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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1930-01-23, Page 3west Nast subaividea into three The Reign of Terror gre',„, rings, with beadquartees in ; . In United States .au1 the lower tiet end Weet aides, Harlem, the Times Squere Distriet, New York City, and operatieg con- , (exiled factories . New .3erSey. A VItta/aa of Amerman Papers or minor line of toning tribute from the a Situation Which We in Stage is reported in the shape o proa Canada Cant Under- oring gangster "proeeetiou" to oaten stand aud actresees against wrecking crews o guemen, for prices vomiting up to $3,000 Meantime sharp controversy ragas la the Chieago perms over alleged bi- diedio deat]i three gangsters seeking efficiencies of the Cook County Grim - to datort $10000 tribute from tbe Mal Courts, voiced by President president of the Tire and Rubber Frank .L Louth of the Chicago grime Worts' Union, Chicago, replete s commiesion who resigned ,as special explained that the racketeers were proeecutpe on the stair of the State'e out fee tbis new line of business be- Attorney. After a bitter exchange of maid "bootlegging has grown too personal critleiten with a judge pre- -hazardous," and revenues from gala- aiding in the case he brought against Mg and vice have been limited. nine mea five or then. members of the Police tapping of wires leading Police Department accused of com- front the headquarters of the "Scar- plicity in the slaying of a negro at feed, M" Capone, "Bugs" Moran, and the 192S preliminaries Mr. Loesch other gangs, had caught conversa- quit the case and resigned his office, Lions which are said to have revealed alleging partizanship and official sup - plots to mulct business organizations port of (Time. To other criticisms by of millions of dollars, and both New the Cable Commission charging de - York. and Chicago police forces plau laycd tattle and indifferent adminis- co-oaerative measures against the tration, judges of the bench reply gangsters who link up foe working that tae Commission has degenerated our principal cities. into a mere faultaluding, scolding The fatal mistake of the Chicago body, and that the court conditions gunmen who fell iuto the police trap "will compare more than favorably gave, a dramatic news -story revela- with those in any jurisdiction in the tion to the public of the latest eider- civilized world." tine gime, and further emphasized The Chicago journal. of Commerce the Import of the conference just remarks that "Chicago still has vital- -then being held between Police Cone ity enough to yell when it is rob- missloner Grover A. Whalen of New bed. New York takes its crime as a York and Police Commissioner matter of course." lizat Russell in Chicago. Following .repeated threats to take President Powers "for a ride" if his Rubber Workers' Union did not come across —with $10,000, Powers notified the po- lice department of the arrival of the fret of three gunmen at his office to collect, and squad ere shot them all to death—William (Dinky) Quan, ex - bartender, William Wilson, ex -pugil- ist, and William Ryau, a former beer - re finer. "Chicago police are not often can- didates foe praise," remarks the Cleveland Plain Dealer, "but they did a good day's work; they talked to the raelteteers in the only language they understand—lead bullets." And the -Chicago Daily News moralizes: "Racketeering flourishes only where weakness, timidity, and lack of .ea Teethe., co-operation between the vic- tims and the agencies of law make it relatbsely safe. The way to fight the racketeer is to resist him intelligeut- le. to make no compromise with him, to inform the State's attorney and the commissioner of police of any ' threat or lawless overture." Nevertheless, here is only one ha claent that entails furtherrevelations of the terrifying racketeering situa- tion to Willett the press gives much space. Chicago Police Department information is said to include a. list of more) than thirty labor 1unions from whtek one gang planned to collet— thus extending the .common method ot gouging tailoring establishments, laundries, restaura.ats, etc., by gang leaders who intend to "muscle in" for control of bigger organizations and businesses to secure a share of the receipts. The secretary of theChicago Employers'' Association estimates that gangster preying on legitimate business already nets $13G,000,000 a year, and the fact that the Chicago a Coat Merchants' Association refuses Artmleutenaut General in the British Army. to negotiate a new contract with the Now he wore a loose -fitting lounge suit and a slouch hat was Goal Teamsters' Union, so long as an jammed down on his head, in the alleged thug and ex -convict continues Change from khaki to be the Union's business agent, to mufti—and few brings up another concrete racketeer- men can Stand up under this transi- iisstie. Says the Chicago Tribune: den -without losing some of the char - ng 1 act" of their personal appearance,— is to the credit of the coal mer - ante that they have