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FEDERALSWAGE MOONSHINE WAR WITH DYNAMITE Scores of Stills Wrecked in Virginia: Grand Jury Probe Starts. tOrCTr.*M. 1934 fcrr Cn.teO Pr*> ROCKYMOUNT. Va. Nov 21 Strewn through the ravines of this mountainous area today lay the wreckage of scores of stills—outfits that were major production units In the huge Franklin county moonshine whisky ring. Federal treasury agents have dynamited more than one hundred stills In the county his year. Unknown numbers still are operating. The government Is confident it can stop them when It breaks up a conspiracy on the part of alleged corrupted law enforcement agencies. Evidence against the combine is being pre.v ntrd now to a federal grand Jury at Harrisburg. A trip deep in the hills to the site of one of the wrecked stills showed how the rinse had gone in for largescale production of the liquor that brought it profits from four states. 21-Hour Shift Employed Tills plant had been capable of turning out between 1.000 and 1.500 gallons of whisky in twenty-four hours It had operated with day and night shifts. And it was but one of countless units controlled by the ring. From a nearby mountain road the j trail to the still twisted abruptly ; through the woods and finally through a foot of water down a i rock-bottomed branch of the Pigg ' . Iver. The enterprise was so large it J seemed evident It could not have j been operated without knowledge j of many persons In the community, j Trucks were necessary to haul the tons of meal and sugar to the still j and to take away the whisky in loads of five-gallon tin cans. Stage Earlv-Morning Raid Treasury Agent Thomas Bailey and his aids crept through the wood* Just before dawn one morning to surround the place. One operator was just pulling up in a truck with a helper who was going to work on the day shift. Agent Bailey took three prisoners and then disposed of the still with a charge of dynamite. Deeper in the woods, approachable only by a trail that not even a mountain cart could traverse. was I another still that Mr. Bailey seized. ! It was made of copper and had a 200-gallon capacity, the type operated by the small-time mountaineer moonshiner. Supplies were dragged through the woods on rough wooden sledres. One of the alleged operators of this still is a member of a family living nearby. Their home is a roughhewn. sturdy cabin that “Grandpa p" built thirty years ago. Not Afraid of "Revenooers" “We’s all honest, hardworking folks just trying to get along and mind our own business.” the bearded, erect old man drawled while the I rest of the family appraised the strangers. “Aren't you afraid of the revenue men?" * “No sir. they’s nice fellows, and I reckon thev's Jesl as good as other j folks." Then the husky young woman of ( the family, whose husband had been caught by Agent Bailey, chimed in. “The trouble was.'' she laughted. “he wasn't scared of ’em soon j enough. ’ MOLEY ASKS MERRIAM TO RELEASE MOONEY Pardon Would Eliminate “Martyr" Value. He Says. Bu Unit'd /’!•.< NEW YORK. Nov. 21.—A full pardon for Tom Mooney to eliminate his “martyr" value to the radical | cause was urged today by Raymond Molev. former presidential advisor; and editor of the magazine. “Today." j He made his plea in an open letter' to Governor Frank B Merriam of * California

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THE OLD GOOSE POND a a a a a a a a a South Side Great Place in Ye Olden Days

