Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 11, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 May 1930 — Page 1

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TARIFF DUTIES TO SEND FOOD COSTSSOARING Winter Time Vegetables to Be Expensive, City Expert Declares. CABBAGE TO BE ‘LUXURY’ Apple Growing Business Is Menaced by Export Chaos. The family bean soup literally will cost more if uie United States congress adopts the pending tariff measure. Winter time fresh vegetables will soar in price because the nation has put tariff duties against these items. Leroy J. Keach of J. L. Keach & Cos., commission house, 112 North

Delaware street, today listed some of the tariff proposals which, if adopted, will affect the prices of foodstuffs on the tables of Indianapolis. Keach is president of the advisory board of the National League o f Commission Merchants of the United States, and is former national president of the

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league. The league adopted a policy favoring protection of Americangrown fresh fruits and vegetables "as against foreign-groavn products to the extent of equalization of costs of production at home and abroad,” Keach says. The high tariff rates adopted in the proposed measure hawe aroused protest from many members of the league. Fresh fruits and vegetables to which Indianapolis has become accustomed during the winter months will be higher in price if the measure is adopted, Keach says. The proposed tariff, he shows, places a duty of 3 cents a pound on tomatoes. During December and January of each year Indianapolts uses tomatoes from Mexico and Cuba. Prices usually are from 20 to 25 cents a pound. The tariff duty would increase the price 3 cents a pound. Cabbage Duty Soars High , During the early spring, before American-grown products are received on the market. Indianapolis uses green peas from Mexico and Cuba. Under the new tariff of 3 rents a pound the price of these green peas would go to 18 to 20 cents a pound instead of 15 to 18 cents. ; Green peppers, an early season. delicacy, would increase 3 cents a dozen, the duty rate, over the usual prices of 50 to 75 cents a dozen, Keach says. Most serious of the tariff provisions, he regards the proposed 2-cent-a-pound duty on cabbage. Mexico, Cuba and Porto Rico ship cabbage to the United States. Usual prices are from 2 to 5 cents a pound. The proposed tariff duty practically would double cabbage prices. "The lowly cabbage would come into its own as a luxury,” Keach comments. Grape Fruit Trade Menaced Duties of 2 cents a pound would be placed on celery and lettuce, duty of 1V cents on onions and duty of 2’i cents a pound on dried beans. Cheaper beans used in this country are imported from Madagasar and Japan and the usual price of around 10 cents a pound would be increased 2ts cents by the tariff. “The most serious section of the proposed measure, from a national standpoint, is the tariff of cents placed on grape fruit, however,” Keach declares. “This would affect the importation of grape fruit from Porto Rico pnd the Isle of Pines, British owned. The tragic thing about the situation is that the growers on the Isle of Pines largely are American school teachers who invested there. "The tariff would give Canada the opening to adopt retaliatory measures and refuse to use Florida grape fruit, which is exported to Canada in large quantities. Might Mean Rain for Nation “The entire tariff proposal, with the high rate placed on bananas, would mean a tariff war that might spell ruin for the country. Retaliatory measures against our apple exports alone would break apple prices in this country and mean ruin for himdreds of growers. “In 1925 this nation exported 1,851.566 barrels and 2,579,831 boxes of apples. In 1927 the total had jumped to 2,841.551 barrels and 4.285.837 boxes. In 1929, up to Nov. 30. the exports had reached the astounding total of 1.982,300 barrels and 5,613,676 boxes, a figure that was increased before the end of the year. “Refusal of foreign countries to accept these apples would mean chaos in the apple growing industry of the United States. Foreign growers, especially of bananas, resent the agitation of American apple growers for a high duty on bananas.” Other proposed duties on green fruit and vegetables in the tariff measure are 3 cents each on egg plants. 3 cents a dozen on cucumbers, 2 cents each on squash and 12 cents a pound on turnips. Hourly Tempei stores 6a. m 66 10 a. m 78 7a. m 69 11 a. m 80 Ba. m...,. 73 12 (ncpn).. 80 9• m 76 Ip. m..,.. 79

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Author Proposes Easy Divorces for 5 Cents Bn United Press NEW YORK, May 23.—“ Divorce ought to be so easy that it could be got at Woolworth's for 5 cents,” said Cosmo Hamilton, English author and playwright. “Perhaps if you paid 10 cents, it might give you more social caste,” he added. “But 5 cents would be quite enough.” Incidentally, he volunteered the information that he had h;3 ex-wife as a guest in his London home for six months in 1929.

