Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 281, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1931 — Page 3

'APRIL 4, 1931_

DEATH SMASH IS DEALT GIANT INDIANA ALCOHOL RING

27 STILLS ARE DESTROYED DY U.S. RAIDERS Agents Ready to Pounce on Twenty More Places at Clinton. SEVEN TRUCKS USED Owners Netted Profit of $25,000 Each Day. Officials Say. Continued battering by special dry agents and prohibition enforcement officers has dealt a death blow to one of central Indiana’s major, yet comparatively little known, industries, federal officials divulged today. It was a business representing an Investment of almost $1,000,000, requiring seven trucks to bring supplies to the plants located in Clinton. Ind., and to take away the manufactured product and netted the owners, it is estimated a profit of approximately $25,000 a day. This highly profitable business was the alcohol manufacturing racket and Clinton, its headquarters, is the acknowledged alcohol manufacturing center of the middle west. Beginning Oct. 2 and ending April 1 a series of raids by federal agents resulted in the destruction -of twenty-seven alcohol stills ranging in daily output from 200 to 500 gallons and more than a score of liquor stills. 20 More Marked for Ax At least twenty more large alcohol stills have been located in Clinton, federal agents say, and are marked for the ax. Starting with the smashing of thirteen alcohol manufacturing plants in Clinton on Oct. 2 and 3, sporadic raids were made by the* special agents which netted fourteen other stills, the two last being destroyed on March 26 and April 1. All were located in Clinton. Floors were cut away in private dwellings, and the large copper stills reared their heighth through two and three stories from the basement floor. The still destroyed on West Miller street in Clinton on March 26 cost at least $35,000 to erect and was the largest of the lot, special agents said. Got 50.139 Gallons of Mash It was capable of producing five gallons of alcohol every ten minutes. Raiders obtained 50,139 gallons of mash which was stored in six vats. Largest of these were 13 Vi by 14 feet and 6 feet deep; 30 by 12 by 6. and 5 by 6 by 6. The still was fifteen feet high and reached from the basement to the roof. A 25-horse power steam boiler was used in manufacturing the alcohol. Raiders also found on the premises fifteen barrels of molasses used in making the mash and one-half ton of coke used for stoking the boiler. The mash pump was run by electricity and the boiler was of thick high-grade copper. A 140-foot tunnel running from the house to the alleyway, was lined with tile and was two feet in diameter. Two Nabbed in Raid When the special agents approached the house the still attendant slammed the door and made Ills get-away through the tunnel. Information gathered by the agents revealed that seven trucks delivered supplies to the Clinton stills each day and left with loads of alcohol. The April 1 raid netted a 200gallon daily capacity still and a man and woman were arrested. They are Albino DalPonte and Augusta Carose, who are being held for the next, federal grand jury. Value of the alcohol manufactured In the twenty-seven giant stills is difficult to estimate, but it is known that a five-gallon can sold at the still for sls and in Indianapolis for $22.50. The daily output of the large still totaled approximately $2,500, it was declared.

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Promote Air Tours B;/ Scripps-Hotcard Xewspaprr Alliance WASHINGTON. April 4. Air cruises, after the manner of the steamship “all expense” cruises for tourists, are the latest. Germany is taking the lead and the Deut r .ne Luff Hansa (German airways) is circularizing this country with attractive air tour pamphlets. These European air tours are designed. the company says, "especially for visiting Americans to enable them to see a great deal of Europe in a limited time." They range from twelve to thirtyfour days, cost from $206 to $1,062 per person, and take in such points as London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Geneva. Rome, Coenhagen, Budaest. Rigo and Oslo. The tours give stopovers at all points for shopping and sightseeing. Change Mail Time Time of the Indianapolis stop of the Cincinnati bound night mail plane of the Embry-Riddle division, American Airways, has been changed from 10:45 p. m. to 2 a. m., it was announced today by Donald A. McConnell, local field manager for the company. , The change was made to facilitate connections at Chicago with the Transcontinental Air lines. No change was made in other runs by the line. Burglars Get $20,000 By Tlinen Special NOBLESVILLE, Ind., April 4. A message received here from Los Angeles, Cal., says burglars entered the apartments of Mrs. C. F. Lufkin in that city and escaped with $20,000 worth of bonds, watches and diamond rings. Mrs. Lufkin is the widow of a Standard Oil Company executive and a sister of Charles F. Coffin. Indianapolis business man, and also of Mrs. Leonard Wild, Indianapolis.

