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' 39-DAYCOALSTRIKE
Steel Firms’ Shafts Closed
In Support of Walkout at
Companies’ Mills.
■r th» Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. July 26.—Sixty-five
hundred Pennsylvania and West Vir
ginia miners awaited a call to work
today as a 39-dav-old strike in “cap
tive” mines of two steel companies
•nded.
Patrick J. Fagan, president of Dis
trict No, 5 of the United Mine Work
ers of America, said the men probably
would return to mines of the Youngs
town Sheet Sc Tube Co. and the Beth
lehem Steel Corp. by the middle of the
* week.
John L. Lewis, head of the Commit
tee for Industrial Organization and
, mine union chieftain, called the strike
to bolster walkouts in independent
Steel company mills.
Fagan said picketing would continue
. at Republic Steel Corp. mines.
The Youngstown Sheet & Tube and
Bethlehem had agreed to re-establish
a “status quo" for the workers, Far/m
aaid. while negotiations for a new
contract were under way. A contract
expired in April and the men had
worked until June 17 under a truce.
Fagan declined to discuss the terms
the union would seek in a new con
tract, but asserted the men were re
turning to work at the same wages.
Captive mines supply the bulk of the
Coal used by the steel companies.
Two Republic mines near ConnMls
rille. Pa, resumed operations two
weeks ago in defiance of the U. M. W.
strike and the company claimed that
more than 200 of 549 employes were
working.
Pickets were driven back twice by
tear gas fired by company guards and
a man who claimed to be a picket was
ambushed and seriously wounded near
one of the mines Saturday.
The first hint that the strike would
end came from William Hynes, presi
dent of district 4 of the U. M. W. He
announced late Saturday that em
ployes of the Youngstown Sheet A:
Tube's Buckeve Mine at Nemacolm,*
Pa., could return to work if they de
sired One thousand normally are i
employed there.
BRIDGES CALLS C. I. 0.
AID TO FREE MOONEY
^ Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast
Chi°f, Says ••We've Got
to Do Something."
By the Af^ocia'pr; Press.
- SAN FRANCISCO. July 26—Harry
Bridge*. Pacific Coast C. I O. chief
and International Longshoremen's
Association leader, told 5,000 persons
at a mass meeting yesterday that the
C. I. O. offers the logical machinery
to bring about the freedom of Thomas
J. Mooney and Warren K Billings.
Mooney and Billings were convicted
of the 1916 San Francisco Prepared
ness day bombing which killed 10
persons. Labor groups have long
claimed the two men were convicted
on perjured testimony.
Bridges spokp at a meeting called
as part of a Nationwide anniversary’
of 21 years of protest of the imprison
ment of the two men.
“If the courts are going to keep in
nocent men in prison and put more
Innocent men in we've got to do some
thing.” Bridges said.
J. Edgar Hoover Began Work
For U. S. 20 Years Ago Today
Head of Famed G-Men
Has Had Dramatic
Career in Crime Work.
BY REX COLLIER.
Twenty years ago today a 22-year
old Washington law' graduate, whose
unbounding energy had won him the
nickname, "Speed,” entered the De
partment of Justice as a clerk.
Those two decades have seen the
young man with the significant mon
icker cut a swath through the depart
ment to a position of national and in
ternational prominence.
The young man—he is 42 now—i.<
John Edgar Hoover, director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation, or
ganizer and head of the famed G
men and pioneer in the field of scien
tific crime detection.
He had no thoughts of detective
work when he came to the departmenl
in 1917, fresh from George Washing
ton University Law School. Nor hac
he any intention of remaining a clerk
His ambition at the time was to be
come a Government attorney and pos
sibly later to open a law office of hit
own.
It is doubtful if he had ever heard
of the department s Bureau of Inves
tigation before he entered the Jus
tice Department. Few persons had
for in those days the bureau ofter
was confused w'ith the Secret Serv
ice—even by high Government offi
cials.
Assigned in War Division.
Attorney General T. W. Gregory as
signed Clerk Hoover to the newlj
formed war division of the depart
ment. The United States had jus!
entered the World War, and the wai
division co-operated with military anc
naval intelligence agencies in pre
paring evidence for deportation of sus
pected and avowed anarchists.
Within a short time Hoover wai
the best-versed man in the depart
ment on these deportation cases. Hi;
aptitude and tireless devotion to dutj
soon attracted the attention of Attor
ney General Gregory, and a promo
tion to Special Assistant to the At
torney General followed.
When military service began to luri
him. his plans were blocked by hi
superiors, who contended he was mon
valuable to the Government in espio
nage work than in a uniform.
