Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 107, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1930 — Page 15
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APPROACH OF WINTER GIVES MINERS WORK Several Shafts Prepare to Resume Operation; Canning Factories Busy. ANDERSON GETS PLANT Large Plating and Polishing Business Will Emnloy About 200. BY CHARLES C. STONE, Stale Editor. The Ttmea Seasonal gains in employment m the coal industry and canning plants, and a few instances of larger forces in other lines, formed the only feature of a business survey of Indiana for the week ended today. The Peerless mine, near Sullivan, one of the largest producers in the southern Indiana coal field, is again in operation after several months idleness. In the same territory the Baker and Hamilton mines are in operation and it is said the Glendora shaft will be re-opened soon. In the Clinton section, two shafts Df the Ferguson Coal Company, Crown Point No. 5 and No. 6 mine near centennary, will resume operations soon. Canning Peak Late Canning plants arc now at the peak of activity, about two weeks later than usual, owing to lateness of crops maturing due to drought. At Elkhart, a majority of officials of industries believe there will be steady improvement in business from now on. The Chicago Telephone Supply Company, radio parts manufacturer, has a force of 400 at ■work compared with 700 at this time last year. The Henry Weis Manufacturing Company announces business volume the largest m its history. It employs a force of 100. An addition is being built at the plant of the H. E. Laßour Company, pump manufacturer. A plant of the Hanson, Van Winkle & Munning Cos., second largest manufacturer of plating and polishing supplies in the world, will be established at Anderson and will employ about 200 persons. It is planned to move plants to Anderson from Chicago and Detroit, which ivould bring the force to about 500. 1,200 Homes to Be Built A. W. Menkins, president of the American Engineering and Development Company, announces that within the next eighteen months, the company will built 1,200 homes within a radius of six miles of Hammond, the houses to cost from *5 250 to SB,OOO each. Construction has started on a $200,000 plant for the new Hammond Lead Products, Snc. The ctiy’s newest industry, the Lever Bros, plant, now has 150 persons on its pay roll, and expects to add workers until capacity production is attained early in the winter. Conditions in various cities of the Mate are shown in the following summary: Rushville—Production has started Hi the plant of this city's newest industry, the Electrostone Company, manufacturing a fireproof gypsum board used in erecting and equipping electric substations. Windfall— The Regal canning plant is working two shifts, employing both men and women.
Force to Be Increased Elwood— About eighty men will be kidded to the force of the MacßethtEvans Glass Company Sept. 22 (T hen increased production will be started. Shelbyville—Two business buildings will be remodeled to take care of an expansion program of the G. C. Murphy chain store. Twenty-five-year yeases have been taken on the buildings. Bids for the work mill be opened Sept. 19. Huntington—The local plant of the Cloverleaf Creameries. Inc., is to be enlarged at a cost of $50,000. Montpelier— The Hubbard Shovel Company announces employment of several more salesmen and that a SIOO,OOO advertising campaign has been started. Brazil—A sewage transfer plant ' (Will be erected by the city of Brazil at a cost of $12,000. Factory to Cost SIO,OOO Warsaw —Anew and larger factory for the American Brattice Cloth Company will be erected at a cost of SIO,OOO. . j Wabash The Wetzel Display Case Company plant, moved here; from North Manchester, will begin | production in about ten days. Auburn—The offices of the Au- , burn Automobile Company are being moved into anew $500,000 building. Evansville —Bonds for erection ol a $185,000 bridge here have been sold and construction will be started soon. Mead Johnson & Cos. has declared an extra 50-cent dividend on each share of common stock, placing it on a $5 annual basis. Increased sales permitted the extra payment, officials announced. Motorist Escapes Su Timer Special ANDERSON. Ind.. Sept. 12.—J. T. Hackerman, 45, Indianapolis, narrowly escaped serious injury when his automobile was struck by a Big , Four switch engine at the Jackson street crossing. He suffered minor lacerations. v Marriage License Destroyed v Sv Timer Special MARTINSVILLE. Ind.. Sept. 12. —Mrs. Merle Griffin alleges in a divorce suit filed here that Eugene Griffin tore up their marriage license, was guilty of other cruelty and compelled her to earn a living. They were married a year ago. Man Hurt By Auto Dies S>l United press TERRE HAUTE. Ind.. Sept. 12. Injuries suffered when struck by an automobile were fatal to Charles Jakes, M, Terre Haute. He died bf a fractured skull and other in- - juries.
