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The Washington times., 1933-07-28

and the amended bill, dealing with
kidnapping over State lines, was
passed with only a 20-year i'm
prisonment penalty.
8 States Decree Death
Senator Copeland and Colonel
Hutchinson dug up records of the
kidnapping laws of the 48 States.
There were but eight States with
statutes providing death penalties
for kidnapers for ransom - Ala
bama, Delaware, Florida, Illinois,
Kentucky, Missouri, Texas and
Virginia.
There were but eight States i'm
posing a maximum penalty of life
imprisonment for kidnapping for
ransom-Arizona, California, In,
diana, Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska
New Jersey (the site of the Lind
bergh baby kidnaping) and Penn
SylVania.
The Washington times., 1933-07-28
LAUNDRY CRAFT
A GOLD MINE
IN CHICAGO
Startling Disclosures Made as
State Moves to Destroy
Racketeering Evil

CHICAGO, July % G.N.S).
Startling disclosures today re-
vealed the laundry racket" as
veritable gold mine to Chicago
gangsters dominated by Al Ca
pone as investigators for the
States attorneys office moved to
prosecute hoodlums who prey on
a legitimate business to the detri-
ment of the public.
A large independent laundry
owner who played a prominent
part in bringing to light the op-
erations of the Infamous truck
ing and transportation exchange
and who will be an important
witness in the prosecutions, told
International News Service of the
inner workings of the racket. He
said:
A FERTILE FIELD
"The laundry trade was
picked out for the Vaccinations
of the gangsterS because it fur.
niShed a fertile and easy field
for the bomb and acid methods.
The drivers of all the cleaning
and dyeing trucks were first
organized under the Cleaners
and Dyers Chauffeurs' Union.
"Then the union heads saw
an opportunity to spread out.
They went to the Chicago
Laundry Mems Association and
told them that if they would
pay one dollar a week to the
union for every truck they
would take care of the small
hand Iaundries."
Thus, with 5000 laundry
trucks on the streets of Chicago,
the informant continued, the
union officials collected $4,000
week revenue. With that $4,000
a week as starter the union or
ganizers then proceeded to en-
gulf the small hand laundries in
the scheme. There are 5000
small hand laundry owners in
the city.
Hand Group Organized
The Hand Laundry Owners
Association was then organized
and some 5000 of these owners
were compelled to send their
dirty clothes to the larger laun-
drys. Thus the larger laundries
were provided with increased
business and higher prices were
maintained.
Charged with collusive extor-
ton in the cleaning and laundry
trades are T. Henry Klein, head
of the Laundry Owners Asso-
citation; Attorney Morris Kaplan,
James P. German and Al Boris,
union heads, and F. Walter
Crowley, chairman of the Master
Cleaners and Dyers' Association.
The Washington times., 1933-07-28
$4,000 Suit Result
Of Auto Collision

AS the aftermath of an auto
mobile collision three months ago,
the Hechinger Company, Fifteenth
and H Streets Northeast, was
named defendant in a $4,000
damage suit filed by Leah A.
Campbell, Brooklyn, N. Y, today
in District Supreme Court.
The plaintiff, through Attor-
neys Alvin L. NeWmyer and
Robert I. Miller, declared she was
driving an automobile at South
Capitol and c Streets on April II
when a car of the defendant
struck her. She complained of
suffering serious injuries.
The Washington times., 1933-07-28
GRAND JURY SET
To HIT TRUCK
BUSINESS
"0nIy Begun to Fight" Says
Courtney for State; Trial
For Capone Demanded

