Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 18 November 1927 — Page 3

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THE POST-DEMRAT

RANDOLPH COAL & SUPPLY CO. BLUE BLAZE — SUPERIOR BLOCK AND POCAHONTAS COAL

Order Now. Earl F. Randolph, Mgr. Phone 2081

Cars on Track 208 Hoyt Ave., Muncie, Ind.

ECONOMY

P. R. K. Keeps Its Promise

DURABILITY ;;

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We ina^e a new car out of your old one with P. R. K. The lowest priced, most durable paint job on this earth. P. R. K. is O. K’d. by public approval. Let us refinish your car at the price you want to pay. We invite comparison. Come in and get your chance on a free paint job. Shops from Coast to Coast.

P. R. K. AUTO PAINT SHOP

Phone 294

SATISFACTION 4

1310 So. Walnut St. 36 HOURS’ SERVICE

Hupp Coal Co. Phone 1206 Yards at Mock Street and Ohio Avenue. Famous for Fine Fuel A Better Fuel for Every Purpose.

SERVICE

QUALITY

FRIENDLY DEALINGS

Phone for Our Prices.

HARDWARE, PAINTS AND CROCKERY Heating Stoves, large and small, Oil Stoves and Ovens, Gas, Heating and Cooking Stoves, Stove Pipe, fools. Cooking Utensils, Tubs and Boilers. Gem Safety Razor and 50c Tube of Shaving Cream for 35c . 1Ia,f So,e » and Heels and Shoes, Shot Gun Shells, Varnish, Paint, Alabastine and Brushes. 2-6-0-6 Screen Door $1.89 Stone Jars and Flower Pots, large and small. One Gross Bottle Caps for ;J5 C Do you know Ringo & Sons have been in the storage, dating and packing household goods business for over twenty-six years? When interested in that line it would be well to consult this firm before you go too Ringo & Sons

Walnut and Seymour Sts.

Phone 698,W

McDowell coal co. WEST SECOND AND SAMPSON AVENUE PHONE 5063 Exclusive East Kentucky and West Virginia Coals.

Retorts -

Lump

Lump _

“QUALITY AT LOW COST

Announcement The M. &B. Confectionery Operated by Mendenhall & Bowman, Inc., is Under New Management R Is Our Aim To Make Cleanliness, Quality and Service Rule Supreme Come in and try our delicious Sodas and Sundaes Excellent Candies and well prepared lunches Respectfully, - ^ J. H. BURK, Manager. •

“SANDY”STARKS ! OH, LORD!

(Continued from Page 1.)

ber and the advertisement has appeared in every issue of the PostDemocrat since that date, up until the present issue, when of course it is eliminated since federal offi-

made the discovery that all

sers

the drinks served there were not as “soft” as advertised. Frazier, Wednesday, informed the Post-Democrat that he had sold the place to Briggs and that Briggs had agreed to pay for five weeks advertising due. The evidence against Briggs was secured by federal agents several weeks ago when under cover men bought liquor of him at the Fullhart place on West Twelfth street, where he tended bar.'Fullhart is also one of the men arrested by the federal ‘‘mop squad” last Saturday. Trusted Joe Davis The federal investigation began here August 1. The only man taken into the confidence of the federal agents was Prosecutor Joe Davis and his deputy, Paul Brady. It speaks volumes for their efficiency that there were no “leaks” during the fourteen weeks the “under cover” men worked here securing evidence against a' veritable army of bootleggers and booze runners. The liquor ring, the sleeping police and sheriff, and even the newspaper reporters had no inkling of what was going on. The first intimation of what was happening came Idst Saturday afternoon when George Winkler and twenty-four assistants came to Muncie and made oyer forty arrests. Others have been made since that time, and the number has been increased o about fifty. That there will be many others is almost a forgone

conclusion.

The men who worked here knew their business. One young man, who drove a big Marmon car, ao* companied by a woman, secured much of the evidence. They found it easy sailing. They were enabled to buy liquor in nearly a hundred different joints with little or no

difficulty.

The Muncie bootleggers had beei so accustomed to doing businet without molestation that tiu thought it was going to last f ever. I • / Like Shearing Sheep One federal agent told the P<' 4tDemocrat that it was as easy' as shearing sheep. Liquor was b ig openly sold in every section o e ity. in the course of their inw-sli-gations the dry sleuhs found gambling houses running without molestation. One of them tried ■ Shooting craps in one of the protected gambling houses but said the dice w T ere so crooked that he, had no