BRUTAL EXECUTION OF DOGS CHARGED Humane Society to Probe Methods of Killing Stray Canines at Peru; Shooting, Burning Is Criticised. Investigation into the manner in which stray dogs are executed in Peru, Ind., loomed a probability today at the annual meeting of the Federation of Humane Societies of Indiana in the Severin. Informal talks in the convention told of rumors that the dogs were slain by being thrown alive in an incinerator at Peru. Discussions on the floor were based on reports received by Mrs. R. A. McCulloch of Ft. Wayne, secretary of the federation. Called by telephone, members of the Peru police department told The Times the canine strays are shot with revolvers and thrown in an incinerator after death. ~

G. M. Redmon. Peru patrolman, told The Times, “The whole police department are the dog catchers. When we get a good dog we keep him, of course, but the others are taken to the incinerator up on the hill and shot and then thrown in the incinerator.” Reports made to Mrs. McCulloch aver that wounded dogs, still alive, have been placed in the burning vault. Members of the humane federation were told a report had been received of a mother dog and four pups being burned to death on one occasion in Peru. “This matter will be taken up by the new officers and presented to them for their action,” William P. Hargon. Indianapolis, president of the federation, decided. The federation was to elect its officers late today. Proposal to request county authorities at Peru to make a probe of the alleged charges was discussed. In commenting on the method of canine execution used in Peru, Dr. Elizabeth Conger, head of the Indianapolis dog pound, said: “Shooting dogs is not good practice. “In fact, it’s a violation of the state law’, I believe, if dogs are not put to death humanely. I’ve seen them shot, and unless one’s a good marksman, it takes sometimes two and three shots to kill them. “We use chloroform, and we’re not economical in its use. There’s always a chance that a dog after being shot is not dead when placed in the incinerator.” BANDIT RAIDS REPORTED Outlaws Loot Shops in Nicaraguan Cities, Say Dispatches. Bn I'llited Pirns MANAGUA, Nicaragua, May 23. —An armed force of bandits was reported to have looted 100 shops at Uani and Siuna, in the PrinzApolka district, national guard headquarters announced today. The leader of the band was said to be the outlaw Pedrow. A national guard patrol went to the scehe. READY FOR POPPY DAY Lcgicn Auxiliary to Sell Flowers Saturday to Aid Veterans. Saturday’s “poppy” day. A corps of members of the members of the American Legion women's auxiV-'-y of the city will be on street corners selling poppies for the relief of disabled veterans of the World war and their families. The ponpies are artificial and were made by veterans now ill in government hospitals. Mrs. R. R. Thomas, 1544 Ashland avenue, is in charge of the ’ocal drive.

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Swift Love Comes Unwanted — A Thief Robbing Youth of Job * - \ Didn’t Know Her, but the Girl Kissed Him, Whispering Endearing Terms, and He ‘Hollered’ for the Cops.