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Stirring Up the Campus
Left to Right—Miss Irene Hiatt, Pauline Riley, Mildred Pogue, Nora Probst (center) and Lois Taylor. Batter up! Freshies in the box! There’s going to be a big stirring at Indiana Central college say these co-eds who appeared on the campus with mixing bowls to advertise the annual School Mixer which will start the collpge social season tonight. Faculty, students and freshmen will gather in the college gymnasium for a “get-acquainted" program, sponsored by the Y organizations.
G. O. P. FEARS LOSS OF WATSON’S AID
Hazers Out Bu Times Special GREENSBURG, Ind., Sept. 12.—Thirteen Greensburg high school students have been suspended from attendance for two weeks as the result of haz - ing several freshmen. Several of the freshmen are reported to have put up a fight against being taken into the country in automobiles and dumped out to walk back. Their parents made a protest to school authorities, and as a result 01/the suspension, effective until feept, 22, was ordered.
HIGH SCHOOL IS ‘WITHOUT HEAD' New Crispus Attucks Chief Technically Disqualified. Crispus Attucks high school technically has been without a principal since the opening of school Monday, it was learned today. Thomas Jefferson Anderson, new principal, who was named to succeed Matthias Nolcox, was found to be technically disqualified to serve as principal under certain rules of the state board of public instruction, Superintendent Paul C. Stetson said today. Although he holds an A. B. degree from Howard university and a master’s degree from Columbia university teachers’ col ege, Anderson lacked two hours’ credit in methods of physical instruction and history teaching. Stetson said. Until Anderson can make up the necessary qualifications. Stetson said, he was given a position as a teacher in the school under a temporary permit, and he and several other Instructors are handling minor details, more important matters being referred to Stetson. Stetson said the disqualification was purely technical, Anderson holding a life certificate as a high school principal in Pennsylvania.
WATERS WORKS BUYING BY MUNCIE CONSIDERED City Council Committee Favors Getting Data on Probable Purchase. Bu Timer Special MUNCIE, Ind., Sept. 12.—A public utilities committee of the city council has submitted a report recommending that steps be taken to ascertain the probable cost of purchasing the Muncie Water Works Company by the city. It is also recommended that an appropriation not to exceed $3,000 be made to carry on the committee's work. The committee was appointed July 7 by H. L. Parkinson, president of the council, to investigate and report on the advisability of the city buying the water utility. CHARGE MARRIAGE PLOT Police Hold Three for Selling Bridal Insurance. Bn United Press WICHITA, Kan., Sept. 12.—'Three men were arrested here charged under the blue laws w-ith selling “marriage insurance.” Tift holder was promised SSOO if he married within ninety days, and smaller amounts for marriages later in the year.
