Indianapolis Times, Volume 32, Number 279, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 March 1920 — Page 4

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GOTHAM FIGHTS GREATEST VICE ORGY IN HISTORY * Medieval Crimes Nothing to Compare With Conditions, Citizens Find. 1800,000 SPENT NIGHTLY By H. P. BURTON, Staff Correspondent of the Newspaper Enterprise .Association. NEW YORK, March 31.—New York City Is awakening this week to the astounding fact that the greatest orgy of vice in the entire history of the civilized world has been developing here since* the ending of the war. The vast increase in individual wealth is held to be largely resonslble. Thousands of young men afid women from good homes and visitors from other American cities are victims. Recent revelations are stirring to action newly-organized private committees of citizens, as well as the district attorney's office, apd it is likely that the findings, soon to be made public, will amaze the whole country. These well-informed persons told me today, will show that vice conditions that prevailed in ancient Rome and medieval capitals of decadence, will not compare with conditions in the New York of today, either as to extent or kin#. 6.000 "CALL-FLATS" FOR IMMORAL DEMANDS. James E. Smith, assistant district attorney of New York, now in charge of the official probe to be made of Manhattan's underworld, publicly announces that there are engaged for immoral ends here at least 6,000 “call-flats.” over a

43,-43,'Tnt Easter Clothing ON CREDIT MEN’S Spring Soils - women's and Dresses t PEOPLE'S OP also carry a A 1 f EkSidifeU complete I .1 . bhiiJßj line of Rain- PEOPLE'S U f coats at- Ala , • atao BhoW a M *ftl Alterations ijg TROUSERS in an enor- wXU FRF'P* SKIRTS fTfjk mous assortment in the * * an( j Ljy latest styles and colors, UP - ! I $5.00 up. BLOUSES. JUT *&.■. m i—i ill n>i ■ini iii ■ ammmmmmmmmmm—mm ———i A&* EIGHTEEN YEARS OF “SQUARE DEALING 0 have made the People’s the largest store of its kind in the city. Walk a little farther and save the difference. __ _ _ Dress the boy up Sunday In . _ Boys Clothing Sr£S22 $9J5~* €/ please the parents ~ | sue w,it w.hicrwn stmt Earn Big Outfit awl Base Kill's Cm Yra Fill ia the tfissiag Letters Above and Complete the Two Words? lam ore you un do this If you try. Jam write Unde Joe end tell bin 9 two word* tie end be wiH immediately send you his big flee offer. Tb* Milts end Gloves an well padded, leather covered palms and very dorable. The mask is mad* of heavy wire fitted with chin and forehead protector. The ball ie regulation *izc and weight and covered with harsehide. ®* tore * n, l wrltw Undo Joe Quickly for be ims already given away hnndred* ** sad base ball goods are very acarce dds year. Send your name and H X address plainly written, a Astcard will do Addresa ChCUZ JOE, • BOOH |4 POTOLAS BUDDING, BES MOINES. lOWA

hnndred dance halls, several' hnndred new and attractive “French pastry restaurants” and coffee houses, and hundreds of taxicabs. , Smith has just bee nexoperated -of bribery charges by a special grand Jury. From $500,000 upward is spent nightly, Smith says, in these “call-flats.” Other trimmings of a single “night out,” such as taxi, food and show bills, cost another half-million, officials estimate. Not one of the vice resorts is in any way officially recognized as being openly engaged in vice traffic, and so has first to be discovered by secret agents before being proceeded against. There has been a tremendous and mysterious increase In the number of coffee houses and small flashily-equipped restaurants specializing in “snacks” of French pastry and hot drinks in the last three months. These shops, In the most expensive section of Manhattpn, have sprung up like mushrooms over night and are all do.ng a rushing business. At many tables one can always see girls sitting alone and the waiters often volunteer: “She Is all right." Taicabs make It a business of cruising about these places and are acquainted with the women who frequent the shops. They will drive their fars through untraveled -streets for a special tip. So great'has been the increase of the taxicab vice since the new year that section SS7 of the criminal code has just been revised to "places ol vice.” HARD TO GET AT SO-CALLED “CALL-FLATS.” It Is the 6,000 “call-flats,” however, that are going to prove the hardest places to “get,” ray the officials. These form the backbone of the new Immense terilerloin that has suddenly spread out over half of Manhattan. Wire-tapping is the device being used by the detectives to locate these. In overhearing telephone conversations this week, members of the vice squad charge that they heard a deputy police commissioner make an appointment with

a denizen of one of these places and that they later arrested him there. Others of the police force have already been arrested in connection witli this amazing vice wave, and officials* state all this is only a beginning. “It Is unbelievable—the amount of money that is being spent nightly on vice In New York,” says Smith. “The price of everything connected with vice has increased ten times, owing to the fact that every one has money these days, and the prices paid for liquor in the underworld is especially prohibitive.'' At least SIOO a night is spent in most of the call-flats and that accounts for about $500,000. In restaurants and other places. In direct pandering to vice, there are many more thousands spent. This is surely a “record” that history can not duplicate in any city of the world at any time In the history of the world. The grand Jury reported that the charge of which Assistant District Attorney Smith was exonerated originated in a letter sent by Mayor Hylan to Police Commissioner Enright, March 12, 1919. The letter said In part: “There seems to be a common report around town that Rothstein, the gambler, gave $21,000 to a lawyer who was formerly a magistrate which, so the report goes, was divided up equally between an assistant district attorney and a magistrate. “However, the case against Rothstein was dismissed.” “Testimony taken by ns,” the presentment said, “has clearly Identified the case referred to as that of Arnold Rothstein, arraigned on a charge of felonious assault on Jan. 23, 1919, In the Seventh district magistrate’s court and discharged by the presiding magistrate on Jan. 28, 1919. “The other persons referred to are Emil Fuchs, formerly a city magistrate; James E. Smith, an assistant district attorney, and Francis X. McQuade, a city magistrate.”