CHICAGO. July % G.N.S0.
Hitting at hoodlums and politi-
cal figures alike, States Attorney
Thomas j. Courtney put fear
in the hearts Of Chicago's
racketeering parasites with the
announcement today:
we have only begun to
fight"
With "a men indicted yester-
day, charged with sucking the
lifeblood from the arteries of the
laundry and cleaning and dyeing
businesses, Courtney and his
aides planned their offensive
against the leeches in the truck
Ing and teaming business.
With indictments returned
against the 24-including Alder
man Oscar F.. Nelson, Aaron
Sapiro, New York and San Fran
cisco attorney: AL Capone, i'm
prisoned gangland czar; Murray
Humphries, successor to Capone
as Chicago'S Public Enemy No. /
Courtney washed his hands Of
these for the time being, leaving
the serving of capiases in the
hands of deputies, and rolled up
his sleeves for a punch at the
men who have repeatedly threat
ened to halt all trucking in the
city.
Jurors Get New List
A second list has been placed
before the grand jury. It is ex-
pected to name underworld char
acters of the type of Murray
Humphries. Marcus "Studdy')
Looney, William ("Klondike")
O'Donnell and William ("Three-
Fingered Jack") White.
These men, long underworld
characters, foresaw the day when
they could no longer peddle beer
to the working man, and began
to lay the lines which finally en-
Abled them to levy tribute of
millions of dollars a year from
the same working men for 'pro-
lection" and benefits"
Quick Trial Sought
AS he girded himself for the
second attack, Courtney announc-
ed that every effort will be made
to bring about arraignmentS and
trial within so days.
Three of those indicted have
been arrested. They are Sapiro,
who is being held by New York
police; Jerry Donovan, business
agent of the Beverage Drivers
Union, and Sam Feldman, presi-
dent of the Cook County Hand
Laundry Owners Association.
DR.. Benjamin Squires, Univer-
Sity of Chicago economist, was
reported en- route to Chicago
from Pennsylvania, where he has
been serving as a Federal strike
conciliator, and Alderman Nelson
will return from Europe, accord
ing to his law partner, to accept
service of capias.
CapOne Trial, Aim
Courtney said he would ask
Federal authorities to order the
removal of AL Capone from the
Federal penitentiary at Atlanta
to stand trial.
Meanwhile, four assassins had
strolled into a North Side bar
room and there shot and killed
Thomas Fredinordo, 81, alias
Tony Rocco. Two bullets were
fired into his back.
Governor HOrner Acts
At Springfield Gov. Henry
Horner launched the State on a
determined offensive against
crime, and kidnapings particu-
larly. Sheriffs, police chiefs, and
States attorneys were gathered
at the capital for the governors
crime conference.
To rush quick -triggered crimi-
nails to speedy trial and cut the
red tape of court procedure, Chief
Justice John PryStalski has ap-
pealed for volunteer judges to sit
on the Criminal Court bench for
two weeks of their vacations.
The courtroom murder of Po-
liceman John Sevick Monday
moved Judge Prystalski to take
The Washington times., 1933-07-28
NJ. 0. Chance Injuries
KneecUD in Fall

Merritt o. Chance. former post
master of the District, is in the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital at Sandy Spring, Md, suf-
fering from a fractured kneecap.
Mr.. Chance, who was treated
by DR.. j. w. Bird, slipped and
fell in the garden of his summer
home at Brookville, Md, yester-
The Washington times., 1933-07-28
Depression" Theme
Of SlInddY Services

religion VS.. Depression" is the
theme of services to be held Sun.
day at Elijah's Rest M. E. Church,
Poolesville, Md. Beginning at 8
p. m, a choir of jubilee singers
led by Henry Jackson, the Roland
Hayes of Maryland, will sing.
The Washington times., 1933-07-28
AHn1Ony Demanded
Bu Wife of MeniOu

LOS ANGELES, July % GN.s).
Pending trial of her divorce suit.
Kathryn Carver, wife of Adolphe
Menjou, film actor, today asked
the court for $2,700 a month ali
mony. A hearing on her petition
was expected next week.
The Washington times., 1933-07-05
SCHOOL BELLS
CALL $4,000

Although curtailed by the
economy program, the summer
schools of the District public
school system today were ex-
pected to draw more than $4,000
students.
Glasses in the high school,
junior high and elementary sum-
mer schools opened today, to be
continued until early in Septem-
ber. ...
Glasses will be limited to a
maximum of As students, while
no class will be held that does
not have IS members present on
the first day.
Students who failed in the
course will be accommodated
first, followed by those with low
marks and those who wish to be
advanced.
The Washington times., 1933-07-05
SON Of FACTOR
ISKEPT UNDER
ALERT GUARD