claret'. to raise. -he remained a 'striking figure. There the issue and defy the racketeer; I is 'something wistail in his face—an the community of the plague of viol- through you but be 13mieeemtsndit.seIlet theirs is the first step toward freeing nittesocnr.iybable look that once told blackmail which has mad,e I highly developed concentration. Is not exactly pre -occupation but a Chicago notorious the world over.' This look seemed to be enhanced by the Police Commissioner Whalen is quoted in the press as saying that he ordeal through which he was then poising, In his springy walk was a expects far-reaching results from hissuessunn of pugnacity. His whole conferences with Commissioner Rus- mannerI was that of a man in action sell, and pledges unprecedented co -1 operation from the New York Depart- and who exults'in it. Roosevelt had meld. Exchange of special squads of the same characteristic: but he dis- played it with much more animation detective§ and of evidence in racket -1 and strenuosity. eering cases will be pitted against the pooling of gunmen by gangsters We sat down in the crowded dining of the -two cities. Cooperation in the; room of the House, of Parliament where the Prime Minister had invited use of ballistics to identify weapons, tie well ai finger -prints to identify the a group of Cabirtet Ministers aud criminals, is promised. Commission. leading business men of Capetown. cr Around us seethed a noisy or Whalen adds: which reflected the turmoil of the "The greatest flaw in the American South Africatipolitical situation. legal 'system is nardoeing judges, The luncheon was the first of vari- long delays, and subeesions of seta+ ous ineetlegs with Smuts. Some were fence, where the defendants are] amid the tumult of debate or in. the known to be hardened criminals. shadow of the legislative halls, others "'Racketeering' is the most vital of out in the toiletry at Grotto Scheer, our police problerus, Bestuess Men the Prime Minister's residence, where are losing millions. Most of them we walked amid the gardens that won't light their own battles, but n -a: Cecil Rhodes loved, or sat in the tribute to avoid trouble. The system rooms where the Colossus '"thought also leads the gangster e to fight in terms of continents." It was a among themselves; they are covetous liberal education. , of the spoils of the 'rackets,' and they Of all his Boer contemporaries he kill thole competitors." I is the most cosmopolitan. Nor is this The prospects of a greater inter - due entirely to the fact that he went city gang war, according to newse; to Cambridge where he left a recora paper reports from Chicago, will 111 for scholarship, and speaks English crmo as soon as Capone, dictator of with a decided accent. It is because Chicago's underworld, is released 1 he has what might be called world front Jail in Philedelphio.. Police and' sense. court authorities are represented as! Stelae is one of the best -read num convinced that the Moran gangsters 1 lutve met. He seems to know SOille- hspire to dominate Chicago rackets thing about everything. Ile ranges and thirst to revenge the massatre from Joseph Conrad to Kant, front of •$0'0n of their men on last St, VaI- Booker Washington to Tolstoi. Ills- enelue's Day. It is further (teetered tory, fletion, travel, biography, have that, through evidence obtained by a all come within his ken, 1 told him Chicago,. wow), Federal nattotic X proposed to go from Capetown to agents have lomat the trail of the the Congo and possibly to Aegola, world's largest drug cmpire—a sYndi- His taco lighted np, "Ah, yes," lia ciao eetending 'Plna New York to the sald, "I have read nil about these THE RACKETEERS When Chicago police bullets rid - Various Meetings With Smuts I got a hint of what Smuts was up against the moment I arrived. I had cabled him of my coming and he sent an'Ordetly to the steamer with a note of welcome and Meriting me to lunch with him at the House, of Parliament the next day. In the letter, among other things, he said: "Yon will find this a really interesting country, full of curious problems," How curious they were I was soon to find out. I called for him at his modest book - lined office in a street behind the Parliament Buildings and we walked together to the House. Heretofore I had only seen him in the uniform of GENERAL SMUTS Canada's recent illustrive guest as he appeared at Toronto University to ee- °sive his L.L.D. degree. Where Modern.Methods .and Modernistic .Art. Voite. ..'New U.S.-Canada Bridge Projected •SN itt A REMARKABLE PHOTO OF THE NEW MR GIANT Britain's new giant dirigible, R-100, discharging water ballast as It approaches mooring after trial Malta countries. I can see them- before me in my mind's eye." One night at dinner at. Groote Schuur we had sweet potatoes. He asked inc if they Weraaeommon in America I replied that down in Ken- tucky, where I was born, one of the favorite Negro dishes was "'possum and sweet potatoes." He took me lia at Once, saying: "Oh, yes, I have read about 'apes - sum pie' -in Joel Chandler Harris, books." Then. he proceeded to tell me what a great. institution •"Br'er Rabbit" was. We touched on German poetry mid I quoted two lines that I considered beautiful. When I remarked that I thought Heine was the author he cola reeled nn e by proving that they were written by Schiller.