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MOCK WAR IS ARMY DAY ACT Ft. Harrison Air, Ground Forces in Event. Machine guns will chatter and airplanes roar in a peacetime demonstration at Ft. Benjamin Harrison next Monday afternoon, celebrating "Army day." The day is observed annually, to give ‘ the public an opportunity to become better acquainted with the living conditions of the army and its functions. Brigadier-General George H. Jamerson has announced the following program, to which the public is invited: 1:30 P. M. —Eleventh infantry demonstration of machine sun arm* on me nue ranee. 2:15 P. M.—Schoen field and adjacent area; air corps in combat formations and in demonstration of air-ground communications; tank driving bv First platoon. Fifth Tank Company; maneuvers by First battalion. Third Field Artillery. 3:15 P. M.-—Schoen field: parade by Eleventh infantrv and First batallion. Third field artillery. 3:55-4:20 p. m.—lnspection of barracks.

CITY WOMAN KILLED Mrs. Galen Neer Dies After Crossing Crash. When an auto in which she was riding stalled on railroad crossing at Wabash, Ind., late Friday, Mrs. Henrietta Neer, 34, of 4007 College avenue, was killed and her 19-months-old daughter, Clara Lorraine, injured seriously. Mrs. Neer was the wife of Galen U. Neer, district manager of the order of Maccabees. She and her daughter were to have spent Easter with her sister, Mrs. O. O. Jellison of Wabash. Mrs. Jellison, who was driving the car, suffered only minor injuries. Junior Christmas, 14, nephew of Mrs. Neer, was unhurt. Physicians were forced to amputate a hand of Mrs. Neer’s daughter. FINGERPRINT EXPERT SLAIN; WIFE IS HELD Denver Man Was Pioneer in Field of Criminal Identification. By United Press DENVER, April 4.—Mrs. Harold W. Axtell was held by police today on charges of killing her husband, a nationally known finger print expert who was president of the International Association of Identification. Authorities said Mrs. Axtell had confessed shooting her husband after a quarrel. She was his second wife. His first committed suicide in 1927. Axtell was known by criminologists throughout the country as one of the first officers to recognize the importance of finger prints. PARIS CENSUS GROWN Population Mark Post Three Million; Increase Is 280,000. By United Press PARIS, April 4.—Census figures, announced today, show Paris has a population of 3,118,416, an increase of 280,000 since 1926. Building Permits Mrs. Genn Weinbrecht. tank and pumps. 2449 West Sixteenth. S3OO. Everett Greer, new store front. 2432 Station. S2OO. William and L. F. Workman, brick veneer building. 635-37 East Maryland. S3OO. Smuck Hug and Carnet Company, sign, 19 East Maryland. S2OO. Fred Jacobs, sign, 115 Blast Thirtyfourth. SSOO. Federal Electric Comnanv. sign. Thirtyeighth and College. SBOO. Federal Electric Company, sign. 415 Massachusetts. 5750. J. Q Mowry. cararre, 3704 North Pennsylvania. S6OO. Wilson Carey, garage. 3125 Sutherland. *325. Roselind M. Zoller. alterations, 1137 North Missouri. S6OO. Grinslade Construction Company, dwelling and garage. 5924 Winthrop. $3,200. William Kilbrech. porch. 434 South Warman. S2OO. Ninety-five patches were required to repair damage inflicted to wings of an airplane caught in a hailstorm in South Dakota.

