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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

the Bank Of Montreal. The bonds are
priced at 1914.
M r. Schlater q Co., Inc; B. ]. Van
InQer e. Co. M. NJ. Freeman d Co. ana
EldredRe & Co. offer q new issue OF 81, :
500 600 Township Of Hillside, n. j., ga
and per cent bonds, due serlally DC.
tober I, 1890, to 1855, at prices 10 ylelo
from to SIS per cent
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AUG. II, 1879

of their marriage this week. are
planning to take a ride in an air
plane. He is 70 and she Is 10.
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George Neuner, A. w. w. Woodcock,
Charles L. Reading, James c. Kins-
Ter, S. w. McNabb and the men in
Washington working with Norman
j. Morrison and Howard Jones of
my own division who have formed
our flying squadron.
The men of this squadron have
rendered distinguished service by
going from Maine to California
anywhere-to rescue and try i'm
portant cases where we saw the evi-
dence was about to drown in sea
of politicsl
During the short time that Jus
tice Stone was attorney general, he
probably has the record for clean
ing out more politically evasive de-
partment of justice officials than
anyone else in the same length Of
time.
Pop! Pop! went MS guns almost
every day! Frequently politicians
were hit In looking over the great
volume of memorandum of facts,
cases, and specific conditions, I
alone reported to him during Nov
ember and December, 1924, am
appalled, at the volume of execu-
tive work he turned off daily.
He reorganized the prosecuting
Offices in Massachusetts, New Jer-
sey, Montana, northern Mississippi,
southern Alabama, southern Geor-
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lions of closing hour or Sunday
closing laws.
Anyone engaged in politics in the
years before prohibition, as I was,
knows that in the pre- Volstead
period mayors, governors, congress-
men, senator's, Democratic and Re-
publican alike, had been dependent
for their election on the smaller
politician with his large force Of
deputies and assistants available for
registering and voting Indifferent
citizens.
So it was on the recommendations
of ward and county bosses that
the senators obtained the appoint
ment of hundreds of prohibition
agents and administrators. 1t was
the opposition of the politicians, big
and little, that prevented the use
of civil service examinations to
select the enforcement personnel
during the first six years of prohi-
bition.
And ! have no hesitancy in as
Serting that it is the continued in
fuence of politicians, little and big,
that still keeps in the service men
who either have managed to qualify
under civil service, but who are en-
tirely unfit, Or those who have not
qualified, but are working under
temporary appointments, that know
no end.
The fact is that in March of the
present year. according to a report
made by the acting secretary of
the treasury, there still were en-
ployed more than 800 prohibition
agents, inspectors, investigators and
chemists, holding so-called temper
airy appointments without examina-
ton. This was practically one-third
of the total number OF prohibition
employees.
There is undoubtedly juStiflable
excuse to hold over on temporary
rolls some of them, but the political
appeal of senators and congressman
and party leaders is behind too
many of them. It would be much
better for the prohibition service,
if not enough prohibition agents
have qualified yet on civil service
rolls, to make the appointments
from other services that already
have civil service rating, like the
skilled special intelligence. postal
and secret service groups. This
would build up a force from men
already trained.
The influence of politicians in
defeating real enforcement extends
far beyond the appointment OF unfit
agents. It permeates the courts Of
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been apparent often that the de-
fects had been bought and paid
for.
We have lost cases because politl-
cally appointed marshals assembled
questionable juries. or failed prop
erly to guard juries to prevent tam
pering and bribery or the exertion
of political influence. We failed to
obtain convictions, even where the
prohibition unit had furnished us
with competent and sufficient evi-
dence, because politically appointed
district attorneys, who were less
lawyers than politicians, had estab-
lished definite schedules OF fees Tor
what came to be known as "nolle
pressing" liquor cases.
Time after time they dismissed
cases without trial because of an
alleged want of proper evidence,
disappearance of witnesses, etc.
Bootleggers in one western state
advertised that the standard fee was
$50 in ordinary small cases thus
dismissed.
District attorneys finally were re-
quired to obtain authority from
Washington before entering an Or
der of nolle prosequi. When definite
reasons thus had to be given for the
recommendation to dismiss, we Sc
cured a surprisingly large reduction
Of the number of nolle prossequis.
On the other hand there shine
forth the outstanding examples,
among many others, of such faith
ful officials as Commissioner Dan
Roper, who started prohibition of
in the Democratic administration;
ALT Oftedal, Elmer Trey, Colonel
Samuel o. Wynne. Major J. D.
Pennington, now connected with
enforcement in the treasury depart
ment, and such hard-hitting United
States attorneys as Richard H.
TempIeton, George E.. @, johnson,
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Justice. Dozens of United States
district attorneys and assistants owe
their appointments to the favor OF
