Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 95, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1928 — Page 2

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CRUSADER OUT TO SMASH ALL VICE JITPHILLY* District Attorney Defies Police and Gang Ring to Clean Up City. By KENNETH WATSON Times Staff Correspondent PHILADELPHIA, Sept. IJ>. Philadelphia today entered the fourth week of a spectacular crime investigation with the feeling that a fearless district attorney will succeed in a task which Brigadier General Smedley Butler tried hard to accomplish two years ago. Failure of police to cooperate prevented Butler from achieving his aims, but it will not block the present vice crusader, District Attorney John Monaghan, for, although Mongahan openly is charging police with laxity, he has the experience of eleven years’ service as Common Pleas judge to help him overcome legal obstacles and the satisfaction of being able to direct the prosecuting machinery of a huge county as he chooses. In addition, Monaghan has the loyal cooperation of Federal Prohibition Administrator Samuel C. Wynne, former special county investigator under Monaghan for years. With such assistance, Monaghan feels certain of success, even though the police department fails to turn over a single tip. Detective Captain Out Although no indictments have been returned, Monaghan has forced Mayor Harry Mackey to suspend Detective Captain Charles Beckman. The grand jury on Saturday reported that officer “not fit to hold any office under the municipal Government.” “The naming of Capt. Beckman merely is the start,” Monaghan said today. “We have been at this three weeks and we ar' only commencing there will be those higher than Beckman. “As far as I am concerned, if the investigation requires, I am going to call before the grand jury every one of Philadelphia’s 5,000 policemen, from the safety director down to the patrolmen, to get to the bottom of crime conditions.” Reports, which Monaghan is seeking evidence to confirm, directly link up a former high city official, numerous influential politicians and scores of policemen with bootleg liquor gangs, who have been flooding Philadelphia with whisky and beer for years. The former city official, now said to be on the verge of collapse, is reported to have received $200,000 as a bribe for protecting gangsters from arrest. Machine Guns Sold Heads of the various bootleg rings are all said to be Philadelphians, but they are accused of hiring out-of-town gunmen to guard trucks engaged in transporting liquor with orders to “shoot down’” any one who attempted to stop them. So far Philadelphia has been immune from any of the machine gun murders which have terrorized Chicago, but many such weapons have been sold here, according to information gathered by Monoghan. Edward S. Goldberg, proprietor ©t the Military Sales Cos., has confessed to the grand jury that he sold scores of machine guns and bullet-proof vests. He named “800 Boo” Hoff, reputed millionaire bootlegger, as the purchaser of three of the machine guns and seven of the vests. Hoff, who until the current inquiry was known to the public only as a fight promoter, has been called before the grand jury nine times, but Monaghan refused to divulge the nature of his testimony.

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Bert “Shorty” Harris, 45, of 1209. De Loss St., who was shot to death Sunday by Porter Jordan, 24, of 1414 De Loss St., according to the latter’s confessiop to police. The shooting was the result of a quarrel over Mrs. Harris.

ROBINSON WILL SPEAKINWEST Candidate to Start Stump Trip to Pacific. By United Press ROANOKE, Va., Sept. 10.—A campaign trip to the Pacific coast will be made by Senator Joseph T. Robinson, Democratic candidate for Vice President, after completing his present 8,000-mile tour which is to end at Paducah, Ky., Sept. 21. Itinerary of the western trip has not been issued. The date for his address at Savannah, Ga., will be Sept. 14, it was announced today. This speech has been added to the original Atlantic coast schedule. He will speak at Jacksonville, Sept. 15. Coming into Virginia Sunday from Knoxville, Senator Robinson was met by a large crowd at Bristol. There also were large station delegations at Morristown and Johnson City, Term. Robinson shook hands with those who crowded about his car, but said he did not wish to make a political address on Sunday. His address at Richmond tonight will be on religious freedom. Commenting this morning on the campaign, Senator Robinson said: “As I start my second week of campaigning in the South, I am more than ever convinced that the traditional Democratic solidity of this great section will prevail in November. In the sections of the South I have visited—Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and now Virginia —organization for the campaign has just begun. All of the leaders are in their accustomed places and confident of success.”