ASK LESS INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS
Indiana Bankers Favor Cut in Rate to 3 Per Cent. Bu United Press FT. WAYNE. Ind., Sept. 12.—A maximum interest rate of 3 per cent on time deposits in banks, compared with from 4to 5 1 *! per cent, now customary, is recommended in a resolution adopted by the Indiana Bankers’ Association in convention here. The resolution followed an address by Rome C. Stephenson of South Bend, in which he said that the reduction in interest must be made if deposits were to be safeguarded by sound banking principles. Stephenson contended that the depositor is less interested in the intcrejP rate than he is in sound-
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Inability to Complete His Linton Speech Worries National Chiefs. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN, Times Staff Corresnondent WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—News reports of Senator James E. Watson’s speech at Linton, Ind., Thursday, indicating that the Republican floor leader will be unable to carry the usual campaign burden during the next two months, came as a shock to national strategists in G. O. P. headquarters here today. v Watson had been slated to be Republican headliner throughout Indiana and to contribute a dozen or more radio speeches to the general campaign in the middle west. Watson was unable to go through with his opening volley at Linton. He paused for a fifteen-minute rest in the middle of his speech and then resumed in an effort to complete his text.. Urged to Leave Off Friends observed, however, that he was obviously overdoing and urged him to leave off before the end. After the rally national committeeman M. Burt Thurman announced that Watson's condition would necessitate sharp curtailment of the speaking program outlined for him between now and the end of October. Robert M. Lucas, executive director of the Republican national committee, called Senator Watson at Rushville this morning to inquire after his condition and to urge that he give up campaigning entirely for several weeks. “Feels 100 Per Cent” "The senator said he felt 100 per cent this morning,” Lucas said after his telephone conversation with Watson. “He explained that the only difficulty at Linton was that he has attempted to talk too long. He rested well Thursday night. He will remain at his home for a few days; For the immediate present he will make no more campaign speeches in Indiana. “We expect, however, he will be able to fill the engagement already made for a chain broadcast from Chicago early in October.”
CONTINUE WAR ON VICE Exclusive Cleveland Beer Club Is Raided, Business Men Held. Bu United Press CLEVELAND, 0., Sept. 12.—Police continued their onslaught against the city’s alleged “vice” resorts in a series of raids early today that netted thirty-five arrests, seventeen of them gangster suspects. Swooping down upon one of Cleveland’s most exclusive beer clubs, known as the "American Business Men’s Association Club,” a raiding squad arrested sixteen patrons. many of them prominent business men, and took them in an emergency wagon to headquarters where they were held several hours before being released. WAR HEROES VISIT CITY Belgians on Last Leg of 22,000-Mile World Tour. Lieutenant F. van Audenhove of the Belgium army and George Dufay, chevarlier of the order of Leopold, Belgium, World war heroes, were at the statehouse today collecting signatures. They are on the last leg of a 22,000-mile world tour wit ha Studebaker automobile, they are now taking to the Studebaker plant at South Bend. They report American roads the best of any country.
ness of the banking institution. He | said that there has been no com- | plaint since banks started charging small depositors a fee for thp serv- ! ice done them, and that there will be none when the interest rate is reduced. Frank Bi x ßernard of Muncie was i chosen president of the association, j to succeed Elmer W. Stout, IndianI apolis; Charles M. Neizer, Ft. i Wayne, was elected vice-president; | Hugh Miller, Martinsville, treasurer; ; Miss Forba McDaniel, Indianapolis, t re-elected executive secretary: Miss Mary S. Dennis, Indianapolis, asi sistant secretary, and Herman B. ! Wells, Indianapolis, field secretary. Stephenson, first vice-president of ! the American Bankers’ Association, ! was indorsed unanimously for the j presidency of that body. Perry county bankers won the trophy for the best record of bank management, efficiency and county organization wark.
INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1930
GAME WARDEN OFFICE ‘SAVED’ BY RAPPAPORT New Report Drafted to Keep Department Out of State Safety Body. EVANS’ CHARGES DENIED Lieber to Answer Article in Sportsman’s Magazine Directed at Him. Although Attorney Leo M. Rappaport, state crime commission member and head of the Indianapolis Family Welfare Association, was unable to arouse any interest in an investigation of prohibition by the crime commsisioners, he was successful in rescuing the fish and game wardens from the proposed department of safety and saving them to the conservation department, it was learned today. Anew, tentative report of the commission has been drafted and will be presented to Governor Harry G. Leslie and discussed at the commission meeting at the statehouse Monday. Leading changes from the first tentative report, submitted at the last meeting, are the dropping of the game wardens from the proposed safety department and recommending a policy of extension of the intermediate sentence law, rather than its curtailment, as reflected in 1929 legislation. Rappaport Voices Objection
Dr. Amos W. Butler, secretary of the crime commission, told The Times today that the game wardens were omitted in this new set-up “because some of the crime commissioners objected to their being included in the 4epartment of safety.” He did not know their reasons for these objections, he said. Rappaport voiced his objection to including the game wardens when the first report was read. He is a brother-in-law of Director Richard Lieber of the state conservation department, under whom game wardens now function. He also is attorney for the department. Functioning of wards and the fish and game division of the state conservation department are under fire from Representative H. H. Evans, Republican, Newcastle, president of the Southern Indiana Fox Hunters and the Indiana Fish, Game and Forest League. Charges Are Denied In the October issue of Outdoor Life, a sportsman’s magazine, Evans has an article entitled “Conservation in Indiana—a Political Racket,” in which hq charges Lieber collects Republican campaign contributions from the game wardens. Facsimile copies of checks, alleged to have been contributed by a former game warden to the campaign “kitty,” are reproduced. Lieber declared the article is fantastic, libelous and distorted to carry Evans’ point and he is preparing an answer to be published by the magazine. Friends of Lieber charge Evans with political aspirations and allege his assaults are for publicity purposes. To Remain With Lieber
The department of safety plan of the crime commission calls for a bi-partison safety board of four members appointed by the Governor which will be charged with administration of the state police, criminal identification bureau, oil inspection and arson investigation. It would license all police and sheriff activities. ' While the game wardens have police powers and were included in the original draft, they will remain with Lieber under the new tentative report. State Senator C. Oliver Holmes, (Rep.) Gary, is one of the crime commissioners who supported Rappaport in securing this change. The secretary of state’s office may object to losing the state police and identification bureau, the health department’s oil inspectors, and the fire marshall’s arson investigators, if this plan is to be followed, it was pointed out. DEMOCRATS TO HOLD 3 STATE MEETINGS McNutt and Peters Will Address Rally t Greencastle. Three state meetings have been announced by the Democratic state committee. Paul V. McNutt, dean of the Indiana law school, and R. Earl Peters, Ft. Wayne, state chairman, will deliver addresses tonight at a rally in Greencastle. The Boone county Democratic committee will open its headquarters at Lebanon with a house warming to w T hich all are invited. Several speakers will be present. Albert Stump, candidate for United States Senator in 1926 and 1928, will address a meeting sponsored by the Jefferson Club in New Albany Tuesday night.
PETITION FOR CHANGE IN NAME OF UTILITY Insull Plant at Hammond Files Plea With Commission. Petition changing the name of the State Line Generating Company, the new Insull power production plant at Hammond, to the Chicago District Electric Generating Company filed with the public service commission today. The company has a securities isuse petition pending with the commission and asks that the new name be used in making the commission order. Entire output of the Hammond plant is used by four Insull electric companies in Indiana and Illinois. The plant is the largest inland hy-dro-electric development in the world. 9
Obtain Winter Fuel in Street
Gathering firewood is an old custom, but getting it from the middle of a city street is new. Market baskets, coal buckets, wheelbarrows, wagons and trucks were used by families in vicinity of Blake street this week when the city tore up this twenty-five-year-old wooden-block throughfare for repaving.
