Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 102, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1928 — Page 5

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100 BOMBINGS MABK RACKET'S DETROITENTRY Chicago ‘Artists’ Extort Toll From Businesses, Big and Small. This is the seventh of a series of articles on racketeering by James P. sta.il writer for The Times and NEA Service and tells the story of De-„ BY JAMES P. KIRBY NEA Service Writer DETROIT, Mich., Sept. 18.—One hundred bombings have signalized the entry of the Chicago racketeer into Detroit. The metropolis of the automobile world was - the inevitable target of the racketeer, and the Chicago artists, schooled in the methods of exacting tribute from business large and small, have made their impression. As in other cities, the dry clean- 1 ing industry promised the most fruitful point of entry, and accordingly the bombings began when business men resisted the efforts of the racketeer to extort the tribute demanded. But Detroit’s proximity to the Canadian border is the source of ether and more perplexing problems than the operations of the racketeer. Booze Racket Unique The booze racket in Detroit is unique in that running liquor across the Detroit river is accomplished with amazing facility, and accordingly attracts from other cities big time operators who invest large sums in whisky to be trucked into other cities. Affiliations of Chicago racketeers with local talent, notably the “Purple Gang,” were accomplished and greatly facilitated the dry cleaning racket, as well as hijacking and kidnaping of racketeers from other cities with money to spend for whisky. Thus, with a liquor problem unique, Detroit was in no mood to temporize with lesser rackets. Accordingly, nine persons prominently identified with the dry cleaning rackety were placed on trial* for conspiracy and extortion Besides the bombings, kidnapings, etc., in the dry cleaning war there have been three murders which police attribute to the “Purple Gang.” Ocher incidents include the arrest of Chicago “organizers” found to be in possession of guns in downtown hotels, and the recurrence of the methods common to the Chicago operators.

Trials Are Delayed The trials of the extortionists which began early in the summer came to a deadlock when the presiding judge was taken ill. Throughout the summer, the defendants have been at liberty on bond. It is expected, however, that the trials will bie resumed soon. Interest in the cases was heightened by the attempts to call Frank X. Martel, "head of the Detroit of Labor, as a witness. 'Before the suspension of the trial, Martel at different times refused to appear and at other times could not be found to testify. With the resumption of the triai of the alleged extortionists, testimony will be introduced to indicate the extent of their operations. One ary cleaning firm went into bankruptcy as a result of the amount it was compelled to pay the. racket for protection against bombing and for the safety of its trucks. The tribute reached SIOO a week before the firm closed. Among the rackets ir operation in Detroit is that of kidnaping saloon keepers, bootleggers and others and hold” them for ransom. The rackets in operation also include extortion from bootleggers, alcohol dispensers and others by Detroit policemen. A number have been dismissed from the force on conviction of such offenses. Next: The Racket in Cleveland.

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RENEW RANSOM DEMANDS FOR KIDNAPED BOY Two More Letters Received by Father, Both Containing Death Threats. By United Press CHICAGO, Sept. 18.—Two more letters were received today by A. Frank Ranieri whose 10-year-old son, Billy, has been in the hands of kidnapers here for the past thirteen days. Both letters renewed threats of death for the boy unless demands of the kidnapers for $15,000 are met. Police, meanwhile, captured three new suspects who picked up a decoy package supposedly containing the money for the boy’s return. Their names were not revealed. With federal authorities aiding iin the hunt, six men in all are held in connection with the kidnaping. Ranieri told authorities he had paid Angelo Pettiti, one of those held, $5,000 upon the promise that his son be returned. Pettiti said the boy would be placed in a surburban garage, Ranieri said. The garage was surrounded. It was believed that the gangsters saw the officers when they approached with the boy. Then, according to police, the boy was “rekidnaped.” Shortly afterward, Ranieri received another note telling him to leave SIO,OOO near a downtown department store. A fake package was placed in the designated position and police spent a night watching it, but no one appeared to take the bundle.

The three men suspects were arrested when Ranieri, pretending to follow instructions in another letter, left a package containing blank paper In an alley. The trio approached and as they began to open the package were arrested by waiting officers. $5,000 HOUSE BURNED Two-Story Residence on Arnolda Ave. Is Destroyed. A spectacular blaze at the home of Mrs. Minnie Irving, 907 Arnolda Ave., early this morning destroyed the two-story frame residence at an estimated lops of $5,000. Scores of spectators watched fire fighters battle the flames. The house was empty when the blaze I started from defective wiring. Mrs. i Irving returned to see her home a ‘mass of flames.