—Isaac F. Mar - meson, in "An African Adventure." Empire Bonds Trade Between West Indies and Canada Shows Im- mense Growth Toronto.—In 30 years be total trade, imports and exports, between Canada and, the West Indies, bee in- creased front $2,,500,000 to $45,000,000, according to Col. J. C. Brown,. assis- tant leathe'preeident ef the Canadian National 'Steamships,' in an. address • before the annual cOnvention of the Eastern Canada Fruit and Vegetable Jobbers here. The total value of tropical fruits, cocoanuts and "out of season" vege- tables imported into Canada for the year milt* November 20, 1929, am- ounted to $31,500,000, he said. Five Canadian National vessels maintained a weekly freight and passenger ser- vice between Canadian ports and the islands. Prior to the inauguration of this sciatic°, he stated, there were no ban- anas coming into Canada from the Indies except in small quantities by way of the 'United States. During seven meths of direct importation Canada has received 2,500,0DC stems. •of bananas. Colonel Brown spoke of the rapidly increasing development of citrus fruit culture in the British West -Indies and the advantages Canada might have by buying oeanges and grapefruit from that part of the Empire. He declared the West Indies produced for export about 500,000 bushels of fresh "out of season" vegetables a year. "To use a newly coined phrase," he said, "the West Indies are becoming Canada -minded, and I believe that Canada is becoming West India -mind- ed. Our products and theirs are abso- lutely complementary and. there is no competition whatsoever between our- selves ants them." follows Ilia had .been encouraged. neaffioanisse.accinugesurovortt. "Feeble theas trade done ten thousand times better if he ifineeectieeitit: of the large Dumber or lambs THE SCHOOL -BOY KING Little King Michael of Roumania seen in the gardens at Cotroceni Palace. , DU TY Duty is far more tit e. love. It is the upholding law through. which the weakest become strong, without which all strength is unstable as water. No character, however harmoniously framed and gloriously gifted, can be complete without this abiding princi- ple; it is the cement which binds the whole moral edifice together, without which all power, goodness, intellect, truth, happiness, love itself, can have no permanence, but all the fabric of existence crumbles away from under us, and leaves us at last sitting in the Saving Humanity The 'Work of the Childrens' Aid Society is Building for the Future It is a mistake to suppose that the Society's Shelter is a public institute for the training of neglected children. It is •not in any sense a permanent home. It is much better than that. A more charitable and a far more en- lightened method is adopted than herding young children in a public in- stitution, with legal restraints, where all their associates are of their own class and where they are without the kindly personal attention of a mother. The children are not detained any longer than is necessary to -instil good habits and to secure foster homes for them. But finding homes is not the :only work undertaken by the Society. The main object is not to remove the !child but to seek by every means pos- sible to induce parents to train their children properly and treat them ,kindly. When neglect or cruelty is •reported, the Superinthdent visits the parents, reasons with them, urging Ithem to do better. If after repeated visits no improvement is shown, they are eumtramea before the court and warned that unless they reform, theit tchildren will be taken from them. If 'the case seems hopeless, the court will at once commit the children as wards lof the Society. There is nothing spec- tacular in all this, as there would be in housing a large number in a public institution. But thereeis much truer philanthropy, resulting in far deeper and more abiding good, CONSECRATED LIVES 'God's sun shines over us; the day is ours. Shake off the shadows of the night. Look at the dead yesterdays only to SO their final meaning as they lie still in the pitiless white light of the irrevocable. But then turn to to -day; and make every sin and every .agony education, take the past up into the spirit, and offer the one atonement—cone e erated living no ea— Edward Howard Griggs. A BEGINNING Let every dawn of morning be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as ite close; then let every one Qf these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others, some goodly strength or knowledge gained for yourselves.