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INDIANS PIAY -ROCHESTER IN IMESERIES Champion Tribe Team Journeys to East for Four Conflicts. LEAVE EARLY TONIGHT ► Return to Indianapolis for Closing Battles With Red Wings. New champions of the American Association, the Indianapolis baseball club departs for Rochester. N Y., at 6:25 this evening, where the “little world series” will get underway Wednesday, with the Indians meeting the Red Wings, pennant winners of the International League Still confident after their oitter fight in the long A. A. campaign Bruno Betzel’s Tribesmen are eager to capture further laurels for Indianapolis and also to uphold the prestige of the Association in Class AA ball. Series Arrangement Four games will be staged in Rochester, Wednesday, Thursday Saturday and Sunday, Friday being left open to take care of a possible postponement or tie. Sunday evening the Indians and Red Wings will depart for Indianapolis to resume play, piobably on Wednesday, Oct. 3. The “little world series” is a ninegame affair, but which ends when one team takes five tilts. The players share in the first five games only. In last year’s “little series” Toledo of the A. A. defeated Buffalo of the International. Rochester won the International League pennant Sunday at Montreal by defeating the Royals twice on the last day of the season, 5 to 2 and 6to 0. Billy Southworth, former New York Giant and St. Louis Cardinal outfielder, piloted the Red Wings to the first pennant Rochester has won in seventeen years. Buffalo won its last game from Toronto, but Rochester finished a fraction more than 1-1000 of a point ajjead of Buffalo because Rochester played four fewer games than the 1927 champions. Rooters Leave Tuesday The Indian player party to Rochester will be in charge of Owner Jim Perry, Manager Betzel and Secretary Clauer. Other club officials, headed by Norman Perry, vice president, will depart with a rooting brigade Tuesday evening. Indianapolis headquarters will be the Seneca Hotel. The Indians will practice on the Rochester field Tuesday. Word from Rochester says the baseball boosters there are preparing for a gala series opening celebration. Beat Toronto in 1917 The last time Indianapolis battled the International League was in 1917, when Jack Hendricks piloted the Hoosiers to the A. A. pennant. Toronto was the I. L. winner and the Indians defeated the Leafs in the “little series.” For this year’s event umpires will be George Johnson of the American Association and Robert Clarke of the International.

WRECKS COP'S AUTO Youth Arrested for Speeding After Collision. Ralph Cole. 18, of 24 Hendricks PI., was unusually proud of his powers of discrimination —until this morning. But his ego suffered a serious blow soon after 9 a. m. when he was so foolish as to choose the car of Police Officer Carl Sheets to crash into. The collision occurred at Illinois and North Sts., and Cole was arrested for speeding and driving through a safety zone. wUNGER RITES ARRANGED Funeral Services Will Be Held Tuesday. Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Mrs. H. Unger. 65, 2208 Talbott ve., wife of H. Unger of H. Unger & Sons, who died at the home of a daughter, 1108 Union St., Sunday. Services wiili be held at the home at which she died. Burial will be in the Jewish cemetery. Mrs. Unger Was a member of the United Hebrew Congregation. JIfPORT TAYLOR ESTATE Former Kentucky Governor Leaves $54,000 in Realty. The estate of William F. Taylor, former Governor of Kentucky, who died here recently, includes approximately $54,000 in real estate and several thousand dollars in bonds, Municipal Judge Dan V. White, administrator, informed Probate Judge Mahlon E. Bash todaj;. White carried the matter - before Judge Bash seeking information as to how to handle the case in the absence of a will. Bricklayer Chief Retires on Pay t u Uniti and Press BOSTON, Sept. 24.—The Bricktyers’ Union has elected its retirjg president, William J. Bowen, as resident emeritus, with a SIO,OOO. ilary for life.

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The Indianapolis Times Partly cloudy tonight and Tuesday; not quite so cool tonight, but probably light frost on low ground.

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Times to Give Radio and Scoreboard Service on Series

AS usual, The Times will be right on top of the “little Avorld series,’ r in which the champion American Association club, Indianapolis, meets the International League champs, Rochester, in a five-out-of-nine-game series. Eddie Ash, veteran sports editor of The Times and one of the leading baseball writers of the Nation, will accompany the Tribe to Rochester for the four games in the Eastern city. Follow the Indians with Eddie Ash in The Times. And after you’ve read Eddie’s stories, prepare yourselves for some real service which Thej

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CITY HIT BY FIRST FROST OF SEASON

Hot Date NEW YORK. Sept. 24. Charles Earl Wainwright, 19. of Columbus. Ohio.' snatched the purse of Mrs. Esther Boulotchint so he could entertain a girl with whom he had a date. The purse contained $72 in cash. Wainwright told police he formerly attended Ohio State University.

