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Representative Leonidas Carstarphen Dyer is a short full-paunched man from Missouri, red of face, generous of nose and nature. He has been in the House 16 years and ranks next to the chairman on the House Judiciary Committee. Aged 58, he is nobody's fool on the law. A 3% beer man, he voted against the Five & Ten Act. He likes to play the stock market...
...Memphis, Tenn., last week, went 1,500 dyers and cleaners, delegates to the twenty-second annual convention of the National Association of Dyers and Cleaners of the U. S. & Canada. To them spoke Frank A. Weller, Sharon. Pa., president of the association. Irate, President Weller talked chiefly of racketeers, recommended that the association go on record as being "unalterably opposed" to racketeering (see Letters), and refuse association membership to any dyer and cleaner known to have racketeering connections. Dyers and cleaners feel that unjust, unfavorable comment on racketeers has gravely injured the dyeing and cleaning industry...
...away, started a central cleaning establishment of their own, provoked a racket war featured by the introduction of caustic soda containing sodium nitrate in the seams and lapels of garments which, when cleaned, exploded. Then the main racket organization found itself with another war?this time with a prominent dyer and cleaner whom the association had forced out of business. This cleaner, one Morris Becker, opened up again with a new partner. The partner was famed Alphonse ("Scarface Al") Capone, expert in bootlegging and other rackets. Partner Capone has many good friends in Cicero, lawless Chicago suburb...
...Hand of Dyer...
...hand" of a "flea-hound"- but make no note of his shaking another hand- less hairy, more skillful-which during the last year has flown airplanes for 1,251 hours without accident of any kind to plane or personnel, and directed 107 individuals to fly successfully. Lt. J. E. Dyer, U. S. N., was awarded the Herbert Schiff Memorial Trophy for safe flying by President Coolidge on December 15. His record exceeds by nearly 500 hours that of any other winner of the trophy. There's a "hand" for you. A. A. DOYLE...