Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 46, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 July 1931 — Page 12

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11. S. FORCES SCORNED GANGS' RRIGERYOFFERS Stayed Straight, and They Finally Got ‘Hooks’ in ‘Big Boy.’ TfcU Is lha seventh of a serlee of ex* elusive stories on how scents of the covemment's Income tox and prohiMtion bureaus trapped At Capone. BY ROBERT TALLEY NEA Service Writer 0 (Copvricht. 1931. br NEA Service. Ioc.) CHICAGO, July 3. AI Capone, virtually bankrupt by the business depression which has reduced the demand for his wares, may have paid huge sums for “protection” but none of It went into the pockets of a half-dozen young federal prohibition agents of the college-trained type. Neither frequent offers of bribes almost equaling their yearly salaries of $2,800 nor threats of violence swayed this “flying squadron” that finally caused him to plead guilty to 5,000 crimes against the prohibition laws and admit, at the same time, that he had failed to share his profits thereon with Uncle Sam. Eliot Ness, a mild-mannered, broad-shouldered young fellow of 28, who has been out of the University of Chicago only six years, led the squad that worked up the evidence under the direction of W. E. Bennett, chief of special prohibition agents for the Chicago area. The members of his squad were young men of similar type. Some of their experiences in getting this evidence in the latter stages rival the exploits of fiction detectives. Tapped telephone wires, offers of bribes, near gun battles with gangsters all enter into it. Their evidence alleges that the conspiracy has been in existence continuously since 1921, but the first overt act charged against Capone occurred on Dec. 29, 1922. As one of Torrio’s beer runners and passing under the alias of Al Brown, he went to Hammond, Ind., on that date and bought a used truck. Bought Another Truck On June 5, 1923, he bought another truck from the same company, the motor number of which was 102079-A. On July 29, 1923, this truck was seized with a load of beer in Chicago. Such was the first link in the ten-year chain of evidence. It is revealed how, last April, they barely missed engaging in a gun battle with a gang of Capone henchmen who later attempted to hijack the equipment of a $50,000 brewery after it had been raided. The first incident occurred when the agents were watching a suspected brewery and a truckload of empty beer barrels, convoyed by a car with two men, drove up. The convoy stopped and four other autos, each bearing two men, quickly appeared. Surround Federal Men The gangsters surrounded the federal men and the latter prepared for battle, but the leader of the beer runners ordered his men to put up their guns. Beginning with S6OO, he offered bribes ranging as high as $2,000 and finally offered to let them name their own price. Ness and his companions spurned the offers, but let the gangsters go, since there was no direct evidence against them. But a few days later the agents raided the "brewery. Fifty thousand gallons of beer Were destroyed and four prisoners seized, among them Steve Swoboda, veteran Capone brewmaster, who had been arrested a week before in another big brewery raid in a different part of town. Bert Delaney Appears Several days later, Ness and his agents were still watching the wrecked brewery to see who would appear. Bert Delaney, superintendent of manufacture for Capone’s beermaking syndicate and the same man who had offered the bribes a few days before, drove up to the plant. He and four others were arrested by the agents while they were trying to load a big steel beer vat on a truck and make off with it. (To Be Continued)

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Front row (left to right)—Emily Jean Semler, Harriet McCord and Jac Broderic. Center—Miss Maja Brownlee, fairy queen. Back row (left to right)—Betty Wolfe, Delores Schmidt, Mary Louise Noe and Garrett Olds, fairy king.

In a lovely, natural setting, members of Civic Theater, in conjunction with Meridian Hills Country Club presented "M:$ 1 Summer Night’s Dream,” Thursday night on the clubhouse lawn. Above are a group of the characters, including Titania,

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* BY BEN STERN “ A FTER the moratorium—what?” ■**-This is the question agitating Indiana Republican leaders. And why shouldn’t it? The moratorium presents one of the greatest “if” possibilities since the Laconians sent back the famous “if” answer to Philip of Macedonia’s demands, way back yonder when Alexander the Great was a Boy Scout. No one can tell what the ultimate effect of President Hoover’s proposal will be. If a European collapse is averted, Germany is saved, and the United States pulls out of the present depression, then the Republicans will, in all probability, win the 1932 election. However, if business is no better a year from now, and Germany asks an extension, and, with other European nations, begins a campaign for cancellation—then it will not look so good. u u a And then also, the Democrats, to the surprise of every one who has watched that party’s history for the last few decades, suddenly became smart and with great huzzas and cheers figuratively took the moratorium to their breasts. What a surprise it was for those hide-bound Republicans, like Senator Jim Watson, who, rumor has it, conceived the plan, and Congressman Will R. Wood. Some of the boys started looking back in their memory books and remembered that during the World war when the Republicans were invited to heal their differences and join with Democrats, Wood was one of the few G. O. P. who refused the truce and took the floor early and often to assail President Wilson, one Herbert Hoover, then food administrator, and any department of which he could think at the moment. The Tenth district congressman, with vitriolic tongue, hurled the entire catalog of high crimes and misdemeanors at the administration. # # Although Watson was not a leading critic during that period, he did sign the round robin not to sustain the Versailles treaty even before it had been presented to the senate. And, it was this round robin which perhaps did as much or more to destroy this nation’s influence in tl>o various negotiations following the war. Yet their are the first to declare the Democrats deserve tremendous credit for their co-operative attitude on the moratorium. Incidentally, as has been said be-

