Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 103, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 September 1928 — Page 12

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FIREBRANDS OF RACKET BURN SIXTODEATH Family Wiped Out Through in Cleveland p Crime Terrorism. This Is the eighth and last of a series Os articles on racketeering by James P. Kirby, staff writer for The Times and NEA Service and tells the story of Cleveland. • BY JAMES P. KIRBY NEA Service Writer CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 19.—A family of six, including four children, were sacrificed by the torch of racketeers when the garage, over which the family slept, was burned to the ground here last fall. This was the worst fatality recorded in the long list of outrages which mark the trail of racketeers affecting the dry cleaning, undertaking, kosher butchers, teamsters credit jewelers and other lines of business, and through which appear the names and faces of well known Chicago operators. Pick Wrong Place The burning of the family is directly attributed by F. J. Hawkins who operates a moving and hauling business on the east side, to the fact that racketeers attempted to discipline him for his refusal to pay tribute to the racket, intended to set fire to his garage, and made the mistake of selecting a garage adjoining his establishment. He explains that about a week before the fire he was approached by certain "organizers,” who invited him for the last time to "join” an organization oi' which they were the promoters, and to which he said he was expected to contribute for the safety of his equipment. Win in Election The operations cf racketeers in Cleveland came to light during the early summer in a political campaign over the office of county prosecutor. An independent candidate for the Republican nomination, who was drafted by the Cleveland Bar Association and defeated by the organization candidate, made the charge during the campaign that racketeers had been getting protection and, with the election of his opponent, would continue to be protected. While the charge was made in the heat of a political battle, which was the hottest in Cuyahoga County in many years, the allegation of racketeering was immediately taken up by the newspapers and the police. No Indictments The American Plan Association then produced a series of affidavits from individuals in the dry-cleaning, kosher butchers and other similar lines of business to show that racketeers, well identified with the movement in Chicago, had been busy in Cleveland, and that fear of re-

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