CHICAGO, July S GN.SJ.-
John "Jake the Barber" Factor
begin his fifth day of captivity
today with no authentic word re-
ceived from his abductors.
The two telephone calls received
by his son, Jerome-one telling
the 19-year-old youth to have
$4,000 in small bills. ready for
payment, and the other to be
ready to pay a ransom Of 5000, 900
are now believed to have been
hoaxes.
So far as could be learned from
the board of strategy" organized
within a few hours Of the abuc-
ton, no other communications
have been received.
Wife COlIapses
The silence Of the kidnipers
led Jerome, himself a kidnap-
ing victim last April, to believe
that his father is dealing with the
kidnapers himself.
Reports that Factor may have
fled to some Central American
resort to escape further entangle-
ments with the British govern
1nent were discounted today by
the collapse of the erstwhile bar
ber's red-haired wife, Rella Cohen
Factor.
She is under constant care of
physicians. Her condition con-
vinced authorities that Factor is
q genuine kidnap victim.
Factor IS charged by the Brit
ish government with mulcting
gullible English investors of ST.
100000, and John Bull has waged
q two-year fight to extradite him.
Son Guarded
While his step-mother was
under the care of physicians,
jerome was under the watchful
eye Of a bodyguard. 1t was
feared that the reported inability
of Jerome and friends Of Factor
to raise a ransom because of in
ability to gain access to the pro-
moter's safe deposit vaults might
result in the liberation Of Factor
and seizure of his son.
Jerome, however, insists that
his father will be released on a
"gentleman's agreement" to OBJ
tain the funds and pay over the
ransom demand to the kidnapers
himself.
Police, with whom the board
of strategy" is not cooperating,
inclined to the same belief, but
feels that the kidnapers will &C.
company Factor to his vaults to
collect the money at once. De-
tective guards were placed at all
banks where Factor is known to
have deposit boxes.
The Washington times., 1933-07-05
Health Specialist
Voices Warning
Of Tick Peril

BALTIMORE, July 5.-The
dangers Of ticks were pointed
out in an address yesterday by
DR.. c. H. Halliday, epidemolo-
gist Of the State department Of
health, under auspices Of the
city health department and the
medical and chirugical faculty
Of Maryland.
Although the pleasure ard en-
joyment of outdoor life must
not be foregone because Of pos
sible tick infection, he said,
care should be exercised to
avoid bringing ticks into the
home on clothing or on dogs.
The Washington times., 1933-07-05
Cool Bargains
IN SMALL TYPE

SECONDS OF MEMS HAND.
kERCHIEFS-It would pay to
buy a whole years supply at
this rate. tandard size.
Soft 90 fOTs
MEMS ALLwOOL SLEEVE.
LESS SWEATERS-SOlid cOlOrs.
in white, maize, navy and
black. A good weight
for year round wear. 81 M
Sizes "a to 42........ ~"
MEMS BLUE CHAMBRAY
WORK SHIRTS-TwO pockets,
cut full and strong.
y stitched: Sizes 3 for 81
1415 to II.
MEMS GOSMARETTE RAIN
COATS-Very light weight, for
the car. to keep at home or at
the office. Sizes Sc 81 90
to ID.
SECONDS OF MEMS PAJAM'
AS-High grade irregulars-fine
material. all styles solid 81 On
and patterns, A to d.. ~
The Washington times., 1933-07-05
HyattsUiIIe B. Y. P.U.
Elects NeD Heads

Officers elected by the B. Y.
p. U. of the First Baptist Church
of HyattSville are Miss Stella
Payne, president; Bryant Long,
vice president; William Ray. Sec
retary; Marjorie Coburn, treas
urer; Mary Franklin, Lois Cook
and William Hayes, group lead
ers; Paul Robertson, chorister,
and Francis Holtz, pianist.
The Washington times., 1933-07-05

A home Is your castle your
greatest protection q wise invest
home buys advertised for sale in the
WANT AID SECTION Of this newspaper.
The Washington times., 1933-07-05

SECONDS, SUMMER NIGHT.
SHIRTS-Sheer and cool for sui.
try night. Extra
wide and long. 3 for 81
Sizes Is to 20. ~ AOA VI
BURTON WASH TIES-Irish
pOplin. solid COlOrs. Figured and
embroidered pat A for 81
terms. ServiceabIe. AOA UA
MEMS WASH TIES-FilI up
your tie rack with these summer
patterns. Figures e for 81
and solid cOlOrs... v N VI
IRREGULARS WHITE DUCKS
They're pres hrunk! It's
easy to keep cool and fresh
looking at this price. 3 for 81
90 to AZ. A VI
ATHLE TIC SHIRTS AND
SHORTS-Fine cotton shirts, 81
to 46. Large cut brOadclOth
shorts " white and a for 81
The Washington times., 1933-07-05
300 Prs. Mems
TENNIS
SHOES
2 for 81

Heavy canvas uppers, brown or
white. Sturdy rubber SOles. Sizes
6 to II.
The Hecht CO.-Bargain Annex
The Washington times., 1933-07-05

