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GORDON DEATH SPURS WAR ON 1 RACKET KINGS 600 N. Y. Policemen and Detectives Working on Murder Mystery. By United Press NEW YORK, March 3.—The Vivian Gordon murder, combining the faJsely glamorous elements of dazzling night life with the most sordid phases of vicious criminality, today provoked anew declaration of ■ ar upon the twin citadels of underworld power and political corruption. The dead hand of Vivian Govdon, 40-year-old demimondaine with the face of a girl, whose criminality was exploited by others for years, and whose death came when she sought to turn upon her exploiters 'vith all the bitterness of cumulative passion and revenge, has stirred a crusade by outraged citizenry. Its purpose will be fulfilled when vice is divorced from politics and the evil interlocking of the two systems" has been shattered. 600 Cops Work On Case Six hundred detectives and policemen, a majority of them honestly determined to find the slayers of Vivian Gordon—and some of them trembling in fear of the disclosures that may come from it—are engaged in today’s hunt. Already they have clews which carry the thread of Vivian Gordon’s life up to a few blank hours before her lifeless body was thrown from a limousine in which she had been strangled, and rolled into a lonesome gully of a Bronx park. The police know, from a maid in her employ, that Vivian Gordon was driven in a big car, from Fortieth street and Broadway to Mt. Vernon, a suburb. Vivian sat between two men, while the maid herself occupied one of the auxiliary seats. Maid Tells of Last Ride At five minutes before midnight, the maid was dropped off at her Mt. Vernon home, and the big car rolled away—toward Vivian’s death, At dawn on the following morning, Vivian’s body, dressed in delicate silk underwear, an expensive evening frock, and tom silk stockings, was discovered. The strangler’s rope was still knotted around her neck. Vivian Gordon had written a letter to the commission which has been untangling the raveled .skein of political corruption. She had appeared once, in secret, before one of the chief investigators. She had boasted, in letters to her former husband, John Bischoff, and to patrolman Andrew J. McLaughlin, a vice-squad detective, that she would expose a “frameup” by which she served a term in the Bedford reformatory for prostitution. Map Cleanup Program A police guard today surrounded s he home of Lenora Halsey, Negro, the maid-witness. The police have been “unfortunate” with many of their witnesses. Three of them, a Bronx policeman and two taxicab drivers who are said to have heard the screams of a woman—“they’re killing me!”— coming from a large automobile as it sped through Van Cortlandt park, were said to be missing today. Meanwhile, stirring uneasily under the revelations of the paralyzing grip that, is held upon the forces of law and order by the princes and queens of the underworld. New York burghers hastily conceived of a far-reaching program for the unification of assault upon the system First suggested by Rabbi Stephen Wise, and then receiving the backing of the consumer s guild, through its president, E. C. Riegel, the plan is for formation of a “vigilance committee”—a grand inquisitorial body, perpetual in nature, which will investigate, investigate and investigate, constantly and unceasingly, the activities of all public officials, of courts, or police forces. Witnesses Seek Freedom District Attorney Charles B. McLaughlin of the Bronx, in charge of the case, Monday made public parts of Miss Gordon’s diary in which she foretold her death and named John A. Radeloff and Samuel Cohen as the men who would kill her. This was taken as an unofficial reply to the habeas corpus proceedings by which the two men hope to gain freedom today. Os Radeloff. her companion in various allegedly shady transactions and her lawyer, Miss Gordon wrote on Feb. 13, 1929- “If anything happens to me, he is to blame.” Some of the connections Miss Gordon had with the racketeering fraternity of Broadway were told s o Referee Sea bury of the appellate division inquiry by Mrs. Cassie Clayton of Erie, Pa., a friend of the murdered woman. Miss Gordon's rise to fame and fortune after her release from BelJord reformatory, where she was sent- on an allegedly framed vice charge, was rapid Fingers in Many Rackets Tn association with Radeloff, she progressed from lodgings on the lower east side to apartments in the Waldorf Astoria, the Roosevelt and Rzri: Central hotels, to speaking terms with Arnold Rothstein and other big Broadway gamblers, and to ownership of several profitable rackets. Authorities have not yet untangled her numerous affairs, but entries in her diary and other sources have produced references to stock selling deals, jewel robberies, and one racket in particular which seemed to have proved profitable—a blackmail system by which she supplied beautiful girls for rich men's parties, instructing the girls to get names and addresses of their hosts. GASOLINE TAXES GAIN $1,382,701 Collected in February, $175,907 Boost Over 1930. February gasoline taxes totaled $1,282,701.17, a gain of $175,907 over the same month in 1930, according to the report made to State Auditor Floyd E. Williamson today by Joseph M. Treacy, state gasoline tax collector. A gain of 4,306,039 gallons to a new high for February of 31,975,887 was recorded

