Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 40, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1931 — Page 15

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SCARFACE AL TOSSED AWAY HIS FORTUNES Reckless Spending Led Only to Downfall of King of Rackets. FEARED DEATH ALWAYS Kept Bodyguard at His Side Continually, as He • Wasted Money. EDITOR'S NOTE—Tbit It the second of scries of article* by Robert Talley, NEA service and The Times staff writer, disclosing Just how and why A1 Capone, rancdom’s emperor, met his downfall. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer (Copyright. 1931. bv NEA Service. Ine.) CHICAGO, June 25.—His gang throne crumbling under him and facing a long term in federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, "Scarface AP Capone, emperor of vice, today has a chance to sit back and look over the mistakes which led to his downfall and which enabled federal authorities to gather the mass of information before which he wilted and pleaded guilty. For one thing the depression ruined Capone’s vast vice businesses. It cut deeply into the profits of his beer trade, his alky cooking racket, his gambling houses, and the hundreds of other illegitimate business schemes into which he had plunged his flabby fingers. In his heyday of easy sailing and big profits, he learned to 6pend money recklessly and with little thought of the future. He gambled on the races on a big scale, squandered lavishly.

Sought to Buy His Precluded by the nature of things from the popular and cultured associates that others could enjoy naturally, he sought to buy this with his money. He did this by entertaining on a big—and expensive—scale and a lavish display of wealth. At his home in Florida, where he tried vainly to get in with a better class of people in an apparent effort to gratify some secret social ambitions, he often entertained as many as twenty-five or thirty dinner guests. He wore big diamonds himself and loaded his wife down with jewels ( some of which, at least—as already state d—he has since pawned). Lavished Money on Attire A man of extravagant taste, he lavished money on his own attire. Once when the government agents raided his apartments in a Cicero hotel, and this was only one of the several living establishments he maintained, for safety’s sake, they found sixteen suits of cloths, all made by a Chicago tailor whose minimum price is $135 a suit. Aside from his extravagances Capone had inescapable personal expenses mounting to a high figure. He carried the burden of supporting his mother, his wife, his son and putting another brother, •who never has been identified with gangdom, by the way, through college. For them he maintained his Prairie avenue home. Lived in Many Places For safety’s sake he himself lived in various hotels in Chicago and Cicero, the suburb where he organized vice on a huge scale. This was an expensive thing. For example, at the Lexington hotel where he lived in Room 430 at times, he always engaged the rooms directly above him, directly below him and on each side for hjs bodyguards. Even the joys and comforts that his money brought never eased his constant fear of assassination. These bodyguards, usually about seven in number, cost money, too. They were reported to draw SIOO a week each. Their job was to protect their chief from the sudden extermination that had overtaken so many of his predecessors. They always were with him. His Patronage Profitable Lawyers found Capone’s patronage profitable, even if their ethics were strained thereby. The fact is that, because of the nature of things, they charged Capone a fee approximately twice that they would charge an ordinarly client for a similar service. Moreover, as chief of the gang, Capone was required to pay the legal expenses and provide bond for any of the gang members who got into trouble. And this expense was on the same scale, too. Os course, this came out of the gang's treasury, as did the huge bribe payments for *’protection.' 1 Events Move Swiftly The events of the years have moved swiftly for this young Italian, now only 32 or 34. He came out here from Brooklyn in 1919 as a roughneck bouncer in a cheap brawdy house, and joinued up with the first Chicago gangs when the liquor racket began. Amid a series of shocking murders that marked successive steps, he rose to wealth and power. A genius for organization, though 3n evil genius, he syndicated and marketed vice on an elaborate scale whqre his predecessors had merely peddled it He made it pay, but—it develops now—he squandered his own part as fast as he made it and sometimes faster. (To Be Continued) " Next—The man who never has lost an important case in court. Bull Injures Man By United GREENCASTLE, Ind., June - Members of the family of Roy Jones, 38, principal of Putnamville high school, near here, were credited with saving his life by beating off a bull w'hich attacked him. He is in a local hospiyi with several fractured ribs and body bruises but is expected to recover.

