PROHIBITION PERILS U. S.,
:•> SAYS JOHNRASKOB, FINANCE
HEAD OF GENERAL MOTORS
NEW Y'QRK.—John J„ Raskob,
, chairman of the.finance committee of
the General Motors; corporation* bit
tfirly attacked prohibition, demanded
modification of the Federal dry laws,
and expressed the -belief that both
major partis^, the issue in the coming
presidential! oampaign, in a letter to
f. H. Callahan; wealthy dry Demo
,, static leader pf Louisville, Ky. The
.letter wa.v,. nvujt public yesterday by
, Rfiskph’s' ebttif V on conditions aris
ing as .a. r.CJujj. of prohibition was
, stjrrejl by«a letter from Mr. Callahan,
i respecting the automobile financier’s
vv/z-ffiPpectipn. with the National Associa
AgnjnsJ: prohibition. Raskob dis
k closed, that-he had received many let
: terp on this subject since his return
. from Europe.
“The njepaco of prohibitory laws is
. the spirit of intolerance underlying
their .adoption and this is bound to
, ..result in rebellion,” Mr. Raskob
w^ote: “My whole desire and effort
to try to bring my fellow citizens
■ft ackinpo the atmosphere that gave
birth to our constitution—an atmos
phere of brotherly love which spells
tolerance and keen respect for our
selves,. for each other, for our laws,
institutions, and, above all, respect
for. our God, our liberty and our free
dom.
“N.o one can survey or study the re
sults of. the eighteenth amendment
and; the. Volstead law during the past
nine y.ears without coming to the
conclusion that their administration
has-been, a complete failure.
“Mr. Hoover thinks and many
, ofhejs did at one time think prohibi
^ . lion ,agreat and noble social experi
enced ,Bu< it has failed, and I cannot
personally conceive of any experiment
.found'd on intolerance, and not on
Rood morals, as noble.
“!VJy judgment is that both parties
■{i wjU dbdpe this whole liquor question
by inseting ome innocuous plank in
i. tjieie .respective platfoms, and our
only hope of restoring to our people
• the kind of government our forefath
c. clpfc •built and enjoyed is for all of us
^ to.interest ourselves in. all economic
. questions to the degree necessary to
, acquire and disseminate honest and
intelligent information with respect
tbereo.
“I believe the National Associo.tion
Against Prohibition is honestly en
, deavoring to discover the proper so
;; Jntion of this liquor question along
i. thoroughly economic lines without
bringing the , saloon bark jnto exist
ence,, and therefore it is entitled . to
strong support on the. part of those
part of those of us that believe in the
freedom and libety that our form of
-.constitutional government should
.guarantee us.
“A large number of people feel that
a majority in this country have no
more right to curtail their freedom
with respect to drinking bee, wines or
even spirits than they have to deny
religious worship. These people feel
they do no wrong in the eyes of God
when they buy and consume beer,
. wins and liquor, in spite of the law.
“The great mass of our workmen
. and poor people feel that prohibition
is a scheme to deny them something
v. which their more fortunate brothers1
v with money can have almost at will.
Is jt any wonder they rebel,”
Mr. Raskob mentioned in his letter
i that he,was a director of corporations j
.. .employing over 300,000 workmen and
•• the father of twelve children. He ex- I
pressed the belief that citizens seem!
to be developing “thorough lack of re-!
apeet for our laws and institutions.”
ASTOR§ SUED FOR MILLIONS
. UNDER PARTNER PACT OF 1915
NEW YORK.—A law suit that
harks back. 150 years to the days
pihen John Jaco bAstor was a poor
; boy in a new country was begun to
day in ^the. . . federal district court,
where descendants, of /Jphn Nicholas
. Emerick, ^Astor’p partner^ seejcjppo—
thirds of the half a billion dollar es
tate the original Emerick is reputed
to have left.
The action is bathed in an aura of
romance and hinges upon an arrange
ment by which Emerick is alleged to
have established Astor as trustee of a
90-year trust of his interest in their
partnership. At the expiration of
that period Astor or his heirs were
to have divided the estate between de
scendants of Emerick’s two brothers,
John and Valentine.
In the complaint filed today it is al
leged that in 1902, when the trust had
only three years more to run, a legal
representative of the elder Astor’s es
tat told a dscendant of John Emerick
of the trust agreement. The Emerick
estate, this lawyer then said, was
worth $39,000,000 at that time.
The fortune included some of the
most valuable plots of land in New
York city, among them the site of
Trinity church, at the head of Wall
street, that of the Hotel Astor in
Trinity square, and other parcels the
value of which now is tremendous.
Tradition tells that Emerick died
on a fur-laden vessel in 1817 and was
buried at sea off the Labrador coast.
