Indianapolis Times, Volume 38, Number 148, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1926 — Page 1
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ÜBERSHF DRIVE OPENS FOR y F c. Five Hundred Civic Workers Go Out to Enroll Full Quota. h PART OF MOVEMENT Miller and Weigle Speak to \ Teams. One thousand Chamber of Commerce members before Tuesday noon. Dan Weigle, civic evangelist, outlined that quota to 500 civic workers who gathered early today* to canvass the city for memberships during the second phase of the "Indianapolis First’’ movement. Workers were aroused at 7 a. m. by telephone operators who delivered the following message: “This is Indianapolis First calling. You are expected to be present at the Chamber of Commerce at 9 o’elock sharp this morning to meet your team captains and receive final instructions.” enthusiasm Praised Weigle scored knockers of Indianapolis and praised the enthusiasm of the team members. Four division supervisors who are the chief lieutenant- to Dick Millelr, campaign chairman, are: M. K. Foxworthy, A; O. B. lies, B; Frank E. Gates, C, and E. J. Wuensch, D. Forty teams are at work and will report first results at a luncheon at the new Chamber of Commerce Bldg. Tuesday noon. Weigle will continue his program of addresses, speaking at Keith’s tonight in observance of civic night. One of the chief objects cf the drive is to raise funds to establish an industrial sales department which will conduct a campaign to bring new industries to Indianapolis. .j, $ Duvall Present Appearance of Mayor Duvall and I the Police and Firemen's Band at ’ toady's meeting showed that municipal cooperation has been extended to the campaign. Investment in the future of Indianapolis was the keynote -of radio messages dedicating the new building delivered by Nicholas H. Noyes. Chamber president, and Weigle Saturday night. - FOUR MOTHERS DIE IN RIVER
Skiff Crashes Into FerryBaby Also Victim. Bu United Press POMEROY, Ohio, Sept. 27.—Four mothers of large families, one of them with a baby in her arms, were drowned in the Ohio River at Mason. W. Va., early today when a skiff in which they were crossing the river, was carried by swift current under a ferryboat tied to a pier. The dead: Mrs. A. E. Foulk, 50: Mrs. John Maier, 52; Mrs. Robert Hummell, 38; Mrs. Will Sponagel. 42, and Mrs. Sponagel’s 7-months-old baby. With a large party of Pomeroy residents, the victims had returned from a week-end excursion to Pittsburgh. k The ferry boat was obscured by not until the crash did occupants of the small boat know it was there. Stunned by the impact, they were tossed into the swirling water. Two women were rescued by the three men in the boat. The rest of the excursionists were waiting on the West Virginia side when the accident occurred. The bodies have not been recovered. SPEED BOAT IN CRASH Two Killed When Craft Strikes Baj'ge—Three Injured. Bu United Press STEUBENVIELE, Ohio, Sept. 27. Abraham Weisenthal, 62, wealthy furniture dealer, and Mrs. John Stroup, 40, were killed* and three others were injured when a speed boat, driven by Weisenthal, crashed into A barge on the Ohio River here today at high speed. STRAIGHTEN RIO GRANDE Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—The United States Government has requested Mexico to appoint commissioners to prepare a convention for straightening the Rio Grande River channel between El Paso and Ft. Quilman, it was learned at the State Department today. TURKS CLOSE Y. M. C. A. Bu United Press CONSTANTINOPLE, Sept. 27. It was authoritatively stated today that the government had ordered the closure of Young Men’s Christian Association offices here because of the organization's alleged religious propaganda. WOOD OPERATED ON Bu United Press MANILA. P. I„ Sept. 27.—Governor General Leonard Wood today waa recovering rapidly from an operation for hernia.
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SONlA—Caught in the very first kiss of her seventeen years by her hostess at a high school party and gossiped about all over her small home town. \ SONlA—Swept off her feet in a desperate love affair with the handsome Franklin Crane, who is engaged to another girl. SONlA—Snatched back'from the brink of a great sin by Providence, through the medium of an automobile accident in which her chum, Maxine (who is having an affair with a married man) is killed. SONlA—Married to one man and madly in love with another, unable to break the bonds which bind her to him, though she knows he is unworthy. SONlA—Finding the peace which comes with the love of a man strong in mind, body and soul. v j These are but sketchy highlights in “Sonia, 4 ’ one of the most entrancingly interesting serials newspapers have printed. “Sonia” Starts in The Indianapolis Times Friday, Oct. 1.