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(Continued Fromige Two) All of this was exposed b^he Probe Committee and the Probe Committee was curseor it. But the Ace Card plays bjer than all in the maelstrom. of rascality because th Ace Card controlled the State Board of Accounts and wiave repeatedly asked for the indictment of the officers tteof. The Ace Card of all was tl It was the base of the despoilg^io 11 of the Republican pty, the taint of the Democratic party, the crooked crewcontrol of the Klan, the crooked crew’s control of the*urt, the “do and don’t” legislature and the “do and dd” jury system with the Horse Thieves’ association thro* in for good measure. The big money, the big spe, the distribution of profits, was all based on the wreck the Highway Commission and a part of the Ace Card waihe governor’s crooked demand for the resignation of cimissioners Williams and Crawford, so they could be putway while the big “Ace” of all was to get the money ancet in power. But the probe committee Iked out the Big Ace Card and defeated the Ripper bill ai saved the people a clean highway commission and challefed the robbers so fiercely that they run and they are runig yet! That’s the record! Yet they said there was no evidee. But the bottom of all is notet. It still lies down there dormant and dead. Its revelam would expose political parasites all along the line, (urt Asher’s story of the highway funeral was published it never believed. It was too sordid to believe. Did you er read it? Countless revelations are si buried in the grand jury

archieves.

Every line of it should be posed. Every villian connected witit should be kicked out of

Indiana.

Every crooked newspaper ould be penalized for their suppression of these frauds andiere are a number of them

in Indiana.

Bring out the Ace Card a. give every phase of the base and body and unholy piano defraud Indiana in that r’ imnable conspiracy—make it .e national Ace Card plai "id for the overthrow of repnentative government an e exploitation of a brazen beaucracy, and the frm>> as a stirring picture more teible than Abe Reuf’s rail, .on San Francisco or Boss Twees iron domination of New*! / York when he looted New Yo of two hundred million. Boss Tweed was caught in time stop his rape and robbery o fthe nation and his purpose tcake possession completely of the reins of the national govament. The overthrow of this India fraud and the exposure of these big Ace Cards of loot id more loot give the people a picture of the baleful infiuee of dishonesty <*n politics. But the grand jury, hamped by matters of jurisdiction and statute of limitatioffi, xiuld still consider that indictments and exposure and piess publicity and removal from office and disbarment of coked and illegal court procedure are all a united resporbility o.i a group or men whose patriotism, citizenship, .|nor, are at stake and our probe fight is the only refuge fethe people. For two years we have been going on. The ciyning accomplishments are the utter rout of each and everyascal. There are a multitufe of source^ of punishment lj;h state and federal. A special session of the leglature must be forced j* citizenship must speak now 4f-’ever does in a world of jo

•ind crime.

in charge of the inquiry tl. is now being conducted from thev Tice of Prosecntor Davis, has five u- six known federal agents assist^ > him and it is rumored that new 1 ', uder ;over men are here carefully \ - 3ckng on all attempts to tamper 'ith .vitnesses and with defendants o rdmit their guilt and are inel id 0 tell the story of how the niacl ie jperated in Muncie. Mayor Hampton, Sheriff Mm ley and Chief Jones, have injeci 1 1 little comedy in the mtuation .ssuing statements to“the effe ijiat they are much pleased at tl. ederal clean up. The Kentucky Fire Eater pr. Bromley, the Kentucky fire ?ater parson who preaches uigluly it the JVfethodis,t ehurcu adds daily •olor to tlie situation by lambastqg the daylights out of the sheriff ipd the city administration. He lames names and extends invtyaMons fr Pete Barlow, Mayor Hampon and Sheriff McAuley to come iut together and hear him. In a big meeting at the church, Thursday night, Judge Dearth nmde i pilgrimage to the altar with others v/hen an invitation was extend'd for all to step to the front who wanted the prayers of the congre;atiou. The sensatinal announcement was made by the evangelist then hat Judge Dearth had decided to lid Prosecutor Davis and the fed iral oflicers in their crusade against •wlessness and the crowd cheered. • fi'i In that connection it might be nentioned that Judge Dearth a .ear ago last June delivered his .amous broadside against crime iipp vice in Muncie and sought to mpeuCh Sheriff McAuley. The gryud jury impeached him. fie case was set for trial, but ui the day of the trial Dearth sent a, written recommendation to attorney Clarence Benadum, special judge assigned to try the case,! ulvisipg that conditions complain ' id of no longer existed and that the case be dismissed. This cowardly retreat from his 'oriner bold position was disgustng to those who believed that he Tad actually turned over a new leaf ami was going to divorce himjelf from the gang of political freebooters with which he has been affiliated. The people here will now closely scrutinize his actions to note whether his latest repentance and promise to throw in with good citizens instead of political outlaws whose only support comes from grafters and law breakers, lasts any longer than did his trip up and down the hill a year ago last sum-

mer.

