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6 = { gpandue for Mr. Rosen oe at eee low him up but was unsuccessful. At this point tn the procesdings tt looked aos if the meeting might degenerate into a riot and both Taft and Ness were obviously somewhat worrted. However, Colonel Bake? as soon as Kelly had slowed down, answered by explaining that he had not intended the tnference which Kelly had taken from his rémarks and made a complete and thorough apology adding that t7 such an inference had been made he was retracting tt. At this potnt Taft suggested that on intermission wag in order and the conference was discontinued for a ten minute interval. After the intermiaston short talks were presented by £. 8. Higgins, president of the Yellow Cab Company of Philadelphia and representative here of the Nattonal Organization of Taxtcab Cpsrators, Robert E. Christenberry, an offictal of the Hotel Astor, New York City, and representing the National Hotel Operatore dssoctatton, and Hoypgrd Jones, secretary, Counctl of Aleoholta Beverage Industri@s. Jones, with whom I had a short conversation, is ao former Repariment of Justice Attorney and was active tn the 4 latter days of proh on @ncsorcemen? with the Department. The | talks by these latter three men were in the form of assurances of | ggoperation on the nart of the businesses they represented toward the repression of prostitution. og The final speaker on the program was Mr. Clewell Sykes, Chief of the Taxicab Section of the Office of Defensa Transporta- tion. Sykes gove a rather Clever talk explaining the operattone ' . gf Ate untt and inferring that 4% would be cooperative tn. the . present program. Dr. Hahn, who replaced Dr. Otis Anderson of the US Be Public Health Service on this program, gave a short talk agatn dealing with the plans of the Public Health Service tn the matter of establishing centers for the treatment of venereal tnfection. No substanttal claims were made by Br. Hahn that any of these — centers were actually established and it was impossible to pather from his talk any very substantial informatton. immediately before the intermission ur. Taft took ‘Secasion to acknowledge the presence of Colonel McCullough, Colonel James Ye Nalsh ond Major William A. Brumfield of the War. Depar tues? and Of muself os a representative of the FBI. fThie wos the oniy © Bureaus’ during the program tn which ony mention wos mote 3 reas ec oe Cea