Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 221, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 January 1931 — Page 10

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GANG LEADER SLAIN BY COP, BOYHOOD PAL Whitey Kraft, Most Dangerous Gunman in Detroit, Passes; Arsenal Seized. By United Press DETROIT, Jan. 23.—Two solid blows within the last twenty-four hours bore evidence today to the earnestness of the drive in Wayne county for the extermination of organized crime. The first was the killing of Frapk Whitey) Kraft, one of the most dangerous gunmen in America, sought for numerous crimes, including the holdup of the Detroit News in 1928, in which a policeman was killed. The second was the discovery a block from city hall, of a huge arsenal believed to have been the central distributing point through which gangsters obtained weapons. The killing of Kraft is believed o mark the wiping out of the dread-

Publie Ha. Been Waiting Fe , PM gf> " JVJ # AAt\ STARTS TOMORROW! |if f mm flfef The LAUGH HIT of the CENTURY! /CT{ ■ More laughs than “Caught Short” & ' i \W More heart throbs than “Min and Bill” 1 DRESSLEH If; AND POLLY MORAN ANITA PAGE - LUCIEN LITTLEFIELD |Kfw[ -_sg Wrliam Collier, Jr. Sally Eilers %; gSteJr .WR HH. Directed by CHARLES F. RIESNER HAPPY days are here again! Don’t miss the funniest film Jj|. Jk ||f of the year. No sappy, slapstick comedy, but a real hu- ffllk man interest story that will tug at your heart-strings one a JoS® minute and bring the tears to your eyes the next! MET A° T°k!^Pk*ture YER ■ L*t Time* Today —CHESTER MORRIS ™ ROLAND WEST’S “THE BAT WHISPERS” with UNA MERKEL t,M ' i „ . ' a V'• . / SL . .*■ i. < . m

c-d Paul Jaworski gang, operations of which once extended through most of the north central states. Ironically. Kraft was killed by a boyhood chum, who once played baseball with him on the sandlott of Hamtramck The gunman, accompanied by John Miciuda. was riding in an automobile late Thursday when he was overhauled by a police scout car manned by patrolmen Edward L. Nowacki and Glenn Chittick. Nowacki, Kraft’s former chum, recognized the gangster at once. Kraft fired once before the policeman wounded him fatally. Miciuda. cut by glass, surrendered. The arsenal was found in the offices of the Sequoia Importing Company, on Capitol park, just a block from city hall. The raid was ordered by the special grand jury which is investigating the Jerry Buckley murder and general crime conditions here. The raiders arrested Mrs. Francis Toohey, 35, said to have been the manager of the company, and Louis Silver, her assistant. Mrs. Toohey is believed to be the wife of Major F. J. Toohey of the United States army. Major Toohey now is stationed in Honolulu. More than 150 rifles, revolvers and shotguns, spare parts for machine guns, hundreds of rounds of ammunition, belts of cartridges for machine guns and several bullet--1 proof vests were found.

IRWIN MAY BE 1 HOOVER’S AID j Hinted as Chief Secretary Choice of President. Du Scrioos-Uotcard ScKsvaoer Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Presence at the White House today of Will Irwin, friend of Herbert Hoover, has revived reports that Irwip may be appointed as chief secretary; to the President, to succeed George; Akerson, who has resigned. More than any of President Hoo-i ver’s newspaper friends Irwin has been generous. In the current 1 Saturday Evening Post he has an article entitled “Portrait of f, President,” which he concludes as follows: “In all the hammering of the past months, not even the bitterest; opponent has belittled the Hoover mind. “The intellectual stature of him is too patent. It is wide thinking, it' is fast, it is intuitive, it is as ac - curate as a die, it is flexible, it is creative. Marvelous memory and systematic study has served it these fifty years, i “But behind, looming large out

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% of a mist, lies the Hoover soul. None have quite fathomed that. It is the one mystery about him —and are not all souls a mystery? “You feel merely that it is very big—and very fine.” Irwin's friendship for Hoover dates back to his undergraduate days at Stanford university. It was cemented during the days of the commission for relief in Belgium when Irwin assisted Hoover. MORE REPORTS ARE DUE Several Hoover Committees Yet to Be Heard From. Bv Scrivpg-Hotcard yewspaper Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Though none will attract as big headlines as did the Wickersham report of Tuesday, there still are a half-dozen or so presidential commissions and committees still to make reports to Hoover and congress. Among these will be the ones from the commissions on child welfare, on conservation of the public domain, on national illiteracy, on interoceanic canals, on ship sales policy, on unemployment, commission on home building and ownership. In addition there is the presidential committee on employment. More than 2,000 women dentists are practicing in the United States.

ORPHAN'S BOARD SHIFT PROPOSED Another Bill Affects State Prohibition Department. Y Complete revision of the state probation department and of control of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ orphans’ home at Knightstown, Ind., is the object of two bills in the Indiana senate today with support of the American Legion. Senators Glenn R. Slenker (Rep., Carroll, Clinton and White) and Russell P. Kehoe (Dem., Clark, Jefferson, Ohio and Switzerland) : introduced the bills. One measure would create a state i probation commission of four mem-! bers, to be appointed by the Governor, two from each party, and to serve without compensation other than expenses. A second measure would displace the present board of five trustees of Soldiers’ and Sailors’ orphans’ home with a board of four to be named by the Governor, two from each party. One member would be the wife or widow of a veteran while

three would be ex-service men. Civil war veterans no longer would have a representative on the board. No such executive as “President” as the head of-a nation ever had existed until the United States proposed and adopted the idea.

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