Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 169, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 November 1923 — Page 7

WEDNESDAY, NOV. 28, 1923

U. S. EYES CITY OF , FI. WAYNE WITH BOOZESUSPICION Court Wi!! Try Defendants Pleading Not Guilty on Dec. 10. Trials of defendants entering pleas of not guilty to Federal indictments before Judge Albert B. Anderson Monday will begin Dec. 10, it was announced today. Ft. Wayne probably will be the next Hoosier city to have the heavy hand of the Federal government fall upon its city qfficials. Following statements made by Judge Anderson when passing sentence Tuesday upon 88 of the 108 residents of Ft. Wayne indicted for alleged violations of the prohibition law, the connection of Allen County and Ft. Wayne officials with a liquor conspiracy was believed possible. The case, which may rival the Gary case of last spring in importance, ■would be Investigated by the next Federal grand jury. “How About Mayor, Police?” “Why are these persons, almost ninety in number, dragged in here and no police or city officials inflicted?” Judge Anderson demanded "when the case were called. “The chief of police and mayor must have known of these violations. "■Who are your mayor and chief of police?” he asked the defendants. “William H. Hosey is mayor (pnd William Moeller chief of police," a defendant answered. Later Judge Anderson said: “Everybody in Ft. Wayne seemed to know these law violations were going on except the mayor, the board of safety and police officers.” Alexander G. Cavins, assistant United States district attorney, explained that the Government was in possession of an affidavit from one of the defendants saying that certain police officers and city officials were implicated in the law violations, and that an investigation now was under way. SSOO and Six Months Almost all Ft. Wayne defendants were fined SSOO and given six months jail sentences. In a few instances the sentences were not so heavy. In confusion following imposition of the sentences. William Yeyer. a defendant. disappeared. Judge Anderson ordered his bond of $2,000 defaulted immediately. Other sentences were imposed on defendants pleading guilty, as follows: Mrs. Cora Wilson of Bicknell. using the mails to defraud mail order houses. SSO. Mary Roach. Margaret Beasley and Matilda Sigler, all of Ft. Wayne, usJng the mails to promote a fake matpimonia! agency scheme, one day in L'ail each F. Ely Current. 18. of Ft. Wayne, using the mails to defraud his employers through padded pay rolls, eighteen months in the Federal prison at Atlanta. Ga.

EMPLOYES FORM BENEFIT Pennsylvania “Family" Sponsors New Association. Paul A. Kriepe was elected president of the Indianapolis assembly of the Mutual Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania Railroad Employes on Tuesday nifrht at Odd Fellows Hall. Hamilton Ave. and Washington St. Others elected: John Scott Mowry, vice president: R. A. Arnold, secretary: C. C. Wells, treasurer: D. M. Deen, Walter Kittle and H. B. Reynolds, trustees. Chaplain, outer guard, inner guard and other appointive officers will be named at the next meeting. Thr Indianapolis assembly is the first unit of the Mutual Beneficial Association of Pennsylvania Railroad Employes to be organized in the Southwestern district. SOPHOMORES SUPREME Butler Second Year Men Win \imual Flag Rush From Freshmen. . Butler sophomores today agui: oo spied their deserved position of dignity and respect, following the successful defense Tuesday of theii classical rights against the invasion of ambitious freshmen. For the first time in three years the sophomores defeated the freshmen in the annual flag ruhs. The Skulls Club was in charge of the rush. 41 Stitches Close Fight Wounds H;i United Press lAWREN'CEBTOG, Ind.. Nov. 28. —Authorities today were searching for Grover C. McCoy, 26, Jackson, Kv.. who is said to have slashed James B. Headman. 46. Indianapolis, about the face and chest during an argument. McCoy left the scene of the dispute immediately after the cutting. It was said Physicians took 41 stitches in Headman. St. Patrick’s Alumni Organize. Alumni of St. Patrick's parochial school have organized to advance mutual Interests. At a preliminary' meeting Tuesday night in the residence of the Brothers. Capitol Ave. and Georgia St., Joseph Manning was j4ected temporary president; Edward Morony, vice president: James Halli*mn, secretary, and Edward J. Sexton, treasurer. The next meeting will be Dec. 19. Woman Kun Over by Auto After falling in a faint, Blanche Davis. 36. colored, 875 H Indiana Ave., ■was run over by an automobile driven Sam Brown. 420 Bank Ave., at Walnut and Wests Sts. Brown said that he did not see the woman in the street. Miss Davis, who escaped injury, told the police that she did not know that the machine had run over her. Here’s Another Bank Robbery! J. B. Harris. 926 Traub Ave., reported his home entered Tuesday and a bank taken, containing 410 in nickels and dimes. Police are searching for two boys seen playing about the house.

OIL SWINDLERS LED LUXURIOUS LIFE AS SUCKERS FED CASH Klondike Rush Insignificant Compared to Flush Days During Boom in Petroleum Country of Southwest.

