Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 250, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1931 — Page 2

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BEER RACKET IS CAPONE'S BEST. SAYS RANDOLPH Chicago Drinks 25,000,000 Pints Weekly, Asserts ‘Secret Six’ Head. By Times Spcciot NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—Chicagos present consumption of illiegal beer I# 25.000,000 pints weekly, and the money available to AI Capone's syndicate for ‘protection'’ is upward of $2,000,000 per week, according to figures made public today by Colonel Robert Isham Randolph, president of the Chicago Chamber of Commerce, and spokesman for the Chicago business men’s commit-* tee for the prevention and punishment of crime, colloquially known in Chicago as the “Secret Six.” The figures set down by our operatives.” Colonel Randolph will say in Collier’s Weekly Friday, “are for Cook county, which is to all in>ents and purposes identical with Chicago. There were found in Cook county some 20,000 beer Joints, served with beer by professional bootleggers, the bulk of whom belong to the organization headed by A] Capone. Such smaller beer-running gangs as flourish in the city pay Capone tribute for the privilege. Capone is the vice lord of Chicago, and without his beer trade he w r ould not be the menace that he is. All other illegal operations of his band are but outgrowths of the beer racket. Beer rays Protection “The Impudence with which he and his men operate houses of prostitution, perpetrate pay roll robberies and jewelry holdups, muscle their way into labor unions and merchants’ associations, is due to the protection paid law-enforcement weaklings out of a treasury that beer profits have filled. "Consider Capone’s profits in beer. He and his syndicate contol the illicit business from manufacture to distribution. They own n string of breweries and control the output of many others, operating them periodically or constantly, depending upon how often the law enforcers are bribed. “Exactly how/ many barrels of beer the syndicate sells in Chicago each week could only be told by Capone, himself. Our investigators estimate that the 20,000 ‘spots' avenge five barrels per week, the syndicate profiting from the handling of 100,000 barrels of beer every seven days, making Cook county's normal consumption of beer some 25.000,000 pints a week, or six pints per inhabitant. Sales in'Bulk "Most of this is sold in bulk. Much of it is bottled in the syndicate plants where it can be labeled ‘Canadian Ale’ as easily as not. Usually the syndicate keeps up a pretense that the draft beer, delivered in barrels, is only near beer, but even the policemen on the beat laugh at that. "Our -investigation shows that it costs Capone SI.BO to brew a barrel of beer and that other manufacturing charges, such as cooperage, bring the total to no more than $3. The standard normal price charged speakeasies is $55, leaving a gross profit of $52. "The least expense of distribution is trucking. The highest item is protection. Armed guards who accompany the trucks and gunmen hoodlums who collect from the proprietors of the speakeasies can be had by Capone for SIOO to $l5O a week. Higher salaried gangsters are needed to fix the police and still more intelligent operators are used to se the right politicians. Pay Roll of 2,000 "The closest estimate we can make of men on Capone’s pay roll is 2,000, counting brewers, truckmen, armed guards, collectors, fixers and custodians of brothels, gambling houses and handbooks which his syndicate directly owns. ' Capone’s business is an expensive one. How far his bribery extends into the police department is a matter of conjecture. Sergeants, lieutenants and captains on the force are the men Capone must fix, and some of them have become suspiciously wealthy in recent years. Wnen a police captain can make *2,500 merely by shutting his eyes to the weekly delivery of truckToaUs of beer in an obscure alley, what, do you think he will do? "Capone can set aside S2O from the profits of each barrel of beer and use it as a slush fund. That figure is what our investigators believe he allows for protection. Profiting from the sale of 100.000 barrels of beer a week, he could thus have the staggering total of $2,000,000 to lavish on corruption each seven days.” ACTRESS SEEKS DIVORCE Ethel Kenyon Charges Husband Is i Too Temperamental. Rv T nite/t Pres* LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26.—Edward Sutherland, film director, is defendant In a divorce suit filed by his wife, Ethel Kenyon, New York actress. They were married Feb. 6. 1930. Miss Kenyon charged her husband is temperamental, and that he forced her to accompany him on rounds of night clubs after a hard day’s work.

