Indianapolis Times, Volume 44, Number 150, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1932 — Page 9

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CHICAGO GANG CZARS HERDED . TO JAIL CELLS Virtually All of Capone’s Racket Chiefs Nabbed in Two Raids. EVEN COPS SURPRISED Prosecutor Hopes to Hold Captives Long Enough to Establish Cases. By United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 2,—For probably the first time since A1 Capone started his rise to power, nearly all the erstwhile gang leader's lieutenants spent the night In jail Tuesday. Ten major gangsters whose names have figured in scores of bloody and spectacular battles in Chicago’s underworld warfare were behind the bars. With them were seven men described as their bodyguards. The men were arrested in two • casual police raids. The apparently accidental seizure of virtually the whole of the Capone syndicate directorate appeared to surprise officers as much as it did the gang- , sters. One of the raids was at an expensive appointed “directors’ room” high in an office building at No. 1 La Salle street. The other was at an obscure west side “political” headquarters. Gang Chiefs Arrested Those arrested at No. 1 La Salle street were: Murray Humphries, debonair aspirant to the throne of A1 Capone and leader of the former gang chief’s north side forces. William (Three - Fingered Jack) White, known as one of the most * ruthless Capone gunmen and reputed successor of George (Red; Barker, slain labor racketeer. William (Klondike) O’Donnell, leader of the powerful west side O’Donnell gang. Charles Fischetti, close friend and formed bodyguard of A1 Capone. Marcus (Studdy) Looney, south side labor racketeer and business agent of a teamsters’ union. Charles Sullivan, brother-in-law of the slain Barker. Sam Alex, labor racketeer. Joseph Marino, William O’Brien and William Martin, their bodyguards. Second Raid Staged In the second raid police seized Sam '(Golfbag Sammie) Hunt, Capone gunman who introduced the custom of carrying a machine gun in a golf bag; Tony Accardo, former Capone bodyguard and partner of Jack (Machine Gun Jack) McGurn; Rocco De Grazio, a Capone lieutenant in the Melrose Park district, and four minor gangsters. „ Once police had herded their collection of gang luminaries to "headquarters, they were somewhat at a loss as to what to do with them, but Detective Chief William Shoemaker had high hopes he would be able to find witnesses against the gangsters before attorneys obtained their release by habeas corpus action. Never before —even at the height of police drives against the gangs —had so many important gangsters been jailed at one time. Temporarily the extensive Capone syndicate operations were being handled by underlings, with the aid of the few chiefs who escaped the accidental roundup. Uncovers Racket Lair Police believe the La Salle street raid had uncovered the racket headquarters of Cook county. From this suite, which overlooks the city’s \ financial district, they believe the extensive rackets that take so heavy a toll of business have been directed. The suite is in the same building as the offices of the Association of Commerce, operators of the famed “Secret Six.” Detectives William Drury and John Howe, operating under direct supervision of a special Cook county grand jury, made the La Salle street raid. They hoped to hold off habeas corpus action long enough to attempt Identification of the captives by racket victims. COMPULSORY BIRTH CONTROL EDICT DENIED Mexican State Has no Intention of Attempting Plan, Says Governor. Bu t'nited Pres MEXICO CITY. Nov. 2.—The "state of Vera Cruz has no intention of attempting compulsory birth control by law. Governor Adalberto J. Tejeda of Vera Cruz said in an interview Tuesday night. Tejeda insisted that the health provisions of the new civil code, which went into effect Tuesday, had been too strongly interpreted. Birth control is a “very private matter,” he said, adding that he supposed confusion over the aims of the state had arisen from misinterpretation of speeches or interviews by Salvador Mendoza, author of the code, or others. The Governor explained that the Vera Cruz code is designed to improve public health, eliminate prostitution and social diseases, educate the public in personal hygiene and prevent marriages of the physically unfit. ‘ JAIL PURSE-SNATCHERS Two Given l-to-10-Year Terms at State Reformatory. Confessing to stealing a purse fr*om Misa Ada Little, 1727 Park avenue, containing S2B, Arthur Abram, 28, and Benjamin Friend. 28, both of Indianapolis, were sentenced to the state reformatory for one to ten ‘ years today in criminal court, i

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Os course your taxes will be lower in 1933! Here’s how to figure them! So writes Miss Mary Margaret Flaherty of 1524 East Washington street, to Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer. She is one of six girls employed by the Democratic central committee to mail cards to dispel impressions that taxes will be higher next year.

