Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 97, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1928 — Page 9

SEPT. 12, 1928_

‘DRY’ FINLAND IS DESERT JUST ! LIKEJTLANTIC Bootleggers Control Booze, and Buying Drink Is Easiest Task. Sweden tried prohibition. It failed. Now a rigid system of State control is being tried, successfully. William Philip Simms, Scripps-Howard foreign editor, has made an intensive study of the plan, and herewith presents the seventh . of a series on the workings of the systern. BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Foreign Editor, Scripps-Howard Newspapers. HELSINGFORS, Finland, Sept. 11 —Finland, like the United States, enjoys out and cut prohibition. You can buy all the booze you want. Across the Baltic, in Sweden, they have a strictly enforced liquor control system which rations the inhabitants. There, drunkenness and crime are bo'th declining. Here they are bone dry—theoretically. In practice they are as wet as the Atlantic Ocean. The authorities do not control booze. The bootleggers control it. You can buy a drink, a dozen drinks, a bottle, a case or a ship load. Both drunkenness and crime are on the increase as they are in the United States. Ten minutes after landing on Finnish soil I walked into the first convenient restaurant. Easy to Get Drunk “What will you have?” asked the head waiter, handing me a luncheon card. “First,” I said in a hoarse whisper to keep the other customers from hearing me propose a crime, “I’d like a drink.” ‘Schnaps, brandy, whisky, aqua vit or what?” the waiter queried right out loud. • He behaved as if my order was the most natural one in the world, occasioning no surprise and calling for no secrecy. If the other guests heard they never turned a head. ‘Schnaps,” I said. And in a couple of minutes the waiter brought it in the usual glass, not in a coffee cup or gravy bowl to camouflage it. It was twice as big as I could have had in Sweden, under the rationing system. Ordering something to eat, I seized the first opportunity to get rid of most of my schnaps by pouring it in my coffee pot, and asked the waiter to bring me another. Which he did. I could have had all I cared for, apparently. I ordered and got what I asked for in other restaurants and hotels, both in Helsingfors and in the provinces. Man Moonshiners Here, as in the United Staates, alcohol is fairly expensive, r pecially imported whiskies, brandies and wines. Here, as at home, bootleggers and rum-runners have to cross so many palms, split so much graft, that prices have to be high for the bootleggers to make any profit at all. It has been said that only the rich can get drunk with liquor at such high figures. The vast majority, it is argued, must stay sober because they can’t afford the price. But it does not work out that way here in Finland any more than it does in the United States. Os the 22,000 people arrested for drunkenness in Helsingfors alone last year, more than 20,000 were poor working men. Thousands of moonshine stills are boiling away in Finland, turning out a flood of cheap, raw, potato spirits —white mule, a liquid fire distilled from potato mash, almost straight alcohol. That is the stuff the poor Finns are drinking and it is knocking them galley-west. NEXT: Over Finland’s Rum Fleet in a Seaplane.

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LITTLE THEATRE TO START ITS SEASON Plays for Children to Be Given by the Cleveland Puppet Theater at The Playhouse Here Sept. 22. BY WALTER D. HICKMAN MRS. ANNA MARIE GALL-SAYLES is general chairman of the “Children’s Hour,” a monthly series of special children’s performances, to be introduced in this city by the IndianapolifJ Little Theatre on Saturday, Sept. 22, at tne Playhouse, Nineteenth and N. Alabama Sts. Helen Haiman Joseph of the Cleveland Puppet Theatre and the Cleveland Little Theatre, has been secured for the opening bill, and on the above date, will present three of her well-known puppet plays. “Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves” will be the feature attraction at the morning performance at 11 o’clock; “Snowwhite and the Seven Little Dwarfs” will be presented at 2 o’clock in the afternoon, and “Pinnochio,” the third and final performance of the day, will be offered at 4 o’clock.

Mrs. Joseph, who annually plays to more than 60,000 school children at the Cleveland Art Museum, will manipulate her puppets by hand, as more lively and realistic action is thus afforded to the miniature actors and actresses. Each of the three plays scheduled have been specially adapted to the puppet theater by Mrs. Joseph, who has made an intensive study of the subject, both in Italy and France, as well as in this country. Assisting Mrs. Sayles in the organization of the “Children’s Hour” are Miss Rosamond Van Camp, vice chairman; Mrs. Ricca Scott Titus, who will be chief director of the subsequent children’s plays; and an advisory board consisting of Mrs. George T. Parry and Mrs. Raymond F. Mead. In presenting a regular program of special children's plays, the Indianapolis Little Theatre is providing the only dramatic fare, especially selected for juvenile entertainment, and especially interesting to imaginative and adventurous young minds, in the city, according to Mortimer C. Furscott, president of the Little Theatre. Success with children’s theatricals during the past few seasons has warranted the addition of this department in the regular Little Theatre season. In fact, the first play to be presented in the Playhouse, when it was formally opened in the fall of 1926, was “Treasure Island,” which played to seven performances with two children’s matinees. More than eighty workers, distributed over sixteen different departments, have been appointed by Mr. Furscott to assist in the “Children’s Hour.” Chairmen of the leading committees are as follows: Mrs. M. Noble Tibbs, who is in charge of the play reading group; Mrs. J. D. Peirce, who is in charge of the modeling of the puppet heads for the Indianapolis group puppet shows, which