Tiny Trick Engine Among Leaders When Forced From Race. When J. W. Hunt, who was a contestant in the class A transcontinental air derby, landed at Hoosier Airport, he brought an Indianapolis motor back to its home town. It is one of the first experimental airplane motors to be built I by Chevrolet Bros. Manufacturing Company, makers of racing automobiles. Hunt was forced down here Sept. 6 with carburetor and spark plug trouble. He left Roosevelt Field, Long Island, at 5 a. m. Sept. 5, and was in fourteenth place among the thirty-eight competitors when he made his first landing at Norton Field, Columbus, Ohio. Hunt’s “Lone Eagle,” equipped with the smallest motor in the of ninety miles an hour, competed class A division with a top speed with planes capable of doing 150 per hour. The “Lone Eagle” was constructed at Moundsville, W. Va. Start Building Motors Announcement that Chevrolet Bros, would immediately begin production of the new type of highcompression airplane motor was made Saturday. The new motor represents an attempt to apply to the aviation industry mechanical p* ciples which have been worked ouu in automobile racing. Hunt’s plane is equipped with a four-cylinder motor, air cooled, with overhead camshafts, and has a dual magneto ignition system. Oil line breakage, responsible for countless airplane motor failures, is eliminated with a lubrication system without oil lines, the oil being forced through channels drilled in the motor casings. The weight of the Moundsville plane, powered by the new Chevrolet motor, is 780 pounds. It is a two-seat sport plane with a cruising radius of 350 miles. It will be marketed at $2,800. Praises Hoosier Airport

Hunt has spent several years in commercial aviation and now is connected with the Ohio Valley School of Aeronautics in association with Charles Facig, designer of the “Lone Eagle.” “My wife doesn’t fly and is determined to keep my 16-year-old son from taking.to the air,” explained Hunt, “so guess he’ll have his feet on the ground for some time yet.” Indianap s has great possibilities as a luture airport city, declare:: Hunt, adding that every large city should boust a creditable aviation club. “Otherwise, the air student who has completed a at-hour course at $250 hasn’t access to planes for practice flying.” Hunt expected to leave Indianapolis today, but spoke of Intended uture visits and complimented the Hoosier field where his plane has been stationed since he dropped out of the air derby ten days ago.

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HE UTILITIES DRIVE AGAINST PUBUOPLANTS Anti-Municipal Ownership Campaign in lowa Revealed in Quiz. BY CECIL OWEN United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—A campaign of lowa utility interests to retard a movement for munici-pally-owned power plants in that State was described today as the Federal Trade Commission resumed its investigation of the power industry. Municipalities where* the sentiment in favor of a publicly-owned plant was strong were circularized with literature designed to persuade the citizens against taking such a step, H. P. Weeks, director of the lowa section of the National Electric Light Association, testified.

In addition, Weeks said, his organization distributed 165 copies of the utility propaganda magazine each month among members of the lowa State Legislature. This publication, Publis Service Magazine, is issued in Chicago by H. J. Gonden. A $l5O check to Gonden was placed in the Record. Other checks showed weeks’ association paid Walter E. Schwab, an lowa City consulting engineer, for making a survey in 1924 of rates charged by existing city-owned plants. Weeks said the plan was to show private utilities charged less. At the time, Schwab was a parttime instructor in lowa University. A second survey was made in 1926, after Schwab left the college. Propaganda work among lowa women was undertaken by Week’s group, the witness said. Payment of $676 to the railroad audit and inspection service was shown by another check, dated Jan. 27, 1925. This was for a study of oil engines as motor power in utility plants, Weeks said. —' Cross-examination developed that the study was intended to combat a movement for towns to operate their own utilities with such power. Weeks testified. MARDI GRAS ARRANGED Riverside Civic League Will Celebrate Anniversary. The seventeenth anniversary of Riverside Civic League will be celebrated with a Mardi Gras festival Saturday afternoon and evening at Municipal Gardens.

FARMER TO GET RELIEF, CURTIS TELLS INDIANA G. 0. P. Help Is Pledged by Candidate in Address at Evansville. Bu Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Sept. 18.— The Republican party’s agricultural record was spread before the Indiana farmers here Monday night, when Charles Curtis, Republican nominee for Vice President, addressed 5,000 persons who crowded the auditorium. Governor Ed Jackson, Lieutenant Governor Harold F. Van Orman, Harry G. Leslie, gubernatorial nominee, and State candidates and Republican leaders were here to welcome the vice presidential nominee. The farmers’ distress, Curtis said, was occasioned by the post-war drop in prices of agricultural products after farmers had been encouraged to cultivate larger tracts of land, to raise more cattle and hogs, and to increase crop production. “While the farmer was producing and selling at greatly reduced prices and in some instances, at a loss,” said Curtis, “the prices of the things which he had to buy did not drop in proportion to those he had to osell. The result was that the farmer was harder hit than any other class. The situation was acute and quick relief was required. It was given by the Republicans.” Principal measures enacted by Republicans to afford this relief, said Curtis, included: The Farm Loan Board, providing money to resume lending on farm property. The intermediate farm credit act of March, 1923, to establish a flexible banking and credit system under supervision of the Federal reserve act. The Capper-Volstead act, giving the farmer the right to engage in collective buying and cooperative selling. The Curtis-Aswell bill, creating an Interstate farm marketing association. The Butter Standards Act of 1923, to prevent the market from being flooded with imitaations of butter “which were driving genuine butter out of the market. "Without the help which the Re-

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