximum of liberty and the minimum of restraint. - It re- flects a pattern of environment, she {said. Her proposition was to get at the base of juvenile delinquency by attacking community. “sore spots.” De- crying the amounts spent taking chil- dren- out- of their homes into insti- tutions, she suggested using the money to .aid the family and improve con- ditions within the home. BAND CONCERT. By the Soldiers’ Home Band 'in Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John 8. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An- ton Pointner, assistant bandmaster. March, “For the Preedom of the World” Ov‘ormu of English airs, "Tobani Buite poetic, “By the Lake of Geneva,” (a) “Sundsy Morning at Glion.” b) “A Stroll at Chatalard.” Scenes from the opers, “Ernani,” Mary Sabra Hunt casts her first vote today, dropping it into the ballot boz in the first precinct of Clarendon. Mar; way s 197 Years as Engravers Thompson, Retiring, Hopes Grand- children Will Carry on Family % Tradition. Harry Thompson and his grandchildren, Leonard Roberts, jr., 10, and Betsy, 12. ETSY ROBERTS and her brother, Leonard, jr., still are a bit too young to realize it, but on them are centered all the_hopes of their grandfather, Harry Thompson, 70, that the proudest tra- dition of his family will be continued. Thompson, who was retired Sat- urday as a copper-plate engraver for the Coast and Geodetic Survey—a job in ‘which he and his. father, uncle, brother and ocousin have served a total of 197 years—thinks Betsy is more likely to take up the family oc- cupation than is Leonard. “Neither of them is old enough yet to decide on & life work,” he said, “but the girl shows signs of real talent. She's only 12, but if she maintains her liking for drawing, and if her ability increases, Il put her in art school in another five years. That’s the first step toward becoming an engraver.” \ “Ambition to Be Fireman.” ‘As for ‘the ‘boy, Thompson said, his great ambition at present is to be- come-a.fireman. -~ . . 7 ‘“But," the grandfather added, “he's —Star Staff Photo. the family tradition got the better of me, and—well, I quit school after three years at the old Columbia Pre- paratory College, studied art and joined my father and Uncle Jack. Later on, my brother Walter and Uncle Jack's son, Millard, followed suit.” Daughter Photographer. Thompson's daughter, - Gertrude, now Mrs. Leonard Roberts, inherited one of his talents—but not the one needed to become an engraver. “She grew up to be a photographer,” he said, “and now she helps her hus- band run a studio.” % Although admittedly anxious to see either Betsy or Léonard carry on the engraving tradition, Thompson is de- termined. not to “push” them. “Nothing would please me more than have one or both of them become en- gravers,” he said. “But—well, I don’t believe in trying to force youngsters into work that they don't like. If they show any of the old Thompson in- clination, however, I'll do all I can to get ‘em started.” Thompson, who lives at 736 Quebec place, used to be a base ball fan, & tennis player, a chrysanthemum grow- er and an amateur photographer, but Sleman seems a bit uncertain which e should vote. CRIPPLED CHILDREN IN'D. C. NEED CARE 50 Per Cent of 1,100 Fail to Receive Attention, Society Reports. Approximately 50 per cent of the more than 1,100 crippled children ace counted for in a recent survey of the District have not received medical at- tention for three or more years. This fact, contained in a statistical report of the Crippled Children Society of the District, was brought out yester- day at the organization's annual meeting. An economic study of 921 of the cases revealed that but 28 per cent of the families involved were able to bear without privation the expense of proper treatment. Three-fourths of the children reported were shown to be of school age. As classifed in the report, more than half of the children were found to be suffering from the five following ailments: Infantile paralysis, spastic paralysis, tuberculosis of the bone, club foot and osteomylitis. The Sur- vey Committee estimated that a more thorough report would reveal at least 1,500 crippled children in the city. Charles W. Pimper was elected president of the organization, suc- ceeding Mrs. Cary T. Grayson, who was made first vice president. Other officers chosen were Edwin F. Hill, second vice president; Mrs. John Minor, recording secretary; H. C. Cor- pening, corresponding secretary, and James C. Dulin, jr., treasurer. The following were named to the Board of Directors: Mrs. Jesse C. Ad- kins, Dr. Oscar F. Blackwelder, Mrs. Robert M. Hinckley, Mrs. Robert Howard, Mrs. David Lawrence, L. Bert Nye, Frank Peckham, Senator Arthur Capper, Mrs. Henry G. Doyle, Henry ‘W. Draper, Mrs, Joshua Evans, Miss Ann-Carter Greene, Miss Agnes Shands and Mrs, Harvey W. Wi The meeting was held at Weight~ man School. AT SALESMAN DROPS DEAD LISTENING TO RADIO @. Hatcher Gibson, 50, Had Been Employe of Woodward & Loth- rop’s Quarter Century. | Society and General PAGE B—1 ! BOTH SIDES CLAIM EDGE N HARYLAND AS VTN START Radcliffe Predicts Greater Roosevelt Victory Than in 1932. LANDON ASSERTS WIN FOR G. 0. P. CERTAINTY, Palmisano Charges Rival Demo- cratic Faction Supports ! Republican. BY the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, November 3.