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INSTRUCTOR AT PURDUE VICTIM OF BOMB TRAP Side of Face Blown Away as City Man Steps on Auto Starter. NO MOTIVE APPARENT Cops Baffled by Attack; W. F. Heidergott Not Expected to Live. B it United. Fretß LAFAYETTE, Ind., Nov. 12.—W F. Heidergott, of Indianapolis, instructor in the practical mechanics department of Purdue university, was injured by a bomb explosion in a garage at his home today. The bomb apparently had been attached to *he starter of his automobile a. was detonated when Heidergott attempted to start it. One e of his face was blown off. Po,.i_e had established no motive. Although Heidergott was living when found lying on the floor of the garage, physicians held little hope for his recovery. At noon, hospital attaches said Heidergott was resting easier, still conscious as he has been since the blast. There appeared to be no other major injuries than the one on the head where one side of the face was torn away. He was able to tell investigators he could not account for the attack made aga.nst him. Some observers believed the instructor may have been the victim of a plot intended for another person. The bomb blew the car to pieces and tore ihe roof and sides from the garage. Police at once began an intensive investigation, but no definite reasons or motives to direct the inquiry. The auto was so badly torn that it was impossible to determine exactly how the bomb and fuse had been attached. Heidergott, 56, lives at 1517 North Dearborn street, Indianapolis. He roomed here, going home over weekends and vacations. He had been at the university for about twelve years, where he was in charge of the instruction in forging, heat-treating and welding in the department of practical mechanics. Former Rail Foreman Heidergott had been connected with the university tw r elve years, being a foreman in the .Beech Grove Big Four shops eighteen years previously, a daughter, Miss Clara M. Heidergott, living a., the family residence here. said. The daughter was unable to account for the explosion, saying her father had no enemies to her knowledge, was not involved in any union labor difficulties, nor was interested in any invention which might result in his having explosives in the car. She said he kept his car in one of a long string of garages at Lafayyette, adding to belief he may have been victim of a plot intended for another. Heidergott had been home over the last week-end and worked on his car. He" also was home Tuesday afternoon and worked on the car. The daughter said he left here about 7:30 Tuesday evening, eating before he left. Mrs. Heidergott left for Lafayette this morning, after learning of the explosion.

BROKEN WAR CAPTAIN DIES AS TAPS SOUND Flinches at Each Explosion of 21Gun Salute on Armistice Day. Rr I'nited Press NEW ORLEANS. Nov. 12— Captain Mation Schley Davis, his nerves shattered by gas in France, stayed at home while his buddies celebrated Armistice day in . Lafayette square. A twenty-onc-gurf salute began to boom. At each explosion he flinched. •'Why don't they forget it? Why do they keep bringing it back?” Taps sounded as the salute ended. Captain Davis smiled and fell back in his chair—dead. CHRISTMAS CLUBS TO PAY OFF $632,000,000 Investors to Receive Sum in Next Two Weeks; New High Set. Hr Cnited Press NEW YORK. Nov. 12.—The American public will receive $632,000,000 during the next two weeks in Christmas club payments by 8,000 banks throughout the country, according to Herbert F. Rawll, president of Christmas club. This huge sum. divided among 11,000,000 participants in Christmas clubs, sets anew high record for this saving plan and compares with payments of $618,962,500 in 1929 and $550,000,000 in 1928. PROBE CHEAP SALES t ops Want to Find Out How Man Can Sell New Shoes for SI. Detectives today continued investigation of sales by William Sizemore, 36, of Beech Grove, of expensive new shoes at $1 a pair. When arrested he had nine pairs of shoes in his possession, police said Clifford Gibson, 20, of 3920 East Twenty-ninth street, was held on a burglary charge, alleged to have Broken into a grocers* operated by Shadi Mltrey, 2810 North Chester ffceet. Nov 8. taking cigaretn and money.

