Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1930 — Page 1

RECORD FLIER IS ANGRY OVER ‘WEARY’ NOTE Discord Between Brothers in Chicago Plane Grows After ‘Prank.’ STOP PLAYING UKULELE John Hunter Appeals for Censor on Messages to Keep Harmony. BY STANLEY WHITAKER, I'nitrd l*rrss Staff Correspondent CHICAGO, Julv 3—The flying Hunters have slopped strumming their ukulele and today began firing a series of notes to the turf of Sky Harbor airport, begging the ground crew to help them maintain harmony. John Hunter complained of “plenty of trouble ' with his younger brother. Kenneth. Decause of a note referring to Kenneth's weariness. The disagreement became known as the airplane City of Chicago neared the twenty-second day in its record endurance flight. At 12.40 the plane had been in the air 525 hours. The Hunters have not been seen to play their ukulele for more than a day and their only entertainment has been reading newspapers and listening to a radio. ! The newspapers are filled with headlines about them and the radio broadcasts are interrupted every fifteen minutes with flashes on the flight. Causes “Plenty of Trouble'’ The note that apparently cooled the gas-laden air of the tiny cabin of their Stinson-Detroiter monoplane was sent down by John Wednesday. In a humorous vein, so those on the ground thought, John said Beans (Kenneth) was getting sleepy and wanted to come down. Kenneth, however, according to a scrawled, lengthy message from John today, did not take it in that spirit, and protested. The result was an appeal by John to the ground crew to censor flight information and keep Kenneth in good humor. The note was addressed to “Walt and Al.” Walter and Albert are the brothers who fly the refueler. • Read this to yourselves. Who in blazes put that slush in the papers about Beans being worried and nervous? ‘“I only told that he was hard to wake up. and so am I. This caused plenty of trouble between me and him. He came near jumping out in a chute, end it wouldn't take a lot ■ to make me do the same. Now I want this corrected or this ship may I land quick. We want this stuff stopped.” All Is Not Harmony The note was the first real indication that, all was not harmonious aboard the City of Chicago. A note Wednesday indicated John and Kenneth disagreed on how long to stay up. but it was in an amiable j vein. Today's note was the only inter- j ruption in a quiet day during which | the refue'er Big Ben made its two ' hundred third contact. Other members of the Hunter family denied indignantly that the presence of Sheriff Matt POrten on the field below was any inducement for the endurance plane to remain aloft. Sheriff Patten had a writ ordering John and Kenneth to confer as soon as they land with several former partners and managers of an endurance flight in which the Hunters participated a year ago. Earning $5,000 a Day The writ charges the promoters and backers of the former flight hold a mortgage on the Wright J-6-300 motor of the City of Chicago and requests the Hunters pay the lien with part of the $200,000 they expect to earn through the present flight. For every day the Hunters remain aloft from now or they will profit i by almost $5,000. it was said. An ; oil Arm which promised SIOO for every hour the 420-hour record of • the St. Louis Robin was exceeded already owes the Hunters over SIO,OOO. Aim at Hunters’ Mark An Indianapolis plane, carrying Lieutenant Laurence Genaro. who was identified with two unsuccessful attempts to set endurance flight records in the Indianapolis Flamingo last summer, will go into the j air about Ju'y 20 to break the rec- j ord made by the Hunter brothers in the City of Chicago. Although. Genaro has no* announced the name of his co-pilot, it ! was learned today, that he is con- 1 sidering two fliers. Lieutenant C. O. Perry of Fairfield airport. Dayton. 1 and Lieutenant Everett C. Winings of Roosevelt field. New York. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 59 10 a. m 72 7a. m 65 11 a. m 74 Ba. m 68 12 (nooni.. 75 9 a. m 72 Ip. m 75

Cold Facts A hot ice oox caused a SSOO fir* damage at the Thomas Barra gry grocery. 3403 West Michigan street, at midnight Wednesday Fire, starting In the rear of the lee box, damaged the box S3M and the store building S2OO more.

