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OUSTER ORDERS DICTATED AGAINST 3 HOOVER POWER CHIEFS BY SENATE VOTEj Administration Leaders Say President Will Ignore Action Demanding Nominations of Commissioners Be Resubmitted. ISSUE LOOMS IN 1932 ELECTION 1 Temporary End of Debate Comes at First Night Session of Year; Maternity Bill Next Problem Before Upper House. By L nit erf Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—President Hoover called in Attorney-General Mitchell today to frame an immediate reply to the senate demand for return of the nominations of the new power commissioners. While the White House was silent officially in advance of the dispatch of this message, it was known that Mr. Hoover planned to refuse the senate’s request. By United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Ouster orders against three of President Hoover’s power commissioners have been dictated by a Democratic-insurgent Republican vote in the senate, but with only a faint prospect of compelling the Presiden to comply. Administration leaders in the senate insisted emphatically today Mr. Hoover would not resubmit the papers nominating George Otis Smith, Marcel Garsaud and Claude L. Draper to be commissioners. They pointed out that the men in question and their colleagues, Frank McNinch and Ralph B. Williamson, already have been sworn and are discharging the functions of office. But whatever may be the fate of the three commissioners, the power issue was thrown boldly before the public by the senate’s action Friday night in voting to reconsider their confirmation and to ask Mr. Hoover to return the nom-; inating papers. That the power issue will figure largerly in the 1932 : campaign virtually is certain. t Debate preceding Friday night’s vote contained frequent, reference to opponents of the reconsideration motions as

“tools of the power interests.’ The five-day fight on the three commissioners ended, temporarily at least, shortly after 7 in the first night session of the new year. By identical votes. 44 to 37. the senate adopted motions to reconsider the confirmation of Chairman Smith and to ask Mr. Hoover to return the nominating papers. Then, without record roll calls, the senate dealt similarly with Garsaud and Draper. The action against the commissioners folowed their dismissal of Charles A. Russell, solicitor, and William V. King, chief accountant, described by interested senators as faithful public servants sacrificed to the power interests. Jones Maturnity Bill I p Suspension of the power commission fight left the Jones maternity bill technically commanding the senate’s attention today. This came about as a result of ait objection made Friday night by Senator Blaine, Wisconsin insurgent, when Chairman Smoot of the finance committee sought unanimous consent for consideration of the interior department appropriation bill. ‘This maternity bill has kicked around long enough,” Blaine said. • It looks to me like an administration filibuster against it.” So the senate, which struggled to finish its executive business in order to deal with legislation, finds it must stick to the maternity bill, although none of the supply measures yet has been passed. Confronting the senate also is the prospect of a protracted fight, beginning Monday, over the President's tariff commission nominations. Battle Over Davis Looms There was also the possibility of early renewal o fthe battle over the right of Senator Davis (Rep., Pa.) to occupy his seat. A new attack on Davis' primary campaign expenditures was made Friday by Chairman Nye of the campaign investigating committee, who said he personally would sponsor a resolution to oust Davis if the committee itself did not act. Nye justified his attack by "the record showing expednitures of sl,200,000” in behalf of Davis and Francis Shunk Brown, unsuccessful gubernatorial candidate in Pennsylvania. . Thirteen Republicans and Senator Shipstead. lone farmer-labor member, joined thirty Democrats in voting for adoption of the motions of Senator Walsh <Dem., Month for reconsideration of the power commission confirmations. Ponderous solemnity accompanied the proceedings until toward toe last, when the senate suddenly ceased taking itself seriously and devoted a few minutes to parliamentary play. Some One to Be Loser Walsh said today the senate executive calendar should contain the names of Smith, Garsaud and Draper listed as awaiting confirmation. He contended the other two commissioners did not constitute a majority of the five-man commission, hence the commission did not exist. Thus, the senate may show one state of affairs with respect to the commission, and the commission, l backed by Mr. Hoover, may show a quite different condition with the three assailed men sitting at their deska. Some one’s authority must be subordinated in such circum-st-re-r and Majority Leader Wat-