WEATHER CHILLY, 4 SCHOOLS CLOSE Heating Plant at Tech High Fails to Function Repairs Not Finished ,at Other Places.
The sudden cold weather today caught school officials napping and caused four schools to be dismissed and thousands of children to be turned out of classes. Technical High School was dismissed during the morning when the heating plant failed to function. School officials said they did not know whether there was something wrong with the plant or whether INVESTIGATE BRIDGE Board Fears Past Resolution May Prevent Construction. Fearing that past flood prevention resolutions might prevent building: the Belt Railroad bridge across the present channel of White River, the board of works today took steps to investigate. The board a few months ago voted to provide for the construction over the present channel, instead of a proposed new channel, as decided upon under the* Shank administration. PORD - PLAN IS LAUDED Green, Labor Head, Sees Another Victory in Short Hour Fight. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—The new five-day week policy instituted by Henry Ford Is considered by the American Federation of Labor as another victory in its effort to reduce the hours of labor, Willi&iji Green, president of the labor organization, said today. Green's said Ford's new policy would have a ‘‘moral effect" on other large industries, but he refused to predict that it would result In a general slashing of working hours.
the janitorial force, believing weather conditions would improve today, had neglected to heat the school Sunday. , At School 60 the electrical power plant needed for operating the oil burners was not connected. Efforts were being made to get it into operation later today. Repairs Not Done Schools 32 and 72 were dismissed because repairs were not completed on the heating plants. There is a plentiful supply of coal on hqnd, business director Ure M. Frazer sa}d. This morning was cloudy and chilly, with temperature of 46 at 7 a. m.. and prospects are fer a continuation of the bleak conditions, according to United States Weather Bureau officials. Slightly warmer weather should come Tuesday, Meteorologist J. H. Armington said. Occasional rain is likely. Frost Saturday Night The cloudy condition! Sunday night prevented frost, bat frost decended upon the Northern and Central parts of the State Saturday night and did some damage to crops, particularly tomatoes. Low temperature of 38-was recordered early Sunday. '-The mark at 7 this morning was 5 degrees below normal. Rainfall to date this month has been 8.20 inches in Indianapolis. This Is hardly a recard for September, Armington said. Clarence Henry, Marion County agricultural agent, said frost damage to crops in the county Saturday night was slight. HOURLY TEMPERATURES 6 a. 46 10 a. m 61 1 a. m 46 11 a. 61 8 a. m 48 12 (noon) .. „ 60 9 a. m 51
INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, SEPT. 27, 1926
WORK OR GO TO JAIL IS MIAMjjDICT All Able-Bodied Men, Both White and Negro, Virtually Conscripted. WARNINGS ARE POSTED Follows City-Wide Thanksgiving Sunday. Bu United Press MIAMI, Fla., Sept. 27. —Placards announcing that "every able bodi-id man must work or go to Jail,’’ were posted today by Henry It. Chase, sheriff of Dade County and Leslie Quigg, Miami police chief. “We need men to restore Miami.” the placards said. "This is not the time for laggards.” The virtual conscription follows closely the forcing to work of all Negro labor in clearing away the wreckage of the West Indian hurricane, which swept south Florida, nine day* ago. May Ease Tension The order is expected by the officials to remove the cause of complaint of the Negroes, a score of whom caused troopers, police and deputy sheriffs considerable apprehension over race trouble Friday night. Putting white labor to work will soothe the disgruntled Negroes. It is believed. The far reaching step toward rehabilitation of the ruined city also followed a day at city-wide thanksgiving that the devastation and deaths had not been greater in the storm that slashed the city. More than 5,000 persons jammed Royal Palm Park, crowding between the shattered hulks of launches and yachts and pahn trees and other varieties of debris and offered thanks that the toll was not greater. Like Requiem The service savored of the requien}. Many prayers were said for the dead, most of whom were burled without funeral services. Regular services were held In several church©* which have been pronounced safe despite the damage. Mayor Romph had proclaimed the day one of municipal thanksgiving. The services concluded, Miami began Immediately to dig deeper into the debris.
