Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 312, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1926 — Page 14

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‘SMASH’ MOITO OF BUM FOR RAIDS ON DENS Special Squads Make as Many as 250 Invasions in One Week. Editor’s Note*—- I This is th* twenty-sec ond inatal'ment of General Butjer P of ni B work aw head of Phil.iaelphi* police Band ids dlamißsal early thin year. The articles wll , appear daUy. The Times owns exclusive rights to tne ar ticlf-s in this territory. By Smedley 1). Butler Since it was idle even to think of effecting such a revolutionary reform as a single, State-controlled police force, and since better cooperation from other legal agencies was impossible, we continued vigorous driving and raiding. Finding that raiding was slowing up, a special squad was organized, termed Unit No. 1. One of the officials I trusted, Inspector John Holton, was named commander. One of the station houses that had been abandoned was utilized as headquarters. One hundred men were picked as the most trustworthy on the force. The unit was instructed as to its duties—-to raid every place where the law was being violated. This was to be the most intensive of all drives on vice. The detective bureau and the districts were stripped of their vice work, seventy-two detectives were ordered back to street duty and twice as many district detectives, heretofore on vice duty, were allowed to return to uniforms and street duty. Speakeasy IJst The unit was furnished with a, list of several thousand speakeasies, disorderly houses and gambling i Mjfe STRONG Capital and Surplus $2,500,000 MEM RESERVO* jtahh. SYSTEMjaggJ jflclclier Katrinas ani> Crust Company you WILL, FIND THE FLETCHER TRUST RANKS AT N. W. Corner Penn, and Market 1233 Oliver Ave. 1533 Uoogevelt Ave. 0135 Belief on, nine. 3123 E. Tenth St. 1541 N. Illinois St. 1125 H. Meridian St. 2969 N. Illinois St. 45K E. B asil. St. 454 W. B ash. St. 2842 E. Bath. St.

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George Elkins Is one of our oldest farmers. In fact, he has been tilling the same farm In Illinois for over eighty years. Last year, the old farmer and John, his oldest farmhand, had an argument in trying to recall the date when they first worked together. This was Mr. Elkins side of the argument: He was three times as old as John on the day he first hired John. Last year John was as old as Mr. Elkins was then. And Mr. Elkins figured that at the time John is three times as old as his (John's) last mentioned age. their combined ages will be 360 years. How old were the two men at the time of the argument? Last puzzle answer: CODE - U X Y 2 L MWV M Q 6CDE f GH I j T O AC BE DOOF KLMMODQOST HG•k j 5 • UVW Y V Z Here is the complete code alphabet used by the life of the game warden in her telegram. Printed letters are letters of the regular alphabet. The deciphered telegram reads as follows: "Not a, man conies fishing on this bay, that shouldn’t be arrested before he goes home.” The tenth word “shouldn't” was given. The second word coudl only be ‘‘A” or “I.” But the ninth word determines it as “A" as there is no such word as “thit." (Copyright, 1926, NEA Service, Inc.) joints. On July 1, 1925, the raiding began. In a sensational and spectacular manner the squad, in details of ten, headed by noncommissioned officers, swept through the city, closing scores of places. Magistrate Fahnestock, the only member of the minor judiciary who would issue a warrant regardless of the influence of the individual to be raided, issued most of the warrants required, a hundred or more a day. Magistrate Beaton also isuued many warrants, aiding the cause lySaloons were often raided two and three times a day and many times a week. The law was not effective —although police methods were vigorous. Before long the unit was making an average of 250 raids a week. Some details, specially assigned, raided gambling houses, taking hundreds of prisoners, only to see therp discharged in the morning with a reprimand and a wink,' or a small fine. Judge Is “Messenger” Lato in June, Judge Edwin O. Lewis and I met again. He wrote me a note and arranged for an appointment. I considered Lewis friendly, for he had been one of the four who had come to me to bring about a truce with the mayor. Anew afternoon tabloid newspaper had been started several months before in which Bill Vare, boss of the gang, was heavily interested. Its object was to support the gang, for none of the decent newspapers of the city did. From Its inception this paper attacked the police, and assaulted me personally and my methods. June 17, 1925, a few days after Vare returned frofn Europe, Judge Lewis came into my office. He explained he came to please another man—but not as a messenger boy, for that would be beneath his dignity as a judge. Judge Lewis, after much hemming and hawing, said to me that Bill Vare had asked him to see me. Lewis, speaking for Vare, outlined a plan by which I could purchase the silence of this pap4r that svas attacking me so severely at that time. The Proposition All I had to do to halt the attacks and to gain the friendship of this sheet was to instruct the 4,200 policemen of the city to act as salesmen for the paper in their spare hours! Lewis also informed me, somewhat hesitatingly, that* some time before Vare had asked him to come to me and to suggest the appointment of a political advisor. I asked Lewis the names of the men Vare suggested. Lewis hesitated and mentioned Harry Davis, who was and is executive secretary of the Republican city committee —the gang. Davis, incidentally, had been assistant

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