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...mere fraternity, the G.O.A.A.A. was formed by a German-born contralto named Elizabeth Hoeppel, onetime of the Chicago opera, who among other things wanted the U. S. Government to provide more relief for jobless singers. Contralto Hoeppel's union offered little to the Tibbetts and Swarthouts of the musical world. It appealed to the modestly-paid singers of troupes like the touring San Carlo Opera and Manhattan's Hippodrome company; it signed up 280 of these, got them a closed shop and a $40-a-week minimum wage. In the Metropolitan Opera, whose best singers are also...
...year ago of conspiring to sell a West Point appointment for $1,000, hunted in the District of Columbia, Indiana and California after they failed to appear in Washington, D. C. to start serving jail terms of four months to a year, California's onetime Representative John Henry Hoeppel ("Colonel Hoopla") and his son Charles Jerome were nabbed by Federal detectives in Richmond, Va. Last summer Congressman Hoeppel lost his district's Democratic renomination...
Then to John Henry Hoeppel, who in the Congressional Directory claims to be a "graduate of the University of Hard Knocks," came a still harder knock: Son Charles flunked the entrance examination at West Point. Last week a jury in a District of Columbia courtroom, where the Hoeppels, father & son, were on trial for conspiracy to solicit a bribe, heard what became of the West Point appointment. James W. Ives, a handsome Olympic athlete from Baltimore, who had played football at Johns Hopkins, took the stand and swore as follows...
...Athlete Ives, anxious to get into West Point, went to the War Department in Washington and asked how. He was given a list of 75 Congressmen with appointments to make. All but three or four gave him no hope. One who did was Representative Hoeppel. Unexpectedly there arrived at the Ives home in Baltimore a young man who said his name was Charles Alexander and who promised to deliver the appointment for $1,000. Applicant Ives gave him a promissory note for the sum. Few days later Ives learned that a bought appointment was illegal, went to Washington, demanded...
Asked who Charles Alexander was, Athlete Ives last week descended from the witness chair, laid his hand on the shoulder of Son Charles Hoeppel. Son Charles did not testify but his father did. Representative Hoeppel swore that he had made the appointment only to please Army officers who wanted a good footballer on the Army team, that he had never been paid for making the appointment, that he had never discussed with his son giving the appointment to Ives...