Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 77, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 August 1930 — Page 11
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STATE PLANTS | SEE BUSINESS | ON MADE Construction Projects to i Give Work to Many Indiana Men. FACTORIES TO REOPEN .Warner Gear at Muncie to | Start Schedule of Full Production. I BY CHARLES S. STONE State Editor. The Time* ' Optimism is manifest in business fcircles throughout the state as rejjorts are received from all points that large construction operations Bre planned and factories are beginning fall production. Announcement has been made that Samuel Insull, mid-continent titility magnate, has ordered construction of additional power plants gnd power lines in the Calumet industrial district In a program calling for expenditure of $12,500,000. This construction is to start at jmce. The additional power plants (kill be the second and third units f>f the State Line Generating Company. which will be larger than the present building. Big Contracts Awarded Contracts for two new huge generators have been awarded, one to the General Electric Company and the other to the Atlas Chalmers Company of Milwaukee. The first generator will have a capacity of J 25.000 kilowatts and the second of £32.000 kilowatts. Construction contracts are to be let next week and work is to start Immediately. A $2,500,000 line also is to be constructed to supply power to industries along the Indiana Harbor ship fcanal. The power will come from the state line plant and the Youngtown Sheet and Tube Company. Indiana Harbor will provide the high tension cable for underground installations. Servel Cos. to Expand
An expansion program calling for the expenditure of $500,000 will be Started within the next two weeks by Serve!, Inc., at Evansville, according to announcement of H. H. Bprinfford, chairman of the board pf directors. The construction program will enable the plant to go ahead with manufacture of a full line of refrigerators. Full production will be started Sept. 1 at the new Warner Gear Company factory at Muncie, E. B. Baltzley. second vice-president of the company, announces. About fifty men now are at work testing machinery for the manufacture of 2.000 transmissions a day- When the plant is operating at full capacity, between 500 and 600 workmen will be employed. Normal operations will be resumed next week at the Ames Shovel and Tool factory at Anderson with a fiffl force of 180 men. The plant has been idle several fcionths pending erection of two new buildings replacing the section of the factory destroyed by fire. The buildings have been completed and practically all machinery installed. Large Contract Given What probably is the largest contract ever to be awarded a limestone company had been obtained by the Shawnee Stone Company, according to word from Bloomington. This contract calls for fortyfour mammoth sculptured figures, kixty-two classic sculptured panels and 950 feet of elaborately carved Parthenon frieze. This work, for the Chicago Museum of Fine Arts, Vcas not awarded in th*> original tontract upon which the central mill pf the company has been working pince the first of the year. The figure involved has not been dijrulged. Plans for the construction of a teew pumping station on White river at an estimated cost of $14,000 ha\e been adopted by Bedford city contract to pave East Ninth street from Washington to Indiana avenue in Bloomington for $22,700 fias been awarded to Buskirk & Dodds. With fall orders far in excess of kvhat they were at this time last $-ear Indianapolis industries are starting employment. Real Silk Booming ' The Real Silk Hosiery mills has Announced night and day shifts on Intensive production schedules. Noblitt-Sparks. Inc., reports heavy orders and the Heriff-Jones Company. manufacturing jewelers, which recently moved to Indianapolis, expects record business. Two large orders for contractors | Equipment to be used on hydro- j electric dam projects in Pennsyl- ; vania and Washington have been received by the Insley Manufacturing Company. Approximately 3.000 men are back bn the pay roll of the Big Four railroad in the reopened Beech Grove ghops and the Ford assembly plant here. With important plane manufacturers calling for its products, the Chevolalr Motors, Inc., is going into £ large fall production period. The Indiana Truck Corporation at Marion has announced the start cf production on a large line of school busses, which will be manufactured in addition to the light Rnd heavy duty trucks. FIRE FIGHTER TO RESCUE Pffera $5 for Police Motorcycle Only to Have Offer Refused. P < United Pres* ALEXANDRIA. Ind. Aug. 8 Rather than see another department humiliated. Herbert Wharton, fireman, made the ">nlv offer at an auction sale at which the Alexandria police department was attempting to dispose of a motorcycle However, Wharton's offer was only i5 and the policemen drtided not
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WORKS BOARD ORDERS LOW WAGESBANNED City Chiefs Rule Contracts Must Contain Minimum Salary Clause. Indianapolis board of public works today pointed the way to the state highway commission in the matter of preventing future labor wage cutting on state roads. Board members ordered that all future contracts for city public works will contain a minimum wage clause, preventing the contractor from paying less than 35 cents an hour for common labor. No reports of cutting below this figure have been received by the city government and the action was voluntary. The wage clause insertion was held legal by James Deery. city attorney. A. H. tyloore, city engineer, said all estimates of work are based on a 40-cent minimum wage scale, the same as tne estimates on state highway projects. Indiana contractors, who are members of the Indiana Highway Constructors, Int;., guilty of the practice of “sweating" labor on state roads at 20 cents an hour, however. it was asserted today by W. M. Holland, executive secretary.
