Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 117, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 September 1931 — Page 8

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CAPONE CROWN SOUGHT BY RICH STRIKEBREAKER New York Trucking King’s $500,000 Income Hit in Tax Charge. BV United Prttn NEW YORK, Sept. 24.—Pudgy, boyish-faced, hard boiled Peter Devito, truckman, is New York’s most fuccessful strike breaker with an annual income of $500,000, and an ambition to succeed as “big boss,” his old schoolboy friend, A1 Capone. Devito’s strike breaking successes and income were revealed by federal income tax collectors who arrested the unheralded “big shot” Wednesday in his comfortable brick home where he lay abed, surrounded by loaded pistols and a sword cane equipped with a flashing Toledo blade. The curly black-haired 33-year-old “czar” described his school days with Capone in Brooklyn, didn’t deny he was now the “big boss’’ in Brooklyn and Queeens, and said he expected to succeed Scarface A1 in about six months because Alphonse was looking for a successor. Paid Only $243 Tax Devito’s arrest was the result of the same trouble suffered by Capone in his last conflict with the law—income tax reports. He was arraigned on the federal indictment, then was released in SB,OOO bail for trial Oct. 15. The federal indictment charged he made an incorrect report on his $503,353 income back in 1929. Devito iled on the income but claimed exemptions which resulted in a net tax of only $243.19. The government claims his taxable income was $300,000 above the figure he submitted, and that his tax should have been $66,397.54. Standard Oil Big ‘Client’ So he arrest with the revelation that a comparatively unknown figure was “big boss” of Brooklyn, “the only man in greater New York who can successfully break a strike at any time,” according to United States Attorney Howard W. Ameli. Devito’s chief source of income, as revealed in his income reports, has been the Standard Oil Cos. of New York and several other concerns involved in strikes. He received $250,000 from the Standard Oil ! n 1929, he revealed. He employs from 3,000 to 4,000 men and operates 700 trucks. He . erved the James Butler Cos., the H. C. Bohack Cos. and American Cos., and the Great Atlantic and Pacific Cos., during strikes in 1929. In Germany, airplanes have been specially designed for delivering city newspapers to suburban points, bundles of papers being dropped through holes in their cockpit floors.

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TRAILER JUMPS TRACK, WRECKS AUTOZONE HURT Runaway Traction Also Dives Into Second Car Parked Near Corner. One man was hurt and two automobiles were smashed Wednesday night when a runaway traction trailer jumped the track at Fairfield and College avenues. O. S. Ford. 37, of 4702 Fletcher avenue, seated In his parked car, sustained injuries to his back and right hand. He was treated by a physician. In addition to Ford’s auto, the car of M. W. Ball Jr., 3553 Guilford avenue, also was damaged. The traction crew had replaced the % trailer on the tracks and left the scene before police arrived. ' Four other persons were injured in accidents on city streets. Mrs. Jessie Crosstreet of Lebanon was hurt when the car in which she was riding was struck by another driven by Dr. R. R. Pollon of Darlington, at Meridian and Thirtysecond streets, Wednesday afternoon. Pollon was charged with assault and battery with an automobile and Mrs. Crosstreet was taken to the city hosiptal suffering from head and face lacerations. After he is alleged to have injured a bicyclist, Harry M. Doan, 33, of 629 Lockerbie street, was arrested on charges of drunkenness,

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Tough Egg LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24. H. H. Hammond, mechanic, suffered excruciating headaches, so he sought relief at police receiving hospital. “It isn’t a hangover?” inquired the police surgeon. “No, I don’t drink,” Hammond replied. “What do you suppose caused the ache?” “I dunno,” said Hammond. Then he added brightly: “Two boys held me up Sunday night, slugged me over the head and robbed me. Maybe the slugging caused the headache.” An examination disclosed Hammond’s skull was fractured.

driving while drunk, and failure to stop after an accident. George Smitherman, 16, Negro, was injured when he was hurled from his bicycle by Doan’s car, police allege. Wilford E. Jackson, 22, of 4630 Hinesley avenue, sustained hand cuts Wednesday night when his car overturned at Twenty-eighth street and Capitol avenue after it was struck by an automobile driven by Daniel U. Robbins, 66, of 1419 South Belmont avenue. Jackson was taken to St. Vincent's hospital. Minor cuts and bruises were sustained by Darnetta Carter, Negro, 6, of 418 West Fifteenth street, when struck by an automobile in front of her home. She was treated at -ity hospital. Driver of the car was not held. Tests conducted in Pittsburgh by scientists, indicate that the average healthy person changes his position thirty-eight times in eight hours of sleep and that is is abnormal to sleep without moving.

TAILUR LOTTERY SMASHED, COPS SAY AFTER RAID Crusading Squad Pounces on Suspected Operator and Seize Tickets. Raiding an alleged tailor’s lottery that is said to have grown from the roots of another which was chopped down by police several months ago, Sergeant Edwin H. Kruse Wednesday afternoon nabbed the purported operator and confiscated records and tickets. Guy Demattoe, 36, Wesley hotel, was charged with operating a gift enterprise and keeping a room for pool selling. He is said to have admitted he had taken over operating

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CO-ED IS ATTACKED Man Makes Escape From Greencastle on Train. Indianapolis and state police today searched for a man who is reported to have attacked a DePauw university co-ed at Greencastle Wednesday night and escaped on a freight train. William Betz, Pennsylvania railroad officer, said he received word of the incident from Greencastle authorities. The train was searched here but failed to find the suspect. The train crew said they believed the attacker dropped off the freight at Gibson, Ind.