DEPUTY'KILLED IN FRAY WITH BANDITS

Another Officer Wounded in Michigan; Robbers Trapped in Woods. By United Press MAYVILLE, Mich., Nov. 2.—A deputy sheriff was killed and another w'ounded today, when Oakland county officers and police trapped three men suspected of

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Hurled Down Stairs at Party; Skull Fractured

Guest Attempted to Make Love to Host’s Wife, Says Prisoner. Beaten and thrown down a stairway after he is alleged to have attempted to force his affections on the wife of the host of a party at 253 South Rural street early today, Grover Passehl, 35, of 335 South Grace street, a carpenter, incurred fracture of the skull and is in a critical condition at city hospital, according to police. Ermil Miller, 27, of the Rural street address, his alleged assailant and host at the alleged drinking party, was arrested on a charge of assault and battery with intent to kill. Passehl is held in the hospital detention ward on a drunkenness charge. Bleeding from a head wound asd unconscious. Passehl was found by police in Miller’s auto at the side of the home when police investigated reports of a brawl. Miller told police that he beat Passehl on the head with a chair and several dishes after Passehl is alleged to have attempted to make love to Miller’s wife Viola. Miller admitted, according to po-

Game Melted Ice and Opened Way for Smith-Roosevelt Reconciliation

BY RAY TUCKER Timei Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Al Smith regards his reconciliation with Franklin D. Roosevelt as a “historic event.” In discussing his now-famous chat with the Democratic presidential nominee in the mansion at Albany after months of estrangement, A1 has displayed the perspective of a historian, who writes as well as makes history. He takes the actor’s rich delight in the drama of which he is a principal. The inside story of how the two made up, and of the rapprochement between Smith and Jack Garner, vice-presidential nominee, may be the most exciting and significant of the 1932 campaign. Others will regard it as “historic,” if it means millions of votes to Roosevelt, as predicted, and provides Democratic victory after twelve years of exile from the White House. Al’s silence and sullenness since the Chicago convention was not pretense. He was hurt deeply when Garner's bloc of ninety votes was thrown to the New York Governor on the fifth ballot.

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holding up the Clarkson State bank last summer. Deputy Sheriff Harvey Pedder of Oakland county was slain in a gun battle between officers and the trapped gunmen. Frank Greenan, an undersheriff, was wounded in the arm. Deputies reported to the Oakland county sheriff’s office they either wounded or killed one of the gunmen, The suspected bank bandits are surrounded in a woods near here, they said. Pedder and Greenan were shot as they led a squad of eight Oakland county deputies into the woods where the gunmen had fled. lowa Bank Robbed By United Press MOVILLE, la., Nov. 2. —Three unmasked men entered the First Trust and Savings bank today, held up four customers and two officials, looted the safe of $2,000, and escaped. Their entrance to the bank was covered by a fourth bandit, who stayed in their automobile outside the bank. The robbers fled toward Sioux City, seventeen miles away, in a maroon colored automobile.

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lice, that he threw Passehl down the stars from the second floor. Mrs. Miller and Bud Goolsby, 27, of 233 South Rural street, another guest, placed Passehl in the auto, police said. Goolsby and Roy Snider, 33, of 252 South Rural street, and Jane Gibson, 22, of'lllo East Washington street, other guests, were arrested on vagrancy charges.