Local Aid Fund Total Is $16,000 Week-end contributions to the Red Cross relief fund for sufferers from the Florida hurricane today brought the total to $16,000, according to William Fortune, local chapter chairman. “Money will be received all this week,” Fortune said. He urged contributions be made at once, as the need is greater than was anticipated The goal here Is $35,000. Capt. H. W. Cook, who left Indianapolis last week In an airplane with serum and other supplies for the storm area, got only as far as Jacksonvile, Fla., according to a telegranv The supplies were forwarded from there by train. Cook was expected to fly back to Indianapolis, arriving sometime toddy. The Times, Optimist Club and Mooney-Mueller-Ward Company made SIOO contributions over the week-end. Number of homes destroyed In Florida was fixed at 4,825 and houses damaged at 9,250 In a bulletin. Issued by the National Red Cross. ‘‘At least $5,000,000 Is needed fdr relief of southern Florida,” said the bulletin. “To date only $2,087,000 has been either collected or promised. It Is absolutely necessary that we all do oup utmost to speed the campaign for funds.” TWO~BONDS~ FORFEITED Defendants, Charged With Violating Securities Not Present Two bonds of $3,000 each wero forfeited today by Edward Traugott, bondsman, on order of criminal Judge James A. Collins, when Hamilton Smith and Arthur A. Caldwell failed to answer a charge of violating the Indiana securities law. The two men are alleged to have sold fraudulantly securities in a motion picture corporation. REHEARING IS GRANTED Oct. 13 Set by Commission in Gary Railway Case After previously denying the Gary Railway’s company's petition to extend one of its bus lines in the Calumet district, the public service commission today granted the concern a rehearing on the cause, setting Oct. 13 as date for receiving evidence. The railway company, an Insull holding, had asked to extend one of its lines to the Sunnyside district of Indiana Harbor. The hearing will be held in the morning in the East Chicago city council chamber. BANDITS USE HANDCUFFS Bu United Press VALPARAISO, Inda, Sept. 27. After snapping Iron handcuffs on A. J. Connelly, filling station attendant and tying his two welldressed bandits early today robbed the oil station of $285 in cash. They escarped In an automobile.
Woman's Efforts to Take Life Thwarted Mrs. Rilla Hall. 47, of Chicago, who roomed at 439 Madison Ave., is held in city prison today on a vagrancy charge while police make an effort to provide aid for her. Ed Petty, night watchman at the Highway Garage, 510 W. Market St., heard a woman ,moaning and called police. Motopolicemen Long and Schley found Mrs. Hall lying on the bank of the canal. Said she came here several months ago, working until two months ago when she became ill. Unable to pay her room rent, and without food for two days, she told officers she decided to drown herself. Ikillce gave her food. Miss Laurel Thayer, adult probation officer, Is investigating.
BAFFLE TO PUT AIMEE ON TRIAL FOR SINS OPENS More Guards Than Spectators as Evangelist and Mother Appear. Bu United Prrss LOS ANGELES. Sept. 27.—1n the sombre setting of a tiny courtroom, patrolled by more guards than spectators, Aimee Semple McPherson and her mother, Mrs. Minnie Kennedy, appeared today for their preliminary hearing on charges of conspiring to defeta justice. Dressed in modest gowns of black and white, the picturesque pastor of Angel us Temple and the Buxom business manager of the Order of the Four Square Gospel walked quietly Into court shortly after 10 a. m. Hundreds of the evangelist’s followers and many others, denied admittance to the hearing, formed a mob outside the Hall of Justice as the preceedings began. They were held in check by police. The charges against Mr. McPherson grew out o ftv o alleged “confessions” of women that they were hired by her to pose as the "Miss X,” mysterious woman companion of Kenneth G. Ormlston, former radio operator of Angelus Temple, at Carmel-by the-Sea last summer during Mrs.'McPherson's disappearance. Keyes will attampt to prove that Mrs. McPherson was not Spirited (Turn to Page 11) MAN’S HAND AMPUTATED Workman Injured at FoundryTaken to Hospital. Left hand of John White, 58, of 658 N. Pershing Ave.. was amputated at city hoslptal today after It was mashed In machinery at American Foundry, “Warman Ave. and Pennsylvania Railroad.