His assignment brought him int<
close contact with the Bureau of In
vestigation, then under the directioi
of A. Bruce Biclaski. He became mot
and more interested in the work o
the then comparatively unimportan
bureau, and in August. 1919, Gregor;
had Special Assistant Hoover organize
in the bureau a "general intelligent^
division," of which Hoover became ad
ministrative head.
Bv this time Hoover had become in
tensely engaged in investigative work
J. EDGAR HOOVER.
He had directed personally several
raids on headquarters ot alien agita
tors, acting under authority of war
time laws. Three months after es
tablishing the "general intelligence di
vision," he directed the arrest and de
portation of Emma Goldman and
Alexander Berkman, notorious radi
cals. Later he handled the deporta
tion of Ludwig Martens nad Gregory
Weinstein, revolutionists.
Named Assistant Director.
In 1921 he was appointed assistant
director of the Bureau of Invectiga
, tion. the functions of which were re
turning to a normal peacetime rou
tine. including investigation of anti
trust, bankruptcy, bribery, land fraud,
white slave and similar non-spectac
ular Federal cases. Occasionally the
bureau was called on to investigate a
murder on an Indian reservation, a
train hold-up or a ship-scuttling con
spiracy.
In the next few years Hoover fought
a desperate, behind-the-scenes battle
to prevent the bureau from sinking to
its low ebb in the Daugherty era. He
saw politics dictating appointments
. and policies and men like Gaston B.
Means wearing bureau badges.
1 His battle against these conditions
did not go unnoticed, and when At
■ torney General Harlan Stone suc
. ceeded Harry M. Daugherty, in the
Spring of 1924, Hoover was made act
i ing director of the bureau and given
full authority to reorganize the force
i and "clean house" as he might see fit.
■ ' He proceeded to rid the bureau of
f unfit agents and to establish new
: j standards for appointment, with pm
■ I phasis on character and legal train
■ j ing and with promotion based solely
> on efficiency ratings. He reorganized
field offices and set up an inspection
system.
Less than two months after his ap
pointment as acting director he ob
tained co-operation of the Interna
tional Association of Chiefs of Police
in establishing in the bureau the
nucleus of today’s huge clearing
house for criminal fingerprints. The
identification unit started with 810,
188 fingerprints contributed by the
association and by Leavenworth Peni
tentiary. . Now there are more than
7,000,000 fingerprints in the collection.
Gained Favorable Notice.
Attorney General Stone was so im
pressed by Hoover's overhauling of
the bureau that he made him perma
nent director on December 19, 1924.
During the next several years the bu
reau gained favorable notice for the
capture of Martin Durkin, first crimi
nal to murder a bureau agent; for the
solution of the Osage Indian murders,
in which two dozen Indians were vic
tims, and for several other cases of
national prominence.
Then came the kidnaping of the
Lindbergh baby, followed by passage
of the Federal kidnaping act, giving
the bureau authority in interstate
kidnapings and extortion cases. A
few months later the Nation was fur
ther aroused by the mass slaying of
a bureau agent and three police offi
cers at the Kansas City union station.
A series of anti-crime laws was passed,
greatly expanding the scope of the
bureau's activities and giving Federal
agents the right to make arrests,
carry arms and otherwise engage in
battle with gangland.
Hoover's men launched an intensive
battle with roving gangs of kidnapers,
bandits and other desperadoes. There
were casualties on both sides. Floyd.
Dillinger, “Baby Face” Nelson, Fred
and “Ma" Barker and others who
elected to fight it out with the now
well-known G-men ended their ca
reers in the morgue. Cafirey, Cowley,
Hollis and Baum of the F. B. I. died on
the firing line.
Alvin Karpis, leader of the gang
which had jcollected S300.000 in ran
som from the Urschel and Hamm
families, issued a personal challenge
to Hoover. Accepting the challenge,
the F. B I. director led raids which
resulted in the capture of Karpis,
Harry Campbell and accomplices.
These were fateful, exciting and
dangerous days for the FBI —and
it was an era that saw a change in
public psychology toward crime In
stead of glorifying the criminal and
his exploits, the screen, press and
radio acclaimed the law enforcement
officer for putting gangsters on the
run.
Police departments turned to the
G-men for co-operation and advice
In response to a demand expressed by
State and local authorities the F. B I
training schools were opened to police
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officers with establishment of the
National Police Academy.
Attorney General Homer Cummings
gives Hoover much of the credit for
bringing the P. B. I. to its present
state of efficiency and renown.
He was among a large group of
friends and associates of the F. B. I.
director who today, verbally or in
writing, extended congratulations on
Hoover's completion of 20 years of
continuous service in the Govern
ment’s battle against the sinister
forces of crime.