No other reason explains his precipitate departure from the scene. Only his close friends know how resentful he was. # u IT was Garner, and not Roosevelt, who first melted the ice which had formed around Al’s heart. On the Speaker’s first trip to the metropolis after his nomina- , tion. he was taken to visit Smith in the latter’s lofty office in the Empire State building. Some thought the move premature and bad psychology, crowding A 1 too fast. ( For the first fifteen minutes of the interview, 500 feet above fifth avenue—almost in the ctouce—these fears seemed justified. A1 was resentful and recalcitrant. Hot wo r ds were exchanged between these two blunt speaking Democrats. Garner’s alleged part in the Chicago convention was brought up. with the Speaker giving an unpublished version of the affair. Then Garner, with a pathetic twist to his yoice, “told A1 something.” Jack told of threatening letters he had received from the Ku Klux

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 1932

LEISURE HOUR CLUB STAGES ‘HOT’OPENING Humorist and Golden Hour Quartet Put Move on Flying Start Basis. AUDIENCE IS ENTHUSED Spread of Entertainments to Other Sections of City Under Way. There was a hot time in the old town last night. And it was just one of the many brands of hot times to be spilled from the amusement salt-and-pep-per shakers in the city during November and ensuing winter months by the Leisure Hour clubs. Tuesday night’s “hot time” was the opening program of the Pros-pect-Sherman Avenue Civic Club’s unit at Earhart and Orange streets. Between a Negro quartet, the “Golden Four,” with its moaning low of “Bull Frog on the Bank” and the pantomime and stories of Victor R. Griffin, monologist, the neighborhood crowd was kept in convulsions of applause and laughter. Golden Foui Just Drop In Griffin was on the program and he dispensed laugh aches with his yarns. But the “Golden Four” just dropped in on the Leisure Hour Club meeting, and before they left, with “Hand Me Down My Walking Cane” ringing in the rafters, they clinched with certainty the possibility of future engagements with other Leisure Hour programs. Neighbor got chummy with neighbor at the meeting. Recipes were traded between entertainment acts. And when the meeting was dismissed by W. O. Cox, president, the organization voted approval of the program and requested that a large space for holding the weekly entertainments be found. Plan New Clubs The Golden Four, that provided the impromptu entertainment, was composed of Lewellyn Booker, John Washington, Walter Pursley and Raymond Hunter. While the program was under way, a committee interested in formation of Leisure Hour clubs at Crispus Attucks high school and school 26, met at the Negro Y. M. C. A. to discuss the feasibility of three additional clubs in that vicinity. Dwight S. Ritter, director of the Leisure Hour movement, headquarters 911 Majestic building, met with the committee. First Programs Soon Several clubs of the sixteen already organized in the city plan their first programs next week. Tonight a school for game and song-leaders will be held in Room 701 of the Majestic building. The Central Christian church club will meet at 8 Thursday night. Persons in the neighborhood interested in forming of a club are urged to attend. IHROAI IS SUSHED Three Are Arrested After Alleged Drinking Party. An eight-inch cut in the throat was inflicted Tuesday night on Walter Johnson, 22, of 1519 Madison avenue, during an alleged drinking party at the home of William Powell, 64, of 2238 Daisy street. Johnson, Powell and Clarence H. Lacey, 40, of 250 Regent street, were arrested on vagrancy charges and are held under high bond. Police say Johnson accuses Lacey of cutting him, and asserts Powell tried to prevent the attack. Johnson’s injury is not critical, as no arteries were severed. BRITISH LABOR GAINS Strength in British Election Mostly in Industrial Areas. By United Press LONDON, Nov. 2. —Labor showed slight gains today in early returns from municipal elections held Tuesday throughout England and Wales. Three hundred cities and towns outside London were involved. Labor’s strength was mostly in the industrial areas.

Klan during the 1928 presidential campaign. Day after day, he said his mail was filled with scrawls, warning that his rambling house under the pecan and live oak trees in Uvalde would be burned, if he made speeches for Al. Jack told of nights when he and his son, with pistols in their fists, sat up to fight off possible marauders. * M M A S consummate an actor as Smith himself, the Texan succumbed to his own emotions. Tears crept into his eyes, and his voice grew husky. Not for several long minutes did Al respond. But, eventually, the man from the sidewalks and the man from the cactus land got together. They .talked of politics and people and lots of things; they found they had friends and fancies in common. A promise was passed, and when Gamer left Smith's presence, he told newspaper men, “Al will be all right.” During all this period, Roosevelt remained aloof.