the fairy queen, and Oberon, the king, played by Miss Maja Brownlee and Garrett Olds; mischievous Puck, played by Jac Broderick, and a group of Titania's court. The play was an adaptation written by George Somnes, in mod-

fore, Jim Watson is given the credit for the moratorium proposal. u a u According to the yarn being circulated, he met with a group of midwest bankers in the Blackstone hotel in Chicago a few weeks ago, where the plan was conceived and then sold it to the eastern financiers. There it was polished and smoothed and handed to the President. After several weeks of discussion, Hoover said in his address in Indianapolis: “There v is no sudden stroke of either government or private action which can dissolve these world difficulties.” Five days later the President proposed the moratorium. Senator Jim, of course, emphatically denies he fathered the plan. That may be true, but there can be no doubt he may have been one of the midwives at its birth. TUNE PLANES FOR TOUR 6,590-jhile Visit of Thirty-Three Cities to Start Saturday. By United Press DETROIT, July 3.—The Ford airport was the scene of roaring activity today as planes entered in the seventh annual national air tone underwent preliminary qualifying tests. Nearly a score of the latest type of commercial planes, which will soar away Saturday on a 6,590-mile tour of thirty-three cities in eighteen states and Canadian provinces, were subjected to the tests Thursday and this morning.

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em veriblage, and with authentic costumes. Seats were arranged for more than five hundred on the lawn, and the stage was lighted by flood lights concealed in the foliage.

DEATH CLAIMS TECHTEACHER J. C. Edwards Is Stricken While Driving Car. Stricken by heart disease, Joseph C. Edwards, 45, of 3465 North Dearborn street, mathematics teacher at Arsenal Technical high school, died in his car Thursday afternoon. He was en route to Martinsville. The car careened off the road when he was stricken and it was found in a ditqh. The body, which was taken to Martinsville, was to be returned to Indianapolis today. Funeral arrangements have not been completed. Mr. Edwards was a member of the Roberts Park M. E. church and had served overseas in the World war. Survivors are the widow and three children, Mary Elizabeth, Marjorie May and Joseph Edwards. Refrigerator Catches Fire By United Press BUFFALO, N. Y., July 3.—While Buffalonians were sweltering under new high temperatures, a fire alarm was turned in by Jacob Stern. The fire was in Stern’s refrigerator, and was listed as caused by “overheating.”

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5 ‘HALF PINT' SUSPECTS HELD DY DRYRAIDERS Alleged Bootleggers Are Pinched by Federal Authorities. Five more alleged “half pint” bootleggers have been bound over to the federal grand Jury under thS minimum bond of SSOO, by Howard S. Young, United States commissioner. . They were arrested in a series of raids by prohibition agents out of the office of Charles Britt, deputy administrator for the southern district of Indiana. A sixth offender, Delbert Johnson of Covington, was arrested for operating a twenty-five gallon still and placed under a $2,000 bond. “I didn’t have time to distill a good drink,” Johnson told the agents. The alleged ‘half pinters” arrested are:,Ralph Smith and his son-in-law, William T. Powell, 1020 North Alabama street, charged with having a half gallon of whisky- and twenty-four quarts of beer; Walter Reiois, 522 West Maryland street, alleged to have sold a half pint to a government investigator; Mrs. Ella Sturges, 731 Cleveland street, mother of three small children, charged with having a small quantity of whisky and home brew beer, and Elmer Smith, Negro, 623 West Vermont street, charged with selling a pint of “moonshine” to an informer agent and then helped him drink half of it. ZIONISTS ARE AT ODDS Debate at Congress Halted as Delegates Get Out of Hand. By United Press BASLE, Switzerland, July 3.—The seventeenth Zionist congress continued it sessions today in an atmosphere of tense antipathies among the 250 delegates, growing out of violent opposition to the leadership of Dr. Chaim Weizmann, resigned president. Debate was halted temporarily at the tumultuous session Thursday night when delegates broke into riotous shouts and threatened fisticuffs during a bitter attack on the Zionist administration under Dr. Weizrnann, for failure to demand the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. JOBLESS ARMY RIOTS Three Are Killed, Five Injured; Nine Shops Plundered. By United Press WARSAW, Poland, July 3.—Serious unemployment riots occurred at Plock today. Three persons were killed and five badly injured, and four policemen were hurt when the police opened fire on the rioters. The unemployed plundered and demolished seven food shops and two sweetshops.

