Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 92, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1931 — Page 3

AUG. 26, 1931

DOPE PEDDLERS SLAIN AS N. Y. WARS ON GANGS Police Commissioner Personally /Takes Charge After Newest Murder. By Vnitrd Press NEW YORK, Aug. 26—The chief of New York’s police force took personal charge of a city-wide man hunt today after racketeers shot and killed an alleged dope peddler in the midst of a polce drive on gangsters. The murder followed within twenty-four hours a mass meeting in which from 20,000 to 40,000 persons shouted their approval of a resolution demanding removal of police authorities and their superiors if gangster outbreaks were not curbed at once. It followed a personal pledge of Police Commissioner Edward P. Mulrooney to "wipe out the gangsters and racketeers.” Followed Brooklyn “Massacre” It followed within twenty-four hours a miniature Valentine day massacre in which gangster victims were lined against a wall in the Brooklyn “slaughter house” district and shot down. Police withheld news of the latest murder for more than three hours. It was not revealed until early morning when Mulrooney himself appeared at the scene and started his own investigation. In the meantime more than 160 small fry in the realm cf gangland had been rounded up in a drive that started just before the mass meeting Monday got under way. No “Big Shots” Caught About two-thirds of this number Were held on charges; others had no criminal records, they were simply “unemployed.” Not a “big shot” was in the group. Theodore Naddi, 29, was Tuesday night’s gangster victim. He sat in the rear of a candy; Rtore in the Bronx, not far from i the scene of last Friday's gun battle in which six were killed. Three men were with Naddi. A sedan drove up to the doorway. Two men stepped up, looked in, and topened fire. Five bullets singled out Naddi as his companions scattered. MEW DANCE IS CREATED Teachers Convention Sponsors of Step Called “Mcrica.” Bl) Vnitrd Press NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—A new dance, featuring the courtly bow and formality of the gay nineties, is being sponsored by the American Society of Teachers of Dancing, in convention here. The new step, Spanish in origin, Will be named “Merica.” It is neither slow as the tango, nor as jigging as the Rumba. Rather, the delegates say, it resembles a waltz, “the queen of all social dances.”

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Another contemplated tran-Atlantic flight by a woman was postponed for this season when Miss Elinor Smith cracked up her plane at Roosevelt field, Long Island. As she landed her monoplane the undercarriage buckled, the craft went into a ground loop and a wing was damaged badly. Although the youthful aviatrix escaped injury, she was in tears as she surveyed the wreckage with her friend, Miss Viola Gentry (at left above). The picture below was snapped a moment after the crack-up.

TEACHERS TO MEET Marion County Group to Hear Sociologist. Annual meeting of the Marion County Teachers’ Association will be held Thursday and Friday at Warren Central high school. Whiting Williams, special social investigator for President Hoover, will be the main speaker. Other speakers are: Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes of Chicago: George C. Cole, state superintendent of public instruction: Wallace Bruce Amsbary of the Armour Institute of Technology. Chicago; Dr. George Francis, pastor of the Centenary M. E. Church of Terre Haute: Clarence Henry. Marion county agricultural agent: Mrs. Bruce Maxwell, Washington township trustee, and Fred T. Gladden, county school superintendent. Cole, Williams. Dr. Francis. Dr. Amsbary and Bishop Hughes will act as institute instructors. Oldest Veteran Dies WOLCOTT, Ind., Aug. 26.—Samuel Spencer, 94, oldest Civil war veteran in White county, died at his home here. During the war he served w'ith the One hundred sixtythird Indiana volunteers. He leaves two sons and two daughters. The funeral will be held Thursday afternoon.

Anonymous By Vnitrd Press SANTA BARBARA. Cal., Aug. 26.—Charles E. Pressly, manager, was pleased w'hen he received a letter containing a check for $l5O to be used for the Old Spanish Days fiesta. “The writer wishes tc aid the splendid fiesta, but is anxious to avoid personal glory,” Pressly read. The letter, he found, was not signed. Then he looked at the check again. It wasn’t signed either.

ASK TO ABANDON LINES Insull Unit Wants to Drop Car Service in Kokomo. Petition to abandon street car lines in Kokomo was filed with the public service commission today by the Northern Indiana Power Company, Insull. unit. The company stated that in five months of 1931, $5,540 had been lost in operation of the utility and no money had been made in two years on the street car line.