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Tight on the reins—steady now—and oyer! No human track artist ever took his hurdles with more perfect form than Sandra of the Algonquin stables. Upper Left—Sandra carries Miss Lucy Link, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. Goethe Link, 4207 North Pennsylvania street, across on her first jump of the season. Upper Right—Dr. P. O. Bonham, Algonquin

ASK HOOVER TO CLOSEJALOON Mothers Arrange to Picket New York Speakeasy. Bu United Press - NEW YORK, July 3.—Mothers of St. Albans, Queens, who carried a fight on an alleged speakeasy to President Houser, made plans today to picket the place. The is within 100 feet of the public school. Mrs. Gilbert A. Wicks of the Parent-Teachers Association, said. St. Albans is a part of New York City. Placards proclaiming, “This is a speakeasy which the United States government will not or can not close,” will be carried by women pickets beginning Monday. Police told the women they were powerless to close the place. Federal authorities said it was up to. the police. Telegrams were sent to President Hoover, the department of justice and * Representative William F. Brunner <Dem.). President Hoover’s secretary replied the matter had been referred to the attorney-general. The latter’s department replied it had been referred to Amos W. W.. Woodcock, prohibition director. Brunner said he would give the matter immediate attention. * KILLED UNDER TRAIN Jobless Man Dies in Fall While Boarding Freight. Edward L. Eyster, 40. formerly of 601’ 2 Division street, was killed instantly this morning when he was ground beneath wheels of a freight train which he attempted to board at Colfax, Ind. Eyster, unemployed, moved his family to Colfax two weeks ago to reside with relatives. He is survived by his wife, Mabel; three children, Richard, 8; Verna, 10, and Delores, 3; four brothers, William Eyster. Elmer Eyster Jr. and Theodore Eyster of Indianapolis, and James Eyster of New Augusta; his father, Elmer Eyster Sr., Indianapolis, and a sister Clara, residing in Texas. CANTON NEWS IS SOLD * Mellett Newspaper, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Bought by Opposition. Bu United Press CANTON, 0., July 3.—The Canton News, ane of Ohio's most influential afternoon papers, has been sold to its :pposit:on. the Canton Repository, it was announced here today. The News was the paper of Don Mellett. the crusading editor who was assassinated for his activities against vice in the city. The newspaper was awarded the Pulitzer prize for Mellett’s work.

BABE RUTH JUST FLOPS AROUND LIKE A WHALE’ UNDER EFFECT OF LAUGHING GAS

BY GEORGE KIRKSEY lnitd Press St*# Correspondent NEW YORK, July 3.—Babe Ruth hit his thirty-first home run of the season, had a fingernail almost torn off and threw a violent spasm while under the effect of laughing gas in another eventful afternoon in the big ball player's career. After hitting No. 31 in the first game of a double-header against the Chicago White Sox. Ruth climbed up the wire screen in right field in the second inning of the second game trying to catch Carl Reynolds’ drive into the bleachers, and tore loose the nail on the ring finger of his left hand. With the nail hanging by one corner. Rutn had to be assisted to the Yankees' locker room.

riding club manager, takes the reins for the difficult obstacle and clears the gate. Lower Left—View of the Algonquin Club home and stables, located at Kessler boulevard and Thirtieth street. Lower Right—Bobby Mac Gill, son of R. A. MacGill, president of the club, on the bridle path with his mount, Lady.

Algonquin Riding Club to Be Opened in Party on Sunday. Formal opening of newly rebuilt clubhouse and stables will be celebrated Sunday by members of the Algonquin Riding Club, Kessler boulevard and Thirtieth street. Equestrian enthusiasts from the city and state have been invited to attend, according to, R. A. Mac Gill, club president. Latest equipment for accommodation of members and their mounts has been installed. Practice tracks and hurdles have been prepared on the club site of 148 acres, located near thirty miles of bridle paths along Kessler boulevard and the city park system. Dr. P. CX Bonham is manager of the club which has forty-four horses in its stables, practically all of which are personally owned. Other officers of the club are: Frank J. Haight, vice-president; M. H. Fuller, secretary; E. C. Badger, treasurer, and club directors, Mac Gill, Haight, Fuller, Badger and Mrs. William Low Rice. Broker Plunges to Death Bu United Press NEW YORK, July 3.—Guy B. Turlbut. 54, member of the firm of Munds & Winslow, brokers, committed suicide today by jumping from a tenth-floor window of his Riverside apartment drive.

