Indianapolis Times, Volume 43, Number 184, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1931 — Page 24

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STATE STUNG FOR SIOO,OOO. PROBER SAYS Officials ‘Played for Boobs’ in Bootleg Gas Deal, Inquiry Indicates, New evidence, which makes possible reopening of the $125,000 bootleg gasoline case settlement for $25,000, was brought to the attorneygeneral’s office Thursday afternoon. Neither Attorney-General James M. Ogden nor Earl Stroup, deputy in charge of bootleg gas investigations under Governor Harry G. Leslie, was on hand. But the story was told to V. Ed Funk, another Ogden deputy, and to Auditor Floyd E. Williamson, under whose direction the gas tax is collected. The information came from an investigator who has uncovered gigantic bootleg gas operations throughout the central states. It was planned to lay the matter before Governor Leslie today. "Poor” Man Has $1,500,000 According to the story given Williamson, Poole Harrison of Chicago and Gary, who was allowed to settle the $125,000 case for $25,000, is not the poor man he pretended to be when making the deal in 1929 with Ogden and A. N. Bobbitt, then state auditor. Instead, he has $1,500,000 in fourteen banks, some in trust funds, from Chicago to California, Williamson was informed. Federal authorities are trying to collect some $300,000 in income tax on these funds, alleged to have been built up from bootleg gasoline profits, the auditor’s informant declared. Harrison is said to have offered to effect a settlement with the United States for $125,000, and to have employed expert accountants to build up his case. Among items listed for deduction, Williamson was told, was a $20,000 monthly payment alleged to have been made to “Indiana and Illinois officials” for protection in the bootleg gas industry. Proved to be Wealthy Evidence of Harrison’s wealth recently was given, according to the story told by the investigator, when he (Harrison') returned to his home town of Mexico, Mo., and held a home-coming for Harrisons from all over the state. The Mexico paper is said to have referred to him as “a multi-mil-lionaire oil magnate from Chicago.” The Williamson informant declared that “the paper told the truth.” Williamson pointed out that the discovery and settlement of Harrison’s bootleg operations in Indiana was before he (Williamson) as- I sumed office. “But I am absolutely opposed to any settlement for gas tax due the state at less than 100 cents on the dollar,” Williamson asserted. “I would be highly in favor of reopenJng this case and collecting the $125,000 from Harrison.” Settlement Called Good Stroup, now in charge of the Governor’s gas probe, was handling the case when the $25,000 settlement w-as made. He told the Governor recently that he thought the settlement was a good one. Under the settlement terms, | agreed to by Ogden, Harrison paid 1 $20,000 in cash and was permitted to pay the remaining $5,000 on the installment plan. He failed to meet the installments, and, instead of the debt being discharged last July, as promised, payments have not been completed yet, Williamson said. This brought a statement from the investigator that Harrison himself had told him that he had provided $25,000 cash to make the settlement here. Prosecution Is Averted Bruce Cooper, Stewartsville, then prominent in G. O. P. politics, was' fired from Bobbitt’s office during Investigation of the case. He had been a gasoline field examiner in Lake county, where Harrison operated. Ogden talked of prosecutions, and it was intimated that prominent Republicans in Lake county wculd be involved, but nothing in the way of criminal action ever developed. No gas bootlegger ever has undergone criminal prosecution in Indiana. CHEMISTRY’S PART IN WAR TO BE DISCUSSED Major-General Gilchrist to Speak Before Society at Claypool. The part chemicals will play in the next war will be discussed by Major-General H. L. Gilchrist, United States army chemical warfare service chief, at the American Chemical Society dinner tonight at the Claypool. General Gilchrist, who spoke at Purdue university Thursday night, was to arrive here this afternoon. He commanded the first expedition of American troops in the World war, serving in hospital work until 1917, when he was named medical director of the chemical warfare department and given supervision over all activities pertaining to gas casualties in the American army. . . General Gilchrist took part in volunteer research work in leprosy treatment and later in typhoid fever treatment. Veteran Envoy is Poloist By United Press NORWOOD, Mass., Dec. 11.— Though 61, W. Cameron Forbes, United States ambassador to Japan, often engages in strenuous polo matches on the private field attached to his estate here.