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When English bull, Patsy (left), meets British bull, Moon (right), you've got a picture of what may happen at the Butler-Drake football game Saturday.

IT’S a bite in the pants that there’s going to be a lot of chewed-up bulldogs at 2 Saturday afternoon, when the Butler Bulldogs and the Drake Bulldogs of lowa, meet in Butler stadium to settle gridiron differences and find out which can hold on to a pigskin the longest. Both schools have the same nicknames and the same colors, blue and white. So either way, win, lose or draw, a bulldog is going to be “chawed” up. Miss Ruth Apostol, 3766 Ruckle street, says it won’t be the Butler bull “purp.” To prove it, she took Miss Mary Harvey to the Vance kennels, 3040 Baltimore avenue. Borrowing the English bulls of L. A. McNamara, 4349 Washington boulevard, she “sicced” Patsy, in the above photo, on -Moon, in the hands of Miss Harvey. Patsy played a waiting game while Miss Harvey’s imported Moon Magic displayed a dash of chew ’em up” that almost dragged the miss who is backing Drake to win into the fray. Only the whistle of the referee, owner of the dogs, prevented a tangle of growling, biting dogs and feminine dresses. HURT~IN~ B~EER~ BLOWUP While capping a bottle of beer early today, Miss Beulah Wilson, 35, of 309 East South street, was cut on the neck by flying glass when a bottle exploded. She was treated at city hospital- Police said they confiscated three quarts of the fluid.

94 Today, She’s Eager to Cast Roosevelt Ballot

Mrs. Carolina Baldus Will Vote If She’s Wheeled to Poll Booth. Declaring ~herself as “wet as Niagara Falls,” and that she will “vote for Roosevelt,” if someone will wheel her to the polls, Mrs. Caroline Baldus, 1226 East Market street, today celebrated her ninetyfourth birthday anniversary. Mrs. Baldus has been in a wheel chair since March, 1931, when she suffered a stroke of paralysis. Members of her family will give a dinner in her honor tonight at the Market street residence. Four of her children will be present at the dinner. They are: Mrs. Catherine Healy and I. A. Baldus, with whom she lives; Mrs. John R. Love, Indianapolis, and George Baldus, Beech Grove. John Baldus, Alhambra, Cal., and Paul Baldus, New York City, two other sons, will be unable to attend the dinner. Mrs. Baldus has eleven grandchildren and five great-grand-children. She was born Nov. 2, 1838 in Germany. She came to the United States in 1862 and lived in Dover, Del. Later she migrated to Bedford and about sixty years ago came to Indianapolis to live. She remembers the Circle when it was enclosed by a wooden fence and says that on one occasion she got lost on the Circle and went around it twice before a. passerby told her the right way to the city market.

He and Smith met at the Albany state convention. They fought shoulder to shoulder against Tammany chieftains for the nomination of Herbert Lehman, their mutual friend, for Governor. Al was reported to have called Roosevelt “you old potato,” and they shook hands “from the heart,” as the nominee put it. But the ice seemed to form again. At Newark. Al barely mentioned the national ticket, as he threw panic into Democrats with his vivid recollections of the “1928 campaign of bigotry.” Then, on the train trip to Boston. friends gently chided him for reviving buried issues. The story of their arguments with Al behind the closed doors of his drawing room can not be told in detail —maybe he will tell it in his memoirs some day—but he was convinced. m m * THE simple statement of what Al stands for to millions of folks did the trick, the plea that he did not disappoint them. The suggestion that he cast