not only congressman and senators,
but of the whole political machine
ranging up from deputy constables
and assistant assessors to mayors
and councilmen.
Some United States attorneys,
and their assistant attorneys, have
been promoted from city and county
attorneyships and state attorney
ships, for services well and truly
rendered to so-called legitimate
liquor interests in the palmy days OF
the open saloon. In their former
capacity they had ignored apparent
violations of law.
When public sentiment in the
town or country became aroused
and demanded action, they have
prosecuted in an easy fashion, left
out important witnesses, and failed
to get conviction or push for just
penalties. They are the proSecu-
tors the alcoholic politicians regard
as reasonable"
No matter how carefully cases are
prepared in some districts, like
Philadelphia, we never could be
even reasonably sure of the out
come. Under the politically evaSive
United States Attorney Coles, who
remained in charge in spite of pro-
test, drivers and hirelings plead
guilty, but few really important Of
tenders even were tried.
That in spite of the fact that
Philadelphia is a center of liquor
vioIators of the largest racketeer
type. Political eyasiveness proves
of survival value in some districts,
and so it has proved there. But he
made exit soon after March this
year, and hope again is born for
law enforcement in that most stub
born district!
Scores of politically appointed
prohibition agents whose testimony
was essential to conviction have
been either incompetent, afraid, or
corrupt. These ward-heeler agents,
in many cases, fail to obtain proper
legal evidence, or obtain it in an
illegal or improper manner so the
case has to be thrown out" Other
times they conveniently lost their
memories for essential details.
Other times they told a different
story on the witness stand in the
trial of the case than they had en-
bodied in their original report.
Dozens of. cases have been lost be-
cause the evidence was obtained on
defective search warrant, and it has
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This mans education had been
limited to few years in graded
school. Afterwards he held various
jobs calling for no special knowl-
edge, skill or training until he OBJ
tanned, as the result of activity in
ward politics, an appointment as
deputy constable in a justice Of the
peace court.
His principal duties were the serv-
ing of summons and the seizure of
property to satisfy judgment. Next
he became. a candidate for justice of
the peace, but was defeated.
However. he continued to make
himself useful in his ward during
elections, and due partly to this and
partly to the influence OF his
brother-in-law, a lawyer whose
clientele consisted largely Of boot
IeggerS, and who had been useful
for years to the political bosses of
both parties, the ex-conStable OBJ
tanned an appointment as prohibit
ton agent.
Within year or two he was I'M
der indictment for conSplrlng With
bootleggers for the distribution of
large quantities of liquor. But he
had created a bad odor for pro-
hibition enforcement in the year or
two he flashed a badge.
There is nothing new about this
alliance between politics and booze.
It is not the result of prohibition.
1t is merely the continuance of an
alliance that was born and grew
stronger during the scores of years
before national prohibition even was
dreamed Of. Efforts to enforce pro-
hibition are revealing it more
clearly every day.
Every politician who was in poll
tics for the money that could be
made out of it-and the number of
such men was legion long before
we had national prohibition-Saw
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the greater opportunities for graft
in the initial stages of attempted
enforcement of the Volstead act.
Sheriffs who had been making
five or ten thousand dollars a year
in addition to their salaries by COL
lecting from the county two or three
times the actual cost of feeding
prisoners, set up toll systems by
which trucks loaded with contra
band liquor we're passed through the
lines of their deputies patrolling
county roads. on payment of fees
of from $40 to several hundred dol
lars load.
deny that these men were cor
rupted by or because of the eight
zenith amendment of the Volstead
act. They were the same type of
men who collected graft from the
speakeasies and blind pigs operated
when saloons were licensed legally,
and who also collected from the
saloons themselves for suppressing
the speakeasieS or overlooking viola
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gia. eastern Louisiana and northern
California, and was well started on
many other districts when he had
to leave it all to take the higher
post on the supreme court bench.
Particularly during the last two
or three years, the politicians have
been pried loose from great deal
of their former CONTROL over ap-
pointments and removals; over adj
ministration and prosecution OF and
under prohibition law.
All the cure for political interior
ence with honest prohibition en-
forcement can not be applied at
Washington, however. 1t will have
to come through the mass Of the
people n the rural districts, III the
towns, and in the cities by perform
ing their basic obligations to vote
regularly and intelligently, and
watch public officials records.
In that way, they can evict the
cheap politician, and hberate clean
government, which he deSpoils.
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Ward Heller Type
of Dry Sleuth IS
Prohibition Brake
Incompetent and Corrupt Agents Deal Hard
Blows at Volstead Enforcement, Give
1t Bad Name With Public.