THIEVES GET LITTLE LOOT OVER WEEK-END Rug, Tires and Tools Stolen in • Two Burglaries. Burglaries and thefts were comparatively few over the week-end and the total loot reported to police was small. When Max Bryant moved from 1048 E. New York St., to 748 S. Mount St., he said a rug was stolen from the Mount St., house. Burglars took a tire anad tools valued at $36 from the garage of H. C. Bear, 1077 Oliver Ave. Samuel Choat, 1142 English Ave., found his Ford touring car, which had been stolen, deserted in front of 1300 York St. License plates were stolen from the cars of Esta Dady, 2235 W. Morris St., and Lewis Roll, 215 Hanson Ave.

POLA NEGRI IMPROVES AFTER FALL OFF HORSE Actress at First Feared Hurt Seriously. Bu United Press PARIS, Sept. 10.—-Improvement was reported today in the condition of Pola Negri, American film star who was injured in a fall from a horse Saturday. The accident occurred at a cross road in the Bois De Boulogne. The film star and her husband, Prince Mdivani, were riding when a motor car appeared suddenly, Pola Negri’s horse, became frightened, reared and threw the actress to the roadway. She was unconscious and for a time it was feared she had internal injuries, but it was learned today she was not in a serious condition. INJURED RACER BETTER Louis Schneider’s Injuries Are Reported Not Serious. Condition of Louis Schenider, 27, local race driver, injured in a Minneapolis State fair race Saturday, was improved today, according to relatives here. Schneider was believed critically injured when his car plunged through the fenst, but later information from his nurse was that no bones were broken and he had rested comfortably. He was badly shaken and has some minor lacerations, it was said. Schneider drove in the local Memorial day race last year. His brother, Fritz Schneider, left Sunday for Minneapolis, to see the injured racer. DOG BITES BOY ON LIP Two stitches were required to close a wound in the lower lip of Jack Jenkins, 12, son of J. W. Jenkins, 3212 N. Capitol Ave., who was bitten by a dog owned by Mrs. Oscar Coulon of 3240 N. Capitol Ave., late Saturday. Mrs. Coulon was ordered by police to pen the dog for ten days.

MURDER CHARGE IS FILED AFTER CITYJLAYING Two Versions Are Told of Sunday Killing on De Loss St. Porter Jordan, 24, of 1414 De Loss St., faces murder charges today. Police have a signed confession in which he admits fatally shooting Bert “Shorty” Harris, 45, of 1209 De Loss St„ Sunday night. The shooting occurred on De Loss St., accounts of the affair differs, one version coming from the Harris family and the other from the Jordans. Ray Krankum, 1501 Churchland Ave., brother-in-law of Jordan, was arrested on vagrancy charges. According to Mrs. Ida Harris, widow of the man who was killed, Jordan and Frankum had assaulted her Sunday afternoon. That, she says, was the cause of the quarrel that led to the shooting. Bullet in Heart

The Jordans allege the woman was drunk and babbling. An autopsy made by Dr. O. H. Bakmeier, deputy coroner, revealed that the .32-caliber bullet fired by Jordan had lodged in Harris’ heart. It also disclosed that Harris had been drinking. In his confession Jordan says that Harris came to the home of his father, Calvin Jordan, 1346 Deloss St., and quarreled with him. He was there at the bedside of his dying mother, he said. They argued out in the street and Harris started to attack him with a knife. He drew his gun and fired. He thought he hit Harris in the arm, he said. He ran down an alley. A knife was found alongside Harris’ body. Jordan says he later surrendered to police at the home of his father. Woman Charges Attack Mrs. Harris repeated the attack story today and said that it occured at her home, while her husband was away. She denied drinking. Mrs. Eliza Feder, 1350 DeLoss St., mother of Harris, says that she saw the shooting from her porch and that her son died in her arms. He never owned a knife like the one found, she said. Besides the widow and mother, Harris is survived by a step-father, Nicholas Fedder, 1350 DeLoss St., and a brother, Albert Harris, who lives in Mississippi. Jordan is married and has two children. LUDLOW INDORSED BY MINE LEADER Former Cabinet Member Writes to Candidate. “The people can cross party lines whenever it is necessary to clean up a situation that has become intolerable,” William B. Wilson, secretary of labor in President Wilson's cabinet, and for many years secre-tary-treasuerer of the United Mine Workers of America, declared in a letter today to Louis Ludlow, Democratic congressional candidate for the Seventh district. “We need more men like you in Congress,” the letter says.