Bu t'nitrd Prrsw AURORA, 111., May 23.—Love that came swiftly, unexpectedly and unsolicited has driven Robert Van Winkle from the job he liked so well. Van Winkle knew everybody and every chipmunk along the twentytwo miles he piloted the trolley car between Aurora and Elgin. Folks called him Bob and he did errands for them. Just 22. Bob was so much in love with his job of motorman-conductor that he hadn't any time to think of women. So the other night he paid no particular attention to a girl passenger—the only one on his car—as he piloted the trolley along the banks of the Fox river toward Aurora. Nor did she. so far as he can recall now, pay much attention to him. until— The- arrived in Aurora, and Bob walked through the car to change ends, preparatory to starting back to Elgin. He had taken the trolley pole'off so the car was fairly dark, but it wasn't d*rk enough to keep the strange young woman from throwing her arms around his neck and planting several kisses on Bob’s hitherto unkissed lips. Between times she whispered into his reddened ears that she loved him—or at least that’s the story he told to Police Magistrate Weber in Aurora as he p—sed charges of disorderly conduct -~rinst the girl, Miss Marie Koch, 19. and pretty. “What could I do. judge?” Robert complained, blushing again at the recollections.

WOMAN SLAIN BY GANGSTERS Husband Held by Police; Quarrels Reported. Bn United Press CHICAGO, May 23.—Four gangsters and the husband were questioned today as police attempted to pierce the mystery surrounding the murder of Mrs. Marie Pelletier, 49-year-old housewife, as she returned Thursday night from the grocery. The gangsters, members of the notorious “42” gang, were arrested early today \frhen they threw a purse from the automobile as they fled from a squad car. The husband, Louis, was taken into custody for questioning shortly after his wife’s body was found a few paces from their Berwyn home. She had been shot twice, once in the heart, and her purse was missing. The pocketbook the hoodlums threw away answered the description of Mrs. Pelletier’s and was sent to Berwyn police for identification. Neighbors said Pelletier and his wife quarreled almost constanly, and another witness, Richard Wilder, said Pelletier was absent from the house at the time his wife was murdered. EXTEND CRIME QUIZ Select Columbus, Ind., for Social Condition Study. Columbus (Ind.) has been selected by the state crime commission as a laboratory in which to study “typical social conditions” as they exist today, it was reported by C. Oliver Holmes, state senator, member of Hie commission, on a visit to the Governor's office. Through the efforts of Superintendent Donald DuShane of the Columbus public schools, invitation to the commissioners to use Columbus for the crime study was received from the Chamber of Commerce of that city, Holmes said. Relatives, but Strangers SEYMOUR, Ind., May 23. Changes wrought in Ray Johnson and his mother, Mrs. Lizzie Johnson, in the eleven years they had been separated, were so great that neither recognized the other when they met here.

“I couldn’t leave my post of duty, and I couldn’t get loose from her. So I hollered for the police. When I want a wife, I’ll pick her out.” Miss Koch also blushed. Judge Weber looked out the window over the balmy countryside.

NANCY IS HAPPY IN HINDU GRANDEUR

Former U. S. Girl Begins Education of India’s Baby Princess

BY RICHARD D. M’MILLAN United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, May 23.—Amidst the splendor of one of the Maharajah of Indore s gorgeous palaces, high tip on the hill station of Moosorie in the united provinces of India, th: j American maharanee. formerly Nancy Ann Miller, has begun the education in Hindu fashion of her 15-month-old baby, Princess Diva.

The maharanee thus is keeping the vow she made before the sacred Hindu flame a year ago when, m the great chateau at St.. Germaine-En-Laye, the baby was named according to the sacred rites of the faith. After the ceremony, the maharanee discussed with the Indian priest, Karandikar, arrangements for the education of the child by caste Indians. It partly was to carry out her scheme that Nancy Miller sailed six months ago with the maharajah and their small army of retainers for India. Most of the time they have spent in the maharajah's principal palace at Indore, surrounded by opulence and luxuory unrivaled even in the Arabfan Nights. In spite of the splendor of the shining white palace with its shimmering domes and turrets, the

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maharanee has led the simple life, spending much of her time walking in native dress with her husband and the rest with her baby.