SCHOOL GiRL BITTEN Attacked by Escaped Dog: Two Others Hurt. / En route to school this morning, Mary Wood. 8, 925 College Ave., was bitten by a dog which had escaped from its leash and broken its muzzle. She was taken into a home near the school, at Thirteenth St. and Ashland Ave. and treated by a physician. The wound was not serious. Two other children, one a 6-year-old girl and the other a boy of 7, were bitten by dogs Sunday. Geraldine Brinkley, 726 Terrace Ave., was bitten on the hand, and Billy Wade, 2116 Olive St., was snapped on the arm. Neither wound was serious. Both dogs are being held for observance. GAMBLING, LIQUOR RAIDS NET 500 IN ONE DAY Arrests in Chicago Solve Scores of City’s Major Crimes. By Times Special CHICAGO, Sept. 24.—1n a series of police raids on gambling houses and bootlegging establishments, said to have been ordered by Police Commissioner William Russell, 500 arrests were made during Sunday and Sunday night. Evidence obtained and the confessions of some of the prisoners, police said, solved scores of robberies and several major crimes of past months. Charles Stanley, 26. who was taken in the raids, is said to have confessed to implication in two murders, the shooting and wounding of two policemen and thirty-five robberies. Deputy Commissioner John Stege regarded Stanley as the most important of those seized.

CITY IN MIXUP AS DAYLIGHT TIME GOES INTO MOTH BALLS

Indianapolis struggled back to central standard time today, amid considerable confusion. Jewelers’ and Western Union clocks continued to show' daylight saving time this morning, although the majority of stores and city residents began the week on a central time schedule. Merchants’ Association stores returned to sun time this morning. Street cars operated on both times. City departments, except the police department, were on slow’ time. The police department will return to central time Tuesday. Many plants operated on the slow time today, but some, unable- to notify employes Saturday afternoon,

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Schools Are Closed: Heat Will Be Turned on by Power Company. Twenty degrees below normal weather brought frost to Indianapolis and the State this morning and closed six public schools and Butler University here. Because of the extreme cool weather, the Indianapolis Power and Light Company began operation of its steam heating -ystem this afternoon. The steam was not scheduled to be turned on until Tuesday. The company's hot water heating plant at Sixteenth and Alabama Sts. was put into operation last Thursday. Trouble with heating plants caused dismissal of'morning sessions at Schools 8, 56. 72, 84 and of a few rooms at 50. The classes were resumed this afternoon, however. Shortridge High School, heated by the power and light company heating system, also dismissed classes this morning. Butler Classes Dismissed Classes were dismissed at Butler University, but the heating plant in the new Arthur Jordan building will be in operation by Tuesday and the regular schedule resumed. Frost, heavy in some localities, was reported from all sections of the State, acording to J. H. Armington, United States Weather Bureau head. There was a light frost in the residence districts and outskirts of Indianapolis, Armington said. > The lowest temperature reported was 27 degrees at Cambridge City, according to Armington. The lowest temperature here was 36 at 6 a. m. .37 Degrees at 7 a. m. It was 37 degrees. 20 below normal, at 7 a.m. It will be several degrees warmer here and over Indiana tonight, but a light frost is likely in low places, Armington said. . Sunday temperatures here averaged 15 to 18 below normal, a high mark of 55 being reached in the afternoon. Bunker Hill Bank Chartered Bunker Hill State Bank, Bunker Hill, Ind., was given a charter at $25,000 capitalization by the State charter board today. Officers of the new bank are Carl E. Betzner, president, and James T. Young, cashier.

continued on daylight time and w r ere to make the shift Tuesday. Schools ran on the summer time, but are to return to central time Tuesday. Butler University also will move its clocks back beginning Tuesday. It will require several days to reset all the more than 900 Western Union officials said. The clocks will be changed as rapidly as possible and it will not be necessary to phone orders for the change, they said. Coming of the time change a week earlier than expected upset the company’s plans to make the shift with as little confusion as posisble. A shipment of keys so renters of the clocks themselves