“We could always rely upon your story giving an intelligent and fair statement of our problems in the negotiations the miners had with employers and in any contest growing out of them, when you were a young reporter in Indianapolis,” the letter adds.

DAILEY, STUMP START WEEK’S TALK TOUR Governor Nominee Speaks Tonight at LaPorte. Frank E. Dailey, Democratic nominee for Governor, will open the week’s speaking program tonight at La Porte. His schedule this week: Tuesday, South Bend; Wednesday, Decatur; Thursday, Indiana convention of labor, Evansville; Friday, Knights of Columbus luncheon, Indianapolis. Schedule of Albert Stump, nominee for United States Senator: Today, Pendleton, Fairmount and Hartford City; Tuesday, Bluffton, Decatur and Portland; Wednesday, Winchester, Newcastle and Greenfield; Thursday, Shelbyville, Greensburg and Ripley County; Friday, Erookville, Liberty and Connersville; Saturday, opening of Jefferson County campaign, Madison. MILLIONAIRE SENTENCED William Kliehege Faces Prison in Theater Blast Plot. By Times Special GARY, Ind., Sept. 10.—William Kleihege, millionaire Hammond theater man, is at liberty today under bond after filing appeal of his sentence of two to fourteen years for conspiracy in dynamiting the sl,700,000 State Theater at Hammond last November. He was sentenced in Lake Criminal Court Saturday by Special Judge Maurice E. Crites after two unsuccessful moves to dodge sentence on his conviction. He. also was fined SI,OOO. His only hope of dodging the prison term at Michigan City, lies with the State Supreme Court. CATHOLICS START HOME Sydney Eucharistic Congress Is Adjourned. Bu United Press SYDNEY, New South Wales, Sept. 10.—Thousands of devout Catholics left for their homes today as the twenty-ninth Eucharistic Congress ended. It was estimated that 750,000 persons witnessed the final day’s events.

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Sleep Standing Liquor Raid Fills Brown County’s Jail Beyond Seating Capacity.

Bn Timc3 Special Nashville, ind., sept. io.— Standing spaie in Brown County’s jail wastaxed to capacity Sunday night and today after a sheriff’s squad arrested four women and seven men in a liquor raid at Butcher Holler, near Belmont. These eleven added to the four prisoners waiting trial for auto and chicken stealing and attempted assault, forced the inmates to sleep standing. The jail made famous in the State when it replaced the county’s log prison, still standing here. WOMAN, BABY IN BANDIT CAR Three Holdups Staged Over Week-End. Three holdups, in one of which a woman and a baby rode with the bandits, were staged here over the week-end. One man was caught in the act in another robbery. The bandit gang with which the woman and baby were involved robbed the Abraham Blatt dry goods store, 39 W. Twenty-First St., Saturday night and escaped with $255 and clothing. Two men went into the store and held up Mrs. Rose Stillwell, 1941 N. Capitol Ave., clerk. A bystander told police the woman and bab- were in the back seat of the automobile in which the bandits drove away. William Banks, 22, Negro, 2115 N Arsenal Ave., was charged with robbery and grand larceny when police caught him at Missouri and Ohio Sts. Saturday night rifling the pockets of Andrew Kuhn, 54, of 747 N. Sheffield Ave. Kuhn said the Negro had struck him on the mouth, knocking out a tooth, and dragged him into the shadow of the building. Kuhn was charged with intoxication. Henry Long, Negro, employed in a poolroom at 552 Blake St., said a Negro held up the poolroom and took sl4. Wilbur Morford of Akron, 0., a deaf mute was held up at FortySecond St. and the Monon at 2 a. m. today by a Negro armed with an au • tomatic pistol. The bandit got sls, a S3O dollar watch and a fountain pen.

PROBE JJEATH SHOT Woman Dies After Shooting, Claimed Accidental. Coroner C. H. Keever today started an investigation of the death at Methodist Hospital Sunday of Mrs. Florence Byroad, 36, who was wounded in a shooting, said accidental, on July 16. Mrs. Byroad declared she was wounded when she dropped a revolver she had taken from her husband’s coat pocket. The gun struck the floor and discharged, the bullet entering her neck, she said, according to detectives. Police did not learn of the accident until July 23 when Detectives Jerry Houlihan and Claude Johnson were assigned to investigate aifti it was kept secret until Mrs. Byroad’s death Sunday. The accident occured at the Byroad’s home at R. R. C, Box 451 W, near Lafayette Heights. Since then the Byroad family has moved to 1402 Shelby St. According to detectives the woman’s two daughters, witnessed the accident. The bullet struck Mrs. Byroad’s . pine and she was paralized from the neck down, but able talk since the shooting. Besides her daughters she is survived by her husband, Moses, and a son.