Disclosure;- Made by Times • Indiana Highway Constructors, Inc., is composed of Indiana contractors who engage in public contract work. Fred Cunningham, brother of Miss Dorothy Cunningham, national Republican committeewoman for Indiana and head of the Cunningham Construction Company, is president of the organization. Disclosures of this price cutting on state contracts, which were figured at the 40-cent hourly minimum for common labor, have been made in a state-wide survey conducted by,The Indianapolis Times and Secretary Adolph Fritz of the Indiana State Federation of Labor. Twenty cent labor contractors named were from out of the state, or sub-contractors who cut the labor costs to make two profits, one being for the general contractor, who, in at least one instance, did no work at all. No 20-Cent Labor Hired Holland announced that a survey of his membership disclosed that no 20-cent labor is being employed. He submitted the following for publication: “Indiana Highway Constructors, Inc., an organization of* contractors engaged in public contract work in the state of Indiana, has conducted a survey among its members to ascertain the scale of wages for common. or unskilled labor. “The survey discloses the fact that the scale ranges from 30 to 50 cents per hour on the individual job, and common, or unskilled, labor comprises about 50 per cent of all labor on the average job. “Notwithstanding the fact that such labor can be procured for less, our contractors have not taken advantage of it. much to our satisfaction. “We have not advocated, nor are we in sympathy with a rate of wage that will not permit a decent standard of living.” Commissioner Jess Murden (Rep., Peru) stated today that he was "proud to learn” that Hoosier contractors are not largely involved in the unfair price cutting. When the commission meets next week he expects to introduce a resolution requiring restoration of a decent wage scale on all state work or blacklisting of the contractor in the future. It is expected that this will be given unanimous indorsement of the commission, since Chairman Albert J. Wedeking of the commission and Director John J. Brown of the highway department have condemned the price cutting practice-
Parents of Youth Slain by Negroes Denounce Lynching by Mob
BY HEZE CLARK Times Staff Correspondent FMAIRMOUNT. Ind., Aug. 8 Though grieving over the brutal murder of their oldest son. Claude Deeters, 24, by a trio of Negro holdup men Wednesday night. Mr. and Mrs. William Deeters. living on a farm two miles west of Fairmount, today refused to condone the lynching of the Negroes at Marion by a fljob Thursday night-
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Mob Menaces Police From Indianapolis
Leaders of the Marion lynching mob Thursday night threatened to overturn the Indianapolis police department emergency car if any attempt were made to remove a third Negro suspect from the local jail to a point of safety, according to Indianapolis police. Equipped with machine guns, automatics and tear gas, the local squad answered the call for aid, stayr-ff on duty in Marion until 3 a. m. The emergency car was driven by John Gish and manned by Sergeants Irvin Landers, Walter Coleman and Arthur Hueber and patrolmen Harry Bridwell and Chester Timmerman. Unknown to the mob, the prisoner was removed to the state reformatory at Pendleton by the sheriff from Huntington, Ind.
PASS FORMER PLANERECORD St. Louis Fliers Confident of Setting New Mark. Bv United Press ST. LOUIS. Aug. 8. Forest O’Brine and Dale Jackson piloted their endurance monoplane, Greater St. Louis, into the “home stretch” today in their attempt to set anew sustained flight record. With but five and one-half days remaining between them and the record, the former holders of the refueling title passed their 434th hour in the air today at 9:11. After surpassing their former record of 420 hours Thursday night, the fliers dropped notes saving they were confident of beating the present record of 553 hours, held by the Hunter brothers of Sparta, 111. In a note to the ground crew, O'Brine Thursday night directed that one of his automobiles be sold in order to help defray expenses of the flight.