—Faced with prospects of occasional showers, Marylanders went to 1,453 polling places today to do their bit toward electing a President and a Vice Pres- ident and to name six Congressmen to represent this State during the next two years. Also on the ballot were three State constitutional amendments. A few counties are naming members of the State Legislature, filling vacancies which have occurred since the 1934 general election. The next regular election of members of the State Legislature is in 1938. ‘There were no partisan campaigns on the three constitutional amend- ments. In Baltimore City sample ballots sent out by both major pare ties favored ratification of the changes. Maryland leaders of both major parties issued statements claiming victories for their respective forces. Radcliffe Sees Big Majority. Senator George L. Radcliffe, chief of the Roosevelt forces, predicted the President would receive a greater majority than the 130,130 margin given him in 1932. William P. Lawson, chairman of the Republican State Central Comse mittee, said that a Landon-Knox vice tory in Maryland was a certainty. Harry D. Williar, jr., deputy State W. P. A. head, denied a report that W. P. A. workers would have a full-day holidey with pay on election day. He said district executives are authorized to allow workers to have time off to vote, but that no pay will be allowed for such lost time. Palmisano Hurls Charges. All congressional districts—with the exception of the third district, which is entirely in Baltimore City—were j comparatively quiet as the campaign |closed. In the third Representative Vincent Palmisano, the Democratic incumbent, charged that a rival Demo- cratic faction headed by William Cure ran had distributed sammple ballots marked for John Philip Hill, Repube lican cendidate. Curran denied that, saying the Hille marked ballots had been distributed by the National Union for Social Jus- tice. which is supporting the Repub- lican candidate. Curran also charged that the forces of Mayor Howard W. Jackson had been “swapping Landon votes for Palmisano votes.” Jackson | backed Palmisano in the primary, and Curran's candidate, John Pohlhaus, was dsfeated by Palmisano. D. C. FOOD COSTS SLIGHTLY LOWER Decline of 2.4 Per Cent Reported by Bureau of Labor Statistics. The first days of Autumn brought lowered food costs to Washington and the United States as a whole, the Labor Department Bureau of Statise tics disclosed today. The decrease for the country between September 15 and October 13 was 1.8 per cent, but for the Capital it was 2.4 per cent. “The food cost level is now 249 per cent above costs for October 15, 1932, when the index was 663, but compared with - October 15, 1929, when the level index was 107.6, they are mow 23 per cent lower, and every commodity group shows a decline” the Bureau announced of the United States as a whole. Cereals here gained .1 of a per cent, but meats dropped 4.4 per cent. Dairy products fell 15 per cent Eggs mounted 6 per cent; this ine crease is seasonal. Fruits and vege- tables declined 7.1 per cent. Bever ages and chocolates declined .8 per cent. Fats and oils fell .1 per cent, Sugar and sweets advanced 5 per cent, CONSENT JUDGMENT FOR $4,500 IS ENTERED Capital Tunl.it Co. to Pay Sum in Death of E. M. Hugel in Collision. A $4500 consent judgment was entered in District Court today against the Capital Transit Co. in favor of Carl B. Hugel, 3810 Twenty-fifth place northeast, who sued because of the death of his brother, Edward M. Hugel, killed in a collision between a bus and an automobile February 15, 1935. Hugel was represented by Attorney M. Baker, who said the money ob- tained under the judgment will be turned over to the two brothers' parents, who live in Southern Mary- land. The accident occurred at Eleventh street and Pennsylvania avee nue southeast. SEAMAN IS DROWNED | Colored Man Attached to Souths land Fell From Pier. Jerry Wright, 35, colored seaman attached to the Norfolk & Washington steamer Southland, was drowned to- day when he slipped from a pier while the boat was docked at the foot of Seventh street. His body was recovered by harbor police about aft hour after he fell into the water een the boat and the pler. Wright was believed to have lived at Stgvenville, Md.