RACE YOUNG PIGEONS Hold First Test Over Course From Jeffersonville. First place in the first young birds race of the season sponsored by the Indiana Racing Pigeon Club held Sunday was won by a pigeon owned by H. S. Wyeth, 5244 College Ave. The course was between Jeffersonville and Indianapolis. Second place was won by a pigeon owned by C. F. Husted, 1130 N. Dearborn St., and another pigeon belonging to Wyeth was third. Races will be held each Sunday until a 300-mile course has been covered. The race will be held next Sunday from Jeffersonville also, after which the distance will be lengthened. URGE CONSTITUTION DAY State-Wide Observance Asked by Sons of Revolution. State-wide observance of the 139th anniversary of the signing of the Federal Constitution, Sept. 17, 1787, is urged in resolutions adopted by the Indiana Society of Sons of the American Revolution. Appropriate exercises should be held in public and private schools, churches and by civic organizations of the State, the resolution said. 22 KILLED AT RAC. Car Jumps Track, Plunges Crowd. Bu United Press MONZA, Italy, Sept. 10.—Twentytwo persons were killed SaUrday when the racing motor car of Emilio Materazzi struck another car and leaped the fence at the international races. Materazzi was driving at about 100 .miles an hour. His machine touched another car, swerved and tore through the fence. There was no ofcance for the spectators to escape, v ** -*

AL PUTS HOUSE IN ORDER FOR CAMPAIGN TRIP Governor Will Leave Home State Sunday Night for Tour West. BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 10.—Governor Alfred E. Smith today faced a busy week in preparation for his first campaign trip, beginning next Sunday night, in which he will show himself to the voters in the broad lands beyond the Mississippi river. The Democratic candidate will devote most of his time this week to outlining the six campaign speeches he will make on this first tour spending much time in his study at the executive mansion—a good deal of it in the late night hours, as is his custom in work of this sort. / He will have at his call his two chief political advisers of recent years—Judge Joseph M. Proskauer, who was his chief liaison officer at the Houston convention, and Mrs. Henry Moskowitz, campaign publicity director, former welfare worker, and ‘right hand man” of the Democratic candidate. Leaves State Sunday Smith also wil clear up a few pending State matters this week before he departs. Except perhaps for a day or two between campaign trips, he will drop his role as Governor of New York State when he leaves Sunday night until af*er the election. During most of the time between Sunday and Nov. 6, he will be out of the State. The Democratic candidate plans to play golf as often as possible in this last week before he begins his campaign. He was out Sunday and nearly every day last week. He will take his clubs with him on the cam, paign train, hoping for a respite here and there for a few hours on the links. Governor Smith and his party will travel in state, it was revealed in plans announced yesterday. A luxurious eleven-hour train will be equipped for the comfort and convenience not only of the Governor and his party, but of all who accompany him. 35 Newspaper Reporters Smith and his party will travel in the private car of his multimillionaire friend, William F. Kenny, and also will have an observation car. For the thirty-five newspaper correspondents who are assigned to cover the tour, the largest number ever to accompany a presidential candidate, and the eight or ten photographers, three compartment sleeping cars have been provided, as well as a club car equipped with showers and a barber shop, a special newspaper workroom for the reporters, with tables and typewriters, and a diner. The Governor’s reference library will be housed in another car, where stenographers, typists and mimeograph operators also will work in getting out his extemporaneous speeches for the correspondents.

NATIONALIST TROOPS SEIZE CHINESE CITY Foreigners Warned to Evacuate Sections of Tong Shan. Bu United Press HONG KONG, Sept. 10.—Tong Shan has been seized by nationalist troops, advices received here today said. One thousand troops of the First division, Twelfth army, suddenly appeared from the Northwest Sunday morning and surrounded the city. Some infantry fighting occurred, mostly in the Chinese sections. Foreigners were advised to move to the foreign quarter, which is defended by mines. Five armored trains and seventeen ordinary trains were in Tong Shan when the Nationalists arrived. Retreating troops were reported continuing southward from Shantung and Chili provinces, mostly railroad. The stations at Wall and Kuyeh were congested with traffic. Whenever an American firm sends a traveling salesman to solicit orders in Canada, or appoints a resident Canadian agent for that purpose, it becomes technically liable to the Dominion income tax.