DEDICATION SLATED Basket Dinner to Be Held at New Chapel. Dedicatory services will be held for the new Franklin Road Chapel building, Franklin road north of the National road, Sunday. The chapel will be conducted as a branch of the Tuxedo Park Baptist church. A basket dinner Sunday will be a feature of the dedication. The Rev. C. M. Dinsmore, Indiana Baptist convention superintendent: the Rev. T. J. Parsons, editor of the Baptist Observer: the Rev. Olive McGuire, executive secretary of the Federated Baptist churches of Indianapolis, will be speakers during the day. TRULA MAE SEAL IS BEAUTY, RACE LEADER Finals Will Be Held Sunday Night at Walnut Gardens. First place in the initial round of the four-day beauty contest under way at Walnut Gardens was held by Miss Trula Mae Seal, Indianapolis, today, following the first preliminary Thursday night. Audrey Foley, 204 North Walcott street, won second place, and Gertruda Ruschhaupt, New Palestine, third. The three will enter the finals Sunday night. Winners of the recent DelcoRemy contest will come from Anderson for tonight's contest. Judges will be Ted Brown. Electric League secretary, and Bromley House of Radio Station WFBM. The contest is state-wide.
"God will do the judging,” the mother sobbed when informed of the mob’s act. “I wouldn't have had this happen for anything. I don't believe in killing. “We are members of the Apostolic faith and we are taught it is wrong to kill.” “I can not believe the lynching was right,” the father said. “The Lord says, 'Forgive them for they know nowwhat they do.’ If only I
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 8, 1930
OFFICIAL U.S. POPULATION IS ANNOUNCED 122,698,190 Persons in Nation, Census Figures Indicate. CHANGES l(JI CONGRESS Twenty-Two States Will Lose 29 Seats in House. BY NATHAN ROBERTSON, United Press Staff Corre; pendent WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. The population of the United States on April 1, the date of the fifteenth decennial census, was 122,698,190, the census bureau announced officially today. This is an increase of 16,987,570, of 16.1 per cent, over the 105,710,620 total registered in the 1920 census. The total population of the United States and all its possessions except the Philippine Islands to 124,848,664, as compared with 107,508,855 in 1920. Together with the Philippines, not included in the fifteenth census, the total figure for the United States and all territories is expected to exceed 135,000,000. The census bureau also announced today the population of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia, which in addition to being an Index of the trend of population, is of political importance, in that it is used as a basis for assigning the number of seats each state will have in the house of representatives. Computations by the United Press, verified by government experts, reveal the representation of thirty-five of the forty-eight states will be affected by the new census figures. * 22 to Lose Congressmen
These computations show that unless the census bureau later revises the population totals, or congress changes the basis of reapportionment, neither of which is considered likely, twenty-tu T o states will lose twenty-nine seats in the house and thirteen states will gain an equal number. The population figures announced today are the first official totals available from the recent census for the nation and most of the states. Only sixteen state totals previously had been announced by the census bureau. The figures are still subject to future revision, though such changes are expected to be slight. The figures shown New York state has by far, the greatest population among the states, with a total of 12,619,503. Pennsylvania is second with 9,640,802, and Illinois third with 7,607,684. California Leads Increase California, however, led the nation in population increase, both numerically and on a percentage basis. The state’s percentage increase of 65.5 per cent was far ahead of any other, Florida being next with 51.4. In addition, and contrary to earlier estimates, California also led all in the number of new citizens. Its increase was 2,245,184 as compared with 2,234,274 for New York. New York, second in numerical increases, was ninth in the list on a percentage basis, gaining 21.5 per cent. All of the forty-eight states and the District of Columbia showed an increase in population except Montana, which dropped from 548,889 to 536,332, or 2.3 per cent. Georgia reported the smallest gain, 6,611, or .2 per cent.