LEAGUE ENVOYS STAND BEHIND BRIAND’S PLAN
SHERIFF FACES $5,000 DEMAND Plaintiff in Suit Blames Arrest for Injury. Bn Times Special WINCHESTER, Ind., Sept, 12. A suit filed in Jay county in which William W. Manor seeks $5,000 damages from the county sheriff, John J. Wehrly and his six bondsmen, has been brought here for trial in Randolph circuit court on a change of venue. The sheriff arrested Manor at a time when he was recuperating following a fracture of his left leg. Manor asserts he told the officer that he should not be moved because of the danger that the leg might be fractured again, and offered to post bond for his appearance for trial on a charge of possessing liquor. However, Manor asserts, the officer insisted on taking him to jail, and the leg was broken again. Asa result, Manor alleges he Is permanently crippled,
LABOR AT LOW EBB Organizations Weakest in 30 Years, Says Tobin. Bu United Press CINCINNATI, Sept. 12.—There never was a time in the last thirty years when labor organizations generally were in as weakened condition as at present, Daniel J. Tobin of Indianapolis, general president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Stablemen and Helpers of America told delegates at the closing session of the twelfth convention today. “This condition,” Tobin said in his report, “can be attributed to many causes, but the principal cause is unemployment. This enormous surplus of unemployed man power is due mainly to overproduction in industry, which in turn has been brought about through concentrated and machinery. There does ftot appear on the horizon any substantial relief from this condition of unemployment.” TRAINMEN LEGISLATIVE PLANS Order of Railway Conductors Ends Week-Long Session Here. With an outlirr of legislative plans completed for men who operate railroad trains in the state, the biennial meeting of the legislative committee of the Order of Railway Conductors, held all this week at the English, ended today as delegates returned to their homes J n various parts of the state. The sessions ended Thursday night with a unanimous re-election of all officers. Albert McCoy, Anderson, is chairman of the committee, and E. L. Kenney, Terre Haute, is secretary. Speakers at the sessions included Congressman Louis Ludlow, H. M. Miller, A. E. Gordon, William Holmes, Mrs. Grace Stanley, T. N. Taylor, president of the state Federation of Labor, and R. A. Knoff, vice-president cf Railway Trainmen.
MATRIMONIAL TANGLE CLEARED AT ANDERSON Man’s First Wife Gets Divorce and He Remarries Second Mate. BU 7 Unt-elnl ANDERSON, Ind., Sept. 12. Clarence Riddle has resumed the status of a regularly married man as the resultof the dsimissal in Madison circuit court of a charge of bigamy. The charge was filed against Riddle after his former wife had succeeded in having set aside a divorce Riddle obtained in Henry circuit court at Newcastle a year ago. She alleged the decree was obtained through perjured testimony. Riddle then separated from his second wife, the former Miss Fannie Chandler, and sought to patch up difficulties with the first wife. An agreement was reached as the result of which Mrs. Riddle obtained a divorce at Hamilton, 0., with alimony. The defendant in the bigamy case then remanded the second wife. Dismissal ol the criminal charge followed.
Project for Pan-Europa Union Given Strong Support at Parley. BY SAMUEL DASHIELL, Unite*Press Staff Correspondent GENEVA, Sept. 12.—The project of Aristide Briand for an European political and economic federation was given strong support today by speakers before the League of Nations assembly. Nation after, nation on the continent appeared to be rallying to the support of the Pan-Europa project as the delegates took thenplaces on the tribune and commented on the rather slow work of the league toward disarmament and security. The speakers almost invariably turned to the European federation plans as a possible experiment which might better crystalize the wide aspirations of the league. Taking up the thread of discussion where it was dropped Thursday after Briand’s plea for support of his project and the demand of Arthur Henderson, British foreign secretary, that disarmament must come first, the foreign minister of Holland, Jonkheer Beelaerts Van Blokland, praised the Pan-Europa plan.
Organization Is Needed “Concerning the organization of a federal union in Europe,” he said, “we are struck by the unanimous responses of nations to the effect that the new group must not prejudice the authority of the league. “The World war made us realize the necessity for closer international collaboration. Without organization the growing interdependence of states is leading inevitably to chaos. “I express the profound gratitude of the Netherlands delegation to M. Briand for bringing the question of highest importance within the assembly of the league.” Cuban Also Is Heard Peter Munch, Danish foreign minister, told the assembly the “general disquiet in Europe constitues a strong argument in favor of Briand’s courageous initiative.” The attitude of one American nation toward the European plan was given by Orestes Ferrara of Cuba. “We regard the organization of Europe as the great hope of all of us for closer co-operation of nations,” said Ferrara. “We regard the move as not only for Europe, but also for all of the Americas. I was astonished to read in the European press that the union of Europe would react as an economic movement against America. Europe’s prosperity is of equal concern to other continents.” EMBASSY IS STONED Violent Demonstration at Prague Against Italians. Bu United Press PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 12.—The Italian embassy was stoned Thursday night in a violent demonstration against the recent execution of four Italian-Slovenes accused of terrorism at Trieste. Many were arrested.
