Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 255, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1931 — Page 9

MARCH '4, 1931

ILLINOIS IN GRIP OF GANG RULE, SENATEIS TOLD Racketeers Virtually Running State, Wickersham Prober Says. BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 4 Names, figures and cases to support the belief of high officials here that local government has broken down completely In some centers were made public today when the Wickersham commission sent to the senate reports of its investigations of crtoa, bootlegging and racketeering in Chicago, the happy hunting ground -*1 the gangster. Downatate Illinois cities also were revealed as in the clutches of similar conditions. This report, prepared by Guy L. Nichols, treasury department investigator, stated breakdown of the *a,w has permitted bootlegging and Racketeering of unbelievable proportions, with profits reaching Into millions, all carried on under protection of officers of the law. Deportation Is Suggested The report described the “Unlont Sicllano" as "a menace” whose officials are linked with liquor and othsr rackets. The federal government was urged In the report to ‘‘concentrate on activities of heads of this society throughout the United States and keep them under surveillance.” Deportation was suggested. The report described conditions found several months ago In Rockford thus: ‘‘lt Is said at least two bootleggers carry deputy sheriff’s stars. Larger bootleggers frequently are ushered into the sheriffs private office and apparently receive a good deal of attention.” High federal officials are known to be concerned over conditions. President Hoover himself several months ago called upon state and local authorities to deal with what he termed this ‘‘hideous gangster and corrupt control of some local governments.” Chicago Aspect Menacing The Wickersham investigator’s report described graft, bootlegging and racketeering in Chicago as menacing. ‘‘The city has not been able to cope with the above mentioned menaces and they now are larger, if truth were known, than the city itself, apparently having increased steadily since enactment of the prohibition law’,” the report continued. Concerning downstate centers investigated some months ago, Nichols reported: East St. Louis—" Almost any number of gambling joints running. Prostitution prevalent with much open solicitation. No open saloons but much bootlegging." Springfield—" Mayor makes little effort to enforce the prohibition law.” State’s attorney "lax in prosecution of liquor cases.” Benld One of Worst Peoria—Has the old saloon-day type of mayor, and he still has the liquojr element around him. Benld. Macoupin County—One of worst spots in Illinois. State’s attorney totally inefficient and sheriff even wore. City officials also inefficient. Bloomington—Police very inactive. Quincy—Police very inactive. State’s attorney lax in liquor enforcement. Joliet—City administration weak, state’s attorney lax. Need of local co-operation in New

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Mrs. Fern Stril being questioned about her suit by Blayney Matthews, chief deputy district attorney at Los Angeles.

By United Press LOS ANGELES, March 4.—The $601,000 damage suit filed by Mrs. Fern Setril against D. W. Griffith, motion picture producer, charging that he attacked her, may proceed without interference by the district attorney, it was said today by that official. An investigation of several days into the motives behind the suit was closed by Buron R. Fitts, district attorney, with the announcement that "no facts that

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House Sinks ‘Admiral’ Crawford

YOU can’t keep the Indiana navy down! Its decks were awash and its superstructure shot away Monday by “Rear Admiral” Earl Crawford, Milton, in a spirited engagement in the Indiana house of representatives, but the dreadnaught "La Porte” under “Chief Admiral” Russell Smith appeared suddenly out of a fog Tuesday and routed Crawford. In other words, the house reversed its action as a committee of the whole in eliminating from the $76,000,000 biennial appropriation bill an item of $42,000 of the Indiana naval' militia. On motion of Representative Smith, the house reinserted the item, still against the protests of Representative Crawford "in the name of economy.”