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STRIP LESLIE OF JOB POWER Governor Not Given Right to Approve Committeeman in State. Significant changes, including stripping the Governor of power to approve county committeemen for the state-wide war on unemployment, were made by the state unemployment council in the executive committee set-up submitted to them at the statehouse today. As drafted by the executive committee the plan called for creation of county committees, the chairman to be selected by the state council and approved by Governor Harry G. Leslie. The chairman was then to select five committeemen to be appointed by the Governor. But giving the Governor this power was questioned immediately when the council convened today, and the wording was changed so the county committeemen will be appointed by the county chairmen and report of the selection made to the Governor. Advocated by Close Friends Taking this power from Leslie was advocated by two of his close friends, Jonas Waffle, secretary of the Indiana Coal Trades Association, and Robert Feustel, Indiana Insull utilities chieftain. “Making these appointments subject to approval by tne Governor might be misunderstood,” Feustel said. Another change fostered by these two members was putting into the set-up a special paragraph dealing with public utilities. It will urge that work contemplated for next summer be done this winter as an unemployment aid. Objects to Utility Moves Mayor John W. McCarthy of Washington objected to urging any great utilities expenditures on the grounds that it soon will paean rate increases to the public. This objection was met by the explanation that only necessary improvements and construction which would be done anyway will be advocated in the speed-up. The paragraph was included. Objection of the Indiana farm bureau caused a paragraph advocating a back-to-the-farm movement to be srticken out. Debate then centered on the feasibility of including the advocacy of using only Indiana made goods and employing Hoosier labor.

G. O. P. AT WAR IN OWN RANKS ON LIQUOR ISSUE

BY THOMAS L. STOKES United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—A controversy over prohibition developed within the Republican party today as President Hoover's law enforcement commission went forward with preparation of the report, awaited as the most important pronouncement on the liquor subject in years. Some wet Republicans criticised Chairman Simeon D. Fess of the Republican national committee for his statement that the party must stand against repeal. Representative Britten of Illinois went so far as to demand a meeting of the national committee to consider the results of the recent election. Drawing almost as much interest as the Republican controversy and conjecture over the commission's recommendations was the acquiescence of federal dry enforcement agencies in anew campaign to sell a grape juice that can be converted into wine. Amos W. W. Woodcock, federal prohibition director, stood by, observing without any indication of possible interference, the advertising on bill boards and by newspapers of

CHARLIE, A GREAT HORSEMAN—FAIR AND SQUARE—HAS GONE

BY SHELDON KEY BARN E at the state fairground had been home to Charlie Hammond, nationally known horse trainer and driver, for thirty years. He slept there, worked there and rarely left. But Tuesday night Charlie felt it was time to leave home. “I'm going away," he told a friend. Two hours later he was found dead on his cot in a dingy corner of Barn E. Arrange atmosphere surround-

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Famous Attorney Is Real Christian, Declares Dr. Wilson. Du SEA Service HOUSTON, Ter.., Nov. 12. Strange friends. One a fundamentalist and liquor foe, the other an agnostic and avowed wet; one who has devoted his life to spreading the ! gospel of God and of temperance, | the other who questions all religion : and vigorously assails prohibition. In other words, Dr. Clarence True Wilson and Clarence Darrow arc ' firm friends. “I love that man Darrow,” Dr. Wilson declared in an interview here today. “He is the greatest i humanitarian in all this country. We fight with words on the plat- ! form, but that’s all. He has the biggest heart and kindest feelings of any man I have ever known.” Both Would Aid Mankind Strange friends —with beliefs as different as night and day. And ! yet, traveling on a joint debating I tour, riding in the same vehicle, eatj ing at the same table, studying welfare problems and spending much of their time together, they hare come to realize the striking similarity of their desires to accomplish a common end—to aid mankind. Asked to enlarge upon his statement, Dr. Wilsor. said: “So you would like to know my opinion of Mr. Darrow after three years of association with him. The Houston debate is the twenty-fourth jonit debate we have had and we have traveled all over the United States. Admirer of Darrow “Frequently we are invited to dinner together. It is amazing how rapidly I have come to admire him greatly. And I have a kind of affection for him that I used to have for my father. “I started out with a very greatprejudice for the man who has saved from the gallows men who I knew ought to hang, but I found that he was against capital punishment, bitterly opposed to the state taking a human life, having the feeling that a burglar has just as much right to take a human life as the state. “But I soon discovered that he was always in favor of the underdog, anyway. I think his pleas against prohibition are mainly heart pleas for the liquor men, who he thinks have gotten the worst of it. He's Square Hitter “He’s one of the squarest hitters, one of the friendliest and frankest men I have ever known. He is not religious, but he has all the qualities and characteristics that religious people seek to cultivate. “The fact is, if anybody can be a Christian without knowing, I think it would be Clarence Darrow. “If you make a list of the Christian qualities which a Christian ought to have, such as living according to the Golden Rule, loving everybody, taking up for the ones who need it most, standing against privileged and in favor of the under-privileged, he lives what we teach as the best standards of life,” Wilson concluded. NEWS CHIEF ON' RADIO Robert J. Bender of United Press to Speak on Chain Tonight. Du United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Robert J. Bender, vice-president and general news manager of the United Press, will talk over the nation-wide radio network of the Columbia broadcasting system at 5 p. m„ central stand--, ard time, today on the subject, “Reporting the News of the World.”

