Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 289, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1928 — Page 3

MABCH 30,1928

U. S. AGENTS SHOOT BAILIFF IN CHICAGO GANG STRIFE

WAR-TORIiCITY THROWN INTO NEWTURMOIL Victim, Big Bill’s Friend, Started Gun Play, Say Federal Men. BURNING BODY IS FOUND Bullet-Riddled Corpse .Set on Fire After Murder in Lonely Spot. BY C. C. NICOLET United Press Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, March 30.—The shooting of a municipal court bailiff by raiding Federal prohibition agents and a mysterious gangland torturedeath threw Chicago’s already turbulent pre-primary campaign into renewed disorder today. William Beatty, 35, bailiff and a Republican ward leader, was wounded last night during a Federal raid on the south side saloon. The shooting climaxed a week of intensive activity on the part of government prohibition authorities. Beatty was said to be a political leader in the Forty-Eighth ward and supported the Republican faction headed by Mayor William Hale Thompson and State’s Attorney Robert E. Crowe. Shot in Side He was wounded in the side by a revolver bullet. Hospital physicians said his wound was serious, but probably would not prove fatal. According to Beatty's statement, he had gone to a saloon with his wife prior to attending a political meeting. While there, twelve Federal agents* under George E. Golding, entered. Beatty said he saw the men coming in the door with guns and thought it was a hold-up. Before he could escape, he said, he was shot. Golding declared Beatty was shot after he drew a revolver and started shooting at the Federal agents. The bullet-riddled body of a man was found burning in the street several miles south of the city limits early today. Gasoline had been poured over hi& body and set afire. A card bearing the name “Paul Marchese” was found in his clothing. Marchese is the family name of the widow of “Diamond Joe’’ Esposito, Italian ward leader, assassinated last week. Bomb Found A bomb made of sixteen sticks of dynamite was found near the market place on the west side this morning. Had it' exploded, police said, it would have damaged an entire block. Apparently the snow had extinguished the fuse, which was partially burned. The bomb was under the platform of the S. H. Levy Produce Company. Police believed the bomb might have been directed against Kaufman & Brown Company, on the second floor. Charles Kaufman, head of the company, is a cousin of Eddie “Potatoes” Kaufman, alcohol racketeer and one time member of the late Dion O’Banion’s gang. ( Ask 500 Marshals Mrs. George E. Q. Johnson, v/ife of the United States assistant district attorney here, reported she had received a bombing threat over the telephone Thursday night. With the political warfare between the opposing Republican factions developing new bitterness every day, the prospect of gunplay and terrorist methods at the polls, April 10, has become so alarming that United States Marshal Palmer Anderson has asked for 500 additional deputies to maintain order. Repeated requests from business organizations and private individuals prompted him to ask for the additional deputies, Anderson said. Sargent Gets Appeal P.U United Press WASHINGTON, March 30.—Attorney General Sargent received from United States Marshal Palmer Anderson at Chicago today a request for permission to swear in 500 additional deputies to manitain order at the county election there April 10. It was said, however, the request would not be acted on until next week. Delay in acting on it was explained by the fact that Justice operatives will investigate the request before Sargent passes on it. The attorney general leaves today for New York to be gone until Monday. NEGRO GIRL IS BURNED Seriously Injured When She Falls Against Stove. The condition of Blanche Young 13, Negro, of 3116 Station St., seriously burned when she fell against a stove at her home Thursday night was reported serious at city hospital today. Her sister and other children tore burning clothing from her body and saved her life.