Make the Old Vacation Bring in Some Dollars Touring or camping? Traveling or staying at home? Golfing, fishing, swimming, dancing or resting—or a medley of them? Which IS the best vacation? Vacation's in the air! Every one's talking about it. Now it is going to pay to write about it! And to snap vacation pictures! The Indianapolis Times each week during the vacation season will pay $5 to the person submitting the best 100-word letter describing: “Why I think my vacation was the best from the standpoint of the mental and physical benefit I received.” All Times readers, back from their vacations, are eligible. Tell where you went, what you did and why you think your choice was wisest. Then, in another vacation contest, The Times will award $5 each week to the person sending in the best vacation picture. Those regarded as possible winners will appear daily. On the back of the picture or on an attached piece of paper, write your name, tpgether with the names of those in the picture and the place the picture was taken. These photographs will not be returned. In each contest announcement will be made on Tuesday of winners in both divisions for the preceding week. The contests start next Monday. First winners will be announced Tuesday, July 15. A reader may compete in both "divisions” —letter and photo—if he wishes. Mail or bring your letters and snapshots to the Vacation Contest Editor, The Indianapolis Times.

STILL ‘MAD’ AT CHARLIE Lita Denies Chance of Patching Up ‘ Trouble With Chaplin. Bu United Press NEW YORK, July 3.—There is no chance of a reconciliation between Lita Grey Chaplin and her divorced husband, Charlie Chaplin, the film actor, she said on arriving aboard the liner Europa. She denied reports she is to marry either Roy D Arcy. the actor, or an European nobleman.

where the club physician decided that it would be necessary to pull the nail completely out. This necessitated ’aughing gas and Ruth had to wait whh' the gas equipment arrived. “Now' Brooker ain’t this hell,” boomed Ruth as he watched the blood drip off his finger. “Just when I was going great.” a a a RUTH S homer with Byrd on base in the fifth inning of the first game put him twentytwo games ahead of his 1927 schedule, the year in which he set his record of sixty. “Doc. this finger will be all right so I can play against the A's in Philly tomorrow, won’t it?” “Take it easy. Babe, and we'll see.” replied the club physician. Ruth strode back and forth

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‘TORCH MAN' TO PLEADMONDAY Schroeder to Be Arraigned on Arson Charge. Arraignment of Harold Herbert Schroeder in criminal court on a prosecutor’s affidavit charging arson will be held Monday morning. Hearing on a petition for a restraining order to prevent use of alleged “third degree” tactics in questioning the southerner, held in the High School road torch car mystery, was continued today by Criminal Judge James A. Collins, until Monday morning. Schroeder faces two arson charges, one affidavit being filed in criminal court and the second in the court of Justice of the Peace Edgar Dietz. It was on the latter affidavit that he was returned from Mobile, Ala. A murder affidavit also has been filed against him, but the county grand jury has failed to act on the charge. The restraining order petition continuance, the second on the petition filed by Attorney Ira Holmes, Schroeder’s counsel, whs made because of the trial of Irving Webster on blackmail charges, now under way in criminal court. Holmes is defending Webster.

•MUST BE GETTING OLD’ Woman, 102, ‘Guesses She’s Not as Young as She Used to Be.’ Bu United Press PHILADELPHIA, July 3.—Celebrating her 102nd birthday Thursday, Mrs. John Hartman told newspaper men, “I guess I must be getting old. for I don’t hear and see as well as I used to.” Mrs. Hartman had two birthday cakes because one would not hold the required number of candles for the birthday celebration.

across the room, looking somewhat sadly at his finger, and cursing his luck in no uncertain language. When the gas equipment arrived. Ruth said: “Now, Doc, don't pull it off until that gas has taken hold. I had Doc King cut me one time before the gas had put me to sleep and I could feel it.” man 'ITIT'I'PH Lyn Lary holding the * injured hand, Charley Ruffing, 200-pounder, holding him on the other side, and Kenneth Holloway, Earl Painter, Yankee trainer, and the writer holding his feet, the gas mask was placed over Ruth’s nose and he began to breathe deeply. As the gas began to*take hold,