INDIANAPOIJS, MONDAY, SEPT. 24, 1928

Times will give its patrons on the big minor league classic. The Times scoreboard will be operated every day of the series, with full ball and strike play by play, with Ashe shooting in the story from the park. The series also will be broadcast by The Times, through WFBM, Indianapolis Power and Light radio station. * All in all, there’ll be nothing left undone by The Times to give super-excellent service on the little world series. You can read full accounts of all the

STATE OFFERS DOUBLE-SIZED ARMORY HERE Will Build Addition If City Frovides Land: Plan Huge Auditorium. Indiana is ready to double the capacity of the National Guard Armory and give Indianapolis an auditorium that will seat more than 10.000 if the city, or interested citizens, will provide the .ground for such a project. This stand of the State was announced today by Adjt. Gen. William H. Kershner in discussing the proposed abandonment of certain Indiana National Guard units here because of lack of adequate housing. The State Armory board, charged with building of Armories in the State, is going to work on the plan to double the size of the present Armory on Pennsylvania St. the first of the year, the general declared. $300,000 Available “We have not moved any units of the guard from Indianapolis because we hope that it will be unnecessary.” he asserted “By the end of the year we expect to be pretty well cleaned up on an armory building in the State and devote ourselves to the Indianapolis project. “There is $300,000 available for an addition to the armory here That would be a sufficient sum. should the grounds be obtained through the city or citizens. This is the way such projects have been brought about in other cities and towns and we feel that it would work out the same here.” Room for All Units With the proposed addition, the Armory could take care of all units of the guard and the community will have a centrally located auditorium of large seating capacity, capable of housing national conventions and similar gatherings, Kershner pointed out. “If our plans are successful this city will not lose any guard units.” he continued. “There may be. some change in the table of organization, distributing the units differently. In my opinion this city should have a battalion of infantry. There are no infantry units here now. “With an Armory double the size of the present one, the place w r ould be ideal for housing an Infantry battalion. The troops could easily be given close-order drill indoors.”

EDISONS TO DETROIT Will Visit Fords for OldTime Reunion. Bp United Press DETROIT, Mich.. Sept, 24. Thomas A. Edisorv who used to sell peanuts and candy to railway passengers on the Grand Trunk line between here and Port Huron, Mich., will.return to Detroit Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford. He will be accompanied by Mrs. Edison, and the four old friends are planning a gay time. The 81-year-old inventor and the 63-year-old manufacturer, during their famliy reunion, will officiate at the laying of the corner stone of Edison Museum, one of the main buildings at an “Ancient Village” Ford plans to construct near the Ford airport. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 36 9 a. m 47 7 a. m.... 37 10 a. m.... 60 Ba. m.... 42 11 a. m.... 62 12 (noon). 64

might set them would arrive today, it w’as hoped. If the keys arrive, they will be sent to clock users at once and greatly speed up the resetting. City Clerk William A. Boyce Jr. discovered Saturday that the daylight saving ordinance amendment required a return to central time at 2 a. m. the last Monday of September. It had been supposed the ordinance provided for the change Sept. 30. The Times returned to central time today. All editions were printed on the slow time, and beginning today all horns printed in The Times refer to central time unless otherwise stated.

games, written by an expert sportsman, right on the job, with a world of interesting sidelight stuff, every day. You can step down to The Times office every afternoon and watch every play of the game on the big scoreboard, hot off the bat. You can sit at home in your eas}’ chair and hear the crack of the bat and the roar of the crowd, as it flashes from the/radio over WFBM. You get a three-way play on the little world series. Take your pick—or, better still, play them all.

Old Tie Slips - Hi' Times Bneriul VALPARAISO. Ind., Sept. 24.—Mrs. Augusta Erickson, near Chesterton, wife of Charles Erickson forty-five years, has filed suit for divorce in Porter Circuit Court here. It is alleged by the wife that for the last seventeen years she and her husband have been separated and for ten years past he has lived where she makes her home, with a brother in a house near refusing to speak to her.