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MBRIDE HINTS HOOVER DRIER THANCOOLIDGE ‘Previous Regime Not as Good,’ Senate Lobby • Probers Told. RELUCTANT TO ANSWER Bishop Cannon, Dr. Wilson Called Before Inquiry for Next Week. Bit T'llitrfJ Prefix WASHINGTON, May 23.—The Coolidge administration was not as favorably esteemed by the drys as the Hoover administration, F. Scott Mcßride, general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League, admitted reluctantly before the senate lobby committee today in concluding his seven days of testimony before the committee. Mcßride’s statement came after he had made a vigorous defense of Secretary of Treasury Mellon's part in prohibition enforcement, saying Mellon has gone “just as far in enforcement as his superiors wanted him to go.” s, “Do you think then the previous administration was not as good as this one?” asked Chairman Caraway. “Well, yes,” Mcßride replied. After concluding the questioning of Mcßride, the committee questioned briefly Edward B. Dunford, counsel for the league, and then adjourned until Tuesday. At that time it will hear Dr. Clarence True Wilson of the Methodist Board of Temperance. Prohibition and Public Morals. Before today’s hearing in the investigation of prohibition lobbying opened, Chairman Caraway announced the committee has called Bishop James Cannon Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to appear next Wednesday. Cannon leader of the anti-Smith movement in Virginia during the--198 presidential campaign, will be asked to explain his stock market and political financial operations.

Seeks Safety Bu Unit est Prr/ts KINGSTON, N. C„ May 23. A Lenoir county farmer again has deposited his $4,000 in a Kinston bank, after keeping it buried near his home since 1920, when he became frighttened over business depression. It was said the man worried continually for fear the money would be dug up by someone.

POPE LAUDS WOMEN FOR FASHION STAND Praises Catholic League's Condemnation of “Indecency in Dress.” Bn United Pn ss VATICAN CITY, May 23.—Resolutions of the international council of the Women’s Catholic Leagues condemning “indecent fashions,” were praised today by Pope Pius when he received three hundred members of the council. The council, in session here, criticised low-necked and shortsleeved dresses as well as dresses that are close fitting. They recommended ankle length skirts, wrist length sleeves and nontransparent stockings. The council suggested a boycott of “indecent fashion models in fashion magazines.”

“Well, now Bob,” he decided, “you can't be too stern these spring days. I’ll let the girl’s family handle the case. Disorderly conduct charges dismissed.” Bob, however, is taking no more chances. He resigned.

Dreams of Jules Verne Outdone by Scientist's ‘Television Eye *

BY THOMAS G. FORD United Press Staff Correspondent SCHENECTADY, N. Y., May 23. New wonders of science, more spectacular than the wildest dreams of Jules Verne and startling even to a generation hardened to scientific marvels, appeared in prospect today as Dr. E. F. w. Alexanderson prepared to test the "television eye” of which hetold at a dinner here Thursday night. Dr. Alexanderson, foremost American radio and television expert, told of a new development in electric sight which would enable an army to map enemy terrain or pick out gun targets with safety from great distances. In peace time the “eye” would enable theatergoers to see on the screen the

actual events at a fire, flood, civic celebration or other happenings as they are taking place. This would be accomplished by installation of television broadcasting apparatus on board a radiocontrolled plane.

