Evening star., 1924-01-08

SOUND KNELL FOR
PENNSYLVANIA VICE
Philadelphia, Easton, Coatesville
and Altoona Will Be
Cleaned Up.
BUTLER URGES QUICK ACTION
Kendrick Promises to Stand Back
of Every Policeman Doing
His Duty.
BUTLER URGES QUICK ACTION
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, January S.-The
life of the bootleggers, the bandit.
the gambler and other violators OF
the law will not be an easy one in a
number of Pennsylvania cities If
pledges made in inaugural addresses
yesterday by new mayors are carried
out
Not only in Philadelphia. where
Mayor Kendrick and his director of
public safety, Brig. Gen. Smedley u.
Butler served notice that all forms
of vice must cease at once, were vio-
lators of the law warned, but the
mayors of Easton, Coatesville, AL
toona and other inland towns also
declared for strict enforcement Of the
law.
Gen. Butler has given the Philadel-
phia police two days in which to
clean up the city. Explaining his
attitude on vice to his bureau chiefs
and members of the police force in
different addresses yesterday, he said
that politics and the police depart
ment would be divorced and that
would go out in u hurry" If neces-
sarS, he SAID, he would sleep at city
hall 10 see that his orders were
obeyed.
VIII Protect Policemen.
Mayor kendrick told the policemen
he would uphold Gen. Butler in all
that he did. mo invisible govern
ment will threaten any policeman, -
said the mayor mo boss. political or
otherwise, has the right to give you
men orders except Director Butler
That holds good so long as am
mayor and he is director"
Gn. Butler took the oath of office
dressed in his uniform of a brigadieI
general of Marines. but thirty minutes
later he was arrayed in a specially de-
signed blue uniform for the director OF
public safety. heretofore the direc-
Tor never wore a uniform.
The general called into his Office
the bureau chiefs. Il must demand
from each one of you your resigna-
tion," he told them. IF you do your
duty everything will be all right and
he reslgnations will be torn up and
thrown. into the waste basket.
The kendrick administration viii
go up or down on its police force.
Declaring that "the people Of Phila-
delphia have no confidence in their
police force" Gen. Butler said:
Since l have been in this town
/ have heard of people moving out
Of certain police districts because
they Were afraid TO live in them. YOU
have '48 hours to clean up. You
stand or fall on what you do under
me. Graft must be wiped out.
Bans Police Union.
Il hear there's a union in the DO.
lice. That must be wiped out too
The federation of firemen, which
understand exists in the fire bureau
also must CO."
The director intimated that he has
formed a secret squad of 300 to check
UP on the doings of policemen. He
declared that he and the superin
tendent of police would sleep in po.
Ice headquarters in city hall until the
city is cleaned up.
Turning to Ross B. Davis, chief OF
the bureau of fire. the new director
said:
Some of your windows in the old
building are dirty. Clean them uu
"uce in while. Get your men ia
paint the wood work even if we have
TO borrow the paint somewhere"
Mentioning that he had been
twenty-siX years in the Marine Corps
Gen. Butler said: Il have achieved a
position and reputation and I can't
afford to lose it,