STATE PROHIBITION PARTY IN RUNNING
Names of Candidates Will Be in Third Column on Ballots. Although major party leaders in Indiana are inclined to treat prohibition as though it Were not an issue, a petition was brought to the statehouse Thursday by offlials of a party which thinks prohibition is about the only issue. It is the Indiana Pronibition party and names of its candidates will appear in the third column on the fall election ballots. Although the eighteenth amendment has had more than a decade of functioning. Chairman B. L. Allen, 333 North Ritfe&r avenue, and Secretary Henry S. Bonsib of the Prohibition party agree with the “wets” that it isn’t working out. But they the remedy. II their platform pledges were
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Holered a* Second-Claw Matter at i’ostofflce Indianapolis. Ind.
SUSPECTS HELD TO GRAND JURY Trio Alleged to Have Held Up City Negro. James Dackman, 24, of 406 West South street; Tom Gaynor, 23, of 713 Chadwick street, and Barth Cahill, 25, of 209 North Gray street, were held to the Marion county grand jury on robbery charges by Municipal Judge Clifton R. Cameron today. Bond was SI,OOO each. They are accused of having attacked and robbed Henry Henderson, Negro, 814 Maple street, at West and McCarty streets, Aug. 30, taking sl2 from one of his shoes after search of his pockets netted them only 70 cents. John T. Williams, 29, of 1831 Nowland avenue, Greyhound bus driver, was bound over to the grand jury by Municipal Judge Paul C. Wetter, on manslaughter charges, under SSOO bond. Williams was driver of a bus that collided with an automobile at Cruse and Washington streets, Aug. 30, killing Adolph Turner, 442 North Kealing avenue.
Holdups Taboo Granddaughter of Famous Jesse James Refuses Publicity Stunt.
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12. Holdups hold no charms for Jessie Estelle James, granddaughter of Jesse James of Missouri, the man who made holdups famous. Miss James made this clear while testifying in superior court where her $64,400 damage suit was being heard today against the Paramount-Famous-Lasky Corporation, alleging breach of a film contract. “The press agents wanted me to get myself arrested for speeding as a publicity stunt,” she related. “Then I was to draw a gun on the policeman so they could broadcast a story that Jesse James’ granddaughter had held up a cop. “I never have been arrested and don’t like holdups, so I refused to do it.” She said she had been employed to portray the character of hegrandmother, Mrs. Zeralda Samuels, in a picture, but that another actress was given the part. Bank Tries to Foil Ilanail* TWELVE MILE, Ind., Sept. 12. No more chances are being taken by officers of the Twelve-Mile State bank, robbed twice in three weeks. Although open for business at the usual hours, the front door of the bank is kept locked. Every person who wishes admittance must make his iedntity known through a process which is kept secret except to patrons.
carried out one couldn’t get an intoxicating drink—good or bad. Besides, the party stands for Bible reading in the schools, against Sunday baseball and moving picture shows and smoking in public. Darwinism and the teaching of evolution would be banned from all colleges and universities of the state if they get control of the government. Their candidates are Clevy H. Lloyd, Shellbum, secretary of state; Frank N. Williams, Indianapolis, auditor; Lulla Swisher, Gary, treasurer; A Ison E. Wrentmore, Indianapolis, superintendent of public instruction; Edward R. Small, Pripceton, clerk of the supreme and appellate courts; Charles A, Salyer, Montpelier, Fourth district supreme court judge, and Elchas A. Devore, Samuel Schenk, Robert M. McKinley, all of Indianapolis, and Owen Wierd, Winona Lake, appellate court judgeships.