He left no will, it was believed, but
in recent years heirs in many sections
of the country have pushed a vigor
ous search for the document whirhi
they believed would bring them a for
tune.
More than 300 such heirs have ap-'
peared to file their claims to the Em
erick estate, and last December a
paper now said to be Emerick’s will
was found in the lining of an old
trunk. What purports to be a copy
of the alleged trust agreement be
tween Astor and Emerick also is of
fered in the present suit.
They demand an accounting of two
thirds of the property owned by the
Astor-Emerick partnership and ask
that the defendants, trustees and
heirs of the Astor estate be enjoined
from tansferring properties derived
derived from the partnership pending
determination of the suit. They also
demand a complete accounting of all
property transfers between the date
of the 90-year trust agreement and
March, 1948, the date of the first
Astor’s death.
RADIUM PAINT HITS
MAN WHO INVENTED IT|
NEW YORK.—The New York
Times says today that Dr. S. A. Von
Sosrocky, inventor of the radium
paint, which is said to have doomed
five fJew Jersey women to a slow
death, is a victim of his own inven
tion.
Although the doctor was reticent to
talk about himself, marks of the in
roads of illness were plainly evident.
His front teeth are, gone and his
finpers up t o the second knuckles are
black, the result of radium necrosis.
A count of white corpuscles of his
blood taken within the last two
months disclosed only 4,000 to the
cubic millimeter, while a normal per
son has 7,500 to 10,000, an effect pro
duced by radium poisoning among
other things.
The radium first took ecect on Dr.
Von Soshocky in 1920, and only be
cause of his ability to keep an accu
rate scientific check on himself has he
been able to withstand the., disease.
Several times he has beep forced to
go to hiyhr altitudes to recuperate.
The doctor has frequently risked
his life in recent years. to treat
friends with radium.
Dr. Von Soshocky several yeaps ago
became an official of the United
States Radium Corporation, in whose
plant the five New Jersey women are
said to have acquired the radium poi
son. They recently made a. settle
ment with the company for- $10,000
each, a lifetime annuity of each,
and insurance for thei relativas. when
they die.
White—Aren’t you happy y,« now
that the furniture peophr^qe willing
to let you pay for the furniture ■ by
installments ?
Black—I shouldbe if they’d'la* me
pay the installments by .installments.
Not All Alike.
Mayor Walker, of New York, dis
cussing in an interview the case of a
crooked official, said with a frown:
“Because this politician was
crooked a certain class of reformers
will say that all .our politicians are
crooked. That isn’t right. Because
Grace Featherstonhaugh was merce
nary, are we to say that all our girls
are mercenary ? ”
I Mayor Walker chuckled and went
! on:
“Between Grace Fnatberstonliaugh
and young Gus Sinniekson this.- din
' logue once look place:
“‘Grace—Miss Featherstonhaugh—
! tell me, is this your final answer?’
“‘My final answer, m,v last word.’
“‘Nothing can move you?’
“ ‘Nothing, Mr. Sinniekson.’
“ ‘Then mine will be a lonely life in
deed, for my uncle has just died and
[ left me all—’
“ ‘Just died? Your dear old uncle?’
“ 'Yes, and left me all—a
“ ‘Mr. Sinniekson—Augustus—.what,
you say alters the case greatly. .How
can I be cruel to one who has suffered
so terrible a bereavement? Were I
not sure of your sincerity—’
“ ‘My sincerity. Oh, Grace!’
“ ‘Then, Gus, darling—’
“Two minutes to change reels, after
which the dialogue goes on:
“ ‘Now, sit up, like a good boy—no,
not another one! Sit up, darling, and
tell me all about .your uncle. Poor
old chap Was he ill long?’
“ ‘A week.'
“ ‘How dreadfully, dreadfully sad!
And you say he left you—’
“ ‘Yes, he left me all—he left me
all—’
“ ‘Buck up, darling. Pull yourself
together. How much was it he left
you?’
“ ‘How much? I said, or at least JE
tried to say, he left me all a|one.
Poor old boy, he had nothing else to
leave. And now I’m penniless, home
less, but by heaven, with you at my
side to—’
“‘Gosh, what ails the girl? She’s
fainted.’ ”
The Killer.
The late Wgyne B. .Wheeler, the!
prohibition champion, was describing j
one day a case he had won against a
rum runner. *1
“The man’s replies to my ques-'
tions,” Mr. Wheeler said, “were as
flippant as they were self-condemna
tory. He was worse than the young
doctor co-respondent.
" ‘Is it true,’ the injured husband’s
counsel thundered at him—‘is it true,
doctor, that you ae a lady killer?’
“With a flippant laugh the foolish
young man answered:
“ ‘1—er—I make no distinction be
tween sexes. ”
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