HIGHWAY INQUIRY STILL UNDER WAY District Attorney Gets Some Supplemental Facts. Although facts found In the Department of Justice investigation of alleged Irregularities In the disposal Af used war materials by the highway commission were said not to have been presented to the Federal grand Jury, it was learned today that the inquiry still is under way. It was said that supplemental facts are being presented almost daily to Uplted States District Attorney Albert Ward, who Is expected to make a decision soon as tq whether or not the case should he presented to the grand jury at Its next meeting. Indictments stand In the county courts against six men. Including an official and former members of the commission, growing out of the disposal of the materials. v BUSINESS BLOCK BURNS $35,000 Loss in Fire at Rollling Prairie. . Bu United Press ROLLING PRAIRIE, Ind.. Sept. 27. —Fire destroyed a business block here early today with a loss estimate dat $35,000. Origin of the blaze is unknown. Business places destroyed were Gleaners Hall, George Fargher’s meat market, Paul Le vallen’s poolroom and the print shop and residence of Marshall Hathaway. CONTINUE CLAIM SUIT Construction Company Seeks SIOO,000 From State. Suit of the Scotv. Construction Company.'seeking to collect SIOO,OOO from the State for an alleged violation ot road building contract, scheduled to open today before the county court of claims in Superior Court Two, was continued until the October term. The five judges were unable to arrange their calendars so as to sit together. The construction company charges the State highway commission altered the original specifications, thus • requiring the company to expend more than was intended. ASKS PRIMARY PROBE Bu United Press DETROIT. Mich., Sept. 27.—1n an open letter William A. Comstock. Democratic candidate for Governor, today demanded an investigation into the campalgrwexpendituree of Fred W. Grees|®iccessful candidate for the nomination.
DEATH QUIZ IS REVIVED BY ARRESTS Todd, ex-Street Car Conductor, Said to Have Threatened Wife. NOW FACES CHARGES Said Involved in SIO,OOO Ticket Theft. Detectives today revived their investigation of the death of Mrs. Mary Todd. 27, of 935 Church St., who died Aug. 2. when a bullet from a gun held by her husband, Rucker Todd, pierced her head. Todd, a former street car conductor, is under arrest on charges of grand larceny and embezzlement in connection with investigation of the theft of nearly SIO,OOO worth of street car tickets from the Indianapolis .Street Railway Company. Admits Helling Tickets Todd, according to detectives, admitted selling $75 worth of the stolen tickets to passengers on his car. He obtained the tickets, he said, hccording to detectives, from Mrs. % Nora Briggs, 24, of 250 W. Ray St., his wife's sister. Mrs. Briggs, also arrested on grand larceny and embezzlement charges and released on bond, denied any connection with the theft of the tickets. The death of Todd’s wife was involved in the case when Harry Mrs. Briggs' attorney, declared that Mrs. Briggs heard Todd threaten the life of his wife, shortly before her death. Mrs. Briggs aid another woman, according to Raitano, were at the Todd's home when Todd returned home drunk. When his Avife scolded him and told him she was expecting to become a mother, Todd threatened, "We'd better not have any more children, or I’ll kill you,” the attorney said. ~• | * Inspector Claude Worley said Mrs. Briggs had made tip such statement to Detective* M-irrei. and Too icy, who have been working in the case. She will be questioned, he said, and any facts relating to the death of Mrs. Todd developed in the car ticket theft probe will be followed up. he,said. Todd, detectives charged, has been turning over the stolen tickets to Sain Richman, 21, of 1317 Charles St., who has been selling them to workers at the Real Silk Hosiery Mills. James P. Tretton, street railway superintendent, said he did not bellevq Todd could have stolen the tickets without the help of someone employed in the car company office. Others may be involved In the thefts, he Indicated. Exact amount of tickets stolen Is not known, but the amount Is something under SIO,OOO, Tretton said. .The thefts extended over the past nine months, he said. Mrs. Briggs is employed in the treasurer's office. Was Held Accidental At the time, of the death of Mrs. Todd, police and Oqroner Paul F. Robinson held the shooting to be accidental. Todd said the revolver exploded accidentally as he was unloading it. He had just returned home and was preparing to put the gun, which he carried because his car had been dynamited twice, away so their two children would not be endangered. T)iis was during the strike of street c£r employes. TRUCK STRIKES” TWO Wellington Johnson. 78 t East and Washington Sts., a blind man, and Percy Abrams, 513. N. New Jersey St., were struck today by a truck when Abrams attempted to aid Johnson in crossing Alabama at Washington St. They were treated at city hospital. REDS RETAIN HENDRICKS Bu Vnitrd Press CINCINNATI, Ohio, Sept. 27. Jack Hendricks, manager of the Reds the past three seasons, today signed a contract to manage the same club the next two seasons. He was given an ir crease In salary.
