Evening Star Newspaper, July 26, 1937, Page 7

b.a00 MINERS END JE-OAY COAL STRIKE Steel Firms’ Shafts Closed in Support of Walkout at Companies’ Mills. By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, July 26 —Sixty-five hundred Pennsylvania and West Vir-| ginia miners awaited a call to work | today as a 39-day-old strike in “cap- tive” mines of two steel companies ended. Patrick J. Fagan, president of Dis- trict No. 5 of the United Mine Worl ers of America. said the men probably | would return to mines of the Young: town Sheet & Tube Co. and the Beth: lehem Steel Corp. by the middle of the week. John L. Lewis. head of the Commit- tee for Industrial Organizafion and mine union chieftain, called the strike to bolster walkouts in independent steel company mills. Fagan said picketing would continue at Republic Steel Corp. mines. The Youngstown Sheet & Pube and Bethlehem had agreed to re-establish s “status quo” for the workers, Fasgan #aid, while negotiations for a new contract were under way. A contract expired in April and the men had worked until June 17 under a truce. Fagan declined to discuss the terms the ion would seek in a new con- tract, but asserted the men were re- turning to work at the same wages. Captive mines supply the bulk of the eoal used by the steel companies. Two Republic mines near Conndlls- ville, Pa, resumed operations two weeks ago in defiance of the U. M. W. strike and the company claimed that more than 200 of 549 employes were working. Pickets were driven back twice by | tear gas fired by company guards and a man who claimed to be a picket was ambushed and seriously wounded near one of the mines Saturday. The first hint that the strike would end came from Willam Hynes, presi- dent of district 4 of the U. M. W. He announced late Saturday that em- ployes of the Youngstown Sheet & | Tube’s Buckeve Mine at Nemacolin Pa., could return to work if they de- | sired. One thousand normally are! employed there, | BRIDGES CALLS C. I. 0. Has Had Dramatic Career in Crime Work. BY REX COLLIER. Twenty years ago today a 22-year- old Washington law graduate, whose unbounding energy had won him the nickname, “Speed,” entered the De- partment of Justice as a clerk. Those two decades have seen the ment to & position of national and in- ternational prominence. The young man—he is 42 now—is John Edgar Hoover, director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or- | ganizer and head of the famed G- men and pioneer in the field of scien- tific crime detection. He had no thoughts of detective work when he came to the department in 1917, fresh from George Washing- ton University Law School. Nor had he any intention of remaining a clerk. His ambition at the time was to be- come a Government attorney and pos- sibly later to open a law office of his own. It is doubtful if he had ever heard of the department’s Bureau of Inves- tigation before he entered the Jus- tice Department. Few persons had, for in those days the bureau often ice—even by high Government offi- cials, Assigned in War Division. Attorney General T. W. Gregory as- signed Clerk Hoover to the newly formed war division of the depart- ment. The United States had just entered the World War, and the war division co-operated with military and naval intelligence agencies in pre- paring evidence for deportation of sus- pected and avowed anarchists. Within a short time Hoover was the best-versed man in the depart- ment on these deportation cases. His aptitude and tireless devotion to duty soon attracted the attention of Attor- ney General Gregory, and & promo- torney General followed. When military service began to lure him, his plans were blocked by his superiors, who contended he was more nage work than in a uniform His assignment brought him into close contact with the Bureau of In- vestigation, of A. Bruce Bielaski. and more interested in He became more young man with the significant mon- icker cut a swath through the depart= was confused with the Secret Serv- | tion to Special Assistant to the At-| valuable to the Government in espio- then under the direction | HE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, =_== SN A J. Edgar Hoover Began Work For U.S. 20 Years Ago Today Head of Famed G-Men J. EDGAR HOOVER. He had directed personally several raids on headquarters of alien agita- tors, acting under authority of war- time laws. Three months after es- tablishing the “general intelligence di- vision,” he directed the arrest and de- portation of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, notorious radi- cals. Later he handled the deporta- tion of Ludwig Martens nad Gregory Weinstein, revolutionists. Named Assistant Director. In 1921 he was appointed assistant director of the Bureau of Investiga. tion, the functions of which were re turning to a normal peacetime rou tine, including investigation of anp ular Federal cases. Occasionally the bureau was called on to investigate a murder on an Indian reservation, a spiracy In the next few years Hoover fought a desperate, behind-the-scenes battle to prevent the bureau from sinking to its low ebb in the Daugherty era. He saw and policies and men like Gaston B. | Means wearing bureau badges | His battle against these conditions | did not go unnoticed, and when At- torney General Harlan Stone suc- ceeded Harry M. Daugherty, in the Spring of 1924, Hoover was made act- ing director of the bureau and given full authority to reorganize the force and “clean house” as he might see fit He proceeded to rid the bureau of unfit agents and trust, bankruptey, bribery, land fraud, | white slave and similar non-spectac- | train hold-up or a ship-scuttling con- | politics dictating appointments | D. C, MONDAY [ tained co-operation of the Interna- tional Association of Chiefs of Police in establishing in the bureau the nucleus of today's huge clearing house for criminal fingerprints. The identification unit startéd with 810,- 188 fingerprints contributed by the association and by Leavenworth Peni- tentiary. . Now there are more than 7,000,000 fingerprints in the collection. Gained Favorable Notice. Attorney General Stone was so im- pressed by Hoover's overhauling of the bureau that he made him perma- nent director on December 19, 1924. During the next several years the bu- reau gained favorable notice for the capture of Martin Durkin, first crimi- nal to murder a bureau agent; for