the new concentrate, which becomes good wine by certain methods of handling. Woodcock on his return here today from an inspection tour which carried him to the west coast, said he was more than ever convinced that the present enforcement policy is satisfactory. Milwaukee, the home of beer, eagerly is buying up the new wine product, sold in kegs. Former Senator James W. Wadsworth (Rep. N. Y.), joined Britten in saying that the national chairman does not “see” what is going on in the country. “Tears dim his sight,” Wadsworth said. He called prohibition a “ghastly failure.” Britten described it as a “costly failure." Hoover for It, Report Hus nited Press , NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—The New York Daily News, in a special Washington dispatch today, claimed to have learned that the Wickersham commission has completed its report on prohibition and that it will favor the return of beer and light wines.

ed the state fairground stables today. Traders gathered for the second day of the fall horse sale, but bidding was awkward. One trader said to another “Have you heard? Charlie's dead.” And then they exchanged reminiscences about the best trainer and “fairest horse trader Indiana has ever known.” “He was the best horseman I’ve ever known.” volunteered a blacksmith who had shod Charlie’s horses for years.

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PARLEY TO AD INDIA STARTS British King Is Leader at Conference to Frame New Constitution. BY WEBB MILLER, United Press Staff Correspondent LONDON, Nov. 12.—King George V led his Laborite ministers and representatives of India today in a determined effort to meet the national aspirations of one-fifth of the world’s inhabitants scattered over the vast subcontinent of India. The king, opening an unprecedented round table conference to frame a basis for anew Indian constitution, stressed the vast importance of an agreement to the entire British empire and said he believed “the true foundation of Indian self-government” is in the fusion of the aspirations and divergent claims of the many castes and other complex divisions in India. Expresses Confidence “I shall follow your' proceedings, not indeed without anxiety, but with a great confidence,” said the king as he stood before the huge gilt throne in the royal gallery of the house of lords and addressed the princes and commoners of India and the political leaders of Britain in a speech carried by radio to Britain, Europe and America. Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald, who was chosen chairman of the conference, challenged the ninety delegates to succeed in a task “that is beset by difficulties,” MacDonald was cheered loudly. “Our responsibility lies heavily upon us all, for we are now at the very birth of anew history,” said the prime minister after criticising the followers of the Mahatma Gandhi, who did not attend the conference. The great rectangular royal gallery was the scene of magnificence as the princes and commoners of India—from the lowest to the highest castes—gathered around the table to hear the king’s speech. No Precedent Set Since Sir Francis Drake led white-winged English ships upon the high seas there has been no precedent in the development of the empire for the conference. India, with its struggling population of 320,000,000 and its tangled racial, religious and economic interests, offers two outstanding problems to the conference. Discussions first must achieve an agreement between the Indians themselves, then between them and the ministers of the crown on the foundations of a constitution.

BOYS, 14, BREAK JAIL State School Inmates Get Away at Muncie. Bu Times Special MUNCIE, Ind, Nov. 13.—Two 14-year-old inmates of the Indiana boys school are fugitives today following a break from the Delaware county jail here Tuesday night. The boys had been brought from the school to testify in a local juvenile court case and were confined in the woman's section of the jail. They slipped out through a hole Bxll inches. A note left by the boys, addressed to Sheriff Fred Puckett, said in part: “Forgive us for breaking jail, but we are not going to be punished for another’s crime.” The sheriff would not reveal other statements in the note, which is said to have included a man’s name.