ARTHUR CASEY WILL PRESENT A COMEDY

Producer Brings Joan Ruth to English’s to Play Original Role in “The Bachelor Father” for Week. CONTINUING his policy of bringing a member of the original Broadway cast here for an Indianapolis production whenever possible, Arthur Casey has obtained pretty Joan Ruth to come to .this city from New York in order to play again the same role that she played in David Belasco’s highly successful comedy, “The Bachelor Father,” which is to be presented at English's theater starting Sunday night. Miss Ruth was chosen by the late David Belasco personally to play the role of the young Italian singer in his New York cast. At the time of her selection for the part, the girl was a soprano with the Metropolitan Opera Company. She had - made her debut opposite Lawrence Tibbett

in “Carmen.” Miss Ruth also has spent a season with the Municipal Opera in St. Louis, Mo., where she sang the leading role in “Naughty Marietta” and other hits. Incidentally, her work in that role fitted her for dramatic work because the part has a great many spoken lines aside from the singing required. In “The Bachelor Father,” Miss Ruth sings an operatic aria from “La Boheme” during the third act. She also sings brief bits from “Mme. Butterfly” and “Italian Serenade.” The Casey cast in “The Bachelor Father” will include Will Lloyd, in the title role; Frances Dale, Donald Woods, Freddie Sherman, Dick Elliott, Yvonne Stebbins, Jane Wheatley, Walter Davis, Eddie Fitzgerald, and Nan Reasoner. mum Indianapolis theaters today offer: George Gaul in “Arms and the Man” at English’s, Fifl D’Orsay at? the Lyric, Brooke Johns and anew show at the Indiana, “Big Business Girl” at the Circle, “Annabelle’s Affair’s” at the Apollo, “Indiscreet” at the Palace, “The Lawyer’s Secret” at the Ohio, and burlesque at the Mutual. HOOVER KEEPS WORKING Fourth of July to Be Like Other Saturdays for Him. By United Press WASHINGTON, July 3.—Fourth of July will be just like other Saturdays to President Hoover, according to present White House plans. All invitations to speak or to participate in celebrations have been turned down. Mr. Hoover is arranging to spend the day either at his desk in Washington working on the debt suspension negotiations, or at Camp Rapidan. If developments in the debt situation permit, he may leave by motor for the Rapidan late today.

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Loyalty By Times Special ROCHESTER, Ind., July 3. Wayne and Gene Dalton, twins, and both newspaper carrier boys, appeared for work each wearing a heavy vest despite high temperature. Asked for an explanation,' Wayne said Glen had spilled mustard on his shirt, and the vest concealed the spot. Wayne, as & matter of brotherly loyalty, also donned a vest.

SEA STUDY ADVANCED New Laboratory, Gift of Scrippa, to Be Opened Sept. L By Science Service LA JOLLA, Cal., July 3.—The Scripps institution of oceanography will occupy its new laboratory building, now practically completed, about Sept. 1. The structure has been named Ritter Hall, in honor of the first director of the institution, Professor William E. Ritter of the university of California, a lifelong friend and adviser of the late E. W. Scripps, who with his sister, Ellen Browning Scripps, founded the La Jolla research station.

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SEEK TO DROPH TRACTION Llli New Method Is Set Out inj Petition. A new method of abandoning traction service between Indianapolis and Greenfield is set out In a petition filed with the public service commission The petition requests that the line between Indianapolis and Dunreith be abandoned and interurbans be operated between Indianapolis and Richmond, via Newcastle and Dunreith. Elmer W Stout filed the petition as receiver- for the T. H., L & E.. now belonging to Insull, with the sale subject, to commission o. k A petition is already pending asking abandonment of the line between Indianapolis and Richmond via Greenfield. It Is opposed vigorously by the city of Greenfield. The new route would eliminate both Greenfield and Knightstown.

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