hardest
Iserve stepped in
she
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Aged Couple Would Fly
GARY, Ind, Aug. l7.-Mr. and
Mrs. Frank V. Benight, who cele-
brated the fifty-second anniversary
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BY MABEL WALKER WILLEBRANDT

publication
r number who originally
because the
offended to
the whole force.
realize that this bad odor almost wholly from the
has no power
beginning following, the proh
enforcement of OF the
Appointments prohibition agents until 1926
mad o political
frequent for polling precincts getting out the votes on
smuggling the opposition poll
generally machinery
politics. appointment a prohibition
mil o Who constituted
proportion prohibition until recently This
in cities
only the adoption OF the
preceding.
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The need of state enforcement
to assure the success of prohibition
is explained in Mrs. Withdrawals
next article.)
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VAN GLIDER John w. Jonee James Hayes. Buster Boyd, D M Bothwell, James Buckingham. w. J Mcdonald, Sam Guyot, J. l.. Reed Oscar R. Hart, A. J. Dimond, w N Cuddy, F. C. Kappelman, E. Coke Hill, John c. Lemyer, P. F. Cum mingS, E. J Cronin, J. B. MsCain Paul Stahele, Butler Green John Morren, Irene I. Savage, Mrs Geo Beoulde, M Clifford Smith Jr., w j. Sisson, Mrs Al TIilty, Leo H koopman, James Drake. MI. and Mrs c. A. Wells, Mrs. V. Williams, Mrs. Ed Bartlett, Miss Edna Blythe, Mrs Joseph Daney, 6. H. Russel H. l.. Reed, J. M Mcdonald, E. A Will hamS.
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LEGAL NOTICE
U. s. Land Office, Anchorage, Alaska, September 19, 1929.
 Serial 06779

G' 0. LdIlN OnAEC, AiICAAOG dSC3
 Alaska, September 19, 1929.
 Serial O6779
 Notice is hereby given that Harry A. Le0nhardt, entryman, together with his witnesses, Ralph V. Anderson, and Gilbert M. Chambers, all of SeldOvia, Alaska, has made final proof on his homestead entry, for land situated on the easterly shore of Bear Cove, Kachemak Bay, em- braced in U s. Survey No. 1773, latitude 59o A B" N. longitude 151o O2' II" w. containing 71.1S acres, and it is now in the files of the U. s. Land Office, Anchor age, Alaska, and if no protest is filed in the local land office, An chOrage, Alaska, said final proof will be accepted and final certi- ficate issued.
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 Dated first publication Oct. 16, 23, 30, Nov. 6, 13, 20, P, Dec. 4, and last publication Dec. II, 1929.
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THEATRE PROGRAM

The show at the theatre this evening is drama of the adven- lures of tramp ship. It is said to be interesting because the action and scenes are all laid in that mys- terious country. China. For Sunday we have the female Douglas Fair- banks in the person of beautiful Bebe Daniels who has fine feature for her talents.
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MARY LANE HOME SOON

Mary Jane Amend is coming home Monday from Anchorage after spending over three weeks in the Anchorage hospital where she underwent a serious opera tion for ruptured appendix
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VI. Powell, F. TeIla.

