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PAGE NINE BRADFORD EVENING STAR AND DAILY RECORD. THURSDAY EYENIXG, MARCH 5, 1931. New York Vice Quiz Stirred Anew By the Slaying of Woman Witness of Bronx county, where her body was found, is heading the investigation. A militant official who already has cleared his territory of racketeers, he 'also has an unprecedented record as 1 a prosecutor of murder cases. McLaughlin has tried twelve of these since he took office, and every one has resulted in a conviction.

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And it will be I Washington, March 5 The adjourn-I ment of Congress, sending House and Senate on a nine months vacation, today found political leaders looking ahead to the conference here of progressive Republicans and Democrats for the purpose of establishing a "new economic leadership" on Capitol hill. There was a tremendous interest in the gathering as progressives planned a legislative program for the next Congress a program that undoubtedly will furnish issues for the 1932 presidential campaign. Besides, four presidential possibilities Senator George W. Norris (R) of Nebraska, Senator William E. Borah (R) of Idaho, Governor Gifford Pinchot (R) of Pennsylvania, and Governor Franklin D.

Roosevelt (D) of New York may attend. Norris called the conference and Borah already has accepted the invitation. The progressives likely will decide to reopen in the next Congress passage of a new Muscle Shoals bill and the Norris "lame duck" amendment to MOTORS GENERAL PRODUCT the constitution. They will be in a much better position to enact both measures, since the new Congress will win, who is soon to relinquish his post as viceroy. be largely dominated by the progressive loc with the Republican and Mere than 100 detectives are seeking to track down the unknown murderer cf Vivian Gordon (left).

District Attorney Charles B. McLaughlin (upper center) is heading the investigation cf the killing. Cassie Claytcn (upper right), friend and fcrmer rcom-mate cf Miss Gordon, who came from ie, to submit to questioning, was closely guarded when she tcld pilice that she feared for her cwn life. Below, left to right, are Jchn E. C.

BischofT, former husband of the murdered woman; Samuel Cohen, formerly her bodyguard, and John A. Radcloff, her lawyer. Democratic ranks evenly divided. Among other legislative proposals to be discussed at the conference will be a downward revision of the tariff, the old debenture form of farm relief, INCREASE UNJUSTIFIABLE Washington, March 5 The proposal of the Pennsylvania railroad to increase freight rates on ground or pulverized coal, in carloads, from points in Pittsburgh and Johnstown, groups, to New England destinations, today was held by the interstate commission to be unjustified. For a haul of 661 miles the present rate is 21.5 cents per 100 pounds, while the proposed rate was 30.5 cents.

She had anticipated a violent end unknown to her, later said to be An- measures to stabilize industrial acti- at the hands of her enemies. How- drew J. McLaughlin, a vice squad vity and strict control of giant cor-ever, when that end came, in what is patrolman, and escorted to the apart- porations, chain stores and other ex- EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of a series of two articles dealing with vice conditions in-New York as they now are being sensationally exposed. called the most revolting crime of re-, ment of one of her friends, whom he tensive business organizations. The a prison offense, and it was upon this technical charge that Gandhi himself served an eight months' sentence in the Yerovda jail near Poona.

Picketing of liquor shops and foreign commercial establishments by Gandhi's men will be permitted if it is of a "non-aggressive character," the agreement sets forth. It is understood Gandhi will continue his boycott against foreign manufactured cloth, prevailing upon all Indian cloth dealers to refuse to sell the foreign product, dispatching their present stocks for sale abroad. Terms of the agreement became operative simultaneously with its publication. The accord, which is hailed as ending the internal strife which has beset India for months, was reached at lengthy "man to man" conferences between Gandhi and Lord Ir cent years in New York, investigators claimed to know. There, en what she entire agenda will deal with legis-learned that her enemies were num-! said was an innocent errand, she was i latio nto be proposed or considered PETITION FILED Pittsburgh, March 5 Another effort on the part of an aerie of the fraternal Order of Eagles to have a search warrant used by prohibition authorities quashed and evidence suppressed was launched today with the filing of a petition of Aeri No.

429. at Meadville, in federal court here. Allegation of the same kind made by several other aeries in western Pennsylvania are listed in the petition which charges that three prohibition officers gained entry to the club rooms by misrepresenting themselves to be members of the Homestead lodge of the Eagles. It was on the basis of this entry, the writ avers, that search warrant was issued. next winter.

erous, and her life bound up in a arrested. Tried and convicted, she was sent to a reformatory. If the four leaders do meet at the "progressive round table." the effect By PAIL HARRISON, NEA Service Writer. New York, March 5 No matter whether Vivian Gordon was an extortioner, courtesan or feminine rack Recently, with the vice investigation welter of significant circumstances. Alive, Vivian Gordon had little chance of clearing herself of the stain of the vice conviction, on which she hrinrrino- snnsatinnnl now Pvirinnpp uc lal ouuil- pomiuai frrArnctPic coo tlm nrit ro c- loir every day of police corruption and JUST FORGETFUL "Mama," said little Dorothy, "sister don't tell the truth." "Why, Dorothy, you mustn't say such things," reproached the mother.