— o The. Egyptians invented a crank jj drill before 3,000 B. CThere are valleys in Turkestan.|| 17,000 feet above sea level'

jburn line,

dr. O’Connell's experience was hlirmed by Auburn factory ofilcb who state that the “Red A’

dent for some little time in many lines of business. This has been particularly true in the automobile tire business according, tp Larry O’Connell, local tire dealer,

who has just returned from Au-!^ of tire outsells their other burn, Indiana, after a conference { e s,, fcWtb-oner Motorists arc with executives of the Auburn , ^ j n g better tires, and buying less Rubber Company, the factory hejiq Uen tiy. O’Connell says he has represents. | similar experience with General While advertisements featurb g ; brage Batteries for which he is

diriculously low prices on tires; j a i distributor. ontinue to attract customers wild j 0

ntemplate selling or trading their One of the moons of Juuiter v •s, the man who is really look- kger than the planet Mercury,

for cheap mileage (not cheap! Eruption of a vplcno has r-.im

ct^.tiow demands the very best Icon island in the Paclho_<icBc

i piality, realizing that the slight jove the water again,

lyjn'gher price he pays bays the! f the people on the earth cou w i cheapest mileage obtainable. Itnd side by side they would en O’Connell is in excellent posi- ude the globe about fifteen times.!

Big Reduuon On Suits and Overcoats |!25.00 Huits and O’Coals

$14- 95

|| IVe contracted for a large number of the.se Suits and O’Coats and must move them at once. Our loss, your gain. Your choice while they last $14.95.

STYLE CENTER

TAIOISHOP 829 S. Walnut St. Phone 1719 Open Eveningiintil 8 Pr M.. . • ;j

AUBURN Leads Again With Lower Tire and Tube Prices

O’CONNELL NOTES TREND tin to note these buying trends as TOWARDS QUALITY BUYING jburn Rubber Company makes , , , ' . !«t only the usual standard quality That the buying public are de- & an d a “secondary line,” but! manding more for their money to- a. a super quality bus type tire day than ever before has been evi-i^ passenger cars. This tire they

cl their “Red A” type and is by f the most popular tire in the

For the 8th Year Auburn Has Led All Other Factories in Being First to Give Lower Prices to the Carowner and Without Reducing the Quality. Careful management plus Cash Buying and Selling Has Made This Possible.

Week End Specials on Hi-Pres-sure Tires 30x3bi heavy Clincher $6.06 31x4 S S $8.75 32x4 SSI 9.25 33x4 SSI 9.50 i 34x4 S S $10.75 ’ 30x34 Tube $1.00

Week End Specials on Balloon Tires

29x4.40 heavy

Tire and

Tube ______

$8.75

29x4.75 $10.25 30x4.95 $11.95 30x5.25 $13.35 Others at proportionate low prices. 29x4.40 Tube $1.45

IT'S THE IN BUILT STRENGTH THAT COUNTS

Auburn Super Grade “Red A” Tui Balloon & Hi-Pressure Tires r V % ' - > ; ' i—Qua built regardless of price to the finest “Motor bus YTirelSpecifkation. --AP new rubber in tread an carcass. j^-P lit over-size and with extra plies of heaviest truck Entire cord, which eliminates breaking inside and punctures. ■ “

Storage Batteries One-Piece Rubber Case 6 Volt Light Car _$ 6.75 6 Volt Heavy car $13.75 100 Amp. Radio _$ 6.75 120 Amp. Radio _$12.75 And your old battery All make Batteries recharged and repaired. Rental Batteries for all make cars, Radio. Eveready Radio B Batteries Heavy Duty $3.70

Auburn

"Z-UFE'HEEiS SOLES SHOE SOLES Omen on to regular sole for men. women, children. Also for gum boots, galoshes. Anyone can put them on. No tools required.

Accessory Bargains

.65 .25

.20 .12

Ford Timers Ford Fan Belts __ Manifold Gaskets, per pair __ __ Ford Hub Caps —

Water Pumps, Ford$1.35 Rim Wrenches .25 Wrench Sets .35

K. W. Coil Points

per set -50 Hot Shot Batteries$L85 Ford Spark Plugs _ .22

Kingston Carbure-

tor _____ $2.75 Top Patching .35 Tire Cut Filler ___ .25

BICYCLE TIRES $1.50 A good quality tire MOBILOIL CRANK CASE SERVICE Special, 5 Gal. $3.50 Shell Gas .15 Bulk Oil, per gal .50 Bring in your cart. SERVICE WE SOLICIT YOUR ROAD CALLS ON TIRE AND BATTERY SERVICE.

GOOD USED TIRES AND BATTERIES

EASY PAYMENTS IF DESIRED

Larry O’Connell Muncie Store—312 E. Howard St. Hartford City StoreSales Pavillion. Open Evenings and Sunday.

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