World's Fair Visitors See Byrd's South Pole Ship
Whipping Post
To Curb Crime
NEW YORK, Aug- 14.-(P)-Uni-
veisal finger-printing, use of the
whipping post, exile, tight parole
laws and' a kind of American Scot-
land Yard were urged on a Senate
sub-committee today as methods to
curb racketeering.
The- committee, headed by Senator
Royal S. Copeland, held its first re-
gional, open hearing in the Bar Asso-
ciation Building with more than 200
interested spectators. Among the
first speakers were Senator Copeland,
Edward P. Mulrooney, former police
commissioner of New York, Joseph
Keenan, special assistant attorney
general, and James Bolan, present
police commissioner of New York.
Keenan urged a Federal bureau to
colordinate its efforts; Mulrooney
advocated universal finger-printing,
"20 lashes with 20 years," and Fed-
eral control of fire-arms. The latter
also thought parole laws should be
tig'htened and agreed exile of racke-
teers to an island prison "would help."
Commissioner Bolan presented a
dispassionate discussion of crime sta-
tistics, laying emphasis on kidnaping.
"The police are not fearful that
they cannot cope with the situation,"
he said. "They only ask the public
to assist them."
'Too Much Red Tape'
Bolan told the committee there
was "too much red tape" to getting
a witness from one state to another.
He believed a Federal co-ordinating
bureau would be valuable in detecting
crime, but he warned that too much
outside assistance would be resented
by local authorities.
Prof. Rayniond A. Moley, recently
designated by President Roosevelt to
study. racketeering, sat with Mul-
rooney to listen to the proceedings.
Boan said it was a common thing
to find paroled criminals returning
to the police line up, but he was not
in general opposed to the parole sys-
tem. He. said an aroused public opin-
ion would have a salutary psycho-
.logical effect upon the courts.
"Then you think an aroused, ag-
gressive public opinion would help a
great dea' asked Copeland.
"Yes," he replied.
Favors Regulation
He favored regulation of the sale
of fire arms, but did not believe that
the law-abiding citizens should be
denied the right to carry a gun.
Copeland asked him about the sub-
machine gun, especially if it was use-
ful to the police. Bolan said it was
useful, but added that the police
could do without it if it were taken
away from others.
"I am informed,"' Copeland said,
"that there is no military use for the
submachine gun."
Proposes Crime Bureau
Former Police Commissioner Gro-
ver A. Whalen followed Bolan with
several specific recommendations,
among them a central crime bureau,
and amendment of the Sherman
anti-trust laws to curb racketeers
He also urged that the state labor
department be called,upon to investi-
gate every application for a charter.
He urged an amendment of the
Federal Constitution to give the Gov-
ernment concurrent jurisdiction with
the states in crime, especially for
homiides, felonies and firearms.
Copel'and told him that a bar asso-
ciation committee was now drafting
such an amendment.
" His"'next recommendation was that
a duplicate copy of all complaints be
forwarded to the Bureau of Investi-
gation of the Department. of Justice.
"W'ould it be advantageous," asked
Copeland, "to incorporate in the NRA
codes a provision against the paying
of tribute tor racketeers?"'
"That's an excellent idea," Whalen
replied.
Lewis E. Lawes, warden of Sing
Sing Prison, today told the commit-
tee that "There can be no catching
up with crime until state lines are
virtually abolished."
"This is war," Lawes said. "If we
don't have some sort of martial law
to stop crime we'll have lynch law;
and then we will have to have mar-
tial law. We know who the racke-
teers are."
By KARL SEIFFERT
A newly-built auxiliary barque
groaned on the bilge logs as she
slipped from the ways in Arendahl,
Norway, one day in 1885, to spend
nearly half a century in obscurity be-
fore she leaped to a place among
the most illustrious ships of all time.
Almost without exception the fa-
mous vessels of history have gained
renown as warriors in the smoke and
fire of naval battle, but this sea-
worthy old Norwegian barque, unlike
so many of her sister-ships of fame
and fable, was destined, in her forty-
third year, to find glory and distinc-
tion on a mission of purest peace.
It was in 1928, under the name
"City of New York," with Admiral
Richard E. Byrd in command' and
Larry Gould, Michigan graduate and
professor in the geology department
here this summer, as second-in-com-
mand, that the old ship went down
to the Antarctic, to return the fol-
lowing season with fame for herself
and new prominence for her scientist
commanders.
Today the 40-foot-thick sheets of
Antarctic ice no longer grind against
her wooden sides, for the City of
New York, moored to a wharf, in a
lagoon at A Century of Progress, the
Chicago World's Fair, has become
a museum of polar exploration, and
throngs of curiosity seekers at the
exposition daily swarm her decks and
cabins.