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Frank Powell's Toy Car Captures Race Honors

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Top Photo—John (Jack) Sloan Kittle Jr. is shown qualifying Thursday with his speedy little “rubber band motor” racer. Bottom—Sitting on the dangerous north curve of the “speedway" are the following track managers (left to right): Arthur Small, Frank Powell, Robert Taylor and Charles Abbot. Powell is treasurer.

FLAMES PERIL OIL COUNTRY Workers Struggle to Halt Burning Gushers. By United Press OVERTON, Tex., June 26.—While workers struggled today to extinguish the burning Tulsa Oil Company’s well near Overton, further hazard was added to the east Texas oil fields as anew gusher near Center raged out of control, spreading gas and oil over the nearby countryside. Black smoke drifted over farms, hazarding further oil operations, as Floyd T. Kinley, Tulsa oil fire fighter, completed arrangements to discharge nitroglycerin in the Tulsa Oil Company's well. Kinley and his helpers have labored for more than forty-eight hours, removing debris from around the hole. The Overton well was one of four gushers which have run wild and marred oil operations in east Texas this week. At Kilgore, efforts to extinguish a burning well were unavailing. It has been burning since Tuesday night and oil men said it would be several days before it could be halted.

CADLE IS OPTIMISTIC Sure He’ll Have Funds to Reclaim Tabernacle. Confident of success in his campaign to regain control of Cadle tabernacle, E. Howard Cadle announced today that the money he needs to make a first payment on the property is almost certain to be subscribed by Sunday. In order to take over the tabernacle, Cadle stated in a mass meeting last Sunday. $6,000 must be placed in his hands by 2:30 Sunday afternoon when he will tell “The Story of the Comeback of E. Howard Cadle." Alvin L. Carter, Pampa, Fla., who has been associated with Cadle for the last five years in evangelical campaigns, will have charge of the choir of 1.000 voices Sunday. Carter is nationally known as a religious music director, and has sung over the nation-wide radio networks. $156,000 TO Baumgarth Company Receiver Ready to Pay at South Bend. By Times Special SOUTH BEND. Ind., June 26.—A court order permitting distribution of $156,000 to creditors of the John Baumgarth Company, is sought by the receiver, Claude J. Jackson. This sum represents about one third of the amount of claims, placed at $520,000, and was derived from sale of the company's assets. The receiver now has $251,075 i hand, of which $20,000 will be us: I in paying preferred claims.

FINISHES FAST TO TAKE MIBS TITLE

By Fnitcd Press OCEAN CITY, N. J.. June 26 Johnnie Jeffries, 12, of Greenville, Ky., won the national marble championship today by defeating Harley Corum of Louisville, Ky., five out of eight games. Johnnie was presented with a SIOO gold watch as an emblem of his title, while a S3O watch was given to his opponent. The final games drew a large crowd and the proceedings were broadcast over a nation-wide hookup of £dio stations.

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Comes From Behind in Last Lap to Win Grand Prize of $2.50. BY MARY BINGHAM The checkered flag fell this morning as the fast little speedster, owned by Frank Powell, nosed over the finish line ahead of Stewart Ruch’s car for the grand prize of $2.50 in the toy automobile race held on the dirt track in the rear of Washington court, on Pennsylvania street, near Thirty-third street. Powell was far behind until the fourteenth lap, when he came up to second place, flying ahead only in the last lap. Jack Blakely also was holding back, conserving his car, until toward the end of the race, in a sudden burst of speed, he passed the rest in the field for third place. The race was run in spite of the terrific heat, and with few casualties. It had been postponed from Thursday because of the condition of the track, due to heavy rains. Qualifications were held until 9:30 this morning, when the cars were retired in order that the track managers might make final repairs to the track, which is oval, with straight-a-ways at the sides, and high, banked curves at each end. Limit on cars for this year's race was 8 inches, with an axle limit of no more than inches. Others who had cars entered are: Ralph Reahard, John Sloan Kittle Jr., William Taylor, William Hart, Charles Abbett, James Wagner, Arthur Small, Felix McWhirter Jr., Donald Herr, Robert Lauth and Maurice Barry, and John Hart.

