New Britain Herald Newspaper, October 30, 1928, Page 4

IN PHILADELPH 81y Police Commanders Unkit to Hold Ofice - Philadelphia, Oct, $0 UP—Nearly ene-third of Philadelphia’s police commanders have been declared by the special grand jury investigating rum runners and their rackets and gang murders and police corruption to be “unfit to hold any municipal oftice.” And there are more in the same category, the grand jury said in its presentment to Judge Edwin O. Lewis recommending that three of the seven police inspectors of the eity and 18 of the 43 captains be @emissed from the service because of “unexplained personal wealth which we believe was either all, or substantially all dishonestly ac- quired.” $800,000 Deposits The presentment, which came at | the beginning of the eleventh week | of the inquiry, listed bank deposits of more than $800,000 as having been made by the 21 police officials within the last four years. The three inspe tors, John J. Car- Un, Willlam J. McFadden and John | Stuckert, were declared to have | made total deposits of $336,794. Of this sum, $193,533 was credited to Carlin and $102,829 to McFadden. Deposits of the captains ranged from about $3,000 to more than $64,000, District Attorney Monaghan, who is directing the inquiry, said the presentment had created a situ- ation probably without a parallel in the history of American cities, while Judge Lewis declared that the *“amazingly sordid recital” should make it clear to citizens of Philadelphia why gangsters, boot- leggers and gunmen had been able to “operate with impunity.” Asserting that the ‘‘commanders | of our army of defe se” had become allies of lawlessness, Judge Lewis told the district attorney and the grand jurors that it “politics won't voluntarily separate from the police force, some pressure must be brought.” The judge did not indi- cate what form this pressue would take. He suggested that a copy of the presentment be sent to Mayor Mackey, who has announced that he would suspend forthwith any po- lee official cited by the grand jury as “unfit.” In a previous presentment on Oc- tober 8, the special grand jury de-| nounced political control of the po- lce and declared that the realign- ment of police district lines to coin- cide with ward lines ~vas the “root of the graft evil.” Cops Shifted Since then nearly all of the l,xflol policemen, including captains have been shifted to other districts by order of Mayor Mackay. At the same time.Harry C. Davis, director of public safety and William Mills, superintendent of police, issued or- ders to the force to *get out of politics and st out.” Four of the captains mentioned William C. Knoell, are awaiting prison sentence, the former having been convicted by a jury ¢f con- spiracy, extortion and bribery In taking money from salosnkeepers and the latter having pleaded gullty to similar charges. The others are Charles Cohen and William G. Wuest, Cohen was ac- quitted by & jury last week of charges of extortion and bribery. He had previously been asuspendcd by Director Davis. Wuest was sus- pended for alleged failure to clean up his district after the drastic po- lice shakeup. In addition to the higher officials, the grand jury denounced George |E. Schwartzman, a detective, as un- |fit to hold any city position bccause he had refused to answer questions when called before the investigators. \PHILADELPHIA 10 GET HALF-HOLIDAY ELECTION Large Corporations to Take Action | to Allow Ewmployes to ! Vote Philadelphia, Oct. 30 (#—Due to the unprecedented registration for “the November presidential election, !a number of large corporations here will grant employes a pait holiday {to vote, it was announced today. This year's registration in Phila- |delphia was approximately 740,000 compared with 478,354 total in 11924, Some corporations employing |thousands of persons will close {their general offices for the day on Nov. 6, while many concerns wiil |declare a half holiday or & suspen- |sion of two or three hours to per- mit their employes to vote, Three railroads, the Pennsylvania, | Baltimore and Ohio and the Reaa- |ing system, will close their offices for the day so that approximately 116,000 workers may go to the polls. {Rouging Added to Three “R’s” in School Chicago, Oct. 30 (—To the three “R’s" there has been added a fourth and it now is *reading, 'riting, ‘rith- metic and rouging.” 4 The course in the art of make-up has been installed in Chicago con- tinuation schools with the approval of the board of education. “Since the girls simply will make vp,” exclaimed Miss Nellie Ryan, rrincipal of the North 8ide continu- ation schols, ‘*“ve have decided to try to initiate them in the correct :;Lnd artistic application of make-up.” The first lesson was given-yester- | day, and it started off with soap and | water. There was a facial massage, {an ice rub, the laying of a cold cream powder base, and then instruction |on how properly to apply the pow- der. Use of the lipstick was discourag- {ed, but rouge s sanctioned. | More than 9,000 working girls and boys are enrolled in the continuation J schools, | A million tons of coal are used every year by the Gas Light and Coke Company, which has provided |London with gas for over a cen- Nashville, Tenn.,, Oct. 30 UP— Walter L. prominent grain merchant, shot and killed Turney M. Cunningham, manager of a large down town Nashville hotel last night. The shooting took place in an alley behind the Cunningham home. Liggett admitted the shoot- ing and was placed in jail on charges of murder and carrying a weipon. few hours later, Mrs. Cunningham said she had been meeting the grain merchant secretly almost a year and that she had gone to her garage last night to meet him ‘for a few min- utes” after first refusing to do so. One Wi Earl Kiger, a private detective, was the only known witness to the tragedy, He sald he tried to get Liggett to leave the scene, but that the grain merchant declined tp do s0. The only statement of Liggett to police was that Cunningham fired first. Cunningham was southern presi- dent of the Greeters, national hotel men's organization, and long prom- inent in his field. Liggett is identi- fied with civic enterprises of Nash- ville, Mrs. Cunningham detailed events leading up to the shooting in an- swer to police questions, declaring that she began surreptitious visits with Liggett about Christmas a year ago. Mrs, Cunningham prefaced her statement to police by charging Lig- gett has been *“‘vicious” with her, at- tempting to slash her throat and twice attempting to shoot her. 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