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son believes court action would upi hold the commissioners and the ! President. In a quarter close to Mr. Hoover it was indicated he might not even j ask Attorney General Mitchell to j render an opinion on the necessity ; for resubmission of the nominating ; papers. There is a question of law involved and it is argued the senate had no power to exercise the authority it sought to exercise Friday night. Comedy Marks Proceedings All the elements of a bitter struggle between legislative and executive brandies of government are present in this situation. And the senate approached the vote in a serious j mood with all these factors in mind. But comedy relief was not delayed long after the vote. There was a quiet laugh for many in the fact Vice-President Curtis was not presiding. Earlier. Curtis had made a ruling adverse to Walsh with respect to the manner in which the motions should be disposed of. He undoubtedly would have been overruled by vote of the senate had he appeared Friday night to repeat his findings. President Pro Tern. Moses abandoned the Curtis parliamentary | theories to the amusement of all j familiar with the background of the incident. The vote on Smith was a hushed affair. But having established their majority, the Democratic-insurgent bloc became enthusiastically up- | roarious and the defeated regular Republicans joined in the fun. Postmasters Named Singly Each side tried to shout the other down with "ayes” and “noes” when Moses put the viva voce votes on Garsaud and Draper. Senator Phipps (Rep., Colo.) then got the floor and made a routine request that the nominations of about fifty Pennsylvania postmasters be confirmed en bloc. Phipps phrased this routine request carelessly and Senator Norris ‘Rep., Neb.) objected. Whereupon Moses ordered the clerk to read the names singly. “Charles H. Truby to be postmaster at Apollo. Pa.,” shouted the clerk, who has the loudest vocie in the senate. "Without object, it is so ordered ” echoed Moses, whose voice is as penetrating as the clerk’s is loud. And on they went until the clerk and Moses appeared to be shouting together in amazingly rapid transaction of public business—at the rate of one postmaster at a time. Fine Time Playing ‘See-Sew’ "Louder, louder,” pleaded Senator Norris. Senator Shortridge (Rep., Cal.) I one of the senate’s most dignified members finally stopped Moses long enough to ask if the rest of : the postmasters might not be dealt with collectively. But Moses was having a good time and said there already had been objection to that. Shortridge and a few others insisted. "All right,” said Moses, with an aggrieved air, “if the senate wants to it can go back and forth and play see-saw.” Hartwell F. Avers Buried By United Preaa PANAMA CITY. Jan. 10.—Hartwell F. Ayers. Alabama newspaper man. was buried here Friday with fellow journalists acting as pallbearers. Ayers was wounded by gun fire as he crossed Cathedral plaza en routs to the American legation curing the recent revolution here

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BIENZ IS GIVEN 5-10-YEAR TERM Aged Republican Worker Is Granted Appeal Motion. John L. Bienz, 78-year-old Republican precinct worker in the 1930 primary, today was sentenced five to ten years in the Indiana state prison and fined SIOO on his recent conviction on a charge of marking an official ballot. Bienz was a worker in the Ninth precinct of the Tenth ward. His indictment bn the charge followed the primary scandal after exposure of alleged illegal activities at the polls. Henry M. Dowling, special criminal judge, granted Bienz a motion for appeal to the supreme court. Bond was set at $2,000,