Maj.-Gen. Edgar Jadwin, Famed Army Engineer, Dead at Panama City

By United Press PANAMA CITY, March 3.—Major-General Edgar Jadwin, retired chief of the army engineering corps and chairman of the interocean canal board, died at Gorgas hospital here Monday night from cerebral hemorrhage. He was stricken with apoplexy at Ancon Monday night as he was preparing to proceed to Nicaragua, but appeared to be recovering. The body will be sent to New York aboard the transport St. Mlhiel Monday. Major-General Jadwln’s home was at Hone's-

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Major-General Edgar Jadwin

General Jadwin retired after his work on the project was completed. He was named chairman of the federal power commission in July, 1930. Jadwin was born at Honesdale, Pa., Aug. 7, 1865. He studied at Lafayette college before entering West Point. He married Jean Laubach Oct. 6, 1896. They had two children, Charlotte, now Mrs. Thomas G. Hearn, and Cornelius G. Jadwin. General Jadwin commanded the first American regiment to pass under arms through England in 1917. He was in charge of the general construction program of the A. E. F. in France.

Tailors Need Guns When Shoulders Are Discussed

BY H. ALLEN SMITH United Press Staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, March 3.—A con - troversy over the location of the shoulder point—a matter that has troubled tailors almost since the invention of the needle —has been renewed with great vigor by the New York Custom Cutters Club, an organization made up of the star tailors of the city. The shoulder point is a point on the shoulder, as one might well imagine, from which measurements are taken prior to the construction on a tailor-made coat. Some tailors believe in cutting the pattern in a curve, others prefer a straight line, some swear by the back cut and others would call for pistols at twenty paces in defense of the front cut. Such was the smoldering state of affairs when John W. Harper, a Philadelphia tailor and current authority on sack coats, stood up in the midst of the assembled custom cutters and delivered himself of a speech. Harper, after blandly calling attention to the centuries-old argument, said that for many years he lias been doing research work for shoulder points. “And quite suddenly,” he said, “I came upon a man who will henceforth be regarded as the Michelangelo of tailors. He was Joseph Rouell, a Parisian, and in 1854 he published an epochal treatise on the shoulder point. M. Rouell has, beyond a doubt, solved the shoulder-point problem for us.” Harper proceeded with a discusHINT CABINET FAU Split Is Seen in British Labor-Liberal Alliance. By United Press LONDON, March 3.—A serious rift in the Labor-Liberal alliance, which has kept the government of Prime Minister MacDonald in power, was foreseen today when the cabinet announced withdrawal of the trades disputes bill, due to a Liberal amendment. Withdrawal of Liberal part support for the government probably would mean defeat of the MacDonald cabinet under the attacks of the Conservative party. When a Moor swears by his beard, he may be trusted to keep his word.

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dale (Wayne county). Pa. Major-General Jadwin had conferred here with other members of the canal board, S. B. Williamson, F. R. Finch and Dean Anson Marston, who reported that the construction of a Nicaraguan canal was feasible from an engineering and sanitary viewpoint. Danger of landslides was less In Nicaragua than in Panama, the commissioners reported. They also considered a program for enlarging and improving the Panama canal. Major-General Edgar Jadwin had a brilliant career in the army engineering corps for almost forty years. He was graduated from West Point in 1890 and retired with the rank of major-general in 1929. He served in the Spanish-American war and in the World war, but was best known for his peacetime work in the United States and in the Canal Zone. The “Jadwin plan” of flood control formulated after the disastrous Mississippi valley floods of 1927 was the army officer’s most important work. The plan called for expenditure of $325,000,000 and was opposed bitterly In congress, but finally passed with administration support.

sion of the manner in which the Michelangelo of tailors designed his coats, with regard to the shoulder point problem. M. Rouell, it seems, placed his cut toward the back with a sort of curve. The tailors waited until Harper had finished his talk, then they all started talking at once. A front-cutter is a,s dogmatic in his belief as an abolitionist; a straight-liner would, under ordinary circumstances, consider Harper guilty of uttering fighting words. , The controversy is still raging.

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