THEATER BLAZE TAKES 67 LIVES Hundreds Thrown in Panic by Madrid Fire. Bu United Pri ss MADRID. Sept. 24.—The death list in the Novedades Theater fire and panic reached 67 this evening with the finding of two more bodies in the ruins and the death of eight more of the injured. About 234 others were injured. The Spanish capital was stunned by the disaster. Aproxiniately 1.000 persons were in the theater, the oldest, and largest in Madrid, when a lantern used in the last act of a comedy set fire to a curtain. The flimsy scenery blazed up and smoke and flames rolled out over the audience. At the height of the frightful panic that followed the lights were short-circuited. Men. women and children were, trampled and suffocated. The main stairway collapsed while hundreds of persons were fighting their way down. Examination of bodies indicated that some had shot themselves rather than be burned to death, while others fought, their way with knives through the packed mass of humanity barring their way to the exits.

SIO,OOO SET ASIDE BY CITY FOR GAS FIGHT Fund Available for Court Battle If Needed. Mayor L. Ert Slack provided $lO,000 in the 1929 contingent fund for litigation in the Citizens Gas Company case, it was disclosed today. The city council approved of a $50,000 contingent fund, to be expended at the discretion of the council. The mayor is said to have asked councilmen for the appropriation in event the utility starts a court fight to prevent the city from an option on the company plant in 1930. MAN DOUBLY INJURED % Chicagoan Hit by Auto After Apparently Taken for “Ride.” Bp United Press LA PORTE. Ind., Sept. 24.—Apparently “take for a ride” and later struck by an automobile near here a well-dressed man, identified by papers in his pocket as George Sabo, Chicago, is near death in a hospital here today. Sabo was hit by a car driven by H. M. Wesner, South Bend, near here late Sunday night, as he crawled from a ditch. Authorities found the following written in a note book in the pocket of the man's coat : “If I die, notify Haymarket 1556, Chicago.” This was scrawled, while other items in the book were in a clear hand. He also carried naturalization papers, which showed he had become a citizen July 6, 1927. at Camp Fremont, Cal., having been born in Austria-Hungary. CONFER OVER BRIDGE Jackson State Officials Meet With Governor of Kentucky. Governor Ed Jackson and members of the Indiana Highway commission today were holding a final conference in Louisville. Ky., with Governor Flem Sampson and the highway commission of that State regarding the Evansville bridge, contracts for which already have been let. The $4,000,000 bridge cost is to be split equally, but Kentucky will collect tolls. OBSERVE YOM KIPPUR Hebrew Feast Day Continues Until Sundown. Observance of Yom Kippur. Hebrew day of atonement, began at sundown Sunday and will be continued until sundown today Kol midrei service, outstanding event in the observance, was held Sunday night at the Temple Beth E!-Zedek, Thirty-Fourth and Ruckle Sts. Services will continue today.

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SMITH SWINGS FOR ADDRESS Candidate Will Reopen Corruption Smash in Helena Speeeh. Bu United Press ABOARD GOVERNOR SMITH’S SPECIAL TRAIN EN ROUTE TO HELENA. Mont., Sept. 24.—Governor Alfred E. Smith opened the second week and the second phase of his first campaign tour today, when he entered the Northwest with a bid for support in .his territory, where Democratic hopes are running high. He will speak tonight in the Shrine Hall at Helena, take a twoday jump to Minneapolis and St. Paul for a reception at the former and an address in the latter Thursday night, and will close his western tour Saturday night with a speech in Milwaukee. He then returns to Rochester for the Democratic State convention. Oct. 1. Returning to Albany Oct. 2. he will rest for the remainder of that; week and begin his -.econd trip on Oct. 8. In his speech tonight on "Party Responsibility,” the Democratic candidate will re-open the “scandal” charges on which John W. Davis based his 1924 campaign, selecting Montana for this address as the home State of Senators Thomas J. Walsh and Burton K. Wheeler, who conducted the sensational Senate oil investigations. Radio to Carry Speeches Bn United Press NEW YORK. Sept. 24. —Governor Smith’s address tonight in Helena, Mont., will be broadcast throughout the east, middle west and far west. WOR and stations of the Columbia Broadcasting System will put the speech on the air east of the Mississippi. An independent network of sixteen other stations will blanket the area from the Rockies to the Great Lakes. Smith will begin his speech at 8 p. m., mountain standard time, or 9 p. m.. stnadard time. Stations other than those of the Columbia chain which will broadcast the Democratic nominee's address are: KUOM. Missoula; KSEI, Pocatello: KSL. Salt Lake City; KLZ Denver; KOIL. Council Bluffs; KFNF. Shenandoah; WHO. Des Moines; WCCO. Minneapolis-St. Paul; WDAF, Kansas City; WDAY, Fargo; KFEQ, St. Joseph; KVOO, Tulsa; KFH. Wichiia; KFJF, Oklahoma City; KGHL, Billings, and KFYR, Bismarck. A score of stations affiliated with the National Broadcasting Company will broadcast. Senator William E. Borah's speech tonight at Tulsa, Okla. Borah will go on the air at 8 p. m., central standard time. WJZ will head the network, which will include stations in Springfield. Mass.; Baltimore, Rochester. Pittsburgh. Chicago. Detroit, Cincinnati. St. Louis, Kansas City, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Tulsa. Dallas. San Antonio, Houston, Louisville, Nashville. Memphis and Atlanta. Borah is invading the territory through which Governor Smith just passed. He will undoubtedly answer Smith in his Tulsa speech. Principal Held After Whipping Bu United Press GARY, Ind., Sept. 24.—Accused of flogging James Millington Jr., 11. with a garden hose, E. A. Spalding, principal of Emerson High School here, was free on SSOO bond today. The boy said he was whipped for climbing a school fence. Black and blue marks were left by the beating.