BLUEBEARD,’ IS STATE CHARGE IN DEATH CASE Opening Statements Are Made at Greenfield Poisoning Trial. ELECTRIC CHAIR ASKED Mention of Former Mates Starts Legal Battle | Among Counsel. BY CHARLES E. CARLL Timet Staff Correspondent GREENFIELD, Ind., July 3. Portraying George Kolb, 55, Rushville farmer, as a Bluebeard, and as a Dr, Jekyll-Mr. Hyde, state’s attorneys today hurled at him accusations they assert they will prove in his trial as the alleged murderer of his third wife, Mrs. Edna Dagler Kolb, last fall. Led by Paul Benson, Newcastle, special state counsel, prosecutors demand that Kolb die in the electric chair for the alleged slaying. Opening statements in Kolb’s trial were delayed one and one-hdlf hours when defense counsel attempted to restrain the state’s attorneys from mention of deaths of his first two wives. After long argument, Circuit Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn ordered the state to proceed, advising the defense to offer objections to irrelevant references. Describes Visit Outlining Mrs. Kolb’s death, Paul Benson, special prosecutor, described a visit of the Kolbs to the home of her mother, Mrs. Eva Offutt, in Rushville Sunday, Oct. 27. 1929. There she was stricken with convulsions, Benson stated. Dr. R. O. Kennedy, called by the family, pronounced her a victim of strychnine poisoning. His questions as to what she had taken elicited from her admission that Kolb gave here a quinine capsule and took one himself before they left their home, the state declared. Immediately after her death, Kolb is alleged to have asked his brother-in-law, Clifford McGinnis, present in Mrs. Offuttls home, to call an insurance agent in Knights town, whose company insured Mrs. Kolb for SI,OOO in July, two months after their marriage. Against Her Wishes Benson said evidence would show that Mrs. Kolb had one S6OO life insurance policy v/hen she married Kolb, and that the second policy was taken out against her wishes. While friends searched the Kolb heme for clothing in which to bury his wife, Kolb sat a table staring at the insurance policy, Benson said he would show. Later he told another friend he had more insurance on his wife than most persons thought, Benson stated. Kolb declared to Dr. Kennedy, that if the insurance was not paid, “I am ruined,” the attorney declared. Benson had not completed his statement when court was recessed for lunch. Ten Farmers on Jury The jury selected Wednesday afternoon one minute before Circuit Judge Arthur C. Van Duyn adjourned court, is composed of ten farmers and two school teachers, all residents of Hancock county, living within a few miles of Greenfield. Jurors are: Charles M. Archer, Democratic candidate for county commissioner; Frank S. Boone, Vernie Narvelle, S. O. Olinger, Oscar Fuller, Arthur Campbell. Joseph Schwartz, Edison Doolittle, Otto Schramm, Maurice Holmes, Leonard Cook and Floyd Hines. The regular panel of talesmen, a venire of fifty, and part of a special venire of twenty-five were questioned by lawyers in the three days required to select the jury. STATE JJITIES GAIN Connersville Shows Way in Census Increase. Brt Time* Special WASHINGTON, July 3.—lncrease of almost 3,000 in the population of Connersville, Ind., and slight gains in the other Indiana cities of Crawfordsville and Frankfort, were reported in additional census returns made public here today. Connersville gained 2.958 from 12.859 in the 1920 federal census and Frankfort showed a 613 increase to 12.198. Crawfordsville’s boost was only 180 from 10,319.

Ruth grew uneasy, and then, with one mighty heave, almost wrested himself free from the half dozen men who were trying to hold him on the rubbing table. Ruth’s feet shot up in the air, lifting the three of us on the legend up and down like an elevator. Then the Babe cut loose with some of the fanciest cursing ever heard in any league. Then there was some more flopping up and down, with the Babe almost wresting himself free. a a a THE gist of Ruth's remarks was that he had it in for some so and so and that he was going to get him if he never hit another homer so long as he lived. The actual task of severing the nail was over in a flash and Ruth did not even feel it, he said later.

