Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 307, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1926 — Page 12

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HOTEL OWNERS TRY TO QUASH BUTLER’S RAIDS Mayor Impatient Because Toes of Friends Are Stepped On. Editor's Note—This is the seventeenth Installment of General Butler's story of his work as head of Philadelphia polieo and his dismissal early this year. The articles will appear daily. The Times owns exclusive rights to the articles in this territory. BY SMEDLKY 1). BUTLER Early in 1925 the mayor sent for mo ono afternoon. I found him In earnest conversation with two real estate operators and their attorney. The mayor at great length explained to me Just how much the past friendship and backing of his callers meant to him and how anxious he was to help them in their difficulty over a large central city hotel. It should be recorded that in November and December the police had had to cope with much law violation and indecent behaviour by patrons of the hotel roof garden. On numerous occasions police had seized intoxicating liquors on the tables, had arrested unusually disorderly patrons and had witnessed disgusting scenes. The conduct at this roof garden, in many Instances was equal to if not worse than that in some of the low dives which we had to close and padlocked. Police reported the management was making no effort to control the behaviour of Its patrons and so I took the usual steps to secure the revocation of the dance license. The mayor took no action. Business Was Poor Now the mayor explained to me that one of his callers was interested in the hotel, that business was so poor that they "wero starving to death,” and that there was a great difference between million dollar hotels and cheap dives. He asked me if I would not give them another chance. I replied I His Health Rained By Constipation Tells How Ho Hot Quick Relief. No Sign of Trouble Now. "For live years I suffered with liver trouble and constipation. My bowels were so sluggish they would hardly act more than once a week. My complexion was yellow and I was all run down. My appetite was poor and T had a disgust for food most of the time. I went down to 136 pounds, and my vitality was so low I Just had no pep at all. I felt lazy and wanted to sleep all the time. I tried different medicines and nothing did me any good. Then a relative recommended Viuna. Before I had taken half a bottle I felt better, and by the time I had taken the second bottle I had gained 4 pounds and could eat anything, had a good, healthy apppetite and was feeling fine. All that drowsiness was gone and I would get up in the morning full of pep. It has been three months since I bought by first bottle of Viuna, and I believe I can truthfully say that I am entirely well. 1 have gained 20 pounds, and never felt better in my life.”—Paul D. Bragdon, 1523 Cedar St., Anderson, Ind. Vinna aetfl promptly on sluggish bowels, lazy liver ami weak kidneys. It purifies the blood, clears the skin, restores appetite and digestion, and brings new strength and energy to the whole body. Take a bottle on trial. Then if you're not. glad you tried Viuna, your money will be refunded. $1 at druggists, or mailed postpaid by Iceland Medicine Cos., Indianapolis, Ind. VIUNA The vegetable regulator

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would not, they had had too many chances already. I told the mayor the decision rested entirely with him and he said that he could not help his friends unless I changed my recommendation. No one denied conditions at the hotel roof were as I reported. They simply demanded preference. They were friends of the mayor and wanted to violate the law. When the mayor found I was unwilling he turned to the others and said: “I told you it was no use sending for him. I knew he wouldn’t do It.” The mayor seemed greatly depressed and sat with his head buried in his hands. One of his visitors, as he was leaving, leaned over the mayor, patted him on the back, and said: “Never mind, Freel,” just keep on being the same big man you always were.” Jan. 12 I made the following memorandum: “About 4:30 p. m. Jan. 12, 1925, the mayor, in the presence of City Solicitor Gaffney, said to me in a sneering way: ‘Have you any news of those bandits who robbed that bank?’ and I said: ’No, sir,’ and explained the conditions to him. He then said: “ ‘lf you stop going after these big investments and have the police on the streets there would be fewer robberies. You are going too strong on these seven-million-dollar investments. There is nothing wrong with that hotel: they are running their business as well as they can; I was down there a little while ago and saw the manager and the manager said they were doing everything they can to run the business respectably.’ “Mr. Gaffney stoutly defended the actions of the police, and advised the mayor that the hotel is bad and was a bad place, but the mayor denied it.” Promise Is Broken A short time after, the mayor again sent for me and I found one of his previous callers present. The caller announced that, to save the mayor embarrassment, they would stop dancing and close the roof garden. Eight weeks later they resumed dancing, new violations cropped up, ind on a Saturday night in March police raiders swooped onto the root, seized liquor and arrested patrons. Tliis was one of four rather

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sensational raids on the best known cabarets that night. Again I urged revocation of the dance license. Again the mayor took no action. Shortly before the raid on the hotel, the Case L’Aiglon, a popular night resort, was raided. The following is the memorandum of a conversaton with the mayor concerning this raid: “At 11:45 a. m., Wednesday, March 11,1925, In tile mayor’s office, yo one being present but the mayor and myself, the mayor opened the conversation by mentioning the L’AJglon Case affair. (In tlie course of that raid, In which liquor was confiscated, a young man whom I 'will call Blank was arrested after he had attempted to throw a detective over the balcony rail.) ’This young man Blank was not doing anything,’ the mayor said. I replied, ‘Mr. Mayor, Blank had been drinking.’ Mayor Dissatisfied “The Mayor said, ‘I am not satisfied with the conduct of affairs in your department; I do not approve of some of your appointments of bureau chiefs and your captains and lieutenants. I do not like the way you handled the L’Aiglon affair; I have here a number of affidavits from a detective agency, who have been employed to watch that place; there have been no violations of the law in it. Now. who is this man O’Neill? How long has he been on the force?’ I said. ‘About six months.’ ‘Why do you use a man who has only been on six months; these detectives are lying to you. They are not telling you the truth, they just want to make a reputation with you and get promotion. I don’t like this way of doing It. “ ‘Now this man Blank has been in to see me; he is a fine man; his boy’ the Mayor continued. ‘He is a student at Princeton. You understand me, he is a student at Princeton. His father assures me that he never took a drink tn his life; now I believe him before I believe one of these detectives of yours. Now, you have arrested him, he will not he able to go back to Prificeton; he is disgraced for the rest of his life. The worst part of it is you marched him up the street with a Negro policeman, with a gun sticking aaginst his ribs and disgraced him before everybody.’ “The mayor then instructed me to send to him the detectives who staged the raid.”^ Returning to my office, rather

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