How the Market Opened

NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Stocks opened irregularly lower and then steadied in the early trading today. The market was fairly active. Railroad shares were not ruffled by the decision of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific to withdraw their unification plan. Atchison opened up % at 190% and held steady. Pennsylvania opened at 60%, off %, and then rose to 61. New York Central opened at 121%, off %, dropped to 121 and rallied to the opening. United States Steel opened off % at 142%. and then eased off. The issue met support o nexpectations of a rise in unfilled orders in the report for December, to be an- ! nounced at noon today. Westinghousc Electric opened off ; % at 90’ j, General Electric off % j at 45, Anaconda off % at 316, Ken- ! necott off % at 23=1. and Fox off % | at 27. American Smelting was an exception in the coppers, rising "a to 444%. Other issues of the group reacted on a reduction to 10.30 cents in the price of copper for export, this is equivalent to 10 cents for domestic copper. J. I. Case rose to 88 after opening at 87%, off 1. Allied Chemical opened at 164%, up % and then dipped to anew 1930-31 low at 163 Vi, still influenced by price reductions in the chemical field. INSULL ENDS FIGHT No More Attempts to Be Made to Urge Car Plan. No more attempts will be made by the Insull-controlled Midland United Company to urge the city of Indianapolis to grant it a franchise for the’ operation of the Indianapolis street railway lines, a formal statement by Samuel Insull Jr. declares. “The action of the Indianapolis city administration and the mayor’s 1 special committee in rejecting the principal of service-at-cost ends i Midland United Company’s effort as prospective managers and suppliers of capital to effect a comprehensive, j immediate rehabilitation of the Indianapolis Street Railways,” Insull’s j statement declares. The Midland company resumes i the position of one among many j security holders. It will co-operate ! in any joint effort originated by! already constituted representative I committees of all security holders. Insull said. hogmarkeTsteady TO 15 CENTS HIGHER i Cattle Prices Unchanged; Vealers Sell Off at $11.50. The hog market today at the Union stockyards was mostly steady to 15 cents higher than Friday’s best time. The advance was on weights under 210 pounds. The bulk, 100 to 300 pounds, sold at $7.60 to $8.30. Receipts were estimated at 3,000. Holdovers 74. Cattle prices unchanged, with slaughter classes of steers nominal. Receipts 100. Vealers largely 50 cents lower, seiling at $11.50 down. Receipts were 150. Sheep and lambs mostly stationsry. with a good, and choice grade of lambs selling fit $8.50 to S9. Receipts 1,200. w

INDIANAPOLIS’ SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1931

CITY POLICE DENY USING THIRD-DEGREE Detective Chief Insists Men Were Not Beaten to Gain Confessions. INJURED MAN IS BETTER Wounded Officer Gains in Strength; Third Suspect Still at Liberty. Hope for recovery of motor patolman Ferdinand Finchum, wounded in a gun battle with robber suspects. grew today as city hospital physicians reported continued improvement follovv'ing a second blood transfusion Thursday. However, his condition still is critical. While police continued their search for Carl Tate, only member of the gang at liberty. Detective Chief Fred Simon was insistent on the falsity of charges by two captured suspects of brutal third degree methods to obtain their confessions. Friday William Thayer, first man arrested, exhibited bruise, marks and a scar to reporters, claiming eight detectives knocked him down, kicked and beat him to force him to confess. Tate StHI at Liberty George Mears, named by police as the trigger man of the shooting, declared that after seeing Thayer he “would sign anything.” He had delivered to detectives a statement in which he admitted wounding Finchum as the latter searched him in an alley near Thirtieth street and Northwestern avenue early Wednesday. Previous to Mears’ confession Tate had been named as the gunman who fired on Finchum and patrolman Owen Tevelin, wounded slightly in the hip. Tate almost was trapped at his home a few hours after the shooting, but escaped under fire and since has been at liberty. Neither Was Beaten “Thayer was not beaten and Mears was not threatened,” 1 Simon said. “Thayer broke down and confessed to his part in the affair after he became entangled in a maize of misstatements. The same was true of Mears. “We know as well as any one else that statements or confessions obtained under duress do more ham to the cause of justice than good.” Asked how Thayer got the bruises on his face and shoulders shown reporters Friday, Simon said “I don’t know.” FOX HIDES IN HOUSE; LIKES TO BE PETTED Animal Chased by Dog Friendly With Children When Protected. By United Press CHARDON, 0.. Jan. 10.—A fox reputedly is the most wily animal in the world, but to the John Petro family he is like a kitten. Attracted by the wild yelping of their dog, the Petros looked out to see their pet chasing a red fox which circled the house and unobserved, entered the front door. Returning inside, the Petros perceived the animal crouched contendedly in front of the fireplace in the living room. After the smaller Petros tired of stroking the fox’s fur. it was fed and turned loose into the woods. CIVIC LEAGUE FORMED H. H. Jones Is Elected President of Northwest City Group. The Northwest Civic League was organized Friday night. Beautification of a strip of ground between Crescent street and Northwestern avenue, directly opposite the James Whitcomb Riley tomb in Crown Hill cemetery, is the initial purpose of the group. H. H. Jones was elected president, Dr. A. H. Todd, vice-president; Mrs. C. J. Wilding, secretary, and J. W. Lovett, treasurer. RAIL MERGER DROPPED Difficulties Imposed End Dream of Mammoth Line. By United Press ST. PAUL, Jan. 10.—Unification of the Northern Pacific and Great Northern railroads into one organization with 15,000 miles of track lias been abandoned, stockholders were informed today.