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By United rress CHICAGO, July 3.—Wynan King, 40. sideshow sword swallower, swallowed a dime and went to the hospital. Doctors used a bronchoscope to remove the coin from a bronchial tube. * an Song of Wheatfields Bu United Press COLBY, Kan., July 3—Five years ago applause swept ' across the footlights of the Metropolitan O.era House where Marion Talley, the girl from the Kansas wheatfields, sang her way into fame and glory in the world of art. Today Marion sat atop a noisy clattering machine, inaugurating the harvest, and smiling at her latest applause—the cheers of Thomas county farmers. The retired Talley was home —and happy. nun Danger Sign Is Up Bu United Press OKLAHOMA CITY, July 3. Hundreds of millions worth of Oklahoma City property may be without fire insurance protection if the present oil well drilling campaign within the city limits is carried out. nun “Lord Can Take Him ” Bu United Press NEW YORK. July 3.—Story of a mother willing to let her son die because “the Lord gave him to me and the Lord can take him away,” was told today by Justice Peter B. Hanon of children’s court, who said the boy’s life was saved by an operation ordered by the court. tt u tt And Now—Death Bu United Press SANTA FE, N. M., July 3.—W00 Dak San, Chinese slayer, offered his life for the use of his body for experimentation with the trachoma germ, will not have to make a decision. Governor Dillon today said the offer had been withdrawn and science will continue its search for a volunteer. Woo. then, unless granted a rehearing, will die in the electric chair. tt tt tt Liberty at Liberty Bu United Press PARIS, July 3—Search of American patriots in Paris for the classical French model who stood, right arm upraised and clad in yards of flowing cheesecloth to pose for the Statue of Liberty, must go down as a failure, for no one remembers who it was that posed for Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi. Forty-six years ago, July 4, 1884, France presented the statue to the United States. tt tt tt A Mattress With Feeling Bu United Press OSSINING, N. Y., July 3. Jack Levy tired of Sing Sing. So he sewed himself inside of a mattress which he just had finished making. At the prison gate, a truck taking the mattress away halted for inspection. Guards thumped the mattress heartily. Jack groaned. Today he was in solitary confinement. ###/-' What! Only One Wife! By United Press PARIS, July 3.—Sidi Mohammed, 19, youngest absolute ruler in the world. Moroccos first monogamic sultan in three centuries. and who rules over 5,000,000 Mohammedan Moors, started his visit to Paris today by placing flowers on the Unknown Soldier’s tomb. Sidi has but one wife, his cousin, although his palace is filled with concubines. He is on an educational tour. tt tt n End of the Prail? Bu United Press TORONTO, July 3.—Possibility that an unknown man who died in a hospital here may have been Ambrose J. Small, millionaire Canadian theater magnate, was investigated today. Small vanished Dec 2, 1919, after selling his theater holdings and receiving a $1,000,000 check. tt it ‘l’ll Clean 'Em Bu United Press FT. WORTH. Tex., July 3.—A good method to relieve the farmer is to “take the bucketshops off his back and the ticker tape from around his neck, so he can fight the boll w r eevil,” in the opinion of C. C. (Soapy) Moody, a Ft. Worth laundry wagon driver by day and a candidate for Governor of Texas by night.

As he gradually came out from under the gas, Ruth looked up and said quietly: “What happened, Charley?” addressing Ruffing, who also made his exit from the game on the wings of Reynolds’ homer. “You just flopped up and down like a big whale,” somebody remarked. Ruth’s finger was now being bandaged, and the pain started to set in. “Lordy, but that hurts. Doc.” “Take a dose of that morphine I gave you. Someone get it out of his hack pocket, there.” a a a SOME one got the tablet out of a smail box, and gave it to Babe and then he quieted down while the oandaging was completed, * . _

‘GLARING VOTE FRAUDS AND CORRUPTION DISCLOSED BY PROBE,’ SAYS GRAND lURY Session Ends Without Indictments, Judge Collins Is Told Lack of Funds Prevents Fixing of Blame. ELECTION IS BRANDED ‘FARCE’ Criticism Leveled at Council for Hampering of Quiz; Urge Legislature to ‘Erect Safeguards by Amending Laws.’ Sensational disclosures that fraud and corruption dominated the primary election this spring, were made today by the Marion county grand jury. Without returning indictments, the jury ended the probe into election fraud, reporting to Criminal Judge James A. Collins that lack of funds prevented fixing of blame for “glaring instances of corruption” unearthed since the investigation got under way six weeks ago. Recommendations that the state legislature “erect safeguards for the citizenry by amending primary laws to prevent elections from becoming farces” were made in the report. Criticism was aimed at the county council and “political factionalism” for hampering of the investigation. Jurors urged that the probe be continued by the succeeding grand jury.