HOPE STILL HELD FOR TRAPPED MEN Three Separate Shafts Being Forced Through Ground Where Forty-Three Miners Are Imprisoned.
IRONWOOD,' Mich., Sept. 27. Spurred by the prospect that (he next twelve hours would bring success, rescue workers continued today the quadruple attempt to reach the forty-two men who have been entombed in the G. Pabst iron mlt/e.for seventy-two hours. Three separate shafts are being forced through the ground toward the 500-foot level, where the men are imprisoned, and a diamond drill is sinking a small hole through which concentrated food may be ‘lowered. Mine officials declared there is no gas In the mine and that the eighth level of the mine, where the men are entombed, is well supplied with air. Exposure, thirst and hunger, however, undoubtedly are ravaging trapped workers If they are alive.
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Await Report on Finding of Pygmies Bit Times SDecial WASHINGTON. Sept. 27.—Scientists, connected with the United States National Museum here, were anxiously waiting a detailed report today from American members of the Stirling expedition, discoverers of anew pgymy race in the jungles of Dutch New Guineau’s mountains. Dispatches from Java said the members of the expedition entered pygmy land after braving deadly tropical fevers and crossing the high Van Rees Mountains and rivers. The pygmies still use primitive weapons, such as bows and arrows. Although of tiny stature, the little fellows were unafraid of th© scientists, the dispatches said.
TRAINS CRASH AT CROSSING; 9 ARE KILLED; 35 HURT Engine Plows Into Coach Near Station at Bethlehem, Pa. Bu Vnitrd Press BETHLEHEM, Pa„ Sept. 27. Caught in the wreckage of a steel coach which crumpled when a speeding train crashed Into its side, nine persons were killed and thirty-five injured here today. Five of the dead were unidentified this afternoon. The wreck occurred just outside the Bethlehem Union Station at 5:45 a. m. when a Buffalo to New York express of the Valley Railroad was struck by the Scranton flier on the Central Railroad of New Jersey. The two lines cross near the station. \ The big engine of the Jersey Centrall train plowed into the third coach of the Lehigh Valley Express and crushed it. The ether cars remained on the track anc' all the dead and injured were in the car struck. The accident occurred in full view of passengers at the station, waiting to board the Lehigh Valley train there. ATTACKER IS SENTENCED Man Who Cut Officer Gets Year's Term. William Higgins, Negro, 234 W. Pratt St., was fined $1 and sentenced to three months on Indiana State Farm today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins on charge of assault and battery with Intent to kill. Higgins, on July 27, 1925, is alleged to have cut and wounded Otto A. Bock, a police officer.
CHINESE BANDIES KILL THOUSANDS Hundreds Kidnaped, Including Missionaries. Bu Vnitrd Press SHANGHAI. Sept. 27.—Bandits in Honan province have massacred thousands and kidnaped hundreds, including three foreign missionaries, who are believed to be held for ransom, messages from Shekichew said Houses throughout the province have been looted and burned, the messages said. Mrs. E. J. Davis and Miss E. Poppins of the China Island Mission are thought to be among the captives, as well as a British missionary named Davis. The outrages rival those of the Tartars under the leadership of,Genghis Khan, according to reports. CLASH IN PHILIPPINES Ten Moros and Three Members of Constabulary Killed. Bu Vnitrd Press MANILA, P. 1., Sept. 27.—Ten Moros and three members of the Philippine constabulary were killed in a battle on the Island- of Jolo, according to a telegram received ■at constabulary headquarters today. The battle took place Friday directly on the route traveled by Col. Carmi Thompson during his recent visit to the island.