EX-TENNIS CHAMPION, MATE ASK $225,000 Molla Mallory, Husband Hurt in Collision of Taxi, Auto. By United Press NEW YORK, June 26.—Mr. ana Mrs. Franklin I. Mallory have three court actions aggregating $225,000 in damages, against Francis J. Ward of St. Paul, Minn., as a result of an accident last week when Ward’s automobile struck a taxicab in which the Mallorys were riding. Mrs. Mallory is the former Molla Bjurstedt, for years the world’s champion woman tennis player. In the accident, which occurred on the morning of June 17, Mrs. Mallory suffered lacerations of the face and two broken teeth, while her husband, a broker, received a broken ankle. Ward was arrested on charges of reckless driving, driving while intoxicated and assault in the third degree. DEAD ARMS HOLD BODY Grandmother Stricken With Heart Disease While Carrying Infant. By Times Special EATON. Ind., June 26.—With an 8-months-old grandchild clasped in her arms, Mrs. Anna Gump, 52, was found dead of heart disease in her home here. Neighbors found the body, having been attracted by prolonger crying of the baby. Mrs. Gump apparently had been walking the floor with the infant when stricken.

Corum won the first two games. Jeffries then took four straight, Corum won the seventh and Jeffries the eighth. Gerard Tanguay of Hclyoke. Mass., one of the favorites during the play on Monday and Tuesday, when he was “high man,” was unable to watch today’s games having been ordered to bed by illness. Most of the forty-two participants in the tournament will leave for home today, but Gerard will have to stay in Ocean City for a day or two,

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, JUNE 26- 1931

CEMENT MILLS DISPLAY SPURT IN PRODUCTION Road Orders and Building Continue to Make Better Situation. MITCHELL PLANT OPENS Employment for Between 300 and 400 Men Idle Since Last December. BY CHARLES C. STONE State Editor. The Times Increased activity in the cement industry was the most important development in Indiana business during the week ended today. After being idle since December, operations were resumed in the Le-high-Portland Cement Company plant at Mitchell, providing employment for between 300 and 400 men. Except for shipping, there had been no activity at the plant thus far in 1931. Anew shipping record Is expected at the Lone Star Cement Company plant at Limedale. Large orders are being received for cement to be used in road and building construction. Favorable weather has been a strong factor in aiding highway building. Road orders and steadily increasing demand for cement to be used in building work is reported by the Universal Atlas Cement Company at East Chicago. Employment for 100 One hundred former employes have been called back to work in the plant of the Caswell-Runyan cabinet factory at Huntington. Night shifts are being used in some dei partments. The Little Giant Products ComI pany of Peoria, 111., was the puri chaser at a receiver’s sale of the : Lee Trailer and Body Company at ; Plymouth, and it is announced ! operations will be resumed in the j plant late in July, the new owner announces. Force Increased A 75 per cent increase in operations of the Gossard garment factory at Gary, necessitating addition of 115 persons, is announced. The total number of employes is now 275. Among Elkhart industries operating on a prosperity basis is the Chicago Telephone Supply Company plant, with more than 500 persons on the pay roll and the factory being operated twenty hours a day. Departments of Wilson Brothers, now divided between South Bend and Chicago, will be moved to the Indiana city, F. H. Negley, vicepresident, announces, the change to be completed by Dec. 15.