STORES FAVOR EARLULOSING Most Merchants Reported Pleased With Ruling. Announcement that dow r ntown stores will observe a 5 o'clock closing hour, from July 7 to Aug. 29, has been well received by merchants, according to the Indianapolis Merchants’ Association. The 5 o’clock closing hour will not prevail on Saturday. Practically every downtown store is displaying cards announcing. the new ruling. Beg. \ning Saturday, July 5, the following members of the association will observe a half holiday on Saturday up to and including Aug. 30: The H. Leiber Company, Sander <fc Recker Furniture Company, W. K. Stewart Company, Vonnegut Hardware Company and Julius C. Walk & Son, Inc. Two stores will close a half day on Saturdays during July and August, from July 12 to Aug. 30: L. S. Ayres & Cos. and Charles Mayer & Cos. The following firms will observe the Saturday half-holiday, beginning July 12 and ending Aug. 23: The William H. Block Company, excepting the men’s furnishing and clothing department; Pettis Dry Goods Company. Rink’s Cloak House. Selig Dry Goods Company and H. P. Wasson & Cos. CONGRESS TO REST Longworth Expects End of Session Tonight. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. July 3.—Speaker of the House Longworth said, today shortly before the house convened, that he expected congress would clear up pending controversies today in time to adjourn by 6 o’clock tonight. After President Hoover had made known his insistent opposition to the World war veterans’ pension bill passed by the senate, congressional conferees today reached an agreement on the bill eliminating all the important senate amendments. # RHOADES IS VICTOR Murder Conviction Reversed for Second Time. Conviction of Dreyfus Rhoades, for murder of a Vincennes (Ind.) policeman, was reversed for the second time this afternoon by the Indiana supreme court. Rhoades was sentenced to die July 11 and had filed a petition for a stay of execution pending settlement of this appeal to the supreme court r The case now returns to the Knox county circuit court.

“What caused him to raise so much rumpus?” the doctor was asked. “Why that was because we didn't give him much gas. just enough to keep from hurting him when we pulled the nail out.” Ruth vowed as he was dressing in his white flannels and black and white shoes that he would play against tne Athletics today at Philadelphia. “We got a better team than those guys,’ he said, “and we ll be out in front of them soon. I like to beat them, and I’m going to play.” Others, including the doctor, seemed to think that Ruth will be out of the game for several days. If he plays he will have to grip his bat with three npgers.

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“Due to the shortness of time ana the limited facilities of this grand jury, we have been untile to fix properly the responsibility on persons who are responsible for glaring instances and examples ol* vice and corruption in the Mpy 6 primary,” the report' reads. Earl R. Cox, prominent Democratic attorney, acted as special prosecutor over the jury, snice .Judson L. Stark, prosecutor, was removed at the start through a request of the jury. Use of fictitious names, padding of ballots, importing of “floaters,'’ ballot mutilation and vote stealing were charged to precinct officials in the jury's report. "Results Most Astounding” “Results of our investigation in some instances proved most astounding to this body,” the report reads. “In one instance it was learned that 270 human beings entered a polling place in eleven and and a half hours on primary day. When the ballots were tabulated there appeared 458 ballots as having been cast, thus cleanly indicating 150 votes were cast illegally. “Only four precincts have been investigated by this jury, and many matters and facts established.” The Jury Indicated that other "revolting circumstances" are indicated “most strongly” in the Fifth, Sixth, Tenth, Thirteenth and Fifteenth wards and certain precincts in Wayne township. Complicity of votes cast for certain officials presents a situation "almost impossible of unraveling, indicating to this body that an undue interest was “manifested,” the jury found. County Council Rapped In one precinct, it reported, a candidate was declared the winfler in a certain race “when as a matter of fact his opponent was the victor by twelve votes.” “In a certain flat within a stone’s throw of the courthouse,” the report states, “votes were tabulated as having been cast from that residence when not more than onefiftf of the number voting had ever lived there.” Names and addresses of persons' appear upon poll books, despite the fact that many had moved away before the election. “Some were gone for weeks before the primary was held,” jurors asserted. “Poll book of the detention home fa county institution' bears names of persons who never lived there,” it was found. Further evidence that forty-four fictitious names appeared on the poll book of the Third precinct of the Seventh ward was obtained, jurors reported. “Elections Made a Farce” “This body has been unable properly to investigate the numerous other complaints from responsible citizens,” the report stated, “because of the attitude of the county council in denying $5,000 by which to finance the investigation. “The present county council is only a further illustration of the evils that have fastened themselves upon this community through a political organization that seems more powerful than either statutes or citizens. “It is needless to say that the unwarranted atttitude of the council has prevented this body from making as complete and thorough investigation as the facts and circumstances warranted and justified. “Unless citizens are aroused to the dangers now existing, which have made elections a farce—and the exercise of a vote franchise joke—orderly government in our larger communities will pass from the control of the citizens to that of the political boss,” the repoifc concludes.

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