BIG BUSINESS JOINS CHICAGO WAR ON GANGS Millions of Dollars in Capital Enlisted to Rout Rackets. JOIN CRUSADING JUDGE Underworld, for First Time, Faced by United, Rich Powerful Foe. Bu Vnited Press CHICAGO, Sept. 12.—Action will replace talk in the war of rebellion which an aroused Chicago citizenry has declared against racketeers, it was declared today by Colonel Albert A. Sprague, head of the new committee for prevention and punishment of crime, successor to the “secret six.” “There has been enough talk already, now we'll have some action,” said Sprague when questioned as to where the committee would lay down its initial bombardment. Never in the history of Chicago or any other city, it is believed, has there been a committee formed to fight gangsters that included among its number so many men of great influence andpporer.w r er. Millions of dolars in capital and the backing of many of the city's largest organizations are assured on the side of law and order by Enlistment of the thirty-three men on Colonel Sprague’s committee.
Business Men Enlisted This is only one of several organizations pledged within the last few days to furnish “fighting troops” for the impending struggle. Several members of the committee are heads of large banking institutions, some own or manage large department stores, one is president of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company, others direct the activities of railroads or are heads of equally as powerful business organizations. For the first time, it was pointed out today, Chicago’s underworld army, rich and powerful as it is, finds itself facing in actual combat an army just as rich, just as powerful, and just as determined as its own forces. The “war” is the direct result of an order which Judge John P. McGoorty of criminal court gave to the September grand jury to “stamp out racketeering now and forever.” Lingle Killing Started War Its real beginning, however, dates back to last June 9, when Alfred J. Lingle; Tribune reporter, was killed by a gangster in a pedestrian subway. That murder and the subsequent discovery that Lingle had been a racketeer led to formation of the “secret six,” a committee of six business men whose names were never revealed and whose purpose was to investigate crime. Later, Jack Zuta, gang leader, wag murdered and his records discovered in secret vaults. They proved, investigators said, that the underworld was reaping fabulous profits from racketeering and other activities and that the gangsters had allied themselves with politicians and other men of power in building up a “super-government” within the city. A1 Merges With Rivals There followed an announcement that Scarface A1 Capone was organizing all gangsters and racketeers, including even his old enemies, under his banner of “A1 for all and all for Al.” Then Judge McGorty started his war with the charge to the grand jury that it must stamp out the "super-government” and place control of the city permanently in the hands of the forces of the people. The order brought immediate results. The forces of organized business and organized labor, which are said to have paid millions in tribute annually to the racketeers, flocked under the banner of Judge McGorty. The drive against gangsters was begun. The war is on.
EMPLOYERS ABSOLVED IN LIGHTNING SUIT Judge Upholds Decision of Industrial Board in Compensation Suit. Getting struck by lightning is what old insurance policies called “an act of God” and employers ordinarily can not be required to pay compensation in such cases, the Indiana appellate court has held. In an opinion written by Judge Elmer Q. Lockyear, the decision of the state industrial board in refusing compensation to the widow and son of Kenneth Deckard of Bloomington is upheld. Deckard was employed in 1928 by Indiana university trustees to cut sod on a farm. A storm came up and Deckard was struck by lightning and killed. The widow, Mrs. Iva Deckard, and son Norman sought compensation. The Lockyear opinion held that the death was not due to anything growing out of tha nature of the employment. PAPER NOVELTY FIRM TO HAVE NEW PLANT Beach & Arthur, Inc., to Occupy Site South of Thirtieth Street. Erection of anew plant and office building for Beach & Arthur, Inc., manufacturers of paper novelties, on a site south of Thirtieth street between the nickel Plate railroad and Columbia avenue, was announced today by directors. The new structure is scheduled for occupancy by Dec. 1, when tho industry will be moved from it present location in the McCoyGarten building, 221 West South street. David H. Jennings, vicepresident of the Continental National bank, is a director of the con* ccra.