YES. and funny the way he loved horses,” another answered. “Why, he wouldn't leave that barn. He stayed there morning, noon and night. Anddast night, when someone mentioned the hospital, Charles didn’t want to go." A long time ago, Hammond gained the reputation for trading. He would trade anything at any time, his friends recall, and was

HINT OFFICER ‘WENT TO BAT’ FOR BANDITS Detective Golder Involved in Alleged Attempt to Shield Suspects. JUDGE HURLS CHARGES Deputy Prosecutor Acts Quickly to Spare Explanations. Quick action of a deputy prosecutor today spared Clarence Golder, Indianapolis city detective, from explaining why he “went to bat” for two alleged bandits. According to statements' of a county judge, plans had been laid to let the two bandits “off” on a vehicle taking charge, despite objections of the prosecuting witness. As result of the judge’s statement, George Eggleston, deputy prosecutor, today held a hasty conference with Golder, resulting in the filing of banditry charges against the two prisoners. Prisoners are Fred Camplin and L. E. Gilpin, one of whom has been identified positively as the bandit who held up and robbed Frank Moorman, head of the Republic Coal and Coke Company Oct. 30, escaping with Moorman’s auto and s3l loot.

Returned Here by Golder Captured in Arkansas a short time after the crime, the two alleged bandits were returned to Indianapolis by Golder on an affidavit charging them with vehicle taking. Until today, it was charged by the judge, no effort liaicl been made to iay the case before the grand jury, as would have been done ordinarily. Moorman, in a conversation with The Times today said he had never been asked to sign an affidavit against the men, and had been told by Golder that the alleged bandits “weren’t bad boys.” Moorman objected to trying the men on ‘the vehicle taking charge, and said today the bandits admitted loaded guns were used in the crime. That fact, established after the crime, would have been grounds for preparations of banditry affidavits, it was pointed out. Escape With Car, Money Eggleston following today’s conference with Golder began preparation of banditry affidavits to be filed before Criminal Judge James A. Collins, to whose attention the matter had been called by another judge. Moorman was surprised by the bandit late one night as he left a downtown hotel alone. The two gunmen forced him to drive to a lonely road near Nora (Ind.) where they tied him to a fence, escaping with Moorman’s car and s3l. Had the alleged bandits been tried for vehicle taking them would have been given one-to-ten-year sentences. On the banditry charge they face ten years’ imprisonment. Golder stated today the cases had “not had time to reach the grand jury.”. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 52 10 a. m 53 7 a. m 52 11 a ,m 54 Ba. m 53 12 (noon).. 55 9 a. m 53 1 p. m 56

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lAUGHTER . . . tinkling music ... a gay afternoon bridge party attended by charming young women whose names appear in the society bluebook. Suddenly, while the players argued about the game, a scream of horror rang through the room. . . . Murder had been committed —an eerie crime, planned with *diabolical cleverness. The hostess, beautiful, clever, toast of the men who stood high in the city’s social set, lay dead at her dressing table. Who was the killer? What was the motive? What fiendish cunning enabled the slayer to commit this terrible deed? * Police have been rushed to the scene to solve the mystery. No further details have been revealed. Watch The Times Thursday for developments in the hunt for the killer.

considered one of the fairest dealers in the country. In late years, his chief joy was. to condition race horses. Asa trainer he had few equals. When not busy with the horses, he was content to sit in his room at Barn E, smoke his pipe and listen to his radio. In thirty years, Charlie had made some money with his smart trading ability. But things went bad this year. He trusted every one and loaned a lot of money without question or notes.

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Drinking by Police, Bribery Charged in Liquor Plot Trial

Money’s Worth By United Press NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Ten dollars will buy as much today as sll or sl2 would a year ago. the Merchants Association of New York announced after a price survey. Furniture, it said, had dropped 20 per cent, women’s wear 10 to 33 per cent and food 9 per cent.

LATTA BEBTS AIRED IN SUIT Brought to Light Through Fiancee’s Battle for $20,000. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff CorresDOndent DANVILLE, Ind., Nov. 12. Private debts of Will H. Latta, Indianapolis Street Railway attorney, who died June 12, 1929, when a train struck his auto near Carmel, were aired in Hendricks circuit court here today. They were brought into the limelight by attorneys defending the United States Casualty Company in a suit to collect $20,000 life insurance, filed by Miss Emma Margaret Sanders, Ft. Wayne, beneficiary. Mr. Latta was en route to Ft. Wayne to wed Miss Sanders when the fatal crash occurred. Counsel for the insurance company sought to show that Mr. Latta committed suicide by driving his car in the path of the train, in order to pay off many debts he had incurred. Owed Them $16,009 Ed A. Hunt of the International Printing Company, Indianapolis, said Mr. Latta owed his firm $16,000. Miss Marie Fitzsimmons, bookkeeper at Flanner & Buchanan mortuary, Indianapolis, testified Mr. Latta had not. paid embalming* costs for services after the death of his first wife, who died in February, 1927. George Cunningham, of the Claypool, where Mr. Latta lived, said that Mr. Latta owed $708.69, and had not paid his bill from January, 1929, until his death. Scott R. Brewer, president of the State Savings and Trust Company. Indianapolis, said his bank obtained a judgment for $7,500 against Mr. Latta on a real estate deal. Held Three Policies Mr. Latta had taken out three accident policies not many months before he died. Two were for $30,000 each, and the third was for $5,000. Besides the bequests to Miss Sanders and others to two nephews, Mr. Latta provided a trust fund to mature in two hundred years. Through the fund, the Indianapolis Conservatory of Music would receive approximately seventeen and one-half* million dollars, and two millions were provided to endow the “Latta University,” in Ligonier, Ind., Mr. Latta’s boyhood home.

