Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 277, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 April 1924 — Page 3
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1924
PHILADELPHIA STILL HOT BED DF VICE, DESPITE CLEAN-UP Price of Human Life Is SI,OOO „ —Underworld Wireless Travels Fast. This is the second of a series of three articles. By MAXWELL HYDE XEA Service Writer HILADELPHIA. April 2—ln investigating crime conditions _____ to learn to what extent General Butler's crusade has been successful, an aniaz.ng story of vice rampant was revealed to me. Tje price of a human life here is now SI,OOO. Almost anyone can arrange to have an enemy killed for that price. It matters not where the victim lives. A person front Denver. Chicago, or Dallas, could come here, close a deal to have a person killed, and return to his city to point out the victim. When he comes here he will talk with well-dressed, even well-educated men, and he will do so in sunn>, bright rooms, furnished to a point of luxury. ' * Underworld Wireless The outside world has no conception of the' underworld organization. Compared to most underworlds, not even excepting that of New York, the vnderworld here is a big league. • Let me tell you how active it is. ’ ene man said to me. “It is now eight minutes of 4 o’clock. If that man seated at that table yonder (we were in a fashionable hotel and my infor-, mant was one conceded to be close to the big fellows in the underworld) were to be ‘bumped off for any reason, word of the killing would travel so fast that within half an hour every one of the 1.500 convicts In Eastern Penitentiary would know all the e rails of the murder." Big gunmen operate out of Philadelphia- bandits make this city their headquarters. The big : vice rings have this city in a gnp that it ♦nke vears to break. it is said Gen. Smedley Butler is .-leaning up the city. "He's doing more than any othe man did." I was told by a man in pm sition to know. "But you can get a map of the city of Philadelphia Then you can close your eves a stick a’pin anywhere in the map, and within 500 yards of where you stick the pin I'll get you dope, booze and Immoral women. Women to Covet Butler has driven immoral women to cover. He forced them to use more cautious methods and one outgrowth of that is what arc known as I “kiy clubs.’’ ... Butler has closed many gambling 'halls. Many' which nourished under th® Old regime now are out of bu.,ir here has published repeatedly that the present tottery play in Philadelphia now exceeds SIOO.->(>o a week. The writer, after an exhaustive survey, is of the impression that bootlegging in Philadelphia is not on as expensive a scale as it is in New York Gity. In the metropolis bootlegging has been reduced to a science and fairly good liquor is obtainable at a moderate price. In Philadelphia, while bootleggers operate openlv and at times within shadow of CUv Hall, the quality of the booze is decidely worse. EARLHAM DRIVE OVER Subscription Pledges of S'!00.000 Are Secured. Hu L riled Prru _. RICHMOND. Ind.. April Officials of Earlham College today announced the successful conclusion of a *400.000 endowment fund drive. Pledges of subscriptions totaling *200,000 were secured. An additional *200.000 will be contributed by the general eduettion board in New \ork, bringing the total endowment of Earlham up to $1,250,000.
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cure, by Francis Carter Wood. M. D., director. Institute for Cancer Research. Columbia University. "Man and the Microbe," how communicable diseases are controlled, by C. E. A. Winslow, Dr. P. H.;’ professor of public health. Yale School of Medicine. “Community Health,” how o obtain and preserve It, by D. B. Armstrong,
Waiting for You New l>ooks of fiction at the Public library include: ‘‘Cinder Buggy," Caret Garrett; "Lady Bountiful,” J. O. Han nay; "The Squire," Mrs. L. E. (H.l Richards. New books of religion, sociology, psychology, philosophy, economics include: “Book of Job," Bible, O. T. Job; “Minister and His Parish," M. VV. I’ooto; "Old Testament Criticism,” E. D. M. Gray; “New Lanterns in Old China," Mrs. T. (M.) IngUs; “Fifty Tears,” William Lawrence; “Housing Progress in Western Europe,” Mrs. E. E. Wood; “Practical Problems in Psychiatry,” Ernesto Lugaro; “The Child at Home,” Lady C. M. E. (C.) Asquith; “Textbook on Parliamentary Law,” A. B. Hail. New books in the Business Branch Library include: "Mailing List Directory and Classified Index to Trade Directories,” L. H. Morley; “Borrowing From Tour Bank,” 8. H. Patterson. New chlblren’s books include: "New Stories to Tell to Children," S. C. Bryant; “Makers of America.” E. L. Dana; “Synthergen." Hal Garrott; "Dark Frigate." C. B. Hawes: "Fairy Tales From the Orient,-” G. H. Martens; “Wretched Flea," L. E. Mulets: "Stories About Horses.” St. Nicholas; “Everyday Adventures,” Samuel Scoville; “Circus Book.” L. R. Smith; “Days and Deeds a Hundred Tears Ago.” G. L. Stone; “The Boy Adventures in the Land of El Dorado," A. H. Verrill; "Happy Manikin in Manners Town,” L. R. Smith. '
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M. E. CONFERENCE HOLDS MEMORIAL Observance of Anniversaries Marks Day’s Program.