Nevada Least Populated Nevada remained the least populated of the states although a gain of 17-5 per cent was shown. Its 1930 total was only 90,981. The rapid growth of California is reflected in the reapportionment figures. The far western state will gain nine congressmen, giving it a total of twenty instead of eleven. Michigan is the next biggest gainer, with seventeen instead, of thirteen house seats, while Texas has a g?.:n of three, from eighteen to twenty-one. Missouri Big Loser Missouri, as expected, will be the biggest loser, dropping three seats. An unexpected change will be loss of one seat for Massachusetts, while other unlooked for changes are the elevation of Arizona and New Mexico from the group of states having only one representative. Recent estimates also were revised for Oklahoma, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Oklahoma will gain one seat, instead of returning its present eight, Pennsylvania will drop two seats instead of one, and Wisconsin will lose one instead of retaining its present number, eleven. KIDNAPED AND ROBBED Filling Station Attendant Is Victim of Two Bandits. VKidnaping Samuel Earnest, 29, of 2927 West Michigan street, Hl-Way filling station attendant at 1701 West Michigan street, two bandits robbed him of S4O, after driving him to Michigan and Lansing streets, Thursday night. A Negro grabbed a large butcher knife from a meat block in a Standard store at 801 South Capitol avenue Thursday to rob James Combs, manager. 901 South Illinois street, of $25.
had my son back, that’s all I would ask.” Surrounded by their remaining family of six sons and me daughter, the grief-stricken parents today arranged funeral services for the slain youthRites will be held at 2:30 Saturday from the Fairmount Friends church. There is no Apostolic church here. Burial will be inFPark cemetery.
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QUIET REIGNS IN MARION AFTER NIGHT OF HORROR, CLIMAXED BY HANGINGS
(Continued From Page.l) death of two victims and somewhat horrified at its own act, did not attack again. At midnight word arrived at the sheriff’s home, which is in the jail that an “indignation” meeting was being held in “Johnstown,” that section of Marion inhabited by the city’s 1,800 Negroes. Officers found between 400 and 500 Negroes meeting in the open, listening to speeches in which the sheriff was criticised for ordering his men not to shoot when the mob attacked the jail. The meeting was dispersed. Bodies Left Hanging Coroner Stout arrived from his home at Upland early this morning. He went immediately to the courthouse and announced he would cut down the bodies of Shipp and Smith. About 1,000 persons, milling about the lawns, unable wmehow to drag themselves away . l rom the vicinity of the two maples and their grewsome “decorations,” demanded that the bodies be left up, and they were. Early today, Sheriff Campbell refused to comment, further than to declare he believed the situation was under control. Backed by the additional officers, he believed he could prevent further violence and said there appeared no immedate danger of a race riot developing. Marion is a city of about 30,000 population. 1 Sheriff Defends Action “If a shot had been fired, three or four hundred persons, including women and children, undoubtedly would have been killed,” Sheriff Campbell said in reply to criticism of his orders not to shoot. “Dozens of the ringleaders openly brandished revolvers, and one shot would have been the signal for slaughter.” At tire height of the disorder, the mob, including lookers-on, numbered nearly 20,000, Police Chief Lew Lindenmuth said. Women, girls and children were numerous in the surging throng, screaming, clapping their hands and urging those in front of the mob to “kill those ‘niggers.’”’ As the two Negroes were being hanged, women and children laughed and clapped their hands, it was reported. Mob Well Organized Leaders of the mob were well organized, calm and collected and knew just what they were about, Campbell said. He and Prosecutor Harley F. Hardin attempted to dissuade the ringleaders from breaking in the jail door and were listened to for a few moments. The leaders fell back untij the roars of those farther back
Services will be conducted by the Rev. William Mulford of Detroit. The youth was wounded fatally and his girl companion. Miss Mary Ball, 19, of Marion, was assaulted brutally, when the Negroes drove up as Deeters was repairing a punctured tire, the youth related on his death bed, the father said. Young Deeters died Thursday afternoon from three bullet wounds inflicted by the bandits.