"Well, last night I heard her say, 'Charlie, if you do that again I'll call And he did it twice more and she ddin't call." Pathfinder. ing the groundwork for the progres judicial laxity, she announced in let eteer, and no matter who the mur- declared she had been framed. She derers were who boldly tossed her body learned that fact when she visited ters to McLaughlin and her former i I I 11 1 iicui a wum in a puuiii; pal, one oi me prosecuiurs oi uie specuii iluskand John BischofT that the fate of the red-haired Broadway inquiry now being conducted by the sne tended to tell the whole' story playgirl is providing the most sensa- Appellate Court. of 'their dirty frame-up." "I intend tional stimulus to New York's already A few days later, shortly before she sives supporting Roosevelt against Hoover next year, should both win their party nominations. Others see Norris, Borah or Pinchot running on a third party ticket if Roosevelt is not nominated by the Democrats.

Should all these predictions fail, the conference at least will solidify the progressive element of both parties fori the first time in modern history. )elcome to go the limit," she wrote, "and you know as well as I do that will mean your finish." From her own experience, and subsequent associations with figures in New York night life, among them Arnold Rothstein, it was assumed that Miss Gordon had a wide knowledge of the ramifications of the city's Vice ring. So her murder immediately brought suspicion to bear upon its members, and even to the police themselves. There were many who recalled the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the gambler who fell before the attack of four gangsters who were directed by a police lieutenant. Ail five went to GANDHI PROMISES TO STOP BOYCOTT OF BRITISH GOODS 0 Hf ami amazing inquiry into vice and crime, was to have returned with additional For her slaying has become less of evidence, she was beaten, strangled, an individual atrocity than a threaten- and her silk-clad body tossed from an ing symbol of general corruption and automobile.

So now, in death, the lawless rule. To society, the motive woman is to gain some measure of and its significance have become even belated justice at the hands of investi-more important than the identity of gators who are probing the activities the killers. of New York's sinister vice ring. A length of rope was bound about It already has been shown, during the throat of Vivian Gordon to silence the hearings before Justice Samuel her. From telling what? She was Seabury, that such a ring mulcted an important witness in the vice in- millions of dollars annually from wo-quiry which has discredited many men, many cf them innocent of im-members of the police department.

She morality, many others illegally con-knew the secrets of society black- victed. Evidence was manufactured mailers. She apparently was on the by stool pigeons and members of the "inside" with venous gamblers and police vice squad. Shyster racketeers. bondsmen and court "fixers" drained Vivian Gordon was convicted eight their victims of savings and jewels years ago on a vice charge, and re-! under threats of jail sentences and cently had been attempting to show 1 damning publicity.

City magistrates that the evidence was false. She well, have been implicated in the scandal, knew that silence is not only golden, At least 77 girls have been sent to but sometimes vital. She made her Bedford Reformatory without proper charges, however, and paid with her trials. life the price demanded by the under- Vivian Gordon claimed she was one world of those who know too much of those victims. She told how, eight and "talk out of turn." i years ago, she was accosted by a man ion Bombay, March 5 Mahatma Gan dhi's campaign of civil disobedience against British rule, launched more than a year ago, will be abandoned immediately and all nationalist pris the electric chair.

But in diaries in which she foretold her fate, Vivian Gordon also declared that there were at least three men who wished her harm. One of these was John A. Radeloff, an attorney and once an intimate friend. Another was Samuel Cohen, alias Chowder Head Harris, who had a record of a dozen arrests and numerous convictions. Both of these men were held under $50,000 bail as material witnesses.

The third was Joseph Radlcw, once convicted for oners except those jailed for violence will be liberated, it was revealed today with publication of the agreement reached between the nationalist leader and Viceroy Lord. Irwin. Terms of the agreement follow closely the forecasts made by International! News Service last Monday. Gandhi promises to discontinue boycott of 13B3B3SSG j.wW.-Wgi bogus stock deals. In 1930 he had charged her with extortion.

She countered with a threat to enter a complaint charging him with violation of the Mann Act. His case was dropped. Vivian Gordon was a brilliant figure in the night life strata in which she British goods as a political weapon, and unmolested sale and purchase of British commodities will be restored. The agreement gives Gandhi a signal victory in his campaign against the British salt tax, one of the prin- Cold Sores: Pimples Was.h with warm water to soften the skin. Apply a light coating of FLAMMACINE to the pimple or sore and it will quickly be healed.

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