BROKE, OANCER DIVES TO DEATH Plunges 15 Stories From Chicago Hotel Window, By United Press QHICAGO, June 26. —Andreas Pavley, 45-year-old ballet dancer of the Metropolitan Opera Company of New York, plunged fifteen stories to death today from his apartment in the McCormick hotel on the near North Side. Pavley’s body fell into a courtyard. He was dead when hotel attendants reached his side. Pavley was clad only In his pajamas. He had removed a screen from the window of his apartment to make the leap. While police searched for a suicide note, hotel officials said Pavley had been despondent because of financial reverses. Three weeks ago, they said, he moved to a less expensive apartment in the hotel, explaining that his funds were running low.

WIDENING MEASURES ADOPTED BY BOARD Sixteenth Street, Emerson Avenue, to Be Improved, Resolution Decree, Resolution for widening and improving two main thoroughfares were adopted today b ythe works board. One is Sixteenth street, from Delaw fire to Illinois streets, to cost $35,573. A previous resolution for this improvement was rescinded recently. The other is paving and widening of Emerson avenue, from Washington street to Brookville road, to cost $32,591. Preparations were made for the paving of Shelby street, from Cruft street to Summer avenue and from Summer avenue to Troy avenue. SEARCH FOR WITNESS Authorities Visit Resorts Seeking Liquor Case Figure. By Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 26. Dorothy Miller, missing defendant and key witness in the Lake Manitou liquor conspiracy case in which alleged northern Indiana vice kings figured, is the object of a widespread search by federal prohibition agents. Police made a tour of resorts as far west as Michigan City in the belief that the witness had been spirited away from the city by those involved in the liquor case. Louis Gatto, believed to be a henchman of Jack Nahas, Michigan City vice leader, was brought in by agents after a raid on a roadhouse near Valparaiso. He denied knowledge of the woman's whereabouts. • -■ - Heart Attack Proves Fatal Heart disease today proved fatal to Cecil Spencer, 86, of 110 West North street. He collapsed at his home and died at city hospital.

Dane Fliers Reach Copenhagen; Post and Gatty Hop Off Again

Winging their way around the world, two Americans, Harold Gatty (above), 28-year-old navigator, and Wiley Post (below), one-eyed pilot, are speeding over the 14,000-mile route shown above in an attempt to beat the Graf Zeppelin’s globe-circling record of twenty-two days. Their sturdy monoplane, the Winnie Mae, is shown below.

Post and Gatty Hop Off From Moscow Toward Asiatic Wastes. BY EUGENE LYONS United Press Staff Correspondent MOSCOW, June 26.—The globegirdling American monoplane Winnie Mae, with the Atlantic and most of Europe behind it, is off for Siberia, after a night in Moscow. Its crew, Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, taxied down the field Into the wind at 8 p. m. Thursday (Indianapolis time) and turned the nose of their Hite plane toward the Ural mountains and Asia. The speedy plane, Its motor In perfect conditicn, was headed over mountainous, desolate regions to the northeast. Its first objective was the city of Novosibirsk, where the fliers planned to refuel and continue on toward Irkutsk, 2,600 miles from Moscow. The fliers departed with favorable flying weather at Moscow and vicinity. The sky was cloudy. A small group of Soviet officials and aviators, together with American and Russian newspaper men, watched their big monoplane roar swiftly down the runway and nose into the gray dawn. Neither One Sleeps Neither Post nor Gatty had slept since they left Berlin early Thursday for Moscow. There appeared little likelihood that they would get to bed before Saturday. They appeared cheerful and energetic, despite their fatiguing experience and the grueling grind of flying almost continuously in their effort to set a ten-day around the world record. The fliers landed at the airport on the outskirts of the Soviet capital at 5:48 p. m. Thursday (8:48 a. m. Indianapolis time.) They instructed mechanics to overhaul and refuel the plane, then proceeded to Moscow, where they spent the evening as guests of local organizations. They ate a leisurely nine-course Russian dinner, beginning with caviar and ending with champagne. Motor in Good Shape The Winnie Mae’s motor was pronounced in excellent condition despite the strain of the long transAtlantic pull and the 1.000-mile flight Thursday. The fliers were delighted with the performance of their ship, and confident they would be back in New York a week from today—ten days after leaving on their dash around the world. Their route across Asia was expected to bring them to the Pacific above Piadivostok, near Habarovsk, whence they planed to follow the coast to the Bering Strait.