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Wage Agreements Renewed at Present Scale by Employers, Unions. “There will be no strikes in Indianapolis this spring, so far as the ' building trades are concerned.’’ This declaration was made today : by President Charles Wilson of the \ Marion County Building Trades Council. He bases it on the fact that agreement has been reached with contractors for renewal of wage agreements at the present scale. Formerly strikes, or threat of strikes, often have marked the opening of the building season here. Not so this year, Wilson says, and makes other optimistic predictions. “Renewal of the wage contracts eliminates the possibility of strikes in the building trades and everyI thing points to a prosperous season,” I Wilson asserted. “While there is no possibility of a boom, the building prospects are lat least fair. For some of the trades it looks extremely good. Already | there is a slight improvement noted in the unemployment situation.” Trades in which wage contracts have been renewed at the present scale include cement finishers, hod carriers, hoisting engineers, iron workers, lathers, painters, plasterers, sheet metal workers and carpenters, Wilson said. Building programs, including all types of construction and mounting into several million dollars, have been announced for this season. Protestant churches alone have announced building plans totalling more than $300,000. The World War Memorial Plaza construction will continue for many moths, as will that of the Scottish Rite Cathedral across on N. Meridian St. Prospects for other major construction projects are being brewed daily and the year may see one, or more, of the large hotel plans realized. Several were announced in 1927 v but no definite advance has been made toward their completion. AIMS FOR VOTE CHECK G. O. P. League Proposes to See Accurate Count Is Made, Candidates for precinct eommitteemen attended a meeting of the Independent Republican Voters’ League, twelfth floor Inland Bank Bldg., Thursday night and laid plans for the primary campaign. Oscar P. Bridges, executive secretary of the league, said the organization purposes to see that votes in the coming election are counted as they are cast and to insure selection of a county chairman representative of the majority of duly elected committeemen. This league is not connected with the Republican reorganization league. NEGRO ADMITS ROBBERY Held as Vagrant Confesses- Taking $22 From Grocery. Tazzy Walters, 31, Negro, of 518 Blackford St., held at the city prison for a week on a vagrancy charge, .was today reslated on a robbery charge. Almost at the same time Walters was confessing to Detectives Roache and Fossatti Thursday night that he held up the Standard grocery at 820 *W. Michigan St. Feb. 22 and took $22, another Negro was robbing the same store of SSO. The latest bandit has not been captured.

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ASK AGTION IN COTTON CRASH Heflin Demands Jardine Fire Forecasters. WASHINGTON, March 30.—Demand that Secretary Jardine fire the men in his department responsible for issuing a cotton price forecast of last Sept. 15, which crashed the cotton market, was made on the Senate floor Thursday by Senator Heflin. Heflin was backed by Senator McKellar of Tennessee who said that unless Jardine did act he was equally guilty with the man who issued it. Heflin said the report cost cotton producers from $250,000,000 to $400.000,000 and he was surprised that the men responsible had not been discharged. McKellar referred to the cotton report as an “infamous scheme” to upset the market. THIRD MAN OF TRIO IN HOLDUP TO PRISON Ralph Kinkaid Sentenced for Filling Station Robbery. Ralph Kinkaid, 21, pleaded guilty to automobile banditry and was sentenced to serve from five to twenty-one years in the State reformatory today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. His two partners in the robbery of Earl Smith, R. R. 4, Box 306, attendant at Supreme Ooil and Refining station, already had been sentenced. The holdup in which SSO was taken took place Dec. 21. Vernon Maines, 19, was found guilty by Judge Collins of transporting whisky and sentenced to six months on the State farm. His brother, Leonard Maines, was found not guilty and discharged. FIGHT QUIZ ON KLAN File 'Court Motion to Strike Out Giiliom Questions. Attorneys for the Ku-Klux Klan filed a motion in Circuit Court today to strike out certain interrogatories of Attorney General Arthur L. Giiliom ia Gilliom’s suit to oust the Klan from the State by revocation of its charter. The motion set out that the questions asked by Giiliom are immaterial to the issue on trial. The Klan’s former contention that the attorney general lacks the authority to bring the action also is set out. PUSH DAILEY CAMPAIGN Marion County Headquarters Are Opened Here. Marion County headquarters for the Daily-for-Governor Club were opened today in Room 213, at 147 E. Market St. “Anew deal with anew deck with Dailey” is the slogan Dailey’s Marion County organizers have adopted. Membership cards indorsing the candidacy of Frank C. Dailey call for votes “to put the grease where the squeak is.”