Wire Trouble Even the switchboard operator of the Indiana house of representatives comes in for a share of the praise and invective heaped on the members of the general assembly for the personal and corporation income tax bills. In her case it was invective of a fluent if not high order. Taking an incoming call, she was greeted by a woman's voice saying: "You ought to be ashamed of yourself for passing that income tax bill. People no sooner get together a little money and ‘make something of themselves’ that you pass a law taking it away from ’em." ‘‘You ought to be ashamed of yourself, you dirty ‘such and such and these and those,*" and a slam of the receiver was the conclusion.

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As part of the safety rally program tonight at Tomlinson hall, Jimmie Willingham and Ernestine Ewing will give a dance specailty along with the presentation of the Junior Melody Boys’ orchestra. The safety rally will continue Friday night and is sponsored by the Indianapolis police department. FLAY ENEMIES OF AGE PENSION Manufacturers Scored for Opposition to Bill. By Bcrwfla-llotcard Kcicspapcr Alliance WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. —"The American people will not tolerate for another generation the slow starvation of their old people or its alternative, that system of penal institutions known as almshouses,” declared Abraham Epstein, executive secretary of the American Association for Old Age Security at the final committee hearing on the Dill Bill for federal aid to states in creating old age pensions. Epstein bitterly assailed the National Association of Manu'-r.turers. whose Noe. urgent, has declared war on the Dill bill. “These same people lu opposed workmen's compensation, mothers’ pensions and the eight-hour day,’’ he said. COMMITTEE DECISIONS FOUGHT BY DEMOCRATS Convention Will Determine Liquor Policies, Say Senators. By United Preen WASHINGTON. Feb. 26.—Senate Democrats rapidly are aligning themselves against any effort by the national committe to commit the party, at its March 5 meeting, to policies on prohibition. The idea generally expressed is that the national committee has no authority to bind the party on policies, and that such matters properly belong to the national convention. Within the week, Senator Kenneth McKellar (Dem., Tenn.) and Senator Tom Connally (Dem., Tex.) have publicly protested any effort by the committee to commit the’ party next week. MOVE TO KILL BEAUTY SHOP MEASURE FAILS Woman Representative Defends Bill on Revenue Features. Branding the Haines bill licensing beauty operators “freak legislation and the most useless and senseless bill introduced this session,” Representative John F. White (Derm, Marion), was unsuccessful Wednesday in an attempt to have the measure indefinitely postponed. He was answered hotly by Miss Telia C. Haines, Sullivan attorney and only woman member of the Indiana house, who defended its revenue-raising features. She was suported by an overwhelming vote.

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employment insurance proposal and the anti-injunction bill. Rules Change Asked The La Guardia group demands, procedure to prevent administration from blocking a vote on any controversial measure. They can accomplish this by two changes—a rule permitting a majority of any committee to call a meeting over the head of the chairman and the three leaders, and w rule requiring a vote on any bill held in committee if 100 members ask for it. These are counted on to destroy the Longworth-Sneli-Tilson steamroller. Since the next house will consist of 218 Republicans, 216 Democrats and one Farmer-Labor member, a, bolt of even three members would be disastrous to the Longworth-Snell-Tilson machine. Ti rht Grip* Is Held Under existing rules a committee chairman can defer indefinitely a meeting of his group. Should the committee report a bill opposed by the regulars, It can be refused a place on the calendar by a vote by the rules committee. Should it get onto the house calendar, the leaders can assign it such a low place it never will be reached.

DICTATOR IS URGED Revolting British Parliament Member Sounds Proposal. By United Press ' LONDON, Feb. 26.—A govem--1 ment which, by consent of the people, would rule with dictatorial powers but could be overthrown by parliament, was the goal set today by Sir Oswald Mosley, wealthy young socialist member of parliament, who has revolted against leadership of Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald. If Mosley, aided by five other parliament members, including his wife, Lady Cynthia Mosley, is successful in enrolling public support he plans to make conciliatory proposals to loyal Laborites and, if they fail to accept, to enter candidates in the next elections.

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Bar Association Electa SHELBYVTLLE, Ind., Feb. 26. Ed K. Adams is the new presidertt

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