HOPE FOR CUT IN TAX Small Property Owners and Farmers May Pay Less in 1932. By United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., June 26. Owners of small properties and farmers may receive tax cuts next year, it is hoped by St. Joseph county officials. According to present plans, a major portion of the burden would be shifted to business and industrial properties. Tlie county board of review already has ordered an increase in the assessed valuation which will raise nearly $1,000,000 more in 1932. One increase alone, if the state tax board does not rule differently, will increase taxes $500,000. One of the largest debts to be met by the county is a $350,000 bill incurred for a poor relief.

Bad Trade By Times Special COLUMBUS, Ind., June 26. —Trading a jug of bootleg liquor to his brother for a pair of shoes led to the arrest of Earl Hayden, 19, on charge of possession of intoxicating liquor and sale o*f liquor. In city court he was fined a total of $262.25 and given a sixty-days suspended sentence to the state penal farm. Hayden admitted giving his brother Bernard Hayden, a half gallon of liquor for the shoes and on the liquor Bernard Hayden and Herbert Coulter became intoxicated, causing their arrests.

Mileage for the various hops on the long globe trot follows: New York to Harbor Grace, 1,200 miles; Harbor Grace to Berlin (via England), 2,860 miles; Berlin to Moscow, 925 miles; Moscow to Irkutsk (Siberia), 2.600 miles; Irkutsk to Yakutsk or Kharborovsk, 1,100 miles; Yakutsk to Nome (Alaska), 2,300 miles; Nome to Edmonton (Canada), 1.900 miles; Edmonton to New York, 2,000 miles.

LIFE, FORTUNE BETONFLIGHT Hugh Herndon Confident of Globe Hop Success. By United Press NEW YORK, June 26.—Hugh Herndon Jr., wants to bet his life

and $50,000 at 10 to 1 odds that he can fly around the world. Herndon and Clyde Pangborn are putting the finishing touches on their big Bellanca plane here before they hop off over the Atlantic within the next few days. Today Herndon dropped in at a Wall Street office

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where they say anything can be wagered upon, including rain, and offered the -$50,000 to any taker. Herndon, a member of a wealthy family, organized the pool and a few bf his friends added to the fund. “The way I figure is' this,” said Herndon today. “The odds don’t count and the amount of money I put up can't either because I’ve got to lose my life to lose the money. If I win it’s just so much velvet. “So here’s $50,000, who wants it?”

HEARS LOOTING PLOT Man Sleeping on Freight Car Discovers Robbery. During the hot weather, Ernest Stulp,' one-time railroad employe, hasn’t been able to sleep at the Salvation Army hotel. So Wednesday night he went to the Pennsylvania railroad loading switch at South West street, and stretched out atop a freight car. A railroad detective chased him away. Thursday night he went back and was aroused from his slumber by conversation of four men. They drove away in an and three returned later. As they left the second time, Stulp heard them say they could “make another load before daylight.” He slipped away and called police. Officers found the car had been looted of all but a ton of lead cable. The robbers never reappeared. Widow Sues for $5,000 By Times Special KOKOMO, Ind.. June 26.—Mrs. Edna Hendricks, mother of five children, who was made a widow when Charles Hendricks w r as killed in an automobile accident, has filed suit for $5,000 damages here against O. O. jSchaaf, a Windfall school teacher. Cars driven by Hendricks and Schaaf collided May 10.

