Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1929 — Page 9

JAN. 4, 1929.

GOTHAM RAIDS CAUSE EXODUS OF GANGSTERS Sixty Speakeasies Closed Thursday Night in Whalen’s Crusade. By Cfiitet PreiM NEW YORK. Jan. 4.— Additional prisoners were brought In today after the second phase of Police Commissioner Grover Whalen's campaign against speakeasies resulted In raids on sixty places Thursday night. The newly-formed “strong arm” squads roamed the territory extending from the Battery to the Harlem river and from the East river to the Hudson. In each of the sixty places arrests were made and liquor was seized as evidence. While police were out primarily to raid speakeasies, they also had instructions from Whalen to "batter gangsters and gunmen and to convince them there was a lot of law in the end of a nightstick.” That drive against gangsters did not prove so successful, chiefly because there were few gangsters to be found. Gangsters are Fleeing Detectives In outlying towns reported that many of the most notorious gunmen and gangsters in New York had been seen passing through on trains, apparently traveling toward Chicago or points west. Backed by a decision of the appeals court upholding the right of police to enter speakeasies and destroy the furnishings, police raided a place at 354 West Fifty-first street and used axes to smash almost all the movable pieces of furniture. Those tactics were in accord with Whalen's orders to “hit the speakeasy proprietors in the pocketbook. 7 Judge Aids Crusade The cause of prohibition enforcement was further helped along Thursday' by Federal Judge Grover Moscowitz of Brooklyn, who told a federal grand jury that speakeasies must be wiped out. He also said prohibition enforcement officers must be watched closely, especially in the suppressing of testimony. He urged the jury to indict in every case where the circumstances warranted it. The appeals court decision was rendered in the case of Albert Atwater. The court he’d he maintained a nuisance under the state law by conducting a speakeasy. That opened the way for Whalen’s strong-arm squad to enter speakeasies without a warrant.

PLANT CRABAPPLE TREES Washington to Bloom With New Kind of Flagrant Flamers. Ujj Timi'm Special WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. —Washington has received from A. E. ! Wohlert of Narberth, Pa., a gift of 1.000 crabapple trees, which are being planted in Anacastia park. In a few years the crabapple blossoms will, it is hope<t rival the beauty of the Japanese cherry blossoms along the speedway drive in Potomac park. The single blossoming trees bear fruit, hut the doubles are non-productive. Thre are few flowers that are more beautiful or more fragrant than the double crabapple blossoms. *

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“For distinguished achievement in geologic sciences,” Prof. Waldemar Lindgren, above, of the Masachusetts Institute of Technology. and J. J. Sederholm, below, director of the geological survey of Finland, have been awarded the Penrose Gold Medal. They were among the noted scientists attending the New York convention of the American AsociaUon for the Advancement of Science.

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GERMANY NOT ABLE TO PAY. REPORT HINTS Business Bad, According to U, S. Envoy: Conflicts With Gilbert View. BY LYLE C. WILSON t'nlted Prf* Stiff Corr*pondent WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—German complainants against the alleged over-optimism of 8. Parker Gilbert's Dawes plan report on Germany’s economic position today

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could point to support for some of their objections in official reports just received by the department of commerce from F. W. Allport, commercial attache, in Berlin. It is possible Allport's report, stating the current year-end German depression is more severe than in 1927, may be seized upon by German delegate?- to the forthcoming reparations conference to support their claims ar.d if possible counteract Gilbert's conclusions that Germany’s economic condition is improving to the point where she can carry the burden of the Dawes payments. Allport said the number of German unemployed increased from

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671.*X)0 on Nov. 1, to 1.030.000 on Dec. 1 and that the registered unemployed on the latter date were 70 per cent greater than in 1927. He said general business conditions were “unsatisfactory.” “The depression which normally occurs in Germany at the close of the year,” Allport informed the department. “is more severe than last year, as a result of the cumulative effect of declining activity during the past six months. The five weeks' shut-down in the steel industry, which came to an end early in December, caused serious dislocation in the industries using iron and steel as raw materials, and also in the coal and coke trades, and ma-

terially has contributed to the un- ! satisfactory character of general! business conditions at the present time. “The increase in unemployment has been more rapid than usual at this season. “A few industries. however, notably chemicals and paper, have been able to maintain production and sales, and the artificial silk industry is also well occupied, but conditions in other textile branches are unsatisfactory. “November car loading averaged 914,000 weekly, as compared with 959,000 in October and 951,000 in November. 1927.” Examination of Allport’s report

and cabled summaries of Gilbert’s review indicate that they are agreed as to the statistics, the only apparent difference being in the interpretations and conclusions. Gilbert admitted the probability of lower aggregate industrial production in 1928 than In 1927, but said the aggregate was greater In 1928 than In 1925-26.

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