MEXICANS FORCED TO GIVE WAY TO STATE JOBLESS

By United Preaa TERRE HAUTE, Ind., Jan. 10.— Approximately fifty Mexican laborers, employed at two Big Four railroad construction camps west of Terre Haute, were packing their personal belongings preparatory to leaving this vicinity today as a result of a demonstration of unemployed at the camps Friday afternoon. Following a meeting of unemployed at the courthouse, a group of more than one hundred at the meeting marched to the two construction camps and demanded that the foreign laborers relinquish their jobs in favor of the local unemployed. A spokesman for the group told interpreters at the camps that “youll have to get out "and give hese jobv to ioral residents We

Dempsey’s Fist — Sock! A 205-Pounder Sleeps By United Press DALLAS. Tex., Jan. 10. —Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight champion, left tcday for Newark, N. J., with an impromptu knockout over a 205-pound wrestler to his credit as proof that he still is in “fighting trim.” Billy Edwards - Kansas City, the wrestler, suddenly turned fighter at the conclusion of a match which Dempsey refereed here Friday HK . ''i If night, and learned to his sorrow that the V Manassa mauler is not, as has been claimed, • f §OC ft “too old to fight.” ,-k. , j Before the match—Edwards vs. Jim O'Down —Edwards boasted that he would “take a crack” l 7 at Dempsey if he didn’t like the way the former t|fc -dk champion worked. He won the decision, but disliked Dempsey's work anyway, said so and % IE swung at Dempsey. He missed. % JF IWith one terrific right punch, Dempsey lifted * Ft Edwards clear of the ropes into the arms of Dempsey cheering spectators.

ROBBER VISITS FIGHT TO SAVE GRIME PROBER BURIED MINERS State Board Member Gets Rescue Squads Talk to 20 Information Direct. j Men Through Air Pipe.