ROAD FUND USE TO AID G. O. P. CHARGED

County Commissioners Say Highway Chief Is Giving Jobs to Republicans. With charges that highway funds are being spent to give jobs for political purposes, prior to election, county commissioners today reopened their battle with Charles W. Mann, Republican county highway superintendent. Mann denied he has put at least fifty Republicans at work on county roads during recent weeks. Democratic commissioners cited pay rolls as basis of their charges. ‘He has put at least fifty extra men at work on the roads this month,” Commissioner Dow Vorhies declared, “If he wants to save the taxpayers’ money, why doesn't he let ‘made work’ helpers do this work?” Thomas Ellis, Democratic commissioner, also charged Mann is using highway funds to further his political campaign. Mann seeks the post of Third district county commissioner against Vorhies. Both commissioners have fought for a year to oust Mann and replace him with a Democrat," but Mann has held the job, although

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For their discovery of functions of the nervous system. Professor Edgar Douglas Adrian of Cambridge, and Sir Charles Sherrington of Oxford have been awarded the Nobel prize for medicine and physics for 1932. Dr. Adrian, in his tests of the nervous system, has perfected a means whereby he can “listen in” on the messages sent by the brain through the nervous system.

all bitterness out of gratitude to them melted the ice. He drove out all but one counsellor from the drawing room, and canceled a public dinner and formal reception to work on his speech. It was the “Happy Warrior” who poured out his heart at Boston, who mentioned “Frank” not once but a dozen times, who declared amidst tears and cheers that “there can be no resentment in the Catholic heart.” A1 found, too, that the people he had been asked to remember loved him more, if possible, in defeat than in victory, more in reconciliation than in resentment. His strolls through Boston's narrow, winding windswept streets became paths of radiance. Men and women smiled to see the old brown derby again. Men and women reached out their hands to touch him as he passed. n * HIS train ride through the Massachusetts countryside next day was a lane of triumph. His entry into Albany was a great home-coming. r , V

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Cooked Up It may be impolite to discuss smells, but state employes in the statehouse annex both cussed and discussed an exceptionally obnoxious odor which pervaded the entire building tnis morning. From department heads to elevator operators all joined in the single word chorus; “Phew!” No end of wisecracks concerning the origin of the odor were made. Traced to its lair it proved merely to be a chemical solution being cooked up in the state board of health laboratories, where it was explained that the ventilating system was working improperly.

commissioners refuse to pay his salary. Pay roll records show labor on roads cost $7,177.57 during October, compared with $4,374.68 in September. Amounts for the summer months were less than the September tota^o Mann said the cost increase was due to tar surfacing of thirty miles of roads in receni weeks. “Commissioners ordered me to push and finish that before cold weather,” he charged. “I never have asked my workers their politics. You’ll find both Democrats and Republicans on the pay roll. “Besides, tar contracts could have been let by commissioners in warm weather, at great savings to taxpayers.” Mann declared he was using between 500 and 600 “made-work” employes each week.

AGED WOMAN DEAD Fractured Hip Is Fatal to Mrs. Mary Hendricks. A fractured hip incurred when she fell down a stairway at the home of a friend July 18, proved fatal for Mrs. Mary Hendricks, 7U of 301 Sanders street, who died late Tuesday at city hospital. The accident occurred at the home of Harry Werkhoff, 2303 North Meridian street. STREEt ALMOST READY New Section of East New York May Be Opened on Saturday, Expectation that another newly widened and paved section of East New York street will be ready for traffic Saturday was announced today by E. Kirk McKinney, president of the board of public works. If weather conditions permit work for the remainder of the week, the section between State and Highland avenues will be completed, McKinney said.

Roosevelt, contrary to original plans, had not left for Hyde Park before Al arrived. He was notified “Al’s here,” and among the first to telephone the “happy warrior” was the Governor. Roosevelt told Al he would be around to thank him in person. Then Al capitulated. “Listen, Frank,” he rasped, “you’re the Guv’nor. I'm only Al Smith—a plain, ordinary citizen. I’ll come to see you!” To the red brick structure that was his home for ten years went Al, no longer a stranger in the household, apd the two comrades-at-arms, who had drifted apart, sat side by side on the executive divan. The old master of politics offered advice to the nominee, talking like a father to his son. He suggested moves that would mean votes here, there and elsewhere. Roosevelt listened, nodded, agreed. . It was “Al and Frank" again. Now, in conferring with friends, Al asks: “What else can we do for you, Frank?”

