Indianapolis Times, Volume 40, Number 256, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1929 — Page 10

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LOS ANGELES' CLEANED OP BY WARVETERAN Succeeds in Jailing Former Chief; Puts Millionaire Behind Bars. tift Time* Special LOS ANGELES, March 15.—A blond young man, with a booming voice, a limp from Argonne wounds, a penchant for flying and a singular run ot luck, is cleaning up Los Angeles county. He is Buron Fitts, district attorney, w’ho in a short two months has created a furor by jailing his former boss, convicting a former millionaire refugee from justice and generally causing the underworld to

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wonder what? had struck the old town. Fitts began in the great war as a private and ended with a lieu-, tenant's commission and a stiff knee full of shrapnel. Comin,, home he ; became the ex-service man’s cham- | pion, was named legion chief and ■ then District Attorney Asa Keyes’ | deputy. Keyes had succeeded fighting Tom j Woolwine, and it didn’t take Buron ! long to see that his boss was a lazy | but likeable chap under whose ad- ! ministration Los • Angeles was fast j becoming “The Chicago of the ; Pacific Coast.” Fitts quit and began a campaign | in his airplane for lieuteuant-gov-I ernor with crime suppression as his j issue. He was overwhelmingly elected and served for One term. Then he decided to come down and clean up/his own city. For reasons of his own Keyes didn’t run in 1928, and Fitts was elected virtually by acclamation. The “Julian Pete” stock swindle was still a stench in the state’s nostrils, but Keyes had asked dismissal of forty-two indictments of many of the town’s eminent citizens. Fitts

Freed to Pray r U United Pres* HARTFORD. Conn., March 15.—Sam Shatz of Lawrence, Mass., has been sentenced to thirty days in jail for criminal negligence, but he is permitted by special court dispensation to go daily to a synagog under guard to say memorial prayers for a dead relative.

limped into the situation. Keyes was found to have frequented a certain tailor shop owned by Ben GetZOff. Investigation revealed that here Los Angeles justice was being bartered. A lur trial followed. Keyes was proved to have accepted presents from Getzoff, acting for others —a Lir"^- 1 car. a Brunswick panatrope, a S6OO set of golf sticks. In a speech of withering invectives the young prosecutor charged Keyes vvitn being a traitor s o the army of jaw and order which he officered. The jury agreed with Fitts, and Keyes, once affable man-about-town, found himself occuiy-

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ing a county jail cell dressed in blue denim. Fighting like a wolf at bay he is ; appealing, and if he loses will be on his way to San Quentin for a term of one to fourteen years. : There more drama awaits, for he 1 must face the fury of more than i 1.000 men who owe their sentences to this once district attorney dur- | ing tw'enty-five years as deputy and I chief. | Next Fitts turned to another case which Keyes had dismissed. A. I. Lasker, former millionaire stock dealer, w r as intercepted at Honolulu en route "to Russia, brought here, tried and convicted on twenty-two counts of fraud. SEX SURVEY IS HALTED Hu United Press COLUMBIA, Mo., March 15. Answers to a questionnaire concerning the sex life of students were being confiscated today by Stratton D. Brooks, president of the University of Missouri. The questionnaire was distributed by an assistant professor of sociology and a group of his students.

SMALL LAKE IS BUILT BY STATE Artificial Body of Water Made in Brown County. Work of building an artificial lake i in Brown county in a region where there is little w r ater in the streams, due to quick drainage, caused by the rough topography, is about completed by the state conservation de- | partment. The little lake, with an area ot ; about ten acres under water, w r as made possible by throwing a 240foot concrete dam across a deep ravine, and the result is an entrancing body of water, kept fresh by numerous springs. It is the first project of its kind attempted by the state department, and it is very likely, says George N. Mannfeld, fish and game division superintendent, whose division financed the work, the success of this will lead to others. The lake is situated in the 2,000acre game preserve purchased by the division from earnings, and maintained as a natural propagation place for small wild life. The lake will be well stocked with various game fish species and in a few years gives promise of being a splendid fishing place. Actual w r ork of making the lake was accomplished by the department’s engineering division.

SPEED CRASH VICTIM TO BE BURIED HERE Rites for Charles R, Traub to Be Sunday. Funeral services for Charles Ralph Traub, Pathe News cameraman, killed while filming speed trials at Daytona Beach, Fla., Wednesday, probably will be held in Indianapolis Saturday. Indianapolis relatives said the body probably will be brought here Saturday morning. Mr. Traub, former Indianapolis resident, was killed w'hen he w r as struck by the racing car driven by Lee Bible, who also was killed. Relatives of Mr. Traub here include two uncles, Ralph K. Smith, 1921 North Alabama street, Fletcher American National bank vice-presi-dent and cashier, and George F. Traub, 41 Bloomington street, retired druggist; an aunt, Mrs. Margaret C.: Fatout, and tw’o cousins, Homer Traub, of Clermont, and George C. Traub, 2346 North Delaware street. His father, Charles G. Traub, former Indianapolis resident, now lives in St. Petersburg, Fla. JEWELRY COMPANY TO OPEN STORE SATURDAY Gala Celebration Will Be Held by Stanley Concern. The Stanley Jewelry Company will open its new store in the Indiana Theater building Saturday, with a gala celebration, in which every visitor to the store will be presented with a souvenir. A complete line of jewelry will be carried and sold on a credit plan. A1 Levison, the proprietor, named the company for his son. CAR FALLS INTO CREEK Motorist Escapes as Auto Plunges Over Wall. Theodore W. Hind, 24, of 83 Whittier place, narrowly escaped injury at 12:30 a. m. today when driving south on Talbott street, his car plunging over the retaining wall at Fall Creek boulevard into the creek. Hind said he had been working late and was tired and believed he was on Delaware street. He was not hurt. Motor policemen helped him out. Spring Plowing Started Bv Times Special KOKOMO, March 15.—Howard county farmers have started spring plowing. The first work is preparing the ground for oats.

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