The $42,000 will be expended over a period of two years on the naval militia unit which has one boat, the “Kitty Hawk,” usually kept harbored in Lake Michigan. In rescinding its elimination of the appropriation, members of the house continued to burlesque their actions by "officially” stripping Crawford of the Rear Admiral”

York and New Jersey was stressed by Palmer Canfield, former prohibition bureau attorney, who made the survey in those states. The New York report dealt largely with the legal phases of enforcement. Referring to New Jersey’s reputation as the "wettest state” in the country, Canfield said there can be no question that the sector including Rhode Island, Connecticut, southern New York and New Jersey Is the wettest part of the nation, both socially and politically.^ The Louisiana report, made by another former prohibition bureau attorney, painted the most startling picture of laxity in enforcement. It described New Orleans as “a powerful magnet for those who seek and those who supply extraordinary pleasures." Prohibition enforcement was held to be virtually nonexistent in and about the city.

would warrant a criminal prosecution at this time” had been uncovered. Earl W. Taylor, t paroled convict, who was quoted a£ saying that he would see that Mrs. Setril pressed her charges against Griffith to the limit, was arrested on suspicion of parole violation after h.s liberation by Fitts Tuesday. Taylor was held for several days after it was said he tried to sell “the little girl's story” to newspapers.

title conferred Monday and investing Smith with the cognomen of Chief Admiral.” A joke resolution directed that in view of the house action in coming to the “Kitty Hawk’s” rescue, "Rear Admiral” Smith should proceed in the craft direct to the Garfield Park swimming pool to hold ‘spring maneuvers. Speaker of the House Walter Myers accepted the resolution with the amendment that "Admiral” Smith obtain Mack Sennett’s bathing beauties of film fame to act as the crew. Truck Kills Aged Man By United Press MT. VERNON, Ind., March 4. Mt. Vernon authorities today were seeking a hit-and-run driver who Tuesday night drove his truck into George Haas, 75, former city councilman, and Conrad Maier. Haas died two hours later in an Evansville hospital of a skull fracture. Maier’s injuries are not serious. The two men were crossing a street in the residential district when rim down. Sheep first were introduced in America at Jamestown in 1609.

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BANDITS POSE AS POLICE TO HOLD UP AUTO Chef Is Taken for Ride, Robbed of S4O Near Martinsville. Police today held four men and two women as suspects in robbery of G. E. Moore, 270 North Holmes avenue, and Miss R. E. Chapman, 3ltf West Thirty-eighth street, by two men, who posing as police officers, crowded Moore’s car to the side of the road about midnight. The holdup took plac at Cold Springs and Michigan roads. Brandishing weapons, the bandits robbed Moore of sl4 and his overcoat. Miss Chapman was robbed of $3.50, but refused to give up her coat. The bandits answered description of two gunmen who held up a couple Monday night on the Center Church road. The six suspects were arrested on vagrancy charges by police, as they got out of a car in front of 513 North Alabama street. Two of the men answered description of the bandits who held up Moore, police said. Chef Taken for Ride Police today sought two men who took Jack Cafouros, R. R. 4, Box 457, cook at the Claypool, for a ride and robbed him of S4O near Martinsville Tuesday. Walking up as Cafouros got in his car at South and Meridian streets, the bandits told Cafouros his wife was ill and said they would go home with him. Entering the car, they drew guns and forced him to drive south, getting out of the car after robbing him. Four men today were held on vagrancy charges after one of the men was thrown from a coupe as police pursued them early today. Others Are Held Patrolmen Timothy O’Neil and George Johnson, hearing a man shouting as a coupe passed them at Illiois and Ohio stretes, jumped in a taxi and pursued. As they neared the car, Joseph Tucker, 22, Louisville, fell to the street and a revolver was tossed from the car. Tucker, with a long gash on his was sent to city hospital. Others held were Victor Wray, 21, of 1826 West Vermont stret; John Dafford, 23, of 3554 West Michigan stret, and George Williams, 30, of 239 North Illinois street. Carl Crausore, delivery messenger for a Hook drug store at Fortysecond street and College avenue, was robbed of about S4O late Tuesday night by two men who called him to the 4600 block on Guilford avenue with a fake order. Aaron Frazier, 21, Negro, 320 West Eleventh street, today was held as the fifth suspect in the S3OO robbery Feb. 22 of Mr. and Mrs. John Caswell, 3125 Central avenue, owners of a tea room. Madison County Sued By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., March 4. Scott Blake has filed suit against the board of commissioners seeking to recover judgment for $250 against Madison county for damage sustained by his truck in a collision with a county gravel truck.

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