Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 76, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1931 — Page 3

AUG. 7, 1931

CATSKILL BEER ; SUPPLY TRACED ! AT LEGS'TRIAL Diamond Hears Strong Arm • Tactics Described by Timid Customers. Bv United Press NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—The story ©f how thirsty tourists in the sleepy Catskills were supplied with beer as unfolded for an ardentr prohibitionist Judge and twelve inspiring jurors ©t the third day’s trial of Jack <Legs) Diamond by buxom Mrs. Minnie Midgeley, "beer drop lady” ©f Cairo, was continued today. Mrs. Midgeley, one of nineteen witnesses who testified for the government in its effort to convict Diamond and his lieutenant, Paul Quattrocchi, on charges of bootlegging in Greene county, explained lor the benefit of Judge Richard J. Hopkins, Kansas dry in charge of the case, that ‘‘beer drop” is the Catskill term for storage place or cache. Another witness, Charles Hasseltnan, who runs an eating place on Main street, Catskill, gave the first hint that perhaps title brand of lager Diamond peddled was not of as good quality as that liquor which legend says Rip Van Winkle drank, a drink so potent he slept for twenty years. Complaired About Beer Hasselman said he had complained about Diamond’s beer and that the gang leader heard of it and visited him. "Your beer is not good, it’s very poor,” Hasselman said he told the racketeer. He quoted Diamond as replying, “Well, I’ll bring down a couple more halves and if they don’t satisfy you, you can buy off you please.” Mrs. Midgeley, dressed in black fend wearing glass beads, told how she and her husband had taken over the Greene county farm at Cairo and converted it into a lodging house for tourists. Because tourists wanted beer, she came in contact with Quattrocchi, she said. Fred Becker, a truckman who admitted carting beer for Quattrocchi, suggested she rent her barn to Quattrocchi for a "drop,” she said. “I told them I did not want that kind of beer dropped there,” she said, "but he said ‘Don’t be afraid.’ ” Lost Her Nerve She said that every night for a month she was awakened daily at 4 or 5 a. m., by Fred Becker rolling beer barrels into the barn. When Becker had a slight smash-up and then was arrested for carrying a gun, which he kept as protection against hi-jackers, Mrs. Midgeley began to get frightened and told Quattrocchi to take his beer out, Bhe related. Arthur Pacini, who used to run the village inn at East Durham until the high pressure methods of competing beer men caused him to retire, told of another incident. Pacini, a frail man, spoke in a Weak voice and Judge Hopkins stepped down from the bench in order to hear him better. The witness said Johnny Scaccio, a Diamond aide, and four others visited his inn a year ago. Used Rough Tactics "Scaccio stepped inside, went into the kitchen and opened the cellar doer,” Pacini said. "I went after them. I see one man he had a big stick, another man he had a' hammer and they biftt the beer I had In the cellar. “I started out and this fellow Scaccio he took a gun and pointed It to the side of my ear and he told me ‘you must have our beer or none.’ I say, ‘who are you?’ They say, ‘we are the gang.’”. Pacini said he was forced to order two barrrels from Diamond. One he used. The other he returned and then retired from business. UTILITY TAX ROW IS BACK WHERE IT BEGAN Order Permits Decatur Township to Put Plant on Its Rolls. An order dissolving a restraining edict preventing county officials from placing on tax rolls of Decatur township the $5,000,000 South Harding street plant of the Indianapolis Power and Light Company was issued Thursday by Superior Judge John W. Kern. The court took this action, Judge Kern explained, to prevent the light company from escaping taxation through a loophole provided by the boundary dispute of Decatur and perry townships. Both townships claim taxes on the property. A change in the course of White river caused the dispute, which is expected to be decided in court this fall. INSPECTS POWER SITE Governor Roosevelt Tours Location for Public Development. By United Press ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. Y., Aug. 7. —After a long conference Thursday night with former Governor Fr'ank O. Lowden of Illinois, Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt today embarked with three members of the state water power commission for an inspection of the site of the state’s proposed public water power development at Massena point. The subject * the discussion at Lowden's summer home at Pullman Island, near here, was not made public. The Governor said before he sailed for the island, that he expected to “sit around and talk.” His yacht was still moored at the island late Thursday night. NEWYORK ToSANGELES .... NIAGARA FALLS . . $12.50 M PITTSBURGH SB-Washington sls ■ •HALF THE FARE ’MOST AMIWBERV ■ You will find Great Eastern the saf- I eat, most scenic. most enjoyable way W to go. The drivers are the best paid, S the most careful amt courteous. ■ The buses are all brand new. U Great Eastern Term’L M UO W. Washington Phone ltily 9656 or write today G MEAT EASTERN JVteJhmt3dnc

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TRUCK CRASHES INTO ROX CARS Two Are Injured; Young Driver Arrested. Two persons were injured early today when a light truck driven by Cline Hostetler, 17, of R. R. 7, Box 98, struck the side of a string of box cars on the Belt railroad at Morris street. Hostetter was arrested by Sergeant Walter Coleman, who investigated, on a charge of failure to carry a driver’s license and with driving against an automatic signal. Witnesses told police the flasher signal at the crossing was working. Those injured: Joseph Duncan, 62, of R. R. 7, Box 96, head injuries, and Auburn Esch, 18, Mickleyville right ear injured; were sent to city hospital in an ambulance. The truck was owned by Richard Hostetler. The freight train was in charge of Conductor Robert L. Luken 43, of 1229 North Pennsylvania street, and Engineer Luther Sonders. SIDEWALK EXPLODES; THREE ESCAPE DEATH Auto Hurled in Air Wrecked as Woman, Children Start to Get In. By United Press LOS ANGELES, Aug 7.-Mrs. R. B. Sloan of Detroit, whose husband was said to be an executive of the Fisher Body Company, was recovering today from the shock of narrowly missing a violent death for herself and her small twin sons. Leaving her physician’s office with the children, Mrs. Sloan stepped toward her parked automobile just as It was demolished by a 200-pound fragment of concrete sidewalk, hurled upward by the explosion of a basement oil tank. The tank, one of two which exploded almost simultaneously, hurled large concrete fragments over a large area, wrecking another automobile parked beside Mrs. Sloan’s, but injuring no one. BUTLER OPENS COURSES Post Summer Class to Include Law, Diplomacy. Butler university’s post-summer school will begin Monday. A faculty of four professors will offer subjects in four departments. Curriculum will consist of five courses, Indiana school law, European diplomacy from 1900 to 1920, newspaper analysis, psychology of adolescence, and make-up.

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TAX REDUCTION WILL CUT RENT, REALTORS TOLD Board Launches Campaign to Arouse Support for Lower Rates. A tax reduction campaign to arouse Indianans, whether or not they own property, to express themselves individually and through organizations on taxation, was inaugurated Thursday at a meeting of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board at the Washington hotel. E. L. Cothrell introduced the resolution, which charges that taxation has contributed to the existing depression, and that too large a part of the rentals paid on homes and business properties is consumed by taxes. It also points out that Ohio is lowering taxes to make the state and its cities more attractive to industries, because of reduced production costs. Albert E. Uhl, president of the board, told the realtors it is a mistaken idea for rent paying tenants to believe they are escaping taxation, for the landlord must set aside out of the rent a definite portion for taxes. It follows that if taxes are reduced, there will be a rent reduction, Uhle declared. Oil Drilling Planned By Times Special DANVILLE, Ind., Aug. 7.—Nearly 10,000 acres of Liberty township land, contained in sixty-five farms, has been leased by an Oklahoma company which will drill for oil.

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