the solution of the Osage Indian murders, in which two dozen Indians were vic- tims, and for several other cases of national prominence. Then came the kidnaping of the Lindbergh baby, followed by passage of the Federal kidnaping act, giving the bureau authority in interstate kidnapings and extortion cases. A few months later the Nation was fur- ther aroused by the mass slaying of a bureau agent and three police offi- cers at the Kansas City union station. A series of anti-crime laws was passed, greatly expanding the scope of the bureau’s activities and giving Federal agents the right to make arrests, carry arms and otherwise engage in battle witih gangland. Hoover's men launched an intensive battle with roving gangs of kidnapers, bandits and other desperadoes. There were casualties on both sides. Floyd. Dillinger, “Baby Face” Nelson, Fred and “Ma" Barker and others who elected to fight it out with the now well-known G-men ended their ca- | reers in the morgue. Caffrey, Cowley, Hollis and Baum of the F. B. I. died on he firing line. Alvin Karpis, leader of the gang which had collected $300,000 in ran- | som from the Urschel and Hamm | families, issued a personal challenge | to Hoover. Accepting the challenge, | the F. B. 1. director led raids which resulted in the capture of Karpis, Harry Campbell and accomplices. These were. fateful, exciting and dangerous days for the F. B. I—and it was an era that saw a change in public psychology toward crime. 1In- | stead of glorifying the criminal and his exploits, the screen, press and radio acclaimed the law enforcement | officer for putting gangsters on the | run Police departments turned to the G-men for co-operation and advice | In response to a demand expressed by | State and local authorities the F. B. T | training schools were opened to police | officers with establishment of the National Police Academy. Attorney General Homer Cummings gives Hoover much of the credit for bringing the F. B. I to its present state of efficiency and renown. He was among a large group of friends and associates of the F. B. I director who today, verbally or in writing, extended congratulations on Hoover's completion of 20 years of continuous service in the Govern- ment's battle against the sinister forces of crime. SEEK CAUSE OF FIfiE IN WHICH FOUR BURNED Heroic Mother and Daughters Perish After Father and 3 Sons Escape. By the Associated Press FREDONIA, N. Y. July 26—Of- ficers called a second inquest today | in an effort to learn the cause of a | fire which blazed through a big brick | residence in 10 minutes and burned to | death a heroic mother daughters. ' Mrs. William J. Logan, 36, collapsed and perished with her three little girls after horrified neighbors saw her try to hand the children out a second-story window. The girls were Mary Ann, 12; Gertrude, 15, and Jean, 2 She went to their rescue after| spreading an alarm that enabled her | husband to escape and drag three young sons to safety. Logan, after leading his sons to| safety, went to the front door to meet | iis wife and daughters, but they had | not come out. and three Russ Doctors Agitate. Following the exposure of a noted medical specialist of Moscow, Russia, as “anti-social and mmoral” Soviet | doctors are agitating the question of | a code of ethics that shall differ from | that inherited from the old regime. | The specialist, after injuring a woman | patient, tried to have her committed | to an asylum and later advised her | to commit auicide. GUILD 1S GRANTE C.L.0.REFERENDUM I. E. B. Delays Vote, How- ever, Pending Redraft of Questions. By (he Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 26.—The Ameri- can Newspaper Guild today had grant- ed the first membership referendum since its organization—a referendum to test whether the guild will remain within the C. I. O's ranks. The guild's International Executive Board voted unanimously to delay the referendum until special committees of the Washington, D. C., and Columbus, Ohio, units could draft a restatement of the question at issue. The delay was granted at the request of the two units, which initiated the move for the referendum The board also adopted unanimously a resolution banning from participa- tion in the referendum balloting all members who joined the guild since July 1, a week before the opening of the St. Louis national convention, which voted for C. I. O. affiliation. This resolution affected especially business office, circulation and other department employes who would ghare membership with editorial workers under the C. I. O.s vertical union plan Other issues the referendum will take up are the guild convention indorse- ments of the Spanish loyalist cause, independent political action, a large W. P. A, appropriation and President Roosevelt's original court bill. L x 5 Taking No Chances. STUART. Fla. (#.—Dr. Reginald Kitching, Jjr., forestalled the dog- | catcher when he took his pup, Blackie, to get a license. Blackie trotted into City Hall wear- ing a cardboard sign around his neck saying, “License applied for.” AN ORCHID TO ITS RARE BOUQUET 9 CuicauoT CLuB, America's A-1 ginger ale for over 50 years, has blend—smooth, deli- cate, perfectly balanced. Made with natural- pure water and finely carbonated, it keeps its lively sparkle. CHICAGO SESSION SET ON LAKE MICHIGAN BILL Withdrawal by City of 5,000 Cubic Feet of Water Per 8econd Is Aim. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, July 26.—Former Mayor William Hale Thompson said yester- day pubiic officials, business and labor leaders had been asked to attend an open forum meeting here November 6 to discuss a congressional bl that would permit Chicago to withdraw 5,000 cubic feet of water a second from Leke Michigan after December 31, 1938. A United States Supreme Court order reduced the diversion to 1.500 cubic feet a second after that date. ‘Thompson said Governors of Mis- | sissippi Valley States, *Mayor Daniel Hoan of Milwaukee and other oppo- nents” of the proposal has been asked | to attend. Her Long Sleep Ends. Anna Swanepoel of the Transvaal, South Africa, after waking from a sleep of 30 years, looks out upon the world with the mind of a child, al- though she is now 48 She kissed her mother goodnight in the village where they lived in 1907, and awoke In a hospital where she has been for the last 17 years. 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