H. G. Barret, one of the mine owners, declared that the tunnel to the trap may be completed late today. Hundreds of persons. Including many relatives and close friends of the entombed men, crowded around the shaft all day Sunday, and many remained during the night. Women made coffee and sandwiches for the workers. Approximately 400 men were at the shaft eayer to assist with the digging, but the shaft was so clogged with debris that only bix men could work in it at a time. The men were entombed Friday night by a 300-foot cave-in, believed to have been caused by the vibrations of an elevator which slipped and killed three men while deacending Into the shaft.
Forecast Mostly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; probably occasional rain; slightly warmer Tuesday.
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MEM BAD BOOZE KILE MAN Police Attempt to Solve Mystery of Body Found ‘ in Truck. MURDERED, SAYS WIFE! Alcoholism Caused Death, Coroner Reports. What caused the death of William Hodge, 28, of 1341 S. Belmont St., whose body was found at 11.55 p. m. Sunday huddled under the drlver's seat of a truck parked in a lot on Missouri St., between Pearl and Washington Sts.? Did bad booze, bought with Insurance money he had just received following the death of his 4-year-old son, bring death? Or was the man murdered In a plot to rob him of the Insurance money? Police Investigate These are the questions police are attempting to solve. Coroner Paul F. Robinson pronounced death due to cerebral hemorrage, brought about by acute acholism. Only a slight bruise on the head gave evidence of death by violence, but the man's clothing pockets were turned inside out, when the body was found and all the money was gone. Police are of the opinion that Hodge may have been robbed by a companion with whom he has been drinking. The man’s wife believes that he was both robbed and slain. A rubber heel, found in the truck, and the tread of an automobile tire in the violnity aie the only clews that police have regarding the man’s companions or possible slayers. According to Mrs. Hodge, the dead man received an insurance check Saturday for $460, as the result of the death of James William, their 4-year-old son, who was burled last week. Undertaker Paid
The check was cashed, the undertaker paid and $225 deposited in the bank. She believes that her husband had about $125 in cash when robbed. Mrs. Hodge last saw her husband when he started for the bonk Saturday afternoon. The body was found by Thomas Spillman, 401 W. Washington St., driver of the truck. Identification was made by the bank book, showing the $225 deposit, and other papers. Police have been able to account for all but $90.50 of the insurance money, from the bank deposit and the various debts that the man paid Saturday. Heel in Truck Spillman told Sergeant Wilson and Patrolmen Bennett and Wallace, that he was at the truck at 4 p. m. Sunday and did not return to it until he found the body. The rubber heel was found In the truck. It did not belong to the dead man and police believe it was twisted off, while the robbers were dragging the body into the hiding place. Besides the wife, a 10-month-old baby, Walter, survives. The other son died from heart trouble, according to Mrs. Hodge. The body will be taken to Bethlehem Church, Clark County, Ky., where It will be buried alongside that of the boy and two other babies, both of whom died in infancy. Hodge has a brother and three sisters residing there. Also Had Insurance Mrs. Hodge said that her husband had Insurance totaling about SSOO in two companies. He had been 'employed as a laborer at the J. ,D. Adams & Cos., makers of road building machinery, 217 S. Belmont St. The family moved here from Kentucky about three years ago. She said that he had not bee'i working since the baby died, as they had just returned from the burial in Kentucky. He often went out on Saturday night, so she did not worry about him until Sunday, she said. She was notified of the finding of the body early today.
COFFIN’S lIP CRACKS, BELIEF Raid Indicates G. 0. P. Seeking Campaign Funds. Indications that the political whip of G. O. P. County Chairman George V. Coffin was beginning to crack again this fall were seen today when v a police squad raided a rear room at a barber shop, 41 W. Maryland St., In basement of the Grand Hotel. Raid on the place by Sergt. Roy Pope was construed to mean that "the boys had not kicked through" with Republican fall contributions to Coffin, politicians said. Albert Bluesteln, 30, was charged with keeping a gaming houae and twelve were charged with visiting a gaming house. Pope charged he found marked racing forma uaed for taking bets on races, but no money. The place was raided early: last year, but no arrests made, itj waa said. *
