Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1937, Page 49

- FACKETCHARGED N BOOTLEGCOAL Shady Middlemen Now Get Profits, Pennsylvania’s Mine Official Claims. ®y the Associatea Press. MARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 20.—A sharge that “big-time racketeers” have invaded Pennsylvania’s huge bootleg coal mining industry was made yesterday by burly Michael J. Hartneady, ex-digger who is State secretary of mines. He angrily demanded that “the| rackets be driven from the coal fields.” | Secretary Hartneady said a per- sonal investigation disclosed that !hei “racketeers have set up their own| eoal plants.” He asserted | “The same money interests which bootlegged whisky and beer in prohi-| bition days and made millions, now | virtually have taken over a big part of the industry.” Is Depression Industry. Bootleg mining, born of depres- sion, has taken thousands of jobless miners into abandoned coal holes. they work on their own, selling direct | or to truckers, The secretary of mines explained that New York, Maryland and Vir- ginia “rings” are sending in fleets of modera trucks, hauling materials to build washeries, to clean the coal, and are buying coal from the free- lance miners. Racketeers Get Money. | “The miner himself is not making a fortune,” Mr. Hartneady continued. | “He receives only about $2 a day for risking his life in a muddy hole. | It's the racketeer, who buys the coal from him and competes with the| regular industry, who is getting the money.” Gov. George H. Earle has several eommissions investigating bootleg mining. He repeatedly has suggrswd[ State control or nationalization of the industry might provide a solu- tion. He contemplates calling a spe- cial session of the Legislature to deal with the problem soon after the first of the year. CITY NEWS IN BRIEF TODAY. Dinner, Eastern States Archaeolog- ical Federation, Willard Hotel, 6:30 pm. Meeting, Executive Council, N, . F. E, 710 Fourteenth street N.W. Dance, Catholic University, Shore- ham Hotel, § p.m Dance, Maryland Society of Wash- ington, Kennedy-Warren, 9 p.m. Meeting, Northwest Union of the W. C. T. U, Calvary Baptist Church. 3pm Meeting, United Government Em- ployes. Garnett-Patterson School, 8| pm. TOMORROW. Luncheon meeting, Descendants of | Bigners of Declaration of Independ- ence, Mayflower Hotel, 1 p.m Football eocktail party, Minnesota Btate Society, Lafayette Hotel, 2:30 pm Reception to Mayors, Willard Hotel, 6:15 p.m. Dinner, Descendants of Signers of Declaration of Independence, May- | flower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. Meeting, Group Health Association, Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m. Dance, Social Security Board Union, Willard Hotel, 10 p.m. Dance, Ohio Girls’ Club, Raleigh Hotel, 9 p.m. Dance, Sigma Wardman Park Hotel. TRAFFIC CONVICTIONS RECKLESS DRIVING. William J. Peters, 1822 C street S.E, $25. SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Andrew A. Casper, 4312 Georgia avenue N.W., $10. Archer E. Neitzey, street N.E, $15 FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING. Georzge M. Catakis, 623 Quantana place N.W,, $10 Simeon R. Hill, jr., 1511 W street B.E, $5. Joseph Dushey, 717 Tenth street N.W., $10. Joseph R. Arendels, 1017 Fifteenth street S.E, $5. Herbert M. Early, jr., 1358 Fairmont Street NW., $5. John Teamus, 1118 street N.W., $8. Laurence Jackson, eourt N.W., $15. James M. Lynch, 1506 Nineteenth street SE, $15. Charles F. Ring, 722 Third street N.E, $15. Edward Wilson, Virginia, $10. . Irving J. Mitchell, Pennsylvania, 15. Eugene Vandenander, 936 I street, s Harold M. Hicks, Maryland, $15. Mary J. Sales, 1271 Holbrook ter- race N.E, $10. Herbert Imbers, 1921 Benning road NE, $15. John C. Gabriel, 1116 Eighth street NW, $12. Leslie P. Cox, jr., 1310 Orren street NE, 810. Wilbur Cunningham, 1421 Staples street N.E., $10. Anthony Pinto, 819 Bixth street B.W., $5. William- J. O'Mahony, Maryland, $5. Howard J. Bonnett, 1310 Seventh street N.W., $10. Edward Juliano, 4415 New Hamp- shire avenue N.W., $5. Le Roy 8. Hearns, 1828 Central avenue N.E, $10. Malvin Norris, 522 Morton street N.W., s10. Joseph Bernhardt, Maryland, $10. Cecelia J. Lammers, Maryland, $10. John F. Costello, jr., 3149 Newark street N.W., $10. Oscar J. Rife, jr., 2146 Wisconsin avenue N.W., $5. Joseph E. Saunders, 1418 W strest N.W, 8. Edward 8. Saunders, 245 Elm street N.W, $10. Bill B. Bremser, 1838 L street N.E., 45. E———— 909 Jackson Nineteenth 1722 Willard One of the few fine hotels BELLEVUE. STRATFORD in Philadelphia MOBDERATELY PRICED PUSH HUNT FOR FLYERS Moscow Commissions New Planes to Search Arctic Wastes. MOBCOW, Oct. 29 (#).—Four large planes equipped for flying in the polar night were intrusted today with the Arctic search for Sigismund Levanefff sky, missing transpolar flyer, and his five companions. Ivan Chukhnovsky, THE EVENING BSTAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, charge, relieving a group headed by Pilot Sheveleff, who has been search- ing since September 10. In Ottawa, 8Sir Hubert Wilkins speeded preparation for a second search expedition, He said he was convinced the flyers, who disappeared August 13, were still alive. The Soviet government is financing his expedition also. Levaneffsky and his companions had food enough to last until well after November 15. GABLE SUER CLEARED Mrs. Wells Faces Two Actions by U. 8. Despite Court Reversal. SANTA ANA, Calif, Oct. 29 (&) — Her conviction of mail fraud in the Clark Gable paternity case reversed, Mrs. Violet Wells Norton remained in jail here today as Federal authorities swudied whether to prosecute her on a blackmail charge. United States Attorney Benjamin Harrison said he would delay action until he studies the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals opinion which held that the letter she wrote Gable, de- claring he was the fatier of her 14- year-old daughter, did not come within the mail-fraud statute. 1If Mrs. Norton escapes a second trial, she still faces deportation to Canada. Moscow, Russia, has opened a spe- cial school for young Spanish refugees. exporienced Soviet aviator, will be in! Epsilon Sorority, 1 Telephone HALLOWE’EN pistrict 7200 CANDIES Kann's Chocolate Covered Mints_.39¢ Ib. Dates Stuffed with Walnuts ______39¢ Ib. Salted Cashews__39¢ Ib. Orange & Black Mint Wafers _______29¢ Ib. Crystalized 49¢ Ib. Sugared Apples on Sticks Kann's—Street Floor $2.95 and $3.50 Glace Kid Gloves $2.29 .. —Tomorrow we hand you the season’s most fashionable glove styles at a price that will make you grab a pair for your- self and several pairs for gifts to your best friends. Styles a-plenty to suit every one . . . 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