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ANDERSON QUITS G. 0, P. LEAGUE FOR NEW DEAL Charges Reorganization Group in Control of Old Bosses. Announcing his resignation from the chairmanship of the campaign committee of the Republican Reorganization League today, Claude H. Anderson, City Manager League secretary, charged that the Reorganization League has been captured by the Otis Dodson political faction. Chances for a “new deal” in the party, which the league was organized to effect, have been defeated by the “old time” politicians, he declared. Chairman George L. Denny of the League executive committee, who presided at a closed meeting of his committee and Anderson’s at the ‘Board of Trade, Thursday night, declared that such was not the case and that the League is still functioning for clean organization ofMarion County Republican politics. He admitted that Anderson’s resignation was accepted at the meeting, but stated that the reason was that Emsley W. Johnson, who has gained fame as special prosecutor in the political corruption cases, had accepted the campaign committee chairmanship. Members of Anderson’s committee were Johnson, John K. Ruckelshaus Jr., Ralph Spann. Harry# Dunn, Joseph Houge, Scott Brewer, Irving Lemaux and Frank Cones. Executive committeemen are Chairman Denny, Charles J. Lynn, Larza A. Whitcomb, Walter W. Wise, Guy L. Roberts, Theodore J. Bernd, Mrs. Roy Adams, Mrs. Thomas R. Cackley, Mrs. Brandt Downey. Ralph Kane. Taylor Groninger, William H. Insley and Charles Roemler. Johnson today declared that he understood that the league was designed to end factionalism, that Dodson hadn't dictated, so far as he knew, that he had not yet accepted the chairmanship, but understood at the Thursday night meeting that it was tendered to him unanimously and had Anderson’s approval. In a statement to the press he made the following comment on his resignation. "Hoping to have a part in the -cleanup of the Republican party organization in Marion County I accepted the campaign committee chairmanship of the Republican Reorganization League. “When I found that I was forced to be affiliated with such men as ‘Ruff’ Page, ‘Baldy’ Williams, ‘Ote’ Dodson, ‘Cash’ Hogle and Don Roberts. I was convinced that, in justice to my previous stand for clean politics, I must withdraw. “The Republican Reorganization League has promised the people a‘ new deal. I had confidence that we could give them anew deal, but am convinced that we could not with such me as these.”

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FALL'S STORY OF OIL LEASE NEARLY TOLD Will Complete Deposition Saturday; Effort Tires Ex-Secretary. /?,;/ United Press EL PASO, Texas, March 30—The deposition of Albert B. Fall, former Secretary of the Interior, giving his version of the leasing of Teapot Dome Naval Oil Reserves to Harry F. Sinclair, oil magnate, will not be completed until Saturday night. Attorneys for Sinclair and Government representatives today were to continue the taking of the deposition, the contents of which were not disclosed. Attorneys spent two and one-half hours Thursday afternoon and forty-five Thinutes Thursday night recording Fall’s story of the famous oil lease. Dr. H. T. Safford, Fall’s physician was closeted with the legal staff and the former secretary during both sessions. The night session was interrupted by Dr. Safford when it was noticed that Fall was becoming fatigued. There will be no more night sessions because of Fall’s condition, it was said. “Try Couneilmen,” Urges Candidate “Councilmen indicted by the Marion County grand jury for bribery should not be allowed to avoid trial and probable sentence by pleading guilty to a lesser crime which carries only a fine and relinquishment of office,” declared Raymond F. Murray, candidate for the Democratic nomination for prosecutor, at a meeting in the home of W. T. Blasengym, 2226 Shelby St., Thursday night. Plague Sweeps Over Africa Rxj United Press LONDON, March 30.—Half the total area of South Africa is involved in a plague, Minister of Health Malan was quoted in a Daily Express dispatch from Capetown as having told Parliament. Recent investigation by the government, he said, revealed the existence of a new infectious disease, communicated by rats, called the “Tiger River disease.”

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