ZEP REFUELED FOR NEXT HOP Rio de Janeiro Start to Be Made Late Today. Bv I nited Press PERNAMBUCO. Brazil, May 23. The passengers and crew of the dirigible Graf Zeppelin stretched their legs in Pernambuco today after a 3,700-mile journey lasting fifty-nine hours across the South Atlantic ocean. Some of the passengers were a little shaky when they, stepped from the dirigible at 7:20 Thursday night (4:20 p. m. central standard time) after the long period of suspension in midair, but they regained their land legs quickly and lost no time in beginning a round of sightseeing. They were given a full day for it. Dr. Hugo Eckener, commander of the dirigible, altered his original plans and decided to reiuel the ship today, departing about nightfall for Rio De Janeiro, where he expected to land early Saturday. Dr. Eckener said meteorological observations he made convinced him the route the Graf Zeppelin followed would be feasible for a regular trans-Atlantic commercial service, provided the necessary capital were raised. The Graf Zeppelin left Seville Tuesday morning after a twenty-five-hour flight from Friedrichshafen, its heme port. After passing over Cadiz, less than two hours flying time from Seville, the ship was over water the entire way except for the few island groups passed. Nineteen pasengers, of which five were Americans, and a crew of forty-three made the flight. LOUISIANA MENACED BY FLOOD WATERS Red River at Peak; Suburbs at Shreveport Inundated. Bn United Press SHREVEPORT, La., May 23.—Red river, at flood peak, due to incessant rains, splashed against levees near here today and backed up into subiirgan sections, several of which were knee-deep in water. Inhabitants cf Broadmoor, a residential suburb, prepared to leave their homes as Cross bayou, which empties into Red river, sent its flood waters through streets. Shreveport proper was in no danger, as it is on a promontory behind strong levees. Several highways were under water. Natchitoches (La.) reported a flood stage approximating that of the 1927 overflow. Red Cross aid was asked for sufferers in Clothiersville section, where 30,000 acres were under water. DRYS ATTACK MORROW NEWARK, N. J., May 23.—With an attack on the stand of Ambassador Dwight F. Morrow as a “deliberate proposal to return to the did conditions preceding national prohibition,” the Anti-Saloon league of New Jersey today launched an organized drive for the nomination of Franklin W. Fort as Republican candidate for the United States senate.

Tended by old and trusted retainers of the Indore fanily, the little princess has become a fine, healthy infant, although troubled somewhat with the torrid heat, as mas Miss Miller when she made her first visits to India. n n n nun THE family now has moved to the hill station at Moosorie to escape the sweltering mid-summer which makes the plains unbearable to white people. The maharanee claims she is perfectly happy in the life and religion she has chosen. She says she does not regret for a moment that she embraced the faith of her husband, by whose side she took the mystic oaths of Hinduism in the sanctified waters of the river which runs near the Indore palace “If I were to live my life again, I should do just the same thing,” she is quoted as saying. “East may be east and west west, but I have found that the two can meet. My husband and I can be as happy walking arm in arm in the Rue De La Paix in Paris as we are under the shining stars of an Indian summer night.” The maharajah and maharanee will return to Paris for the autumn and their beautiful chateau at St. Germain-en-Lye now is being refurnished, with special rooms decorated with themes from Indian mythology for the baby princess. The child will have a playroom which will be filled with the most bewildering array of toys imaginable, mostly gifts from Indian potentates and the friends of the maharajah in India.

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sent 20,000 miles by television. He revealed that he was tef sail today aboard the airplane carrier Saratoga for Panama as guest of the navy to test the practicability of the new device.

Judge Rules a Wife Must Keep Trim Lines Bn United Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., May 23.—She lost sixty-three pounds worrying over the way ner husband was treating her, Mrs. Ruth E. Warnick testified in her divorce proceedings—but the court did not regard that loss as a calamity. Rather, Judge Drew, the presiding jurist intimated the loss of weight might have been beneficial. “How much do you weigh now?” he asked. “One hundred and nineteen pounds,” she said. “You weighed too mifch,” the court commented. The judge has not yet rendered a decision on the case.

STATE STRIKES AT ‘BOOTLEG GAS’ RING

Tables Turned En Times Svreinl ST. ALBANS, Vt„ May 23. Harold Joselin of Waitsfield has paid $298.29 to the Central Vermont railway to cover damages which resulted when his automobile collided with a train at a grade crossing. The settlement out of court tyas effected after the railway had brought action against the motorist, charging that his negligence caused the mishap.