‘AIR-RAIL’ GETS PREMATURE TEST IN RACE WITH DEATH

An example of how the Transcontinental Air Transport, twenty-four-hour coast-to-coast air-rail passenger line will operate, was afforded Sunday when David A. Boone, New York City, left a Pennsylvania train hft-o and w r as rushed by airplane to Cape Girardeau. Mo., in a race with death to the bedside of this brother. Receiving a telegram Saturday afternoon telling of the serious and possibly fatal injury of his brother in an automobile accident, Boone left New,- York City Saturday evening on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Fearing he would not reach the Missouri town in time to see his brother alive, he informed the conductor of his plight.

TRAIIGOTT INDICTED AGAIN BY COUNTY GRAND JURORS; FOUR OTHERS ALSO HELO Charge of Transporting Liquor Lodged Against Owner of Store, Wrecked in Explosion Last Month. ST. LOUIS GANGSTER NAMED IN BILL •Pickles’ O’Roark, Donald Underwood and One Other Man Involved; Bonds Set at $2,500. Edward Traugott, whose W. Washington St. clothing store was wrecked by a mysterious fire and explosion Aug. 26, and who is under arrest charged with being a member of an inter* state automobile theft ring, was indicted by the Marion County; grand jury today on a charge of conspiracy to commit a felony. The felony, according to the indictment, was transportation of intoxicating liquor in a motor vehicle. Fred (Pickles) O’Roark, 307 Agnes St., ex-policeman; Ilomer Wright, alleged St. Louis booze ring leader; Donald Underwood, professional bondsman, 25 S. Alabama St., and one other, fHso were indicted with Traugott.

SAFES CRACKED; $10,500 STOLEN Yeggs Make Escape After Two ‘Jobs.’ Loot totaling $1,500 cash and $9,500 in checks was taken by yeggs, who staged two safe-crackings in and near the center of the city over the week-end. it was discovered this morning. The Pappas Brothers’ shoe shining larlor safe. 54 S. Illinois St., yielded SI,OOO. and the H. R. Heinicke Company, Inc., contractors, 221 S. New Jersey St., were losers of SSOO cash and checks totaling $9,500. Frank Pappas said he locked the safe Saturday night and that yeggs had battered the comomation to obtain the loot. A $350 one-karat diamond ring and a revolver, which may prove clews, were missing, Pappas said. Pappas said he had S7OO insurance on contents of the safe. Police said only the thin inner door was broken. Frank and Angel Pappas, owners, said clothing left for cleaning also was taken. A large single-door safe was battered open at the Heinicke Company office, a little more than a block from police headquarters. The cracksmen worked hours, police said. Officials of the company said the safe had not been touched at 2 a. m. Sunday. When employes opened up today they found desks overturned, papers strewn about and large slabs of concrete by the safe. Police said it would have been impossible to open the safe with the concrete, but to tools were found.