First-hand information on crime and its cure was forced on Leo M. Rappaport, attorney and member ; of the Governor's crime commission, at his home Friday night. While downstairs in his home at : 1514 Park avenue, with members of his family Friday night, Rappaport heard noises on the second floor. ! He reached the top of the stairs in time to see a burglar jump through a window to a porch roof and escape. Although every upstairs room was ransacked, no loot was obtained. Shortly before the incident at Rappaport’s home, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Owens, ,1121 Broadway, returned home to find the house ransacked. A radio and clothing of Grover Smith, who resides there, had been stolen. Police said the thief attempted to open seven windows. Other thefts reported: Mrs. Ruth Halpern, 1014 South Capitol avenue, purse snatched, $25; Earl Smith, 3224 East Michigan street, robbed by footpad, S3O; Mrs. M. D. Wysong, 902 West Twenty-seventh street, $1.84; William Honan, 13, of 516 East Tenth street, newsboy, 80 cents. OPTIMISM IN WEST Building Construction to Have Banner Year. (Copyright; 1931. by United Press! SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10.— Building construction and contracting in the states of the Pacific ; slope are starting a banner year. The most optimistic note in western business conditions since the depression started was isounded in facts and figures revealed by a survey of the construction industry just completed by the United Press. The amount of new construction in the twenty-two leading cities of the west gained 51.2 per cent for j December, 1930, as compared to the previous December. California lead the parade of the western states, with $100,000,000 worth of engineering projects either under way or under contract. Oregon, Washington, Arizona and other states west of the Rockies follow in order and with proportionate showings. STATE TRAFFIC HEADS OPPOSE RAIL MERGER Indiana C. of C. Committee Takes No Action on Hoover Proposal. Traffic leaders of Indiana are opposed to President Hoover’s proposal for consolidation of four trunk line railroad systems, which assertedly is backed by “big business’ interests, it was disclosed at a meeting Friday of the Indiana State Chamber' of Commerce traffic committee in the Board of Trade building. Long discussion was given the proposal by the committee, but no resolution definitely opposing the President’s plan was drawn. George Field, Newcastle, committee chairman. presided, and R. B. Coapstick. traffic manager, was among chief spokesmen against the proposal. Remy Named Chairman Succeeding William A. Pickens, who resigned following election to the bench of superior court three, Charles F. Remy, former appellate court judge, has been named chairman of the legislative committee of ‘he Indiana Bar Association.

have no room for foreign labor here while local workers and their families are starving. You’ll have to get out or else—.” The interpreters announced willingness of the foreign laborers to depart after they received their pay checks today. Harvey Work, superintendent of the local free employment bureau and member of Governor Harry G. Leslie’s unemployment council, said he believed the action of the demonstrators was precipitated by the railroad’s practice of importing laborers while the local were without work. The railroad heads have contended the Mexicans were more suitable for this type of work, but, at the request of the Vigo county unemployment council, recently hired eighty-two local persons. It was the laying off of some of these men that was believed to have prreipitaieri Friday's action.

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By United Press LIVERMORE, Cal., Jan. 10.—A thin metal tube early today carried air to twenty miners entombed by a landslide 750 feet below the surface of the Hetch Hetchy tunnel. Electric “muckers” and rescue squads of drillers tore at the mass of debris from the outside in an effort to reach the men. The tunnel, a San Francisco water project, was the scene of two disasters that last year claimed the lives of nineteen men. The cavein occurred at 6:30 p. m. Friday when a thick wall of dirt and stone suddenly collapsed between the twenty miners and the entrance to the tunnel. Mine officials declared that an airline, carrying a sufficient amount of oxygen to keep the entrapped men alive, had not been destroyed and that there was no immediate danger. Through the pipe messages were exchanged between rescuers and entombed. “We are all right. No one killed,” the men flashed to the outside. Officials said a rescue would be effected today. Despite assurance of officials that the men were not in great danger, mniers fought on the outside for places in the rescue squads. NEW BANK OPENED Old Institution’s Losses Wilt Be Met. Grant of a charter to Farmers and Merchants bank, Winchester, to take over the assets of the Farmers and Merchants bank there which closed its dcors Dec 3, was announced today by Thomas D. Barr, deputy state banking commissioner. The new institution will take over assets of the defunct bank and meet all obligations, dollar for dollar, Barr said. Edgar L. Monks is president of the new bank; J. D. Miller, vice-president, and Ira E. Smithson, cashier. The bank is capitalized at $50,000 with $5,000 surplus, all paid in cash, Barr asserted. Deposits total approximately $400,000, he said. CLOSE CARMEL BANK State Deputy Examiner Is x in Charge. By action ofits direcors, the Citizens State bank of Carmel closed its doors today and T. G. Inwood, deputy bank examiner, was place in charge of the institution’s affairs. Capitalized at $25,000, the bank had a surplus of $6,250 and deposits of approximately $161,000, In wood said. O. W. Nutt was chairman of its board and Bqlley Hawkins cashier. 3 CARS RAM TRUCK Four-Way Crash Caused by Fog, Darkness. Blinded by fog and darkness three motorists drove their cars into a huge truck and trailer and into one another 0 n State Road 52, about a mile west of New Palestine shortly after 6 a. m. One man was injured seriously and another bruised, while two sedans were demolished. Ralph Glaze, 45, Detroit, declared the truck he was driving, loaded with two new au‘x>s, was proceeding slowly along the highway, with lights burning. The motorists said the truck as parked without lights. The first car, driven by William Senefeld. 45. of 332 North Gladstone avenue, bearing Senefeld, two sons, and Robert Keeper, 45, of 39 North Addison street, and Hubbard Hulse, 52, of 1672 West Michigan street, crashed into the trailer. Hulse was thrown through the windshield and cut seriousyl. Keeper was bruised. Into their machine crashed a car driven by M. E. Meskaw, 311 Roosevelt building. Meskaw, his wife, and another couple escaped injury. Seeking to dodge both cars, William E. Reese, 50, Fountain town, drove his sedan into the truck. He escaped injury. Hourly Temperatures 6a. m 26 •a.m 27 7a. m 27 |a. m. ... 28