BUNG NEWSIES ■ THEFT VICTIMS Stealing of Pennies Brings Appeals for Aid. ‘Another obstacle confronted blind Indianapolis news dealers in their struggles for existence today. Thieves —those who steal pennies from the news stands—are harassing them. Reports of the petty thefts in pennies, papers and magazines have been made by some of the dealers. In several instances one dealer said, thieves steal the money and merchandise from dealers while they are away from the stand getting papers or a bite of food. Mrs. A. R. Nelson, who determines the denomination of the coins handed her by feeling the money, made her complaint today. She asked regular customers to aid her in watching for two men who have been loitering around the stand at Ohio and Meridian streets. She said after their visits she has missed change and merchandise. HURT IN AUTO CRASH Walter Peterson Thrown Through Windshield of Car, Emerging from a driveway on National road, west of the city, today, a coupe driven by Walter Peterson, 36, of 136 South Edgemont avenue, was struck by a sedan driven by Fred Gerberding, Louisville. Peterson,- thrown through the windshield, was injured seriously ’and was taken away from the accident still unconscious, before deputy sheriffs arrived. Dr. C. B. Thomas. Plainfield, is said to have driven Peterson either home or to a hospital for treatment. The coupe was demolished.

DIRECTED from a land station or another plane, the “eye” could be flown over a given area, recording and transmitting to the control station the scene below. Thus, a news reporter could go with the plane and describe the happenings for millions of theatergoers simultaneously, the voice and scene emanating from a screen as n the ordinary talkie. “What will this mean in the wars of the future when a staff officer can see the enemy through the television eye of his scouting planes or when they can send a bombing plane without a man on board, which can see the target and be steered by radfo up to the moment It hits?” Dr. Alexanderson asked. The scientist said images had been

Receivers Are Appointed for Two Lake County Oil Firms. Appointment of receivers for two Lake county oil companies means stemming the flood of “bootleg” gasoline and will bring the state approximately $125,000 in back taxes and fines, State Auditor Archie Eobbitt announced today upon his return from Gary. Bobbitt took action against the companies following an Indianapolis Times expose of how Hoosierdom was being flooded with tax free gasoline. After investigations in Lake county and Chicago by Leland K. Fishback, state gasoline tax collector in Bobbitt’s office, and Earl Stroup, deputy attorney-general, Bobbitt instituted the receivership actions in Lake superior court at Gary. Bore Distillate Label He charged the Knickerbocker Refining Company at Hammond with beating the Indiana gasoline tax law to the extent of shipping 234 tank cars, bearing the label “distillate,” and containing 1,872,000 gallons of low grade gasoline. The refinery was said to mix casing head gasoline with distillate and to sell the product to cut-rate gasoline filling stations without paying any tax. The receivership action asks damages and back taxes to the state totaling $100,090. Frank Greenwald of Gary was appointed receiver and will sell the entire plant, Bobbitt said. In the interim, Bobbitt has obtained an injunction forbidding the company or any officers of the company to engage in the manufacture or sale of gasoline. Chicago Men Involved George W. Bowen of Calumet City is president of the Knickerbocker company and Poole Harrison of Chicago is secretary and treasurer. Bobbitt attributes much of the flood of tax free gasoline to Harrison and a partner, J. F. Connor of Chicago. They are officers of the Reliable Oil Company of Illinois, whose operations through the Dunes Oil Company at South Bend first brought to light the “bcotleg gas” business. President Louis H. Joers of the Dunes company paid SIO,OOO in back tax and fines and was permitted to continue operation of the South Bend stations. Several other cut rate stations he turned over to Joseph Fate and Malcomb Clark of Crown Point. Son of Fifield’s Aid Fate is the son of Clarence Fate, investigator for the state securities commission in the office of Secretary of State Otto G. Fifield. Fate and Clark intend to keep selling the cut-rate gasoline, but pay the tax, Clarence Fate explained. The stations were located in Lake and La Porte counties. Closing of the refinery has cut off the low grade gas supply, it was said today. The second receivership launched by Bobbitt was another distributing company for the refinery operating several Lake county stations. It is the Riverside Oil Company and the court appointed James McCartney of Crown Point receiver. GOLD STAR MOTHERS ACCOMPANY VETERANS S. S. 'lie r—'res at Cherboug; C-> Way to London. Bit I'nitcd Pren* CHERBOUG, France, May 23. The S. S. Republic arrived today with war veterans of the Twentyseventh division on their way from the United States to London for the division’s annue 1 convention. The convention will be followed by a pilgrimage to the battle fields and cemeteries of France and Belgium. A group of 260 gold star mothers visitin'* war cemeteries in France rcccmpanied the veterans.