Hard to believe but it's true!
Summer weight and they'll really
wear. Sizes 10 to IL.
The Hecht CO.-Bargain Annex
Evening star., 1933-08-13
WET UTAH MEANS MORE
REVENUE, CHEAPER BEER
Repeal, Which Appears Certain on
November z, Would Be Blow
to Bootleggers.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, August IL.
"A wet victory in Utah. which un-
doubtedly will be recorded on November
of this year. will mean the legalizing
of beer. 1t will mean that the price Of
beer will be reduced and that the State
will get some revenue while the boot
leggers will lose. 1t will not mean that
more beer will be consumed for 1t Is
plentiful here now.
II the vote on repeal Of the State and
Federal constitutional amendments Is
favorable as it will be. the beer control
bill, which was passed by the special
session Of the Legislature, which ad-
journed last Friday. will be effective
January l, 1894. The bill was passed
dependent on the passage Of the repeal
measure This will allow beer but 1t
will not allow hard liquor or anything
else but beer. The sale or consumption
of wine or hard cider which contains
more than one-half Of per cent alco-
hol will be illegal However, with the
constitutional amendment out Of the
way. the new Legislature, which Will
meet in January, 1885. may be able to
work some sort of simple and sane
legislation on the sale of all liquors.
Utah and Idaho State and CONNER
cial groups are now working to receive
cuts in freight on automobiles. farm
machinery and clover seeds. At hear
ing before a representative Of the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, the case
of these two inland States Is being pre-
sented by rate experts.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
Oklahoma Vote
Will Decide Fate
Of Six Questions
Three Matters Coming Up
Tuesday Relate to Tax
Situation.
BY WALTER M. HARRISON.
cial nisnatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. August II.
Battle lines are forming this week lor
another State election in Oklahoma
Tuesday, August Is. Voters will pass
upon three State questions dealing with
the muddled tax situation. One con-
stitutional amendment and two assem-
bly, bills referred by the people will
stand or fall at the will OF the electorate.
The constitutional amendment SUBJ
mitted by the Legislature eliminates
the ad valorem tax OF mills 1or
State purposes and reduces the mlllage
that may be levied by cities and counties
from 43 mills to 81 mills. This Is IN
line with the promise to lift the excess
sive burden of property taxes. and un-
measure will create more confusion in
a knotty financial situation and force
another special session Of the Legisla-
ture to provide general fund revenues.
One of the assembly bills gives the
State Tax Commission the authority to
90 behind local assessments returned
by counties and to revise the assess
ments as the State Board pleases. Pro-
ponents of this measure among them
Gov. Alfalfa Bill Murray, claim this
power is necessary to prevent favoritism
to individual taxpayers and favored
corporations by local authorities. OPP
ponents argue that the bill would give
the State administration tremendous
power in furthering political machine.
which would have every county at its
mercy with such centralized powers
over the tax structure.
The third measure is 3-cent add1-
tional stamp tax on cigarettes. II the
measure passes, the Oklahoma cigarette
smoker would pay 9 cents in taxes on
every package of cigarettes purchased.
Although it is obvious that such tax
will result in wholesale boOtlegging and
it Is common knowledge that the State
is flooded with literature from border
line dealers who will sell by mail, there
is no great interest either one way or
another in the cigarette tax.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
West Virginia Coal
Shipments Setting
POst-Wartin,e Mark
Surprising Pick.Up Be.
ieued Due to Rush Or.
ders Among Industries.
by ROBERT n. HORNER.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHARLESTON, w. Va,sAugust IA
Long coal trains are moving away from
the West Virginia mines again. Re-
ports from some sections, particularly
Logan, Mcdowell and Mingo Counties
are that the bituminous shipments are
the heaviest since the war days when
everybody wanted coal.
Several reasons have been advanced
for the unexpected pickup. One Is that
big industries, anticipating an early
rise in mine labor costs and . conse-
quent advance in the price of coal,
have placed large orders. Another Is
that the recent strike in the Pennsyl-
vania fields caused many coal buyers
to turn to the West Virginia market.
Coal mining Is the States principal
industry. Because of this. attention
now is focused on Washington, where
the industry's proposed code of fair
competition Is being heard before
N. r. A.
$4,000 Miners in State.
There are approximately $4,000
miners in West Virginia. During the
last three years many Of them have
been out Of employment, while others
have worked from one to three days a
week at an average wage Of around
$3.50 for an eight-hour day.
During the depression period the
union ranks among miners had been
depleted, but since passage of the ma
tional industrial recovery act organizers
have returned to the State and have
made their greatest efforts in the south
ern half Of the State
Now. according to Van A. Bittner,
president of District II. every mine in
the State is organized 100 per cent"
Mr.. Bittner took this information
with him to Washington last week,
where he appeared as one of the
unions representatives before N r. A.
in the hearing over the coal code.
Before going to Washington, Mr.
Bitnner sent q telegram to Gen. Hugh
S. johnson. head of N r. A., advising
him that 100 miners had been dis
charged by the United States Coal &
Coke Co. of Gary. w. Va, q subsidiary
of the United States Steel Corporation,
for union activities.
Charge Is Denied
W. c. Stratton. general superintend-
ent of the company, however. denied
the charge Immediately. saying that
the men discharged were let of be-
cause of violations Of companys rules
and State laws regulating their work
IN the mines.
Other West Virginia industries have
been making large gains. and in the
Kanawha Valley, where are many glass
and chemical plants. the increase in
employment has been particularly
heavy.
The Westvaco Chlorine Products Co.
at South Charleston Is working to ca
pacity night and day. filling orders
which have been arriving from all parts
Of the country. The same is under
stood to be true of the Carbide and
Carbon Chemicals Corporation at South
Charleston. of the du Points ammonia
plant at Belle and the Libbey-Owens-
Ford Sheet Glass Co. at Kanawha
City.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
FLORIDA PROJECT
TO COST 100000
Pahokee Water Works Part
of Federal Public Works
Program.
BY GEORGE HOYT SMITH.