OILING AND PAVING PROJECTS ADVANCE

Oiling of roads will continue well into next week, at which time the bulk of this work will have been finished, according to the weekly traffic bulletin issued today at the office of John J. Brown, state highway director. The commission, where possible, has caused detours to be marked. Many of these detours change as work progresses and the oil is absorbed into the roads. In localities where it is impossible to establish detours, signs have been erected asking a speed of not to exceed fifteen miles an hour. If this speed is maintained, there is little r of oil splashing even when freshly spread, commissioners assert. Paving is progressing at high speed and soon some of the projects started early in the season will be opened to traffic, the bulletin said. ,

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Hillig and Hoiriis Greeted by Cheering Crowd of 20,000 at Port. BY OLE CAVLING United Press Staff Corresnondent COPENHAGEN, Denmark, June 26.—The monoplane Liberty, carrying Otto Hillig and Holgar Hoiriis, landed here at 7:10 a. m. (Indianapolis time) today, at the end of a leisurely, interrupted flight across the north Atlantic from America. The Danish-American photographer and his pilot from Liberty, N. Y., came down to a clamorous demonstration from the crowd at the air field. After an anxious day of waiting, they had about been given up for lost Thursday, when they turned up in Krefeld, Germany, driven off their course by bad weather. Twenty thousand cheering men, women and children were at the air field. The fliers were escorted into Copenhagen by fifteen Danish military planes. , Greeted by Relatives Hoiriis’ mother and his sister were near the airplane when it came to a landing and hurried forward to kiss the pilot when he left the trans-Atlantic plane. “I am so happy to see my boy,” his mother said. The two fliers received the Aeronautical Society’s gold medal and then were carried on the shoulders of their admirers to the flowercovered air station. The crowd was cheering, singing the- national anthem and waving Danish and American flags as the two triumphant aviators were carried across the field. The Liberty departed from Bremen at 4:37 a. m. (Indianapolis time) on the final phase of the flight from New York. Both Near Exhaustion Hillig and Hoiriii arose after a sound sleep in Bremen. They were exhausted when they arrived Thursday night and could not continue the flight. They had breakfast on eggs, bread and butter, and coffee, and went out to the hangar to inspect their plane, refueled and ready for their start. Hoiriis puffed the first cigar that he has allowed himself in three months. He went “into training” for the rigors of the perilous transAtlantic voyage. The fliers had covered approximately 4,500 miles since leaving New York on June 19. The distance from New York to Harbor Grace is 1,150; from Harbor Grace I to Krefeld about 2,800 to 3,000, depending on the course taken ■when the fliers lost their bearings, and i from Krefeld to Copenhagen. 380. Hoiriis said he had no plans at - present except to enjoy his stay in| Denmark and take Hillig back to his birthplace in Germany. Attorney’s Plea Denies Per jury By United Press NEW YORK. June 26.—Isidor J. Kresel, one of the best known crim- ; inal lawyers in New York, today! pleaded not guilty to an indictment • charging perjury in a court of records, based on alleged discrepancies in his testimony in the Bank of United States case.

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Reads on whicn oil has been spread or will be applied by next week are as follows: Road 16—Dscatur to Huntington: detour marked. Road 26—Howard county line to Ros*vilte: detour narked. Road 35—Salem to junction of Road SO, no detour available. Road 39—Delphi to Montieelio; detour marked. Road 41—Railroad gap at Kartsdaie north of Schererville; detour marked. Road 45—Nexpolnt to Batesvllie; detour marked. Road 59—Medora to Seymour; detour marked. Road S3—Prom Rensselaer four miles north; detour marked. Road 58—Brazil south; same road from two and one-half miles north of Linton to two miles west of HowesviUe; detours marked. Road 61—Vincennes south for about fifteen miles: detour marked. Road 67—Blckneil to Sandbom, detou: marked, and from MooreaviUe to Martinsvtile. no detour available.