—Ruskin. Arnold N. Smith, M,P„ SayB Private Company Will Seek .Powers Ottawa. —While Canadian authork ties might not be averse to the colt- struction of a privately owned bridge to span the St. Lawrence river near Cornwall, New York State authori- ties would probably ban the project, according to °pillion, here. In this connection it is recalled that Govern. or Roosevelt on two occasions had vetoed schemes for the construction of privately owned toll bridges on the ground that such structures should be publicly owned and free of tolls, The latest project for an internee tional bridge tierces the St. Lawrence River is advanced by Arnold N. Smith, M.P., of Cornwall, and is cou- tallied in a letter forwarded to the Cornwall Board of Trade, embodying particulars of the scheme, which he denims will be laid before Paella. inent at the forthcoming session. An original plan for a bridge in the environs of Cornwall called for a series of three bridges, one from the town of Cornwall to Cornwall Island with a roadway to the foot of the is- land, another from Cornwall Island to St. Regis Island and a "hied from St. • Regis Island to St, Regis village. Ob- jection was taken to the scheme how- ever by Deep Waterways Engineers who declared. that no piers would be allowed in the St. Lawrence Bever near Cornwall on account of interfer- ence with ice in the river, when the new power houses are built. . A second plan was then put for. ward by which it was proposed to lo- cate the Canadian approach to the bridge some distance east of Cornwall ata point opposite the Cornwall Golf and Country Club. From the north bank of the river the bridge would proceed to Colquhoun's Island, thence with a span of 150 foot clearance over the main channel of the river to St. Regis Island and there pick up the route of the original plan. With these plans in mind a bill will be presented in parliament at the coming session, Mr. Smith informed the Beare of Trade, by which incor. poratiou will be sought for a. company to be known as the Cornwall Bridge Company. The estimates. cost of the project is fixed at 0,000,000 and would require at least two years for completion. midst of vein, astonished at our own „ Prohibitioa bas raised the ridic- desOlation.—Mre. Jameson. elous to the sublime and dragged the snblime to the ridiculons."—Rupert PERSECUTION IIugbes. No 'man ever did a work in spite of persecutio1i that he might not have Wool might to be cheap this rear • date meet uover be given up. It may be neceseetre to alter or adjust the method of government, but id t it be British all the time," he declared. Sir aoseph Ward, Prime Mildew, said tiering the sante debate: "We shall he careful to them that the services required of us by mandate mid our trusteeship are not abandon. cd or unduly restrieted." The lead- er of the opposition concurred.. The 110111)10 in western Samo.a armee from a well-intentioned attempt on the part of the mandatory to obtain better prices for ,copra, the staple product Of the island. The authorities undertook to market the copra pro- duced by the natives and to liana over tbe whole of the proceeds. lit pursuance or this policy, rega- le -lions 'were introduced with a view of improving the qualita of the na- ive product. Reeentment a local and European traders at the .Administrtts tion'e invasion of thole domain, 'couplect with waive dislike to inter - femme with the long-establishea methods of cultivation produced seri- 0115 unrest. It is estimeted that the Mau, a Samoan society for resisting the Gov. ernment's acheme,, includes at least 50 per colits of native territory. Mene bers have come into collision with the police on several occasions, while tbr:oce deport a, number of t evus,therities ,bave also deemed it nessare to New Zealand and Samoa Mandate No Chance of Turning Job Over to 'Li:S.A.—Britain Does Not Enter into Deal at all London ---The Honolulu report in the American press that the aenewal of rioting in "British Samoa may cause Great Britain to withdraw and to .permit the United States to con- solidate the area with American Samoa." has been received in London with mingled surprise and incredulity,. In the fleet place it is New Zea - laud and not Great Britain that has the mandate for western Samoa; sea. welly, in the unlikely event of New Zealand being anxious to rid Itself of its responsibility to the League of Nations because its ward bas proven somewliat refractory in the past few years, it would nevertheless be un- able to do so until permitted by the unanimous vote of the League Coun- cil. It may be. taken for granted that Germany, which lost this territory as a result of the war, would be a strong candidate for taking up New Zea- land's mantle should there be any possibility of the latter's discarding it. No credence is attached to the re- port in the New Zealand High Cona missioner's offia Imre. Speaking in the New Zealand Par- liament recently, Sir Apirana Ngala, Native Minister in the New Zealand Government, declared that the man - Art Idea Can Be Formed From This Picture of the Trade on the Great Lakes .......,, . . . .„ . . etee,77TIP , ... • . .. . • ... . . .. . e .. ni NEW GREAT LAKES DOCK ON SUPERIOR'S SHORES Coal flock at Michipicolen harbor on Lalte Superior, recently built by Algoma Central IlailaVaa.