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CAPONE ORDERS KIDNAPERS TO FREEJAMBLER Sends Word to ‘Boys’ to Release Man Held for Ransom. By United Press CHICAGO, Aug. 26.—Alphonse Capone, known over the world as “Scarf ace Al,” temporarily was aligned today with the forces of law and order, seeking to retrieve John J. (Jack) Lynch, wealthy turf figure, from kidnapers. The gangsters who held Lynch threatened to murder him unless $250,000 ransom was paid. Lynch’s friends, professing to be unable to raise the sum, appealed to Capone. “I’ve sent out word to the boys that I want Lynch released at once and unharmed,” the portly gang lord said. “It he isn’t—well—humph.” The way Capone's lips straightened as he spoke the last w'as taken to presage sudden vengeance on the gang that kidnaped Lynch. The victim W'as the controlling figure in the General News Bureau, which collects rich earnings through na-tion-w'ide distirbution of horse race results, entries, etc., for turf publications. While Capone announced that he was doing all in his power to save Lynch, who was threatened w'ith death by the kidnapers after they had spurned an offer of $50,000 ransom, police declined to view' “Scarface Al” as a convert to law and order. “Capone has taken sides in a squabble between a kidnapers’ mob

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Captain Yancey S. Williams (above), commander of the Yangtze river patrol in China, is director of naval relief activities in the inundated city of Hankow. Flood waters have reached a mark of nearly sixty feet, and it is Captain Williams’ first duty to save the 1,574 Americans in the stricken area. He is an officer in the United States navy Asiatic fleet.

and a gambler, that’s ail,” the police declared. Friends of Lynch, w j ho w'as seized Thursday while en route from Chicago to his $125,000 home at Lake Geneva, Wis., declared that he W'as not a gambler, that his news bureau did a legitimate business. They characterized the kidnapers as cunning and desperate men playing for stakes far bigger than the $250,000 demanded as ransom. The associates of Lynch said they believed the gang was trying to w’rest control of the General News Bureau, which has a yearly profit of $250,000 or more.

GAR DRIVER IS ARRESTED FOR FLEEING CRASH Returning Veteran’s Auto Causes Motorist to Skid Into Ditch. A motorist whose auto was involved in an accident near Ft. Benjamin Harrison when he was en route -£ome from the state legion convention in Anderson Tuesday night, today faced charges of failure to stop after the crash. He is H. G. King, 52, of 930 East Minnesota street. He is alleged to have swerved wide while passing another car on Pendleton pike, and sideswiped an auto driven by Roy M. Brown, 43, of R. R. 12, Box 239-K. Brown’s car skidded and crashed through a ditch into an. utilities pole. Mrs. Brown was cut, and Roy Jr. lost several teeth. Both were treated at the fort. King, when arrested, said fellow Legionnaires in other cars who saw the accident told him to go on home and they would take care of the affair and report to state police. A truck parked without a tail light was held responsible for an accident in the 1100 block Holliday street Tuesday night, and Ray Drantlanger, 1160 Holliday street, driver of the truck, was charged w'ith failure to leave the light showing. Ralph Summers, 18, of 1526 Holliday street, saw the truck too late, he said, and swerved around it, only to crash head-on with a car driven by Ray Morgan, 22, of 1539 Cruft street. His mother, Mrs. Irene Summers, 54, and Miss Vivian Marsh, 17, of 1505 Gimber street, were bruised. Mrs. Lovie Outlaw, Negro, 909

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Mike Conner By United Press JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 26. Election as Governor of a man whe spent most of his life in politics ovei a millionaire business leader engaged in his first campaign, appeared certain today. The “practical politician," Mike Conner, a lawyer, was leading his competitor, Hugh White, lumberman, by upward of 20,000 votes today. The election was one of the most orderly in the state's history. About 250,000 ballots are being cast. West Michigan street, was cut and bruised when struck by an auto at Minerva and Agnes streets Tuesday night.

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NAVY PROBING WOMAN'S DEATH ! Bride of Air Officer Falls From Hotel Room. By United Press SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 26.—A naval inquiry aboard the airplane carrier Lexington was ordered convened today in the death of Mrs. Daisy Price, 26, bride of an aviation officer. A coroner's jury failed to determine the cause of Mrs. Price’s fatal plunge from a fourth story hotel window'. Lieutenant-Commander George D. j Price, husband of the dead woman, startled the inquest jury by declaring his belief that his wife leaped to escape an attack. He is attached to the Lexington. The inquiry will be in charge of Rear Adi miral H. E. Yarnell.

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