Indianapolis Times, Volume 37, Number 314, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1926 — Page 2

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BUTLER CLOSES HIGH-POWERED BEER FACTORIES Police Raid Breweries in Philadelphia Despite U. S. Protection. Kclitor'a Not©—This is the twentyfourth installment of General Butler's •tori or his work si head of Phtlade! Dhia police© and liis dismissal rarl.v this vear. The artlelrs will appear daily. The Times owns excluslvn rights to the artiu.is in this territory. B.v Smetiley I). Bailer “You can’t touch the breweries:” That was what I was told when I began my work in Philadelphia. I was informed that local police had no jurisdiction over breweries, dared not raid them and could do little except watch for outgoing trucks loaded with high-powered beer. This came to inc from legal counsel whose opinion I respected. I was informed brewery work was a Federal task. At that time there were some twenty-odd breweries operating at full blast, all but two or three manufacturing high-powered beer; some with Federal permits and others without permits to manufacture even near-beer. JVtost of thc-brewerles had, at one time or another, been found violating the law by Federal prohibition agents, but nothing had come of it. EVERYTHING HE ATE BROUGHT ON INTENSE MISERY % Local Musician Given Relief by the New Konjola; Completely Encldd His Indigestion. “1 notice large percentage of Indianapolis people have stomach troubles in one form or another,” said the Konjola Man yesterday. “This Is no different than in other cities 1 have visited,” he continued, "for modern people seem to be especially

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susceptible to diseases of the stomach. Indigestion, pain and agony in stomach and chest, feeling as tho a lump of food has stuck in the throat, cramps, headaches, dyspepsia, general loss of weight and strength—these are some of the miseries that many stomach sufferers are enduring. I am pleased to announce,'' the Konjola Man added, "that a great many Indianapolis men and women who had suffered with stomach disorders have derived relief by taking Konjola.” , One of the latest well knowm Indianapolis citizens to publicly indorse Konjola because of the surprising relief it has given him is Mr. Louis Pontone, living at 211 West New York Street, this city. Mr. Pontone has lived here fortyfive years and is a musician by profession. In describing (he work of Konjola in this case, Mr. Pontone said: "I am surely surprised at the way in which Konjola has ended tny stomach troubles, especially after trying so many different medicines wHich failed to m.ake an impression on my suffering. I had trouble with my stomach for 20 years, and finally 1 got so bad that everything I ate brought on intense misery. Nothing agreed with me, and instead of digesting, it seemed that my food would lay at the pit of my stomach In a hard lump, where it would sour, ferment and cause me to feel puffed Up and so terribly bloated that 1 Was subject to belching spells and awful pains. At nights I would become more miserable, for I couldn’t Bleep. "I heard about Konjola, and Started taking it, and let me say that this medicine surely made me feel better when it put a stop to the Indigestion w'hlch had me suffering so long. Now T can eat a meal and really enjoy it, for everything agrees with me. My food never forms into a heavy lump as It did before, and the awful sourness, fermentation, gas and bloating are gone. Pains never affect my stomach, and also the belching has been relieved. The whole truth is that I am eating bfetter, sleeping better and feeling much better in every way than I have for years, and 1 thank Konjola for it nil, and it is a pleasure to publicly indorse such a fine medicine." Konjola is not only for stomach trouble, but it is a liquid mixture made from over thirty medicinal ingredients. and containing juices extracted from twenty-two natural plants, making one single preparation that has an equally beneficial effect upon the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. The very first tiling Konjola does is cleanse the system of old poisons and waste matter which may have been lodged In our bodies for a. long time, and then as the other nature juices begin their work on the system, the result is anew feeling of health over the whole body in general. The Konjola Man is at Hook’s drug store, corner Pennsylvania and Market Streets. Indianapolis, where be is meeting tHo public and introducing and explaining the merits of this remedy. Konjola is also for sale at every Book drug store in Indianapolis and by druggists in each nearby town.— Advertisement.

On one occasion, in those early days, police learned that a brewery that had been raided, seized and turned over to the United States marshal's office to be guarded, was again manufacturing and shipping beer of illegal alcoholic content. 1 ordered a detail to invade the premises and seize *he illegal beer. Shooting Threatened AY hen the police tried to enter they were met by a group of deputy United States marshals who threatened to shoot our men if they entered. The police, not knowing how to ftiect the situation, left. The next morning when 1 was informed I sent them hack, but by this time everything had been arranged at the brewery and we found nothing, the deputy United States marshals having departed. The first year we managed to make some seizin res. hut nothing was really accomplished. l*n the summer of 1925, however, I learned, after much seeking after advice, that under the law police could raid breweries. Immediately we began a campaign and soon were able to obtain the first padlock on a brewery in Philadelphia. Through two seizures of high-powered beer, a Federal court, before whom the ease was tried on our evidence, ordered the Rising Sun Brewery closed for a year. Every Brewery Watched Every brewery in Philadelphia was watched and raided, real beer seized and men arrested. The local courts, in most Instances, ordered the high-powered beer returned to the breweries on one technicality or another. Finally our raids became too persistent, the chance of being caught, too great, the fear of arrest too much, the cost of legal talent too high, and the breweries began io shut down, one by one, so, before I loft, not a single brewery in Philadelphia was operating illegally. Breweries. T found, could be made to obey the law. Several, including the Bergner and Engel brewery, largest in the' eastern part of the United States, was padlocked for a year by Judge McDevltt. Here is a typical case of such i plant—the Bergner Jt Engel Cos., Inc.—as compiled by police investigators from Federal records. It is only part of the company's record. Repeated Violations