SEWARD Walter Culver, J. H. Foreman, Mrs. Berry, MI, and Mrs. R. Leox, Ed Maybler, Ernest John son, Carl Johnson, Joe Hill, Arthur Lufts, MT. and Mrs. R. J, Connont, A. c. Kinley, J. B. Koslosky, Gus Geues, K. K. Katz, MT. and Mrs. H Madsen, Gus Knapp, zella M. Urhclan Virginia West.
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BE WELL SOON

Esther Hnrsicker, who went to Anchorage several days ago with
 her mother, was operated on two days ago. She is doing quite well, -and it is hoped she will soon be able
 to return to her home in Seward.
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MT. and Mrs. Harry Madison ar rived in Seward on last nights train for week end visit with her folks, Mr. and Mrs. D. w. Downey of Nuka Bay.
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Hear the rscw Dtunswlci1 records, Carolina Moon and Wear a Hat with Silver Linnaag, at SCHAL- 1ERER'S ALASKA SHOP.
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The Admiral Evans, of the P. s. s. O., is expected to arrive in port Tuesday evening from the south.
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Beautiful line ot the Reed Cook fooled leather bags. SCHALLER- FRS ALASKA SHOP.
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HOMEGROWN POTATOES Sc PER POUND at Brown & flaw kins Corporation.
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BOARD DELAYS
Sewer ACTION
Refused Requisition to Be
Discussed.

Action on the requisition for
sewer materials OF the Sanitary
Sewer Basin Company, Chicago,
which Purchasing Agent Joel A.
Baker refused to buy, will be de-
layed until the return Of Theodore
Dammeyer, works board president,
John G. McCloskey, board vice
president, declared today
The requisition for ten catch
basins and ten sewer inlets was sent
to the board from the office Of
Street Commissioner Charles A.
Grossart with the notation by order
Of the board of public works" Ordi-
narily acquisitions are sent in with
merely the department heads rec
ommendation.
Baker refused to make the pur-
chase, declaring the materials "too
high" The requisition bore the
signatures of Dammeyer, NIcCIoskey
and Emsley johnson, works board
members.
William Broden, Indianapolis
agent for the materials, had dis
cussed the materials with the city
officials several times.
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RADIO SCHOOL
TO OPEN HERE
Institution Is Only One in
County.

A new organization, the first and
only one of it's kind in America and
said to be the only one in the
world, a radio announcers' school,
will open in Indianapolis Monday
morning. The studios and class
rooms are located at 311-312 Kresge
building.
A complete course will be given
the prospective radio announcer.
Applied English, enunciation, pro-
nunciation, microphone precense,
radio theory, sales and voice cul-
ture will be included. A private
broadcasting unit will be used at
the studio.
John B. Newlin, Indiana and
De Paw graduate, is in charge of
the institution; Tai Clark is presi-
dent, and Don Hastings, formerly
with the Columbia broadcasting
system, is secretary and treasurer.
Applications have already been
received by the school from stu
dents in all parts of the country.
One mail brought seven applica-
tions from Texas, twelve from ILL
nois, six from New England states
and six from the south.
The school has the cooperation
of the federal radio commission.
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FETE PLANNED
FOR ORPHANS
Look Forward to Party at
Protestant Home.

Children at the General Profess
tant Orphans home, 1904 South
State avenue, are looking forward
to Sunday, Aug. IL, which marks
the sixty-second anniversary of the
founding of the home.
The annual feast day program
will begin at 10 a. m. when the Rev.
Robert G. Kuebler, pastor of Fri
denis Evangelical church will make
an address.
The Sahara Grotto band will
give concerts during the afternoon
and the children will march and
sing.
Noon and evening meals will be
served by the Ladies Auxiliary.
Adolph ziegler, superintendent
for thirteen years, and Mrs. zieg-
Ter, will be in charge. Andrew j.
Weiss is president of the home
which was founded in 1867, and
Edward G. Weibke, vice-preSident.
Membership dues, requests and
endowments support the home and
orphans of any denomination, are
admitted upon the application of
relatives.
The children who attend the In
dianapolis grade and high schools
spend a portion of time attending
the gardens which provide much Of
the food used in the home and in
play over the well-kept grounds,
consisting of thirteen acres.
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PLAYS COP And
Gets SIS FINE
Man Caught ImperSonating
Traffic Officer.