HE had some savings in the bank. Three weeks ago the bank failed. Charlie lost 54.000. He began to worry. Two of his best loved horses brought but nominal sums at the sale Tuesday. Luck was going the other way. After an investigation of his death today, the coroner pronounced death due to heart trouble. But the traders at the fairground shook their heads. Charlie’s luck had turned.

Eleven City Officers Fight Conspiracy Casd in Federal Court Before Jury of 12 Farmers; Baitzell on Bench. SECRET PROBERS TO TESTIFY TODAY! Petty Corruption Is Laid to Accused Men b$ Witnesses; Took Free Booze, Cigarets in Speakeasies, Is Claim. Charges of self-assumed license of Indianapolis police to violate laws they were sworn to enforce, and incidents of alleged drunkenness and corruption was pictured as the government opened its case against eleven policemen in federal court today. Judge Robert C. Baitzell was on the bench, and a jury of twelve farmers was selected. The eleven policemen and seven others who will be tried on similar charges Dec. 4 were indicted by a federal grand jury for alleged conspiracy to violate national liquor laws. In the courtroom, jammed with spectators and city officials interested in the fate of the first witnesses for the government began linking the chain of evidence moulded by dry agents who worked secretly in the city three months before the grand jury returned its indictments.

Government attorneys were to fire the biggest guns of the trial this afternoon when secret investigators who worked on the alleged police conspiracy will testify. Early testimony was directed against patrolmen Ned Hoagland, Clifford Brown and Claude Ridenbaugh, and Sergeant John O’Brien, a veteran on the police force. Ridenbaugh was not on trial today, but will be tried with the others Dec. 4. United States Attorney George Jeffrey introduced as an eai'ly witness Ross Majours, Negro, of 1607 Columbia avenue. Tells of Police Drinking One day last spring, Hoagland, Ridenbaugh and O'Brien visited him, Majours said. Ridenbaugh told him to get them a gallon of whisky, the witness declared. ‘•Where did you get it?" Jeffrey asked. “From Horace Lyle." Lyle, a Negro, then was a dry spy in the employ of Attorney-General James M. Ogden. Majours said he bought the whisky, and drank it. with the three police. They did not pay for it. He continued his testimony, stating that for more than a month he paid O’Brien $5 weekly. At that time he was bootlegging, the witness admitted on the stand. “What did you pay O'Brien for?" Majours was asked. Charges Officer Was Drunk “I don’t know. He just came every week and I gave him $5, and then he wouldn’t come back till the next week,” Majours said. He testified that he gave Hoagland whisky frequently. “A waterglass full. He never paid for it,” lie related. Charles Stilabower, Shelbyville, told the court that in the latter part of 1929 and early this year he was cook in a restaurant at 2233 East Washington street. On several occasions he saw Hoagland, in uniform and wearing his badge, come in drunk around 11 p. m. and sit around the restaurant until 3 and 4 a. m„ he testified. “One night Hoagland and two civilians went to the kitchen with a bottle of soft drink and a bottle of alky,” Stilabower said. “They mixed it and drank it there. Woman Is Witness “Next night Hoagland and one of the men came back. The civilian came to the kitchen and I wouldn’t let him mix the drink. “He yelled to Hoagland: ‘This cook here says we can’t mix drinks here any more.’ “ ‘Who in hell says we can’t?’ Hoagland said. ‘Here, hand it to me, and I’ll mix it and drink it, too,’” Stilabower said. Anna Reid, 1833 Ingram avenue, who said she had been a laundress ten years, admitted that she bootlegged last May. “One day a fireman by the name of Kaylor came in with Hoagland in uniform, introduced Hoagland and said: ‘He’s all right,” she testified. 6h? said she gave the fireman and policeman a glass of whisky each, and they drank it. On crossexamination she said they did not pay for it, and declared she was afraid to ask for money because she feared arrest. “Got Law on My Side” Later, she related, Clifford Brown came to her and said Kaylor had sent him. He drank a bottle of home brew, she said. Callie Hyde, 1829 Ingram street, said she saw police go into Mrs. Reid’s home, and said Mrs. Reid told her: “ ‘l’ve got the law on my side.’' Besides Hoagland, Brown and OBrien, also on trial today, were Lieutenant Marion Van Sickle, Sergeant John Volderauer and patrolmen Thomas Sullivan, Harry Bridwell, George B. Strieker, Orville Quinette, Fred Hague and Noel Stark. Aiding Jeffrey in the prosecution are: Alex G. Cavins and Tilford B. Orbison, deputy distffet attor-