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in the maddened crowd urged them on- \ About twenty police officers and deputy sheriffs inside and outside the jail suffered as much from the several hundred tear bombs thrown as did the mob. As the gas brought tears to their eyes, those in the front ranks seized the jail lawn hose, spraying water around to counteract the fumes. Some of the gas bombs were caught by rioters and hurled back into the jail through broken window panes. Door Beaten Down After battering down the outside jail door with a heavy sledge, using a pipe for a crowbar, about a hundred men rushed into the jail, smashed the bullpen door and cell block locks, and began searching the six wings of the three-story jail building for their victims. The four Negroes, three' held in connection with the Deeter slaying arid a fourth, Robert Sullivan, 18, now also at the reformatory for a series of holdups, were locked in separate wings to facilitate questioning and to prevent their conversing. Smith was the first man seized by the mob, Robert Lock, white, held for wife and child desertion, told a vivid story of the mob’s visit to the first floor, west cell block, where Smith was found. 4 Smith Is Nervous He said Smith apparently was nervous and talked but little during the day. “He played several games of cards with the boys,” Lock related. “While the crowd roared and howled outside the jail, Smith turned to me and asked me to boost him into a metal tube, two feet by eighteen inches, through which extend levers controlling cell doors. I helped him hide in the tube, near the ceiling. “William (Spuds) Bernaul, Negro prisoner in the same cell block, but not connected with the crime, was the first man seized by the mob. When they started to drag him from the room, other prisoners whispered to the mob, pointing out Smith’s hiding place, to save the innocent Bernaul.” Smith did not speak when the mob seized him, Lock said. “He just walked out without flinching and met them like a man.” Smith first was hanged to the bars op the east side*of the jail. Witness said he probably was dead before the hanging, as he had been beaten cruelly and stabbed. Later his body was lowered and dragged down the street by the mob and hanged again on the courthouse lawn nSar Shipp. Shipp was found on the third floor in the "nut cage,” a movable cell ordinarily used for the violently insane. He had been placed there for “sweating,” to obtain in-
Mrs. Deeters said she did not believe her son and Miss Ball were engaged, unless they had become betrothed recently. The youth had been employed at the Superior Body Works at Marion, the father said. The parents were at their country home all night Thursday, despite reports that the father had been seen at the Grant county jail shortly mob stormed the
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formation, W. O. Miller, turnkey, said. Shipp was clubbed and beaten on the way to the courthouse lawn, one-half block from the jail. His clothes -were tom from him and a rough cloth draped over his nearly nude body. As the bodies dangled a bare five feet from the ground, souvenir hunters tore bits of clothing from them, one youth climbing the tree to cut off a short end of the rope hanging from the neck of one of the victims. Witnesses said Smith begged for mercy as the rope was placed around his neck. They added that as he was pulled up he grasped the rope to prevent strangling and he was lowered again by the mob* so his hands might be tied. Before being pulled up again he was stabbed. Phone Warning Sent Chief Lindenmuth said he had heard rumors all day Friday that “something might happen.” Hundreds of citizens, including several well-known business men, were seen congregating in the vicinity of the jail, conversing, he said. Sheriff Campbell said he had no warning of trouble until he received a telephone call from Mrs. W. T. Bailey, wife of a Negro physician of Marion. He rushed to the jail door, he said, and found the mob already collecting. Marion police were called, he added, and reinforced the four deputies. Both the sheriff and police chief were evasive when asked if none of the members of the mob had been recognized by officers. “We were so busy and excited trying to stop that mob that we couldn’t think of names, but we noticed faces that seemed familiar,” they agreed, * The mob leaders had taken precautions against removal of the prisoners- Sheriff Campbell said he found two tires flat on one side of his car, and one flat on another. The air had been let out through the valves. The mob was well armed, Bert White, deputy sheriff, declared. ‘“Give us the keys,’ they demanded as one flashed a gun on me,” White related. “I told them Search me, I haven’t got the keys.’ “Then they said, ‘All right, we don’t need them. We’ll break in.’ And they did.” Cameron today told reporters he first held the gun during the holdup, but became frightened and gave it to Shipp when he recognized Deeters. “ ‘What are you robbing me for? I know you,’ Deeters said,” Cameron claimed. At this point, Cameron is alleged t 6 have confessed, Deeters was marched through a cornfield to the bank of the Mississlnewa river and was shot.