AL CAPONE CREDITED WITH HELPING TRAP GUNMAN AS MURDERER OF JAKE LINGLE t Revealed Killer Suspect’s Hiding Place in Struggle to Recapture Fading Underwood Profits, United Press Reporters Learn. WANTS TO HALT WAR BY POLICE Gang Chieftain Thinks Solving of Reporter Slaying Will Satisfy Law and Order and Permit Gold to Flow Again Into Coffers. By United Press CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—Scarf ace A1 Capone, struggling to recapture fading underworld profits, was credited today with being the agency through which Leo Brothers was trapped and accused of the murder of Alfred J. Lingle. Chicago Tribune reporter, seven months after the spectacular shooting. The information, uncovered exclusively by the United Press, had its beginning in the days when Lingle ostensibly a $65-a-week reporter, was dipping into underworld profits to the extent of thousands yearly. From that point, when the racketeering reporter presumably incurred the ire of the powerful Aiello-Moran north side gambling syndicate, through a series of outstanding gang murders, the information dovetails with the unsolved killings on police blotters.

Having crossed the north siders, Lingle was murdered in a pedestrian subway, apparently at the dictation of Jack Zuta and Joe Aiello, since assassinated, so the illicit activities of Capone’s gangsters on the south side would be curbed by the subsequent outbreak of public indignation. In gang vernacular, the “heat was turned on,” after Lingle’s death. Capone’s profits shrank to the vanishing point under police drives. His saloons were closed. Gambling houses and vice resorts which had poured wealth into Capone’s coffers, were darkened. Capone, with his machine gunners, struck back. Jack Zuta was attacked one Au-

3 DIE IT AIR MEET Four Seriously Injured in Tragedy at Miami. By United Press MIAMI, Fla., Jan. 10.—Three men were dead today and a fourth seriously injured as a result of the first tragedy to mar the annual allAmerican air meet, which started its third day. The crash occurred when a monoplane, not an entry in the meet, missed fire at an altitude of about fifty feet when rounding the north pylon of the field, tangled in some telephone wires and plunged into a swamp. The dead are James W. Riddle, pilot, 23, Chicago; Bob C. Smalley, widely known flier, manager of the Stinson Illinois Aircraft Company, Chicago, and Dr. Harry A. Ware, Chicago. Dr. A. B. Smalley, also of Chicago, and believed to be the father of one of the victims, suffered a broken back.