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Another ‘Trusty’ Injured While Trying to Save Keeper in Attack. By United Press DEDHAM, Mass., Sept. 10.—One I trusty in the Dedham County jail ! was killed and another was injured in the defense of a keeper who was being beaten on the head by a prisoner Sunday. Keeper William A. Ridley, asleep on an upper tier of the jail, awoke to hear a struggle going on below. Peering down, he thought he saw the two trusties joining Stephen J. Hoppe, held for the death of a patrolman, trying to subdue his fellow keeper, Thomas J. Brennan. Ridley began to shoot the men whom he thought to be assailants. His first shot dropped Herbert T. Ring. His second shot seriously wounded William J. Glennon, former Red Sox baseball player. By that time Brennan had subdued Hoppe, his real attacker. Ridley then learned Hoppe had sawed away some of the bars of his cell. As Brennan passed, the desperate prisoner struck him and stunned him. The two trusties came to Brennan's assistance. A moment later-they were shot. Searched after the struggle, Hoppe was found to be in possession of seven hacksaws and a .32caliber revolver. Prison officials are unable to explain how he obtained the articles. HARRY LAUDER IS ILL Chilled While Fishing; Bookings Are Held Up. By United Press LONDON, Sept. 10.—Sir Harry Lauder is ill at his home in Dundoon. near Glasgow. Lauder took a dhill while fishing last week and his voice was affected. The doctor ordered him to stay in bed a week. An engagement at the Alhambra Theater in Glasgow was canceled and other future bookings were held up.

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MOVE FAIR EXHIBITS Clean Up Grounds as Last Act of Record Show. All exhibits that made up the greatest Indiana State fair, according to officials, ivere moved from the State fairground today after the close of the 1928 exposition Saturday night. Cleaning of the grounds was the final act until the opening of the seventy-seventh annual fair next September. Fair board members are planning presentation of bills before the Legislature for appropriations for a new grand stand and Indiana University display structure for 1929. The attendance at the fair barely passed that of 1927. When all admissions for the eight-day run were totalled Saturday night it was revealed there were 254,587, which was ninety four more than last year.

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ASK DEMOCRATS IN TEXAS RALLYTO SMITH Harmony Sought at State Convention, Opening on Tuesday. Bu United Press DALLAS, Texas. Sept. 10.—Democrats of Texas are expected tcUMg asked to declare allegiance to ernor Alfred E. Smith and the ciples he has laid down in his campaign for President or to get out of the party in the State Democratic convention here Tuesday. While laying plans for an attempt at rallying the convenion for harmony, loyal leaders declared they intended to point out the impossi-*' bility of a Hoover-Democrat combination. Aside from indorsing the party’s national candidates, prohibition will be brought into the arena. It is expected to be an added for disagreemeent! Governor Dfiw Moody favors a State party plank declaring loyalty to the national 1 ticket but making no mention of prohibition. Many leading Democrats, on the other hand, are known to believe prohibition should be indorsed. Counties in which Dallas, Ft. Worth, Houston and Wichita Falls are located are expected to send anti-Smith delegations to the parley. The bolting faction announced they would set up a separate convention in event they are barred from the regular group. Alvin S. Moody, Houston, former member of the Democratic State executive committee, issued a call Sunday for a meeting of “all Democrats who are interested in the defeat of Governor Alfred E. Smith, wet nominee of the Democratic party.’’ 4 Fortune Left Ex-Barkeeper Bv Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 10.—A search has been started here by the Salvation Army for John Walker Barrett, ex-barkeeper at the old Silver Moon saloon here. He is wanted to claim the fortune left him recently by relatives. Coins safe instant relief JVo waiting—in one minute Dr. Scholl’s Zino-pads end the corn pain. They do it 6cienflflßP , ‘ cally, naturally—by removing the cause—friction and pressure of shoes. They are thin, soft, protective, healing, positively safe and sure. Buy a box of Zino-pads today. At all drug, shoe and dept, stores* m Scholls Zino-pads Put one on—the pain is gonel

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