By Times Special MARION, Ind., April 2.—Observance of the anniversaries of the Memorial home and the Methodist hospital occupied a prominent place in today’s program of the annual North Indiana Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dr. lleber D. Ketcham delivered the memorial sermon this morning. At j the afternoon sessions, Charles V | Beecher and George B. Smith addressed the delegates and laymen. Bishop Fred Fisher, bishop of Ben gal and Burma, India, last night ! >ld j how missionaries are taking whole vil- ! lages into the fold of Christianity in \ India. Just before sailing, he said, he directed the baptism of GOO, (he entire | population of one village. The idol | which they had worshipped for gen- j ovations was taken from its temple, | he said, and thrown into afield. Funds for work in India have increased from $280,000 seven years ago to $1,000,000, he said. BUILDING PERMIT DENIED Gulf Kclining Company Not Allowed to Erect Warehouse. The board of zoning appeals has] denied the Gulf Refining Cos. permis- j sion to erect a warehouse and oil storage tanks between State Ave. and i .Juill St. north of the Belt Railroad, j An investigation committee reported i property values would deteriorate and i tire hazards would ir crease by the j ! construction. Petitions on erecting gasoline filling stations at Twenty-Ninth St and I : Capitol Ave. and Fall Creek Blvd. and! Illinois St., were continued until j April 22 Hearing on construction of :an A. M. E. Zion Church at Palmer j and Olive Sts also will be held STUDENTS OPEN DRIVE YYahasli l ndergraduates Seek to Raise $50,000 for Endowment. rt<i I nited }>>>** CRAWFORDSVILLE. Ind., April 2. —Campaign to raise $50,000, underj graduate quota of the $1,000,000 en* | dowment building fund drive, was begun today among students of V\ alias h i College. Leaders of the student drive plan to opening of the campaign among alumni Friday. j in direct proportion to the destruction j of the crowding plants they grow. Give each separate plant as much room as possible and it will return . more flowers, and better ones, than if forced to share its space with half a dozen other puny plants, all trying to grow in the small space where only one plant should be. The gardener should remember to j “cut and come again." It is a good ! slogan and when put to test will rejvvsrd the flower fancier a hundredfold. Sweet peas and scores of other annuals may be kept in bloom for many weeks if you pick the flowers as soon as they open. Especially Is this true <>f pansies. It should he strictly remembered that the moment any annual begins producing seed it stops flowering. NEXT: GARDEN CULTURE.
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American Legion to Offer ‘Whipping Boss’
Next week, opening Sunday afternoon, the American Legion will present at the Apollo a movie, “The Whipping Boss,” with Barbara Bedford and Lloyd Hughes as co-stars. Based upon the sensational Tabert case, the facts of which were recited at great length in the daily press, “The Whipping Boss” is arousing public opinion throughout the United
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slaved under a whipping boss. For two months the boy worked on, although his mother had forwarded $25 to the sheriff so that her son might be released. One day when his feet were covered with sores he asked the whipping boss for larger shoes. The nejet instant the whipping boss was * upon him. Testimony of eye witnesses placed the number of lashes between forty and one hundred. Three days later Martin Talbert died. Forty-seven days after The American Legion and other organizations began investigation, the convict leasing system was abolished in Florida. * * * Attractions on view today include: Lenore Ulric in “Kiki” at English’s; Raymond Hitchcock in “The Old Soak” at the Murat: Hope Eden at Keith’s; “Stolen Sweets” at the Lyric; Joe Towle at the Palace; “Pacemakers” at the Broadway; “Money Mad” at the Lincoln Square; "Town Scandals” at the Capitol; “When A Man’s A Man,’ at the Circle; “Daughters of Today” at the Ohio; ‘‘Maytime’ at the Apollo; “Lucky Dan” at the Isis and “The Virginian” at Mister Smiths. “Trimmed in Scarlet’ with Clara Kimball Young in person, opens a three-days’ engagement at English’s j Thursday night. This is not a movie, j On Saturday afternoon, Miss Young will hold a reception on the stage after the matinee. GIRL AND WOMAN SOUGHT Police Searching for Margaret Rusk and Lucinda Shaw. Police are searching for two missing persons today. Margaret Rusk, 16, who has light brown bobbed hair, gray eyes, wore a green sweater with a white collar, blue dress, brown stockings and black ; shoes, left her home at 1441 De Loss I St., Monday. Lucinda Shaw. 49, of 750 K Ft. Wayne Ave., started to work at the Kahn Tailoring Company Monday and has not been seen since. She was wearing a brown coat and hat, shell rimmed glasses and has dark complexion. RUNAWAY ILL Fred Mayer Sr., Notified Son Is ill Pittsburgh, Pa. Detectives at Pittsburgh, Pa., telegraphed Indianapolis police that Fred Mayer JT.. was ill in Pittsburgh after running away from his home in Indianapolis. Police Captain Edward Schubert said the senior Mayer was notified while at work on a line between here and Vincennes, Ind.. where he is employed ns a lineman for the Postal Telegraph Company.
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