PARCEL POST RATES BOOST FACES FIGHT Senate Is Likely to Oppose Plan Sponsored by Brown. By United Preaa WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—An increase in parcel post rates, sponsored by Postmaster-General Brown, may meet ‘ with senate opposition next week from members who believe the proposal benefits express agencies at the expense of public service. Senator McKellar (Dem., Tenn.), said today he would press for a vote Monday upon his resolution blocking Brown's action. “I am convinced,” McKeller said, “higher rates would harm the parcel post service while aiding express companies. It would tend to take the business from the government.” Proponents of the rate increase say it would add $8,000,000 annually to revenues of the postoffice department, which in all but six of its 140 years has operated with annual deficits. POLICE FORCE JAILED Half of Town’s Cops Arrest Others for Store Thefts. By United Preaa PALESTINE. Tex., Jan. 10.—Onehalf of Palestine’s police force was in jail tody under guard of the other half. Three of the town’s Ax policemen were arrested on charges of robbing the same stores they were paid to protect. The three not under arrest said that a search of the homes of Hosea Morris, 20, traffic officer; Jack Pryor, 27, and Tom Turner, 45, night watchman, revealed cigarets, cigars, furniture and clothing stolen from merchants here. In the Air Weather conditions at 9 a. m.: Southwest wind, six miles an hour; temperature, 28; barometric pressure, 30.34 at sea level; ceiling and visibility, aero with dense fag; field, good.

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gust night in a police automobile in brilliantly lighted State street. Later that month the cringing Moran gangster was murdered by a band of machine gunners in a Delafield (Wis.) dance hall as he dropped nickels into a mechanical piano. Capone Loses Trade A few days before the November elections, Joe Aiello was ambushed in his north side hiding place by two gangs nf machine gunners, ft was the most spectacular gang killing since the St. Valentine day massacre Although Zuta and Aiello, the “big shots” of the north side, had fallen victim to Capone's vengeance, police still suppressed Capones “businesses." Gangsters were haled before Judge John H. Lyle and held on bonds so high even a gangster couldn’t raise them. Several were sent to jail for carrying concealed weapons, almost an unprecedented thing in Chicago cour; history. Business Seemed Doomed Several gangsters were convicted on vagrancy charges, a blow at a gangster’s vanity. In addition, Ralph Capone, brother of Al; Jake Guzik, his “business manager,” and Frank Nitti, a cousin, were convicted of evading income tax payments. The gang business, which had flourished for ten years, seemed doomed to succumb to the drives of law and order. Then, according to the United Press information. Capone hit upon a plan to point out the killer of Lingle on the theory that law and order adherents would consider the battle won and turn their attentions elsewhere, permitting the illicit gold to flow again into Capone’s strong boxes Want to Trade for Body Accordmgly, the United Press learned. Capone deviously got into touch with Pat Roche, head of the Lingle “clearing house” investigators, and offered to reveal Lingle's murderer, but only after the Capone “execution squad” had taken the slayer “for a ride.” Roche is said to have refused to bargain for only the bodv of Lingle’s killer. He wanted the murderer alive. Capone finally yielded and passed the word along to Roche that Brothers was the man and told where he could be found. Acting on that information, Roche trapped Brothers in a south side apartment, but he has yet to be charged formally with the Lingle killing. Release Fight Fails Roche and John A. Swanson, state’s attorney, were victorious late Friday in their efforts to keep Brothers in a secret prison despite efforts of a former friend of Lingle’s to have him released on a writ of habeas corpus. The attempt to gain Brothers’ freedom was made by Attorney Tyrell Krum, former employe of the Tribune, who said he was hired by Brothers’ mother, who lives in St. Louis. Krum’s plea that the writ hearing be held at once was denied and it was set for Jan. 14. By that time, Roche said. Brothers will be indicted and held without bond. Find Gangster’s Body By United Presa CHICAGO, Jan. 10.—The body of Anthony "Sherlock” Gascerino, believed by police to have been “taken for a ride” by rival alcohol dealers, was found early today ir. the tonneau of an automobile in a deserted neighborhood on the far south side. Gasterino was manager of a roadhouse between Chicago and Hammand, Ind. Police pointed out that several gangsters of Italian descent had been killed in the last few weeks, supposedly in an “alcohol war.” From the evidence, it was believed Gasterino had been shot elsewhere and his body placed .in the automobile. One bullet wound was found In the head and the body was covered with a tattered bed quilt.

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