Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 100, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 September 1928 — Page 3

SEPT. 15,1928

RACKET QUIZ IS DOWNFALL OFJIG BILL’ Political Machine Crumbles as Allies Are Indicted: Crowe Probed. This is the fifth of a series of articles on racketeering bv James P. Kirby, staff writer for The Times and NEA Service and closes the story of Chicago. BY JAMES P. KIRBY NEA Service Writer CHICAGO, Sept. 15.—“ Big Bill” Thompson, three-times mayor of Chicago, super-patriot who was elected on his pledge “to keep America safe for Americans,” founder of the “America First Foundation” and who prided himself as “Big Bill, the Builder,” is now in seclusion somewhere in the Wisconsin woods. Meanwhile a special grand jury is investigating the political activities of his ally, Robert E. Crowe, State’s attorney for eight years and one of his strongest henchmen. Already, two of the strongest of the political allies of Thompson and Crowe—Morris Eller, leader of the bloody Twentieth wa*d, and his son, Judge Emmanuel Eller of the Criminal Court—are among sixty indicted by the special jury on charges of conspiracy. From his seclusion Thompson today contemplates the destruction of his political machine and the imminent indictment of powerful friends and associates who for years maintained absolute control on Chicago and who permitted the racketeer and the gangster and the beer barons to operate without disturbance. Officials Resign Charles Fitzmorris, once secretary to the mayor, then chief of police, and finally controller, has resigned. Dr. William H. Reid, Thompson’s city smoke commissioner and close personal and political friend, has resigned. Midwiel Hughes, Thompson’s chief of police, adviser and councillor and long powerful In Chicago politics, has resigned. State’s Attorney Crowe was repudiated by more than 200,000 votes in the April primary in his attempt at renomination after eight years in office. He is the man held responsible by Chicagoans for the demoralization of business and public affairs through his failure to prosecute racketeers, gunmen and gangsters. A judgment of more than $2,225,000 held by the courts to be collectable, has been returned against Thompson and certain of his political associates for the rehum of city funds, dissipated by the Thompson spoils system. Thompson Sick Man Thompson, according to informed persons at the city hall, is a sick man. Strangely missing from the front pages of Chicago newspapers are the invective, the proclamations and picturesque comment of the thrice-elected mayor. Stranger still, in the minds of Chicagoans, are some of his more recent official acts. These Include the appointment of Captain William Russell, long known as a policeman of honesty and integrity and never popular with the Thompson .machine, au commissioner of police; the' appointment of Captain John Stege, fired from the police force on a technicality after twenty-six years, as chief of detectives and the ace in the hole of the special grand jury investigation. It is admitted these resulted from strong pressure brought to bear on the mayor by reform organizations.

Police Force Probed In one industry alone, the candy jobbing industry, sixty-two individuals are under conspiracy indictments in the State courts. Fortyfive of these are also under similar indictments in Federal court and are now awaiting trial under bonds Os $210,000. Already a special grand Jury has begun to comb the police department to sift the part played by some of its officers in the affairs of primary day. It is investigating, too, the part played by certain notorious gangsters, racketeers and gunmen, known to have been heavy contributors to campaign funds. The once-powerful ThompsonCrowe political machine which contributed to the approbrium Chicago has borne among the great cities of the world is passing. Next: The Rackteer Invasion of St. Louis. HELD IN MURDER FOR . CIRCUIT COURT TRIAL Second Degree Charge Against Porter Jordan. Charged with second degree murder in the death Sept. 9 of Bert Harris, 1209 Deloss St., Porter Jordan, 1414 Deloss St., late Friday was bound over to Circuit Court without bond by Judge Paul C. Wetter in municipal court. Ray Frankum, 1501 Churchman A',e., accused of an attack on Mrs. i.ilrris after her husband had been killed, was bound over to the court under $2,500 bond. Harris was killed in an altercation among the three men. Mrs. Jordan, in court Friday with her three small children, collapsed when the murder charge was made against her husband. phillp kantz dies Father of Mrs. Marie De Long Passes Away. Philip A. Kantz, 75, father of Mrs. Marie De Long, 825 N. Delaware St„ fied Friday. Mr. Kantz, member of long lived family, came here two years ago from Muskegon, Mich., where he lived most of his life. He was bom in Pennsylvania. Besides his daughter he is survived by a sister and three brothers. Eurial will be in

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OBSERVE NEW YEAR Jewish Temples Scene of Solemn Services. Indianapolis Hebrews today celebrated the first full day of Roshanah, the New Year. The holiday was ushered in with solemn observance in Temples in the city Friday night and will continue until sundown Sunday. Services today opened at 10 a. m. It Is during the services on this holiday that the ram’s horn is blown to awaken the soul to its full realization. Rabbi Morris Feuerlicht conducted services at the Indianapolis Bebrew Congregation temple; and Rabbi Milton M. Steinberg is in charge of the services at the Temple Beth El Zedek, with Gantor Myro Glass in charge of the musical portions of the almost continuous allday services. RULES CHILD CLAIMED BY TWO IS LEGITIMATE Court Orders Father to Pay Support for Motherless Girl. Bv Times Special VALPARAISO. Ind., Sept. 15. Betty Lorraine Bouris. 4, for whom two men went to court claiming to be her father, has been adjudged a legitimate child by Judge Grant Crumpacker in Porter Circuit Court. The girl has been made a ward of the court and allowed to remain with her aunt, Mrs. Lulu Bradford, with whom she has been living. Her mother died a few weeks ago. Peter Bouris, Hammond, was ordered to pay $lO a week for the girl’s support. Earl Mead, Valparaiso. other claimant for the child, testified that he had been contributing weekly to the support of the child, believing that he was its father.