“Following are violations since (022. In each instance this concern was detected violating the prohibition laws by shipping high-powered beer from their plant. Violations, Aug. 17, and Oct. 2, 1922; April 19, B'eb. J, Fel>. 9, 1923. These cases were all settled by a compromise, company admitting liability and payI ing a small fine. Again caught violating June 23. 1924, by United State Prohibition Department. At | that time a report was submitted to the United States district attorney. Case heard by Judge McKeehan, who on a motion by attorney for defense, ruled the evidence was insufficient. Case dismissed July 1, 1024." I have before me as 1 write, the criminal records of •fourteen breweries. For years they violated the laws, were detected. sometimes prosecuted, more often not, and

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nothing done by the courts to stop the continued violations. So, regardless of court actions, we decided to raid and raid, just as we did saloons, until the brewery officials realized we meant business, and tiring of the persistent raiding, closed up shop. We simply seized the breweries on warrants, took possession and forced the breweries to go to court to oust the police. \Ye put tlie shot) on the other foot. * Federal Officers Sit Back When the Federal dry authorities realized that the Philadelphia police were in earnest, they virtually ceased work and loft the burden on our shoulders. The alcohol situation was similar. Scores of mushroom establishments, masquerading as perfume, toilet ‘water and hair tonic manufacturers, chemists, etc., were withdrawing hundreds of thousands of gallons of industrial alcohol monthly, for redistribution to bootleggers. Investigations by Federal authorities and by Federal grand juries were many, but nothing happened. When one group of such bootleggers was finally indicted and brought to trial, a few pleaded guilty and were fined or sentenced to light jail terms, a few more were convicted and’similarly treated and then without warning or reason, the prosecutions temporarily ceased, and when I loft Philadelphia at the end of the year they had not been resumed. We had another difficulty with the Federal authorities. We learned that, liquors, kept in a bonded warehouse after their seizure by prohibition authorities, were being taken out in nondescript vehicles to unknown destinations at all times of the day and

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night. The liquor was in the care of United States Marshal Mathues. Marshal Bluff Called One Sunday morning a truckload of liquor coming out from the Twentieth Century warehouse, a Government depository, was stopped by a detail of j>ol:ce assigned there for the purpose. Marshal Mat hues, who was firesent, ordered police to permit the vehicle to proceed, as it was being taken to the dumping ground for disposal. Mathues would not, or could not. show a court order authorizing the transportation and destruction of the liquor. There was a rumpus. Mathues finally admitted that lie did not have the proper i>ni>ers and. accompanied by the police, went to his office in the postoffiec building where, after much effort, he found •some official-looking document and waved it in front of the eyes of the police, without* permitting them to read it. The police then permitted the truck 'to proceed, but .accompanied it and saw the liquor destroyed. Whether the document Mathues waved was the court order for the removal and destruction of this particular lot of liquor or not, 1 do not know. The marshal threatened to arrest me for interfering with a Federal officer, but when I dared him tf* do so lie changed his mind and went to Europe for an extended vacation. (Copyright. 1926. by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) (Tomorrow General Butler tells of the .Mayor’s efforts to retain him for another year and of subsequent interesting developments.)

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PENSION IS 4 SKED FOR FEVER HERO Bill, Giving Hoosier SIOO a Month, Introduced by Representative Hall. I Rn Tiwr/t Special WASHINGTON, May 4.—A bill 1 providing a SIOO a month pension for Clyde 1.. West of Mier, Ind., one of the heroes of the United States battle against yellow fever, has been introduced by Representative Albert R. Hall of Marion, Ind. West was a private in the hospital corps at Camp I.azear, Cuba, under Maj. Walter Reed. Along with other ! soldiers, he volunteered to lie bitten by mosquitoes suspected of carrying the yellow fever germ. West took the fever on Feb. 3. j 1901, and nearly died. I John R. Kissinger of Andrews, Ind., another of the heroes, is receiving a pension of $123 a month, lie lost his health completely. However, West .sin fairly good health. Hall said. •

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AUTO SERVICE MEETING i lloosier Association Station Operators to Confer Thursday. Indiana service station operators of the Hoosier State Automobile Association and affiliated motor clubs will hold a conference Thursday at the Claypool,, it was announced today. Nearly 400 representatives are expected. This will be the first meeting of its kind over held in the United States, it was said. Program will include moving pictures and demonstrations of actual garage practice. DEAN COII/TER TO TALK I lean Stanley Coulter of Purdue University will speak at a banquet of the Indiana Audubon Society an! the Nature Study Club of Indiana at the J/iucoln Saturday night. Orpheus M. Schantz, president of the Illinois Audubon Society will talk. Officers will he elected. SPARKS ( USE FIRES Fire originating from sparks did SSOO damage at the home of William Frieze. 1118 Windsor St., Monday. Defective wiring was responsible for a S4OO fire att lie home of J. W. Andrews, 1133 Richland St.. Monday. I tome of C. Mason, 2231 Boulevard PI., was damaged SIOO late Monday when tire starting from sparks damaged the roof.

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DIVIDEND IS ORDERED Marion Club Stockholders Receive Payment oil Holding*. Frank A Symraes, attorney and receiver for the defunct Marion Club, formerly a Republican organization, has been ordered by Judge Clinton H. Givan of Superior Court Four to pay stockholders 30 per cent of the face value of their stock from proceeds of the sale of property. The

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amount of-dividend ordered was $K>. The first dividend ordered b.v Givnn amounted to $25. .Sale of the club property amounted to ffpproximate'y $130,000. This maker a -total of 160 per cent paid stockholders on the par value of holdings, said Givan. A third payment will he ordered soon. Set tlement of the receivership lias been delayed through inability to find owners of about 500 shares of tjtcs k, said Syvnmes.