60 AFTER ASPECTS Authorities to Return Pair inMurder Farm Probe. RIVERSIDE, Cal.. Sept. 24. Riverside County authorities planned to leave today for Vancouver, B. C., to reum Gordon Stewart Northcott. 21, and his mother. Mrs. Louise Northcott, to face murder charges here. Authorities meanwhile continued their efforts to unearth more evidence to be used against the Northcotts in regard to their alleged murder farm activities. Sanford Clark, whose story of the ax slaying of four Los Angeles County boys brought about the investigation and the subsequent arrest and indictment of Northcott and his mother, told authorities that Nelson and Louis Winslow, 12 and 10. were buried in the desert about fifty miles away after they were killed on the chicken ranch near Corona. Back to Slow Time Sunday Bp United Press VALPARAISO. Ind., Sept. 24. Daylight saving time will be abandoned at midnight, Sept. 29, in this city. Mayor Louis Leetz announces. The fast time was adopted April 27.

The conductor telegraphed ahead, at the next stop, to J. C. Millspaugh, Indianapolis, division passenger agent for the railroad, who telephoned Bob Shank, Hoosier airport president, at 2 a. m. Sunday and asked him to have an airplane ready for the remainder of the trip. When the train arrived at the Union Station at 8 a. m Sunday, Shank was on hand with an automobile and rushed Boone to the airport, where he was dressed in warm flying clothes. The 275 mile trip w T as started in a Travelair biplane piloted by Shank at 8:40 a. m. and three hours later Boone was in Cape Girardeau, five and a half hours ahead of the train.

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O’Roark testified before the grand jury in connection with the store explosion. Wright is held in county jail under $50,000 bond on a habitual criminal charge. Name of the other indicted man will not be made public until he is arrested. The indictment charged that the alleged transportation of liquor took place about Sept. 4. Mrs. Josephine Fairhead. 713 S. Illinois St., former city hall telephone operator, was the (Ally State witness named. It is understood that the liquor transportation charged involved purchase of an automobile, which was discussed by those indicted at Mrs. Fairhead's home. Mrs. Fairhead has appeared before the jury twice and twice has conferred with Prosecutor William H. Remy. Bond on the charge was set at $2,500 apiece by Criminal Judge James A. Collins. The grand jury began a rapid windup review' of all evidence In the SIO,OOO explosion wliich wrecked the Traugott clothing store, 215-217 W. Washington St., and the Em-Roe sporting goods store, 211-213 W. Washington St., the night of Aug. 26. Many Witnesses Called Prosecutor William H. Remy marshalled more than a dozen witnesses to go before the jury today and an equal number Tuesday, to present the connected account of the explosion, what. led up to It, and what followed, according to the theory upon which he will seek indictment of several persons. The jury already has heard considerable evidence of the explosion, havng indicted Harold Libowitz, 22, of 39 N. Jefferson Ave., a few days after the blast, on an arson charge. Libowitz, however, died Sept. 12. In Methodist Hospital of burns suffered in the blowup. Among other witnesses tho prosecutor planned to call all officials who have worked on the case. Federal Jury to Reconvene The Federal grand jury will reconvene Tuesday to hear evidence about the interstate automobile theft ring. This has been linked with the explosion inquiry. Twenty expensive automobiles stolen in other cities and disposed of through Indianapolis persons have been recovered by State police. Traugott, Sussman and Elmer Sussman, cousin of Harry, are under $25,000 bonds on charges of complicity in this ring. Bertram Libowitz, brother of Harold, also is held as an alleged member of the ring, as are several others. Raid on Poolroom The general crime situation Inquiry was given impetus by a raid Saturday night by three pollen squads upon a poolroom at 18 S. Capitol Ave. Several of those picked up from time to time by Federal agents and police in the theft ring and fire inquiries have been habitues of this place. Seven men were slated on vagrancy charges and released on SIOO bonds in the raid when the police found alcohol and liquor making apparatus in the poolroom. Warrants charging operation of a blind tiger were issued against Clarence Douhitt, Claude Poland, and Claude O'Roark, detectives searching for them. Douhitt was held as a witness in the explosion case for a brief time several days ago. After the men taken in the raid were released on the small bonds Saturday night, police re-arrested men giving names as Thomas Reilly, 26, of 1406 Kelly St.; Martin Foley, 52, Broadway Hotel; and Mike McGlynn, 28, of 236 Eastern Ave, and slated them on vagrancy charges under high bonds. Proseoutor Remy, who was understool to have directed this, refused to discuss it. After searching for a week for a cache northwest of the city where the ring was believed to have altered stolen cars. State Policeman Charles Bridges declared he now believes the ring did such work in Chicago. Bridges and Humes, State police chief, were checking cars being driven by two widely known Irvington citizens. r n