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India’s ‘Miracle in White Marble’ Reproduced for Exposition. PARIS. April 4.— At last the western world will behold the most beautiful building ever erected by man—the Taj Mahal—which the millionaire maharajahs of India have arranged to reproduce in complete detail for the international colonial and overseas exposition at Paris this summer. There the Taj—a miracle in whitest marble—will take its place beside America’s Mt. Vernon, Cambodia’s Angkor-Vat and Madagascar’s Hovan palace in the most picturesque architectural exhibition in history. The fortune required to reproduce the Taj in Paris has been advanced by the Aga Khan, the Maharajah of Kapurthala, and other Indian princes, who have agreed that the famous mausoleum at Agra *s the finest example of the ancient culture of Hindustan. The Taj Mahal has a history as poetic and charming as its own graceful minarets. It was built between 1629 and 1650 A. D. at a cost of many millions of dollars, at the order of the Shah Jehan, to commemorate his great love for his favorite wife, Mumtaz-i-Mahal. The name of the mausoleum means, literally, "Crown of Mahal.” The building contains the tombs of the Mogul emperor and his consort. It is 130 feet square, while the great dome rises 170 feet above the ground. The Taj is surrounded by beautiful gardens, which also will be copied for the Paris exhibit. And the Taj at Paris will also show displays of Indian culture and civilization, together with the crown jewels of the Aga Khan and his princely colleagues.

St. Bernard Dog Strain in Peril of Dying Out

By Unit eel Press CHAMOIX. French Alps. April 4.—An unusually rigorous winter in the upper Alps has taken heavy toll of the heroic St. Bernard dogs belonging to the St. Bernard monks at Clairvaux in Switzerland it is reported. Dog lovers are fearful that, as happened once before, the strain may be in danger of dying out.. For nearly a month, the hospice of the Grand St. Bernard which is one of the highest inhabited points in the Alps, being situated at 8,110 feet, was blocked in a mass of snow of a depth of thirty feet, the greatest depth of snow ever recorded there.

The monks were unable to venture out with their dogs, as usual, and the hospice just recently has been dug out from the huge snowdrifts, enabling men and dogs to resume their humanitarian task of aiding travelers lost in the Alpine passes. Winter Lasts Nine Months The winter in the region lasts nine months. Every morning It is the custom for two dogs, one old and one young, to set out with the monks, descend to the Swiss and Italian ends of the St. Bernard pass, and seek travelers in distress. When any one in need of aid is found, the dogs go ahead to show the way back to the monastery near the mountain top. More than 100 years ago, in 1812, during a similarly severe winter, the St. Bernard breed cl dogs almost died out. and they had to be mated with Newfoundlands to revive the strain. At first the tendency was for the puppies to have long, rough hair, but the monks, by careful tending, brought the breed back to the desired shortness of coat. The dogs are able to walk easily on the snow, owing to the curious formation of their paws. Rescue Many Travelers Instead of being round and hard like the paws of dogs used to hard sidewalks, the St. Bernards have feet which are almost webbed, which have been developed after years of contact with the snow. Their paws spread out like the web feet of a duck; they are able to run swiftly over the deep drifts. It is said that, with the wind in the right direction, the dogs can miles away.

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EX-CITY COUPLE WINS $26,000 Dollar Ticket on English Race Reaps Fortune. Two former residents of Indianapolis won $26,000 on a one-dollar ticket held on Grakle, steeplechase victor of the Veterans’ Sweepstakes at Aintree, England. The lucky holders of the ticket are Mr. and Mrs. Philip Lucid of Seattle, Wash. Word of their good fortune was received in this city by John Gorman, 916 De Quincy street, Mrs. Lucid’s brother. “I don’t imagine it. will make much difference in their manner of living. They are conservative people and will invest it carefully,” Gorman said today. Lucid is a telegraph operator on the Great Northern railroad. He was employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company when he lived in this city. Tom Mix Rodeo Sunday By United Press PERU, Ind., April 4.—More than twenty thousand persons are expected at the rodeo to be held here Sunday agternoon by Tom Mix and his cowboys at circus winter quarters. The Sells-Floto circus is scheduled to leave Monday for Chicago for a two weeks’ engagement in the Coliseum. The Hagenback-Wallace show will start its annual tour late in April. Ringling shows will not tour this year because of poor business conditions.

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Dear Mr. Fixit—Directly in front of my house and opposite my house the street is in bad condition. Motorists get stuck in the mud and we continually have to help motorists out of the mud. We will appreciate very much if you would have some cinders put out in this street. MRS. L. H. 2546 Villa avenue. Wilbur Winship, street commissioner, has promised to remedy the situation as soon as the present rush of calls for cinders permits. ASKS $12,500 DAMAGES Steel Company Sues Contractor for New City Airport. Judgment of $12,500 is asked in a suit filed in superior court three by the Truscon Steel Company of Youngstown, 0., against Charles T. Caldwell, general contractor for the new mui% ipal airport building, and the Commonwealth Casualty Company, of Philadelphia. It is charged that Caldwell has failed to pay for material totaling $10,311.25 purchased from the steel company. Part of the materials were purchased by a subcontractor, it is said. The casualty company was bondsman for Caldwell.