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SEEK CAUSE OF FIRE
IN WHICH FOUR BURNED
Heroic Mother and Daughters
Perish After Father and 3
Sons Escape.
By 111# Associated Press.
FREDONIA, N. Y„ July 26—Of
ficers called a second inquest today
in an effort to learn the cause of a
fire which blazed through a big brick
residence in 10 minutes and burned to
death a heroic mother and three
daughters.
Mrs. William J Iogan, 36, collapsed
and perishPd with her three little girls
after horrified neighbors saw her try
to hand the children out a second-story
window. The girls were Mary Ann,
12; Gertrude, 15, and Jean, 2.
She went to their rescue after
spreading an alarm that enabled her
husband to escape and drag three
young sons to safety.
Logan, after leading his sons to
safety, went to the front door to m°et
his wife and daughters, but they had
not come out.
Russ Doctors Agitate.
Following the exposure of a noted
medical specialist of Moscow. Russia,
as 'antt-social and immoral.” Soviet
doctors are agitating the question of
a code of ethics that shall differ from
that Inherited from the old regime.
The specialist, after injuring a woman
patient, tried to have her committed
to an asylum and later advised her
to commit suicide.
I. E. B. Delays Vote, How
ever, Pending Redraft of
Questions.
Es the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. July 26 —The Ameri
can Newspaper Guild today had grant
ed the first membership referendum
since its organization—a referendum
to test whether the guild will remain
within the C. I. O's ranks.
The guild's International Executive
Board voted unanimously to delay the
referendum until special committees of
the Washington. D. C., and Columbus.
Ohio, units could draft a restatement
of the question at issue. The delay
was granted at the request of the
two units, which initiated the move
for the referendum.
The board also adopted unanimously
a resolution banning from participa
tion in the referendum balloting all
members who joined the guild since
July 1, a week before the opening
of the St. Louis national convention,
which voted for C. I. O. affiliation.
This resolution affected especially
business office, circulation and other
department employes who would^hare
membership with editorial workers
under the C. I. O.'s vertical union
plan.
Other issues the referendum will take
up are the guild convention indorse
ments of the Spanish loyalist cause,
independent political action, a large
W. P. A. appropriation and President
Roosevelt's original court bill.
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Taking No Chances.
STUART, Fla. (/Pi.—Dr. Reginald
Kitrhmg, jr., forestalled the dog- j
catcher when he took his pup, !
Blackie, to get a license.
Blackie trotted into City Hall wear
! ing a cardboard sign around his neck
l saying, ‘'License applied for.”
:hicago session set
ON LAKE MICHIGAN BILL
Withdrawal by City of 5,000
Cubic Feet of Water Per
Second Is Aim.
Br the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. July 28.—Former Mayor
William Hale Thompson said yester
day public officials, business and labor
leaders had been asked to attend an
ipen forum meeting here November
3 to discuss a congressional bill that
would permit Chicago to withdraw
5,000 cubic feet of water a second
from Lake Michigan after December
31, 1938.
A United States Supreme Court
order reduced the diversion to 1.500
cubic feet a second after that date.
Thompson said Governors of Mis
sissippi Valley States, ■ Mayor Daniel
Hoan of Milwaukee and other oppo
nents" of the proposal has been asked
to attend.
Her Long Sleep Ends.
Anna Swanepoel of the Transvaal, 1
South Africa, after waking from a
sleep of 30 years, looks out upon the
world with the mind of a child, al
though she is now 48 She kissed
her mother goodnight in the village
where they lived in 1907. and awoke
In a hospital where she has been for
the last 17 years. She is fully con
scious and shows keen delight in dolls
and in reading newspaper comics.
M—/
Manchuria, Explored.
Scientific exploration of Northern
Manchuria has begun on an extensive
scale. A party of more than a score
of experts organized by the Harbin
branch of the Continental Scientific
Academy is exploring and charting a
district in the vicinity of Peian Chen,
in the Little Hsingan Range. A num
ber of specialists from Japan are with
the party. Particular attention ui
being paid to the immediate neigh
borhood of Mount Laohei, in Northern
Lunkiang Province. The commission
hopes not only to ascertain the nat
ural resources of the country, but to
contribute to the knowlledge of its
natural history.
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savage, fighting blue marlin!
How would your nerves stand up to two hours of this?
AS the Miami, Florida,"Herald” said of Erl Roman’s
XjL titanic struggle with the big fish (above): "The
battle was tough. Erl had his hands full staying in
the fishing chair.” But a sporting spirit and healthy
nerves kept Roman going. After a 2-hour fight, be
landed the second-largest blue marlin ever taken on
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