Found guilty Of impersonating a
police officer, Russell Bohannon, 20,
Thirty second street and Leslie ave-
nue., must pay off a $25 fine and
costs, levied against him in munich
pal court Friday afternoon, on the
"installment plan"
Bohannon was placed on proba-
ton for six months with orders to
pay off the assessment within that
period.
He was arrested by state police
after persons reported that he was
stopping motorists on Speedway
road and representing himself as a
state policeman. According to. in
formation given Offices, Bohannon
was wearing uniform and a badge
of the type used by the Horsethief
Detective Association.
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GOLF FAN MISSING
Believe 16-Year-0Id Youth
Headed for Tournament.

His enthusiasm for golf is be-
lieved to have caused Howard 10y,
Is, of 511 North oxford street, to
leave his home Wednesday morn
ing, relatives said today after re-
porting his disappearance to the po-
lice.
Roy McAuley, an uncle with
whom the youth lives, and Mrs. Nc
Auley said they believed the boy
may have started to the National
Public Links Golf tourney at st.
Louis, Mo. 10y caddied at various
local courses during the last two
years, they said.
When last seen he was wearing a
gray and black sleeveless sweater
and tan trousers. He did not wear
a hat. He is feet 9 inches tall
and weighs 100 pounds.
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II INJURED
IN 24-HOUR
TRAFFIC TOLL
Drunken Driving, Failing to
Give Right of Way
Among Charges.

Seventeen persons today made up
the twenty-four-ho toll of traffic
accidents in indianapolis and vi
cinity, according to records OF po-
lice, hospitals and sheriff's offices.
Six were hurt when a car driven
by Chester Mcpherson, Negro, 1717
Vandaman avenue, collided with a
machine operated by Norman Ball,
80, of 1144 South Senate avenue, at
keystone avenue and Raymond
street Friday night.
Mrs. Martha Ball, Sc, Norman's
mother, and Mrs. Nina Ball. "a, his
wife, we're taken to ST. Francis
hospital, Beech Grove, with serious
injuries. Ella and Carroll Ball,
riding with their father, sustained
cuts and bruises. Both drivers we're
slightly hurt. Mcpherson was ar
rested on charges of assault and
battery and failure to give right
of way.
George Barton, So, of 4110 West
Washington street, today was
charged with drunken driving, after
ali auto crash in the 1900 block
West Washington street, Friday
night in which his auto collided
with car driven by Excel Shaw,
%, of 1751 South High School road.
Shaw sustained minor injuries.
Edith jenkins. Is, Of 1925 North
Sherman drive, and Charles Lust,
81, of 1925 Bellefontaine street,
passenger on Brightwood bus were
injured when it was struck at Sew
enteenth street and Roosevelt ave-
nue. by a street car.
Others injured were: Vincent
King, 6, of 225 Beauty avenue.
minor injuries; Donald Coin, Is, of
27 North Lansing street, minor in
juries; Clarence w. Clegg. chief
bailiff of criminal court and Mrs.
Clegg, both of whom escaped with
minor injuries.
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SOUTHERNERS ARRIVE
Mississippi Boosters in City
Few Hours.

indianapolis Friday was host to
200 Mississippians who are making a
goodwill tour of the eastern part
of the nation.
The special train of eight Pull
man coaches and two exhibition
coaches pulled into the Union sta
ton shortly before noon and the
party headed by Dennis Murphree,
former Governor of Mississippi, was
welcomed by Chamber of Com
merce and city officials. They were
welcomed by Mayor L. Ert Slack.
A sixty-piece band which is &C
eompanying the boosters gave a
concert on the Circle and the party
then left for Muncie and Union
City.
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Parents to Visit Members of
Al Clubs Here on
Sunday.

A heaIthful place is the state fair
ground these days.
Robust members of the All clubs,
to the number of several hundred
boys and girls, are in camp here.
Arrivals began pouring in late
Walter c.. Kolb, Greenfield, as
sisted by Harold Yarling also of
Greenfield are in charge of the
camp. Miss Janice Berlin is the
girls chaperon. G. Henry, Indian
apolis. is instructor. Glasses start
at $3.50 a. m. and taps sound at
9 p. m.
Parents will visit the camp Sun
cay and addresses and special enter
tainment is being prepared for
them