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HOOVERS WILL OPEN GATES; 10 GREET PUBLIC White House Accessible on Easter for First Time in 30 Years. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.—With fair weather forecast for Easter, the national capital will celebrate the holiday Sunday in a manner which, in certain respects, will represent a shattering of precedents. The White House gates, thrown open Friday for the first time in thirty years, will be open to the public again today, with the President and Mrs. Herbert Hoover personally greeting the throngs of tourists. Sunrise religious services will be held at the tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington Sunday for the first time in history and will be broadcast. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover will atttend. Barring botanical miracles, the Japanese cherry trees will not be in and thousands of out-of-town visitors will be disappointed in their chief reason for coming here. Daily for some time past, department of agriculture experts have been visiting the mall, fondling the buds on the trees and offering prayers and predictions regarding the probable time of blooming. Up to a few days ago it confidently was preejeted all would be well along the Potomac, Washington would have a pink Easter, and there would be no reason for any one from Kankakee or Dubuque to go home feeling cheated. Now, however, it appears that the week of low temperatures, accompanied by chill rains, has discouraged the buds, and they won’t open for several days.

SOLDIER BONUS SPENT ON CARS Veterans’ Purchases Bring Auto Trade Pickup. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 3.—Purchase of automobiles by ex-soldiers with their bonus loans has contributed to a very noticeable pickup in the automobla industry recently, which some experts interpret as the first signs of general business improveemnt. Reports here from various part of the country indicate that many veterans have used their bonus loans to buy automobiles, either new or second-hand. A greater proportion of the money being paid out to veterans, which administrator Hines of the veterans bureau, figured would reach a billion dollars eventually, is going for the purchase of automobiles than for any other one article on the market, it is believed. Automobile sales for March were expected to show a very decided increase. While official figures have not yet been tabulated, this increase is likely to be as high as 20 per cent above sales for last March, perhaps more. The trade generally is very optimistic.

HELD ON DRUNK CHARGE Charles Fraley Alleged to Have Threatened Girl’s Visitor. Charles M. Fraley, R. R. 3, Box 132, was arrested today by deputy sheriffs on charges of blind tiger and drunkenness after he is alleged to have threatened to shoot Harry Simpson, 27, of 140 West Nineteenth street. Simpson and Miss Grace Bates, 2 of Ben Davis, told deputies Fraley came to Miss Bates’ home while Simpson was visiting there and threatened to kill Simpson. Deputies learned that Farley fired three shots at Simpson’s parked auto but when arrested Fraley did not have a gun in his possession. Two Face Slaying Charge By Times Special FRANKLIN, Ind., April 4.—Edward Tunget, 30, and brother, Robert, 16, Indianapolis, are under arrest here charged with manslaughter in the death of their uncle, William P. Tunget, automobile accident victim.

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Jocelyn Lee Is Granted Divorce From Director

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Jocelyn Lee, actress, points to a damaged tooth which she claims is the result of a battle with her husband, Luther Reed, prominent screen director. The picture was taken when she appeared in a Los Angeles divorce court.