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BARE DRINKING BY WOMEN AT GOLFCOURSE Park Board Hear Charges of Their Highballs in Men’s Rooms. TICKET PROBE IS HELD Defer Ruling on Alleged Shortage of Riverside , Manager. Women have been drinking liquor in men’s lockfer rooms at the Riverside municipal golf course, several witnesses testified at the trial of Camilla (Count) Rosasco, course manager, before the park board Thursday, as result of an alleged shortage of 2,500 tickets. Indicating disapproval of the general policies under which the course has been operated, the board took the evidence under advisement until next Thursday when a decision will be reached. Probability that the entire force at Riverside will be "cleaned up' was hinted by a board member. “The practice of women drinking in men's locker roqpis should not be tolerated on municipal golf courses,” declared Jackiel W. Joseph. Would Not Stop Rosasco admitted that some prominent professional and business men of the city occasionally took a drink after a golf game. “They are prominent people and probably would not stop if I did order them to,” Rosasco told the board. Asked if every one who came to the club house drank, Nathaniel Gardner, Negro attendant, clad in a white coat, told the board: “No sir, just personal members who had more privileges than others.” “Was it good liquor or hooch,” asked Adolph G. Emhardt, board president. “It smelled awfully good, sir,” replied Nathaniel. Rosasco was unable to account for the absence of 2,300 tickets which he said were stolen from his locker, “If they ever were received.” No Record Kept No record of the tickets issued to managers was kept by the park board auditing department, the hearing disclosed. The auditing department has not used daily registration sheets for checking the manager's receipts against the ticket stubs, Miss Cora Hartman, auditor, said. Tracy Whitaker and J. D. Smither, state board of accounts examiners, testified they found three tickets of the series reported missing on the course in April. Ticket sellers at the course testified on two occasions Rosasco ordered them to collect money from players “when they were out of tickets.” Rosasco admitted that during March he was without tickets for about a week, but declared a record was kept and the tickets tom from the stubs when the books were received. Miss Hartman denied Rosasco’s statement that he reported a 2,500 block missing last September when he noticed they were absent from his locker. He testified the locker could be opened with a knife although it had a night lock pn it. > Testimony showed Rosasco received as much as S2O a week at “10 per cent commission” from caddies whj were on the course.

BROOKLYN BANKER IS SHOT BY GANGSTERS Raider Fires on Easterner as He Attempts to Escape Bu T'uitrrl Pre** NEW YORK. May 23.—Shot and seriously wounded by two men when he answered the front door bell of his home, George Neumann, 45. a Brooklyn banker, was in a critical condition today at a hospital. Neumann was eating breakfast when the bell rang. When he opened the door two men forced him back into the hall and forced him to keep quiet. One of the men went to the kitchen. Believing that harm might befall his wife, Neumann made an attempt to escape, and was shot by the man covering him. Both men escaped in an automobile. EX-CONVICT ADMITS RUM WITNESS KILLING Bu United Prr ** Bu United Pert* SAN RAFAEL, Cal., May 23. Vincent Lucich, former convict, faced charges of first degree murder today in connection with the slaying of M. G. Sturtevant. government liquor trial witness, Henry Orler, district attorney, said. Lucich surrendered to San Francisco police and admitted he fired the shots that killed Sturtevant and perhaps fatally wounded Mrs Grace Berri, Sturtevant’s companion. The shooting took place on a lonely road at Tomalas, near here. Death Fellows 23 Operations Bu United Pr's* INDIANA HARBOR. Ind., May 23 *- -rse E. Reiiand, Lake county politic ! ?n, died In a Chicago hospital Thursday nl"ht of heart disease. Reiiand was former city Judge in East Chicago and city Republican chairman. He had undergone twenty-three operations.

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