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neys. Counsel for the defense is led by Fred Bonifleld, with Wilbur Royse aiding for O'Brien; Joseph P. Markey for Van Sickle; Dixson, Bynum and Mattice for Volderauer and Quinette; Remy and Cox for Stark; John Royse for Hague, an<J Frank Riley for Sullivan. Indicted with the police are Chris. Schischoff and Chris Vilaschoff, proprietors of the speakeasy at 843 East Washington street, which was the scene of most of the alleged violations witnessed by agents. Strieker was absent from the* courtroom but presented a physician’s certificate. It was rumored, that worries about the indictment caused a nervous breakdown. On cross-examination, Majoursi was unable to state definitely when he had met O’Brien, but said he had talked with him several times after; a “chicken man” introduced them* at Sixteenth street and Columbia! avenue. Federal Agent Testifies Sally Bogie, Negro, 2922 West* Sixteenth street, touted as a "star* witness" for the prosecution, said she had met Brown at various’times and he and the late Sergeant Pat O’Connor had raided her places many times. She admitted signing a statement* held by the government that she* had paid Brown money, but denied this was true from the stand. She declared she had paid money to Van Horn. Walter Greene. 3505 West Washington street, prober, told of a half pint of alcohol in Vilaschoff’sl place and turned the evidence ove J to authorities and described the rcJl sultant raid in September that net-1 ted two and one-half gallons of al-1 cohol. Taking the stand as the last! witness of the morning sessionj Charles Ruhkes, federal prohibitioiw agent, declared he was on the raid at the East Washington street joiiifi and investigation revealed thestruc-tl ture was owned by Ira M. Holmes, attorney. Jeffrey Opens for U. S. In the government’s opening statement to the jury, Jeffrey related a long series of observations by federal dry agents during which they obtained evidence that resulted in indictment of the police. He described the alleged speakeasy at 843 East Washington street, proprietors of which had been arrested previously. Lieutenant John Sheehan of the city police raided it, and was transferred from that district, the district attorney said. Later he was returned, and again raided the place. This time the case was dismissed from a municipal court. Inside the speakeasy a jug of alcohol rested on a shelf that, in time of trouble, disappeared and dropped the jug into a sink where the booze drained away. Jeffrey told the jury. No Pay for Cigarets Observing the place last July 26, the dry agents saw police squad car 12 stop nearby, and Patrolman Noel Stark got out and entered the saloon. Jeffrey said evidence would show. Aug. 6 Patrolman Fred Hague lelt the same car at the curb to disappear inside; Hague repeated the visit Aug. 7, and early in the morning of Aug. 8 Bridwell entered the place, to be followed by Lieutenant Van Sickle and Sergeant Volderauer, Jeffrey said the agents would testify. Tile next day Van Sickle took a, pack of cigarets, for which he pa:d nothing, and Volderauer slipped u package into a pocket as the bartender made a notation in a bocc kept behind the bar, according ® Jeffrey’s information. A notebo Sc with many entries in a foreign language is in possession of federal authorities. Charges Officers Drinking Aug. 11 Van Sickle, Volderauer and Bridwell again visited the place, and next day Volderaur returned,. Jeffrey charged. Aug. 13 Bridwell wai watched by agents in the speakeasy, and Aug. 14 Volderauer and Van Sickle stopped in again. Aug, 15 Van Sickle, Volderauer and m (Turn to Page 2)