BY ROY J. GIBBONS By SKA Service ET. WORTH, Texas, Nov. 28Issuance of fraud orders, following Federal investigation of fake oil schemes, was wholesale. It did many things to the promoters. But first of all it routed them from their skyscraper offices like rats swarming from their holes. Hundreds of them fled the city and State. Hundreds, who had been operating and had “gotten their piles” * prior to merging with larger syndicates, also disappeared. They lived High The life of an oriental potentate was as nothing compared to the ostentatious existence led by the promoting hordes. One' dealer of high-priced autos says he “cleaned up several fortunes” supplying gaudy cars done to their special orders and run by Jiveried chauffeurs in uniforms to match the color of the motors. Bootblacks. bootleggers, waiters, vendors of other things making for luxury, all recite the story of a bubble burst and gratuities once dispersed with lavish hand, coming their way no more. During the oil boom, it was worth a sizeable income to be a bell-hop in one of Ft. Worth’s smart hostelries. Five-dollar bills were not unusual payments for carrying up luggage and ice water. “Banana” Song Muse Incidents such as followed the days of ’49, the Klondike rush and the discovery of diamonds in Kimberley, pale Into comparative insignificance by contrast. A story is told of one promoter who j ” MOTHER! Clean Child’s Bowels with ‘'California Fig Syrup" Even if cross, feverish, bilious, constipated or full of cold, children love the pleasant taste of "California Fig j Syrup.” A teaspoonful never fails to clean the liver and bowels. Ask your druggist for genuine | “California Fig Syrup” which has ! directions for babies and children of all ages printed on bottle. Mother! ' You must say “California” or you j may get an imitation fig syrup.—Advertisement.

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wrote his own ads. When anew batch of literature was needed he secreted himself in a hotel room and started a phonograph. Equipped with a play-over device, the machine would grind out “Banana songs" without a stop, during which serenade, the promoter would write reams of high-pressure copy under the music's stimulus. With prodigal hand, it was a case of “come easy, go easy,” so far as the promoter and his money were concerned. At the outset he kept away from actual misstatements of fact, because such guileless lies are open to prosecution as evidence of Intent to defraud. Promises Grew Lurid Later on, however, because nothing officially was done to curb him, the promoter grew careless from long immunity and started faking openly. He no longer, in scores of cases on file, even went to the pretence of drilling a weil for the purpose “of covering up” as a means of demonstrating his “honest intention* in producing oil.” Drunk with conquest and bulging bank accounts, he started to lie about the status of his record, his company, what he had done, and what he would "positively” do. He no longer promised rivers of oil. He said he already had such rivers. But as the fable runs, the rivers turned out to be teacups of oil. And

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Methods Used This is brought about by a promoter who has a 50-60 drilling contract on land on which a well is being sunk. Under terms of the lease, the promoter owns half the well and the drillers owns the other half. Many times each has tried to promote a separate company on the same well. If the promoter sells $1,000,000 worth of stock and the driller does likewise, should oil be discovered the stockholders would have a slim chance realizing any sort of dividends, because both driller and operator have declarations of trust, which probably give each the first 10,000 barrels of oil produced. . Then after that they split what is left under their 50-50 drilling contract. And after that —well, after that the stockholders come in. providing the well doesn’t go dry.

the investors filled the promised rivers with their tears. (Copyright, 1923, NEA Service, Inc.) The story of “General” Robert A. liee, one of the most picturesque swindle methods used, b Gibbons’ next article. State C. of C. Supports Mellon The Indiana State Chamber of Commerce has gone on record as approving tlVe recommendations of Secretary of the Treasury Mellon for a reduction in Federal taices. It also has advocated the abolishment of the tax on telegrams and telephone messages and has opposed repeal or amendment of the Esch-Oummins transportation act. Druggists Buy Comer Store John C. Clark and John W. Cade, druggists in the Claypool. have bought the northwest corner of Illinois and Tenth Sts. for $50,000. The property is 122 by 208 feet. The purchase was made as an Investment, according to the new owners.

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JOHNSON NITS AT ADMINISTRATION IN OPENING SPEECH California Challenges Coolidge and Pleads for Soldier Bonus, By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 28.—Hiram Johnson’s political guns which last night fired the opening shots of his campaign for the Republican nomination for President were quiet today, awaiting the answering volley of his opponents. Johnson's national political headquarters in a prominent down-town hotel today were practically deserted. Spokesmen for the California Senator said there would be “nothing doing for a time at least.” In a speech formally declaring the platform on which he will go before the people Johnson challenged the Administration of President Coolidge to explain advantages of American particibpation in European affairs, pleaded vigorously for a soldiers’ bonus, agricultural relief, reduction of the income tax on incomes under SIO,OOO and attacked the Supreme Court for its ruling on the woman’s minimum wage law. PHI PSI JAMBOREE HERE “Frat House Frolics’* to Occupy Ciaypooi Stage Tonight More than 300 members of the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity are expected to attend the annual Thanksgiving eve banquet in the Riley room of the Claypool tonight. Active chapters from

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