JOBLESS LOOT IN LONDON AS RIOTSGO ON Days of Sporadic Trouble Climaxed When Police Battle Mobs. STATE OF SEMI-SIEGE Fight for Hours in Area Near Parliament; Many Are Injured. BY HERBERT MOORE United Pres* Staff Correspondent LONDON. Nov. 2.—London was in a state of semi-siege today, with seething mobs of unemployed threatening outbreaks in all quarters of the capital. Days of sporadic rioting reached a climax Tuesday night with fighting between police and unemployed in Parliament square, Trafalgar square and other important centers. Looting was started on a small scale in South London. Thirty or more persons were estimated to have been injured in tha fighting, and many arrests were made. One detective who was attacked by a crowd in Princes street was injured severely about the head and taken to a hospital. Mounted and foot police fought with the demonstrators in the region around parliament and the government buildings for several hours before comparative order was restored at midnight. fteopen Thames Bridge Fairly normal conditions were restored at that hour in Whitehall, where the government offices are located, in Parliament square and Victoria street, where the rioting centered. Westminster bridge, crossing the Thames near parliament, was opened to traffic after three hours of siege, during which traffic was detoured, and only pedestrians able to prove bona fide business were allowed to circulate. The house of commons arose at 11:02 p. m., the leaders of the hunger marchers having been unable to present their petition for relief. The rioting centered in the mile area from Trafalgar square to the house of commons on the Thames along Whitehall and to Hyde park! Mounted police galloped around Trafalgar square as late as midnight, wielding batons, and ruthlessly clearing away the thousands gathered there. Mobs Are Dispersed Most of the rioters had scattered earlier toward Piccadilly Circus and Leicester square, where they mingled with the crowds emerging from theaters and clubs. Several unemployed, who tried to attack men and women in evening clothes, were arrested. Mobs of several thousands which had gathered on the south side of the Thames were dispersed before 11 p. m. Authorities admitted that for two hours the situation was the most serious since the general strike of 1926, and that only the most energetic police action prevented major conflicts. Many windows were smashed during the night, including even some in the Strand, which almost corresponds to New York’s Broadway. Windows were smashed in the Charing cross postofflee, in the nerve center of London, and in Cockspur street. Throngs Turn to Looting In South London, store windows were broken open and clothing end other articles stolen. Police detachments were concentrated there to prevent extensive looting. During the height of the excitement, the gates of the Admiralty arch, leading toward Buckingham palace, were closed to prevent any possible attack on the home of the royal family. The start of the main rioting occurred in Parliament square, where 15,000 demonstrators and spectators were gathered. Several thousand demonstrators from Peckham and Deptford, singing the “Marseillaise,” surged toward the square. Jobless Leader Is Held The police, in a solid blue line, pushed the crown down Whitehall from Parliament square into Trafalgar square, where the latter trouble started. The retreating mob caused a minor disturbance at the Cenotaph. Britain’s monument to the war dead in Whitehall. Some of the crowd resisted tha pushing of the police, and the latter drew their batons, clubbing all within reach. The wreath at the foot of the Cenotaph, dedicated, to the slain, was trampled in the melee. The original leader of the hunger marchers, W. A. L. Hannington, was held without biil today on a charge of inciting mutiny among the police. AGED MAN IS INJURED One Driver Arrested as Result of Two Accidents on Corner. One person was injured and a driver was arrested as result of two accidents within a few minute* late Tuesday at Delaware and Michigan streets. In the first accident, Thomas Gibson, 79, Barton hotel, a pedestrian, was struck by one of two autos colliding at the intersection. Neither car was damaged seriously. Gibson was treated for cuts and bruises at city hospital. Shortly afterward, Thomas Russell, 23, Negro, 457 Agnes street, was arrested for failure to have a drivers’ license and certificate of title after his auto struck another driven by Edwin Jones, 1419 Wood lawn avenue. Neither was injured.