50 YEARS IN PRISON Three Youths Are Sentenced for Missouri Holdup By United Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Sept. 15 —Three youth, all in their twenties, .began 50-year penitentiary terms here today on their pleas of guilty to holding up the automobile of John Findlay, Gasconade merchant, binding him and his aged mother to a tree, and escaping with $5,500 Finlay had withdrawn fro ma bank. They are Walter Johnson, 23, and Carl Dipton, 27, of Moberly, Mo. and Clarence Hamlich, 24, of St. Louis. BEAR ROBS CAMPERS Flour Bruin’s Favorite Food; He Loots Tourists. Bv Times Special LINDSAY, Cal., Sept. 11.—Three local sportsmen were forced to gb’e up cooking with flour while camping at Sequoia National Park. A bear got away with all but one package of their supply, and they had hopes for at least one round of flapjacks. To protect if they fastened the package to the limb of a tree overhanging a stream. But Bruin succeeded in tearing a hole in the bag, big enough to let the flour pour down into his gapping Jaws. LENIENCY FOR YOUNG First Offenders Are to Get Second Chance When Possible. By Times Special LONDON. Sept. K*:.—First offenders will be given a chance to come back in this metropolitan area. A letter recently addressed to magistrates by the Home Office expresses the wish “that every court, before committing a young offender to prison, will satisfy itself that this course is inevitable and that no other method of treatment can be properly employed.’’ Bomb Proves to Be Skunk By United Press * CHICAGO, Sept. 15,—Frank Smith, garage owner, called police asking investigation of a stench bomb attack on his place of business. Detective John Hannon shook a pair of overalls hanging in the place and a skunk jumjed out of one of the pockets. Ha inon reported another stench lx mb had been thrown,

Aviation Fans, Here's Chance to Win Prizes Only two more chances to win free seats for "Lilac Time,”, and today is one of them! Below are printed five more questions about aviation which every well-informed person should be able to answer. Answer them correctly NOW, mailing your answer to the Lilac Time Contest Editor, care of this newspaper. Those sending in the first ten correct answers each will receive a pair of seats to “Lilac Time,” First National Pictures' Colleen Moore starring photodrama, in which wartime aviators are used as a thnllling background for a compelling romance. , The contest ends Monday, when the last set of questions will be published. Answers to the third set of questions, printed Thursday, follow: 1. Brown and Alcock. 2. Roosevelt field. New York. 3. Clarence Chamberlain and C. A. Levine. 4. Graham-White. 5. Approximately twelve miles. Today’s questions: 1. What two flying corps did American aviators join before the United States entered the war. 2. Where is Mitchell field? Scott field. Bolling field? 3. What American aviator first flew over the North Pole in a plane? 4. What did Lindbergh say when he arrived in France, ending his trans-Atlantic flight? 5. What Is the name of the organisation to which the leading aviators belong? Mail answers at once to Tho Times Lilac Time Editor. VETERAN TEACHER DEAD Miss Lizzie Perlee, 67. Taught in Indiana 43 Years. Funeral services for Miss Lizzie Perlee, 67, a teacher in Indiana’s public schools for forty-three years, were held Friday night at her home, 915 Eastern Ave.' Her body was taken to Dillsboro, her birthplace, for burial. Miss Perlee, who retired from active work several years ago, died Thursday.

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A picture of A1 Smith as a spectator at the recent Syracuse <N. Y.T State fair, this. It is interesting in connection with Smith’s “Nailing a Lie in the Whispering Campaign” statement. The statement dealt with a purported letter saying Smith was “disgustingly intoxicated” at the fair. At the left of the photo is Mrs. Smith. At the right are John H. McCooey, Brooklyn political leader, and his wife.

ALUMNIJO PICNIC De Pauw Association Plans Sept. 26 Outing. De Pauw Alumni Association members will picnic Sept. 26 at Ulen Country Club, Lebanon. Fred A.

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SEEK CHAIR FOR BANDITKILLER Move to Ensure Death for Cleveland Gunman. Bv United Press CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 15.—The State today set in motion the legal machinery by which it hopes to send Paul Jaworski, Detroit and Pittsburgh bandit and killer, to the electric chair. Jaworski was shot and captured here Thursday after killing Patrolman Wiecorzek, shooting Patrolman George Effinger and wounding Ben Majsterik, a confectioner. Effinger and Majsterik are still in a serious condition. The gunman was indicted for the murder of Wieczorek Friday and will be arraigned today from his cot in city hospital, although his condition still is serious. Physicians reiterated today that Jaworski will recover. Edward C. Stanton, county prosecutor. will conduct the arraignment He said he is determined Jaworski will pay with his life and Stanton, himself, will prosecute the gunman. Should Jaworski receive less than the death sencence, he will be extradited to Pittsburgh where he Is under sentence of death for the killing of a mine paymaster at Cloverdale. Pa.