Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 185, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 December 1930 — Page 23

DEC. 12, 1930:

HINT POLITICAL PLOT IS LINKED = TO COPS' CASE House Members Angered by Dry Chief’s Refusal to Explain. BY LAWRENCE SULLIVAN Times Staff Corresoondeut WASHINGTON. Dec. 12 —Pre’•minary congressional inquiry into I he Indianapolis police convictions v as blocked temporarily today by the refusal of Prohibition Commisf toner Amos W. Woodcock to lay before members of the house his detailed field report showing the genesis of the “drive.” Four members of the house have been seeking for more than a week to set at rest the ugly rumors of

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political conspiracy which surround the police “scandal." In every case efforts to learn from Woodcock’s office, where the cleanup originated, and at whose suggestion, have been frustrated by Woodcock and his immediate assistant, Howard Jones. Meanwhile, Representative J. Charles Linthicum of Maryland, chairman of the unofficial house committee on modification of the Volstead act, continued his private investigation in other quarters. “If the offices and powers and money of the United States government were used in this case to build up a campaign issue against a Democratic city administration, the people of the entire country are entitled to know the facts,” Linthicum said. “I propose to do all I can to get at the facts.” These suspicions have been strengthened by the following facts developed in the inquiries of the four congressmen who have interested themselves in the case; 1. Special agents were sent to Indianapolis to do the job. With at least a dozen cities in the United States notoriously “wide open,” the prohibition

bureau decided to make an example of the police In one of the least troublesome cities of the country. 3. The prohibition agents sent from Chicago themselves operated a speakeasy for the purpose of entrapping the police in illegal acts—a procedure universally condemned by the courts. 4. The prohibition unit here is guarding with extraordinary zeal the story behind the indictments, refusing even to divulge such commonplace facts as whether the

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