jail, battered down the bars and lynched the two Negroes, they said. They first learned of the lynchings, the father said, when a friend of the family. Miss Esther Hawkins, called at their home at 2 a. m. today. “Claude, as he lay dying from his wounds, told us he was shot when he recognized one of the holdup men,” the father said. . a
CHEAPER MEAT FORECAST FOR NEXTWINTER Lack of Feed Expected to Force Killing of Stock by Farmers. WHEAT CROP IS SAFE Fear of Food Shortage Is Discounted by U. S. Agriculture Chief. Bu Science Seri ice WASHINGTON. Aug. 8. —No danger of actual food shortage is foreseen in the extreme drought affecting crops in wide areas of the United States, latest information obtained at the United States department of agriculture indicates. Luckily, the major portion of the wheat crop was harvested before effects of the continued heat had begun to tell and this means, at least, an abundance of flour for bread. Possibility of a potato shortage still looms, but is not yet serious. Meat, on the other hand, promises to be cheap. In fact, the fear is that it may be disastrously so for the farmer, as pasture lands are suffering and prospects for a normal corn crop lessen with each additional dry day. Two more weeks of drought would mean that thousands of farmers will be forced to kill their stock this winter because they will not have enough feed to last them through until the next crop. Such a forced marketing of stock would have the effect of lowering meat prices and involve serious losses to stock raisers. Wheat in Good Shape
Supplies of wheat already harvested and the additional spring crop that will be gathered from the northern states, if the drought there is not too prolonged, should partially compensate for the corn crop shortage, howeverWith the stock raising industry the worts hit by the drought, a milk shortage might be expected, but thus far the surplus supply of dairy products has sufficed and stood the dairymen in good stead in preventing a price slump. Luckily, the dairy communities of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern lowa have not been among the worst hit, although this season of the year normally is one of reduced milk production. Regions bordering the Ohio-Mis-sissippi river system from Pittsburgh to the Gulf and Montana and adjacent portions df North Dakota are worst hit by the heat wave and three-quarters of the average crop yield is the best that can be hoped for from these sections. There still is the possibility of crops above the average from New York, the New England states, and North and South Carolina, while portions of Wisconsin, lowa, South Dakota and Nebraska may still be above par. Hinges on Future Drought But surrounding the area of extreme drought on the borders of the Ohio and Mississippi, there is a large section which will yield slightly less than average crops, probably about four-fifths the normal yield. The picture painted for the whole country Is not so black, then, as might be expected, though certainly it does not look bright for many communities. This reckoning is based only on the present crop indications, however, without a calculation of the dire chances involved in continued and widespread drought. If there is no relief from the heat, the present picture is too optimistic. Chances of a hot, dry August following a hot, dry July are only one in eight, however, judging from the records of past years. While offering this reassurance for what it is worth, the statisticians of the United States bureau of agriculture left the duty of prophecy to the weather -bureau, which to date offers no promise of relief. Europe Hard Hit America is not alone in suffering abnormal weather conditions, according to information reaching the weather bureau. In central, south and western Europe, drought has threatened the wheat crop, especially hard hit in Italy. The condition in France is also bad, in Germany it is not so bad, while in England the crops have not yet been affected. Rain has come in England, so that the conditions there probably will be relieved. In Japan and along t£e coast of China it has been very wet in recent weeks, with many typhoons. In South America, where the seasons are reversed and it is now the middle of winter, the weather has been unusually cold. Reports from Australia, also now in winter, indicate that the Australian wheat crop is unusually good. DRIVER KILLED IN CRASH Woman Injured Severely as Bus Rams Parked Truck. Bn United Brest SOUTH - J, Ind., Aug. 8. A truck driver was killed and a woman bus passenger was injured severely today when a Greyhound bus crashed into the rear end of a parked motor transport seven miles west of South Bend. Valentine Witterodt, 29, Detroit, sleeping on the trailer of the transport, was killed instantly when the bus crashed Into the parked vehicle, telescoping the truck and trailer. Raid Nets 165 Quarts Beer tfu Times Special ANDERSON. Ind., Aug. B.—Police raided two residences on the “Acre,” Polish settlement, and confiscated 165 bottles of home brew beer and two quarts of alcohol. One man waj arrested for the alleged sale of intoxicants. The other resident was not at home whin the raider* entered hi* house, and he has since been a fugitive. *