special Dispatch to The Star.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August a.
The first municipal project for Florida
under the new Federal public works
program Is announced as the water
works plant, to cost 100000, at Paho-
kee, q little town in the Everglades
section, near Lake Okeechobee, in Palm
County. Rather close to the largest
inland sea In the country, Pahokee,
whence come the finest beans and early
vegetables that a housekeeper could
ask for around Christmas time and
later, when the North and East are
frozen up" has been worried ever the
problem Of supply Of fresh water.
Representative Mark Wilcox of the
fourth Florida district has succeeded
in getting this project put into the
big program-and work is likely to be-
gin upon it soon.
Florida is planning many big things
in various parts of the State The ho-
tel men are fixing up and improving
their buildings, with work indicating
the expectancy of a great season.
At the several divisions of the Florida
exhibit in Chicago thousands have ex-
pressed their intention of coming to
this State within the year The mana
ger Of the exhibits stated a few days
ago that more than 1,400 names a day
Of Commerce and other civic organiza-
tions. the lists made up from those
making inquiries and expressing inter-
est in Florida affairs and possibilities.
Orange Grove TraHplanted.
The transplanting OF Florida
orange grove, bearing and in bloom, to
the shores Of Lake Michigan. has been
remarked as one of the most remark
able advertising stunts ever undertaken
1t has been viewed by hundreds of
thousands. the majority of whom had
never before seen a full-grown orange
tree.
An interesting meeting Of the Florida
Association for Repeal of the Eight
eenth Amendment was held in Jack
sonville last week. committees being
appointed and other things done look
election to be held in October It Is
expected that the election will cost the
State S30.000 but the money will be
well spent. it is declared. Gov. Sholtz,
who was in Columbia, S. c.. recently
inspecting the Florida Artillery unit in
camp there. was quoted as saying that
Florida would give repeal q 2 or 212
to l majority in the election. The
State Democratic Convention adopted a
platform last Summer indorsing the
national platform. The State Com
mittee calls upon the Democrats to
turn out in force to ratify the twenty
first amendment to the Federal Con-
stitution. which repeals the eighteenth.
Evening star., 1933-08-13
North Carolina Looks
to Fe,c Not in Line;
Probes Alleged
Violations.
BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
RALEIGH, N. c., August 12.-With
North Carolina rather generally under
the new industrial codes, attention has
been centered during the past week on
the comparatively few who have failed
to sign the code and on alleged vio-
lations by many of those who have
signed and are proudly flying the Blue
Eagle,
BY far the greatest number of work.
ers involved In any one code industry
are under the textile code, the first to
go into operation and which now has
nearly one month OF experience be-
hind it.
Giving Satisfaction.
On the whole, the textile code ap-
pears to be giving very general salts
faction to all concerned and to have
been executed faithfully. There are,
however. numerous complaints, some of
which are apparently we'll founded.
These complaints for the most part
deal with evasions of the code by clas-
styling experienced employees as learn
ers' and paying them less than the
minimum required wage.
BY far the greatest number Of COM
plants. however, have dealt with the
most numerous class of employers, re-
tail merchants. most of whom signed
up under the blanket code. Apparently
evasions Of the spirit of the code by
hours and avoiding the
necessity Of employing more clerks have
been very widespread and those COM
plants are now receiving attention both
locally and in Washington.
Merchants Disturbed.
Local merchants are also distubed by
failure of some Of the national chains
of popular price stores to subscribe to
the code and some boycott efforts are
already being directed toward those es-
Establishments.
On the whole, the experiment seems
to be success as to textile mills and
experience Is too limited yet to weigh
its effects upon small businesses, par
ticularly retail stores.