The first major expeditionary ship
ever to enter the Great Lakes, the
City of New York sailed into Chi-
cago only under canvas, for her en-
gines had been removed to make it
possible for her to enter the shallow
lagoon. Aboard her now are men who
were members of the crew of 72 who
went with Byrd to the Ross ice bar-
rier, , where he established Little
America and flew across the Pole.
Visitors hear from those who par-
New HolyWar
On Tem selves
JONESBORO, Ark., Aug. 14.--UP)--
The law took over the Jonesboro
Baptist Tabernacle today in the in-
terest 'of harmony.
Sunday two opposing factions held
services in the church at the same
time. They sang different hymns
simultaneously. 'Then some of the
congregation fell to fighting. When
police took charge, they confiscated
three shotguns, loaded with buck-
shot, which they said they found
near the choir platform.
Doctrinal differences between fol-
lowers of the Rev. Dale Crowley,
pastor, and the Rev. Joe Jeffers,
evangelist, had been brewing.- De-
spite a temporary injunction obtain-
ed by the Rev. Mr. Crowley, the Rev.
Mr. Jeffers decided that one of his
followers would preach yesterday.
Two thousand people came to the
service. The factions offered differ-
ent prayers at the same time. Then
one sang "I'm Bound For The Prom-
ised Land," while another intoned
"Will There Be Any Stars in My
Crown?" This confused the piano
player, who played a third hymn.
Officers took charge, arresting
five with assault with deadly weap-
ons, mainly guns. A guard was
placed on thee tabernacle till a court
settles the dispute.
THE CITY OF NEW YORK
ticipated in them stories of adven- wlen you ask him about Poral ex-
ture and hardship in the eternal cold ploration he'looks past you reminis-
of the bottom end of the world, and cently and murmurs speculatively on
see an elaborate collection of sledges,
ice-anchors, sleeping bags, and" nu- vague plans for future geological ex-
merous other objects of expedition- peditions.
ary paraphernalia, as well as an en- It was Gould who became a geolo-
tire library of photographs taken on gist as a result of a friendship with
the trip. Prof. William H. Hobbs, head of the
Among those who manned the reology department, that dates back
City of New York on her voyage of eolohy dartment, t d k ck
science and who now are aboard her to the days when Gould took care
as guides and lecturers are Capt. of the Hobbs' furnace, later to teach
Alan Innes-Taylor, relief air pilot; in the geology department himself,
Charles Kessler, dog driver; Arthur and take part in two University
Berlin, fireman; and George Tenant, Greenland expeditions, go south with
cook. Byrd in '28, return to the United
The City of New York, according States and become head of the geol-
to authorities; was used on the Polar ogy department at Crelton College,
voyage because the construction of and finally come back for the sum-
vier hull is such that she is far better mer to Ann Arbor and the University
able to withstand the pressure of after five years' absence.
Antarctic ice than is the most pow-
erfully built steel ship afloat. Where
almost endless fields of ice many
;athoms thick would 'crush other ;
Ships, it merely forces the City of
LTew York up out of the water, in-
stead of jamming her hull in its ir-
resistible grip and grinding it to bits.
Polar Mailbox Shown
Among the exhibits now open to
public view is an Antarctic mailbox
with letters posted in 1928 and de-
livered nearly two years later, mute
testimony to the months of isolation
which the valorous 72 spent with no
communication other than by radio
with the outside world.
Also on exhibition are mounted
specimens of the animal habitants of
the farthest southland. There are
seals weighing 600 to. 800 pounds, in-
cluding the Weddell seal and the
crabeater seal, two polar mammals
whose personal characteristics and
temperaments vary to extremes. The
Weddell is a mild-tempered beast
which explorers and the few others
who frequent his habitat use for
food for dogs and men; the crabeater
is a menacing brute whose prey in-
cludes even the killer whale.
Four penguins, including two "em-
perors" and two "adelies," also are
being shown on the City of New York.
They are known to explorers as
among the friendliest of all Polar
animals.
Give Lecture Tours
The men now aboard the old
barque conduct periodical lecture
tours of the vessel and its exhibits
daily, and tell visitors-of the land of
boundless ice as they point out Little
America on the relief map of the
Antarctic regions, and indicate the
bay of Wales, where the party dis-
embarked at Christmas, 1928, and
built a camp eight miles inland on
ice 42 feet thick.
But Larry Gould, Admiral Byrd's
right hand on the 1928 trip, is not
there. He is here in Ann Arbor, and
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