TOIAN A DAILY TIMES, WETOESDAY, MARCH 31,1920.

Cut Glass Sugar and ~jhc Umbrellas $1.25 Creamers, bet o9c Jsdffi .. asr.*‘ssis'Ki" ,<1 Here Is an excellent $1 value at any time. Clear, '’wills .25 sparkling cut „ glass; extra heavy and deep F@l ILI I Bjg^. w ; 360-370 st 1 xOmtlr Betß to _Main Floor. Three bU>ck * to flnd and J th flndlng ' V _Main F1(?or Let the Entire City Turn Out fcl These Bargains 1 Easter Coupon Sa/<f Thursday JUST FOR THE READERS |>F THE TIMES " YES, let everybody come—every reader of this paper is entitled to a share >f these bargains Thursday. You are lucky to be a reader of this paper to enjoy values like these. Remember, none 0 the items below will be on display—you must ask for them to get these sale prices. Under no consideration will we ac< pt phone, C. O. D. or mail orders. None sold to dealers. ‘‘“‘"‘■‘V " r 1 *\ N Coats Jersey Boys’ ; ilk Dresses Street If_ gif c •. fejjl Suits t m, ,L 2. Dress Jr 15 I S Jri2* 95 -it *5 W° M E N ’ s mWi !. 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Womens fIZ G,oves74 #-* yDC kUJ3 $28.55 79 Mml s>l 95 nißde of per* 2-claap u\ J" suits, made of g M |5, ""fr rale, Haht or Iff !1 fastener*; black, I 1 F blue, brown ymlf} ™ ft\ il/1 r womln;sl MM | STlxture. 8 . 0 meffl M EN ’®' a Ilf colors; sizes o HL' U' k/s value, pair TJTN| W t and dark pat- ITA soft French cjiffs, latest up- HL Ml oxiornn,ir to i. Thurs- / £) Y7 4f\J |\ terns; all sizes, to-date spring patterns to select women, with day special ZpßSSff' M \\ new styles; Thurs from, specially priced for Thurs- ll W baT^ssla^n —. a, f’[ tg <*2 £XI g% •' \ ._ A -95 c Lm /4C —Main Floor. t" *- —Main Floor. “ Mala Floor. —Main Floor. —Main Floor. • /'* ' 1 " —.llll % J— .11.1. /“■ “■■■" Bath Soap, 6 Cake* Low Shoes Men’s Sox Children’s Pumps 9x12 Rugs WOMEN’S IV/T ISSSS* and Fsster numoa. d* AF Nr° TASEMB * nationally 4.V1 children's C EA MLB 8 S a mt mt „,„ a . •. *"* K£s W “|so 7Q {AA 75 made by Armour ties. In black and M 66c quality, light weight Ms ln patent and tp J 0 I U • . 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M A . , , 28 |L#,u£ttn ecru; wing Sis day L JS&r fine gauge, fast 7 TA . inchss loug.WBnMSnwSV sleeve and knee *■ HKw f"" A. black cotton, with Al&SffllSel in $ stem styles, flM&jdMwlttg length; sizes 4 U Tt? fL M I fcj&K.pm white sole; slight fine quality Pa-UMJgllSgSt J to 1C; good 75c If 11 ”|f I *1 'T _ ly Imperfect, 50c tural wave hair; Dj CTTi" value (2 suits, I /. / P grades- RS-W 50 value - W *** Me). . I * “ 1 V —Main Floor, —Main Floor. —Main Floor ] —Main Floor. —Basement. J V- - j V 11 "■■■"■" l 7 f 1,1 1111 111 I 1 " a-... .. II .11.1 ■■■■——— 36-Inch Muslins Window Shades Children’s Hats Bedspjreads Boys’ Shoes at 5:=~99„ 2S“7Ap B-SS.SS $1.93 IH~""$C'0 b£zs/M trass/HC SSm I sas I *?= .1 nieces- values 8. W roller; special for ■ ft# styles; regular val- Actual $2.49 value ft fiber soles, sizes mm Joe Vllmlt Thursday only, • ues to $2.95; special <** (limit S), Thurs up, to . For yards), yard ch for Thursday only. day, each Thursday .pedal. —Basement. jmra Etoor. —Second Floor. —Basement. —Mala Floor. - —l^ \ ' """" - 'N f "V Linoleum OQ~ Men’s PANTS Silverware Set Cambric hr Percale Preserve Kettles v.,i oyc $6.95 msm 33c Yd. sl2l MHfl B ND- T~)REBS pants for men, made of omKm c* vJ IN E novelty worsteds and cassi- IvL;- • : *1 cork lino- meres; also fancy and plain blus i ‘ "Sn INCH dress - / -_. _ _ leum, with serges; all sizes (g—- ' JU cambric bnckf 6 QC &r / rs ‘ i.-.l • 'iavy cadet aluminum wlde.enam.- I I pUat7J R;. ‘ i >lue, gray, red preserve ketCl fin leu; f II FV.fn T rnrmrrr- mrt light styles; VI. m tI V with tllenn.f \ it \ .■. • , .tripes and tig- yfflkl Jm Mndlee, hardwood 1 f A i I 111 111 ■ . ires, up to 45c heavyweight, floor pat- J Jf\ 'nfnn YL. $ QffiT of allverware, including 2tJ ,•a 1u e (limit 15 terns. $1.50 j/S - IllV'S'i}!!! 5 wards), Thursday, , quality.... LV f). <LM Ly; ,4V J Bpoons, 0 tablespoons, 1 butter kn to ... 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