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Samuel Mueller Samuel Mueller was named president of the Furniture’ Association of Indianapdlis for the sixth consecutive year at the annual meeting in the Lincoln Thursday. Other officers elected were: Carl A. Taylor and Stanley Lipton, vice-presidents; Saul Solomon, secretary, and Jacob H. Wolf, treasurer. Y O UNG DRUGGIST )EAD Auto Injuries Trove Fatal for Donovan 11. Wright. Funeral services for Donovan H. Wright, 26, former Indianapolis druggist, who died Wednesday at Methodist hospital as result of injuries sustained in an auto'"' accident near Greencastle Saturday, were held Thursday at Terre Haute. Mr. Wright, who was manager of a drug store at Terre Haute, was engaged to wed Miss Beatrice Taylor, 2020 Wilcox street, Dec. 24.

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TItSON, DEPOSED FROM POWER, IS PITIABLEFIGURE Shorn of House Leadership, He’s Rover, With Little or No Authority. By United Press WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Meet the “member at large” of the house of representatives—John Q. Tilson of Connecticut. Politics has played him one of its cruelist tricks. He rose nearly to the top of theladder. For six years he was his party’s leader in the house of representatives. A few days ago he was hurled, literallly, to thebottom again when he was defeated for the Republican place of honor by Representative Bertrand H. Snell, chunky, phlegmatic, but very astute New Yorker. Snell now is minority floor leader, having been defeated for Speaker by the Texas Democrat, Representative John N. Garner. And the tall, courtly gentleman from Connecticut, w ? ho was born and raised in the rugged Republican hill

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country of Tennessee, figuratively is nothing. To the sentimental, he is a lonely sort of figure these days. He gave up all his committee assignments when he was elected leader six years ago. If he went on any committees now it would be at the bottom, unless he accepted Republican offers to take a higher place. This he refuses to do as it would displace some other veteran. And he says he can not begin at the bottom again at this stage of the game. It is for new members, not him. to do the menial work assigned to the beginner. He still has his pride. And he holds his head up. He gave himself the title of “membr-at-large.” He explains that he holds a “roving commission." Republican leaders have assigned him to the steering committee, a group which is supposed to have some say about legislation, but which in reality does not have much power. It is more an advisory committee. The leaders and the rules committee hold the real power in the house. It was as a “member at largq” from the state of Connecticut that Tilson first came to congress. He has served in the house twenty years. Gradually he worked his way to the top. He did yeomen work during the World war on the military affairs committee. He himself, had seen service, both in the Spanish-American war and the Mexican border disturbance of 1916.

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It was in the latter service that he earned the*title of “colonel.” Prior to becoming leader, Tilson was a member of the ways and means committee, the tax and tariff body. As leader, he went to and from the Capital and the White House. When his tall figure was seen entering the executive offices, the newspapermen there knew something was up. Back to the Capital he went to carry out the administration’s orders. He stood by the administration. When other party leaders deserted President Hoover on drought relief and the bonus, there stood Tilson.

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He was defeated on the drought relief issue and overwhelmed on the bonus. He was a leader without followers. Some keen observers attribute his recent defeat to his too blind loyalty to the White House. But, shorn of his power, Tilson again stood squarely behind the President when the chief executive was subjected to bitter attack in the opening house debate on the annula message. And Tilson heard a Democrat, Representative Bankhead. Alabama, describe his loyalty to the White House, with the addendum: “And what reward has he been given for following your President?"

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suicide by snooting at Everett, Wash., where he was general “Y" secretary. Worry over financial matters is believed to have caused the suicide.