will be given later in the season; Mrs. Edgar Gorell, head of the committee for the construction of puppet bodies; Mrs. J. Benson Titus, who is in charge of costumes, in addition to her work as director; Mrs. Louise Schellschmidt Koehne, music department; Mrs. Rowland Allen, scenery; Mrs. Dick Richards, properties; Mrs. Raymond F. Mead, prompting; Miss Estelle Campbell, telephone committee; Mrs. Stanley N. Timberlake, clerical committee; Mrs. Florence Newcomb, play reading; and Miss Lola Perkins, teachers’ group. Fifty-eight prominent Indianapolis women who are interested in procuring constructive entertainment for children are promoters of the “Children’s Hour.” Tickets for the puppet plays to be given on Saturday, Sept. 22, are on sale at the • Playhouse, or may be secured from any of the committee members. Indianapolis theaters today offer: “The Fleet’s In” at the Indiana; “The Night Watch” at the Circle; "Excess Baggage” at Loew’s Palace; Joe Boganny’s Comedians at the Lyric; “Street Angel” at the Apollo, and “Naughty Nifties” at the Mutual. PET SHOW IS ARRANGED Every Dog to Have Hi* Day in Exhibition at Ft. Wayne. Bp Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind.. Sept. 12. Every dog is to have his day when the pet show opens at Trier’s Park Sept. 14 in connection with the Ft. Wayne Hospitality days. Any mongrel, “mutt” or any “pet that crawls” may be entered in the show by children in Allen County under 16 years of age. Prizes will be offered for dogs with the longest and shortest tails, the longest ears and the best all-round mongrel.

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217 KILLED BY CHICAGO GANOS; NO CONVICTIONS Victims Are Shot and Tortured by ‘Mobs’ to Keep Control. This Is the second of articles on the growth of racketeering—the new ‘'big business” in which millions changes hands—by James P. Kirby, authority on criminology and special writer for The Times and NEA Service. BY JAMES P. KIRBY For NEA Service CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Murder in Chicago long has since ceased to be a sensation. The real sensation would be a conviction for a racket or gangland murder. Asa result of gang warfare over beer runnnig privileges, racketeering in industry and election disputes, 217 Chicago murders in the last two years directly are traceable to this cause. There has not been a single conviction for a gangland murder. These are the figures of Arthur V. Lashly, operating director of the Illinois Association for Criminal Justice. In 1926 and 1927, there were 762 murders in Chicago, including gang murders. Victims, Shot Tortured. For the murders not involving the gangs, only ten persons have been hanged. Dynamitings, window smashings, incendiary fires, stench bombs, wrecking of machinery, prohibitive insurance rates and torturing of individuals have followed in the wake of the rackets. Walter G. Walker, appointed assistant state’s attorney upon the demand of the Employers’ Association of Chicago and later discharged by State’s Attorney Crowe on the grounds of economy, now is special counsel for the association. He says some men have been made hopeless cripples for life because they defied the rackets. Their hands were broken and they were shot through the knees. Few Are Convicted In 1928, there have been ninetyseven bombings in Chicago without any convictions, Walker says. These included cleaning and dyeing plants, laundries, barber and butcher shops and many other lines of business. In addition, the homes of Charles C. Fitzmorris, conspicuous Thompson aide; Dr. William H. Reid, another Thompson associate; Judge John A. S’oarbaro; United States Senator Charles E. Deneen and Judge John A. Swanson, Democratic candidate for State’s attorney, were bombed. In Chicago, now there are at least fifteen recognized “mobs,” composed of gunmen and gangsters. Among these are the Capone, Vogel-Druggan, Decoursey, Ralph Sheldon, Foley, Saltis, “Spike” O’Donnell, “Klondike” O'Donnell, Guilfoyle and the old O’Bannion gangs. The names of most of the members of these gangs have been known to the police and prosecuting officials for tftvo or three year' - -. Few of the gangsters are ever

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