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A. F. OF L. IS ASSAILED IN DREISERBLAST Charges Organization Has Betrayed the Cause of Suffering Miners. 'HANDWRITING ON WALL* Novelist Declares Group Should Be Disbanded for Common Good. (Cooyrieht. 1331. by The Times' PITTSBURGH, June 6.—’Theo* dore Dreiser, the novelist, believes the American Federation of Labor should be disbanded, “because there is ample evidence it simply is a closed corporation operated for little groups," and is in no way benefiting the suffering miners in the coal fields of this region. Dreiser, in a statement written for the United Press, said that he came into the coal regions here because he is interested “in anything that looks to the disestablishment of the A. F. of L., with which the United Mine Workers of America is affiliated," accusing these organizations of getting “all the money they can for themselves at the expense of all the rest of non-unionized labor.’’ He asserted he had positive knowledge of a proposal to put into effect “a close union between the chief corporations, such as p° wer and utility groups, and the A. F. of L. to put a quietus insofar as possible on strike and labor troubles and bring about general poverty of the rest of the people." Invasion Is Favored The novelist favors the invasion of the National Miners’ Union here and said he has learned it proposes to do what the A. F. of L. never did —“to open the door to all classes and conditions of labor, even unskilled workers.” Large corporations, he charged, because of a financial crash, are aware of the fact that without some form of labor assistance they are virtually helpless, that that with “fake" associations they hope to hold their own. Dreiser has made a personal survey of the region here and after visiting fifteen mines and talking to more than a score of miners and their families he said he has gained the general impression that after the prosperity the coal fields enjoyed up to 1929, it is “absolutely disgusting and shameful that the moment the lapse comes in prosperity they resort to the methods they have here and in other places throughout the United States.” He declared it was “typical of the financial and corporation powers of America." Will Be Swept Away “Unless these corporate and banking powers get some understanding of their position and what thev owe the working class whose labor makes possible their position,” he said, “they are going to be swept away and anew order will be established. Mr. Mellon to the contrary', notwithstanding, the handwriting is on the wall.” Backers of the present strike told Dreiser the United Mine Workers of America had been broken in this field in 1927, and the miners were left to shift for themselves under conditions almost unbelievable and for starvation wages. In 163 hours, he said, he had these conditions reasserted to him bynewspaper reports, personal visits to ten mines and interviews with twenty-five men and wives of both Negro and white miners. “Uniformly from each person.'* he said, “I extracted a corroborated stofy of pay that insures a living only a little above the starvation and in some obviously a starvation wage. Marching Like Slaves "I learned how it is impossible to get decent food or enjoy entertainment of any kind. I found people held in fact as well as in imagination, by the threat of losing their property if they seek to leave to make anew start elsewhere. So far as I can see by the testimony offered, the men are marching uke slaves. They were discarded by the U. M. W. of A. and A. F. of L. until the N. M. U. invaded the field when the United Mine Workers took a hand again in the interest of the corporations." Dreiser said he was curious to learn whether the strikers had the right to picket unmolested, whether coal and iron police and deputy sheriffs had a right to interfere or kill them on provocation. 2 Killed Without Reason To gain this information he talked with members of the National Miners Union, the Civil Liberties Union and Sheriff Robert V. Cain of Allegheny county. From them he said he learned that according to Governor Pinchot and Cain the men had every right to picket roads unmolested. He then cited evidence contrarv to the statements where he said two men were killed without reason or provocation and some twenty-five I ? j^red by footing, beating with clubs and striking with fists, not only by coal police, but by state police.

Dreiser then visited about fifteen workings where picketing was in progress, he said, and the highways leading to the mines were heavilv guarded by deputies, mounted police, police on foot and in automobiles. At one place, he said, he saw mounted police force the strikers from the highway, although the right of way was not being blocked by them. Water Works to Expand MUNCIE, Ind., June 26.—Tliree new seven million gallon pumps will be installed in the plant of the Muncie Water Works Company. With the new pumps, the capacity of the water works will be increased from fifteen million gallons to twen-ty-two million gallons a day. The pumps, fating SIOO,OOO, is a part of a Kgfeexpansion program.