RETIRED CAPITALIST CLAIMED BY DEATH

Martin Rehfuss Jr. to Be Buried at Eaton, 0., His Birthplace. Funeral sendees for Martin Rehfuss Jr., 73, retired Indianapolis capitalist and real estate owner, who died Friday morning at the Methodist hospital so” g a two months’ illness, will be held Monday at 9 a. m. at Christ Episcopal church. Burial will be in Mound Hill cemetery, o. Prominent in financial activities PENCIL PIERCES EYE: DIES MONTH LATER Hospital Patient Thought He Had Failed in Suicide Effort. By United Press WASHINGTON, April 4.— More than a month ago, Edward L. Karmany, a patient at Stf. Elizabeth’s hospital, thrust a pencil point into his right eye in an attempt to commit suicide. The wound healed in a few days and Karmany apparently recovered from any ill effects, appearing in good spirits. Friday, he developed a high fever and died. Physicians, at a loss to account for the cause of his death, recalled the lead pencil episode and performed an autop— They found a tiny piece of lend had traveled back into a vital part of the man’s head, restating in paralysis of the cerebral nerves. CITES ADVERTISING NEED Depression Period No Time to Curtail, Expert Tells Realtors. ‘'lnstead of curtailing advertising during a time of depression, do the contrary and create a demand for your products,” urged A. G. Pelikan of Milwaukee, advertising authority at a dinner Friday night to the 200 exhibitors in the Realtor’s Home Show in the Manufacturer’s building at the fairground. Farmers Make Trades By Times Special Insull interests are trading farmers the abandoned right-of-way of the Indiana Railroad between Kokomo and Logansport for easements to erect high-tension electric lines on the farmers’ property it was announced by officials today.

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Red-Haired Actress Wins Custody of Children and Alimony. By United Press LOS ANGELES, April 4.—Jocelyn, red-haired screen actrer* was granted a divorce late Friday from Luther Reed, film director, on charges of cruelty, a'ter four days of testimony replete with sensations. Reed originally sued for the divorce, charging Miss Lee had cursed him, struck him with an ash tray and had so conducted herself at the Agua Caliente (Mexico) hotel that they were ordered to leave. Testimony was introduced by Miss Lee that she had found Reed in Company with an unidentified woman, both unclothed, in the bedroom of a friend’s house. Miss Lee was given custody of their two minor children, Celeste, 3, and Dana, 2, and was awarded alimony of SIOO weekly. She asked alimony of $2,400 monthly, but Reed pleaded the divorce action had made it impossible for him to obtain employment and that he therefore cou’.d not afford the greater amount. The couple were- married at Tiajuana, Mexico, June 15, last, and separated in September.

of the city, Mr. Rehfuss was a resident of Indianapolis s*nce 1905. He was born in Eaton, 0., March 10, 1858, and was in the wholesale leather and saddlery business for twenty years at Peoria. 111. Retiring from business he spent some time abroad and then came ,to Indianapolis. During the World war he served as fuel ’"ninistrator. He made his home at the SpinkArms hotel for several years. Surviving him are the widow, Mrs. Emma Rehfr'-'; r our sisters, Mrs. Lizzie Rehfuss, Miss Sophia Rehfuss, Mrs. Carrie Rehfuss Michael of Eaton, and Mrs. Mary Rehfuss Demm of 0.-fford, 0., and three brothers, George of Peoria, Charles of Philadelphia nad Jacob Rehfuss of Stockton, Cal. Mr. Rehfuss was a member of the Columbia Club, ’"’’rights of Pythias and was a former vestryman of Christ Episcopal church.

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HYMIE IS GIVEN LIFE TERM FOR POTTER DEATH Convicted as Hired Gunman in Killing of Cleveland Politician. By United Press CLEVELAND, April 4.—Pittsburgh Hymie Martin sulked in his cell today without attempting to maintain the debonair air with which he had watched the course of his trial while his attorneys prepared to appeal the verdict which

found him guilty ;of slaying former City Councilman William E. Potter, one-time Republican politician, j The conviction of Martin Friday as the “spot” man of the Potter killing was "only the beginning” of the in vestigation into the death of "Rariin’ Bill” Potter, Prosecutor Ray T.

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Miller said today. "Martin was the hired gunman,” said Mifier. "We have proved that to the satifaction of twelve jurors. Now, we are going after his confederates, and those who hired them.” Detective Inspector C. W. Cody said that the identity of a second man. alleged to have been Martin’s companion in the death suite when Potter was killed, was known to police, and that the department was concentrating on obtaining his capture. .“We know positively who his partner was.” the detective chief declared. “We expect to arrest him soon. With Martin convicted, the second man will have a lot of explaining to do.” Martin was found guilty late on Friday, after twenty-five hours deliberation by a jury of five women and seven men. Mercy was recommended. The verdict carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment with no hope of parole. Former Dry Agent Convicted By Times Special CLINTON, Ind., April 4.—Convicted of being drunk and drawing a weapon, Bert Cash, former federal dry agent, was sentenced in city court here to eight months at the state penal farm and fined S2O.