BY MARIE LAUCK Tim*. Special Writer ALMOST forgotten tn the scurry and bustle that progress has brought to Indianapolis is a spot dear to the memories of many wno now are gray-haired and drowsy with remimscenses of the past It is the Goose pond, once occupying a territory in the center of the 1400 block, between Union and South Meridian streets, and w as named because of its startling resemblance in shape to a goose. For the daring boys in ‘he neighborhood who swam in the more turbulent waters of White river, the Goose pond was considered a mud puddle. But just dare breathe that belittling term in the presence of its old friends! South Meridian street <-ro6sed the pond by a large wooden culvert which stood six feet above the water. The pond included part of what now is the Sacred Heart school grounds. On the southeast orner, where Arizona street now' crosses South Meridian street. There was an old elm from whose branches the local Tom Sawyers and Huck Finns used to dive. At a time sixty-five years ago—nr that at least is the story of one fine old gentleman—the pond ; six feet deep at its deepest point. This spot was located where the Roosevelt theater stands now. A few years later, the waters in the mud-bottomed pond gradually evaporated until wo feet was the record at the deepest point. The shape changed, but the old name was continued, partly from lack of imagination, and partly because of the geese that floated languidly on the pond’s surface. Barefoot children paddled around in the summer sunlight. The older boys, proudly sporting copper-toed knee boots, would splash through the water rather than walk around. Afterward it was a simple matter to soften the shoe leather with castor oil. 0 a a IN the winter, red-cheeked boys and girls would swing their sticks in a furious hockey game upon the layer of ice that covered the pond. Until the last fitful gleam of the sun had died away, the lusty shouts of ‘he skaters and the clatter of sticks could be heard at night. Many who are old fellows today have scars that are a constant reminder of youthful games on Got e pond. “High buck or low doe” was the ringing cry that started hostilities. One of the two players in the middle threw the ball into the air or the ground, according to the challenge. The game was placed with tin cans and limbs of trees knotted at the end. The elm began to play an important part of the community as passers-by on the dirty, dusty lane that was then Meridian street scurried untier the protecting limbs of the tree during a rain storm. For the children, it was always an adventure to run under cover. When the lightning forked out in the skies the children would repeat with bated breathe: "What if electricity strikes the tree?’’ At night the tree became a fearsome object, near which dirty, bewhiskered tramps gathered to exchange luck and stew. The Id Jefferson. Madison and Indianapolis railroad line was near enough the tree to make it a landmark for the hoboes. When mothers were trying to impress upon their children the advisability of not going too far from the hearthstone at night, they repeated the story of vhat happened to John K mire’s f ather. B B B op\VO tramps stepped out of 1 hadows of the tree and. brandishing 'dubs, urged Mr. Knure to turn over his valuables. Mr. Knure. however, was a pioneer who had faced worse terrors than a couple of “weary willies.” He drew a two-foot rule from his pocket and as the light glinted on it shouted: “I’ll give you two seconds to ‘git’ afore I blow vou to smithereens.” A lall creek flowed 'rom the upper end ot Goose pond and int the canal which ran the mill on the other side of pridian street. Sliding from the hill down onto the creek was a favorite winter sport. Edward L. Deitz told this writer how boards were nailed together wi h a strip of tin for a runner. These hazardous contraptions were used bv the hardy boys of • tvgone era to slide down the hill —often with disastrous results. Scnetimes there were head-on collisions with the immovable elm tree and. sometimes, the sleds

crash* 1 into the sides of the creek bed. T 1 i boys who prided themselves on their skating ability skated down the length of the creek. Henry Raible. reflecting upon those escapades, said that ‘he skates were merely one wooden narrow strip nailed at right angles with the center of another strip and carved into a shape similar to 'he present models. Mr. Raible and Bill Sponsel used to cut many a fancy figure even with those crude skates. a a a SOUTH of the pond there was built in 1875 the first building of the Franciscan Fathers. Misfortune did not overlook the pioneer priests who erected their little mission near the Goose pond. When the first load of bricks arrived, the trusting nd unworldly Father Alardus paid the driver S7OO. The driver skipped town and the priests had to repay the company. The brothers and priests suffered from malaria, caused, presumably. by mosquitoes bred in the pond. Then, a cold contracted by the Very Reverend de O'Conner, O. S. 8., vicar-general for the Bishop de St. Palais, when he was laying the corner stone for the church building, caused hL> death. There was only a picket fence b-ween the Sisters’ convent, luilt in 1878, and the Goose pond. Opposite the church building, the boys played ball under the direction of Brother Leopold on * v e ground where now is a row' of houses facing Palmer street. Th? school was on the lower floor of the building which now is used wholly as the priests’ monastery. The rear of the same floor was the priests’ house and the second floor was the church. There every dr.y some luckless lad had his turn at pumping the organ for mass. Every boy was “Yohnny” to the organist who used to shout: “Pump. Yohnny, pump. You'd better pump!’’ 000 ONE of the girl members of the old school, since grown into an elderly woman, tells of the laugh the rest of the class had at her expence one day. Because there had been some difficulty with the spelling of the word “slippery,” a brother had WTitten it upon the blackboard in mammoth letters. One morning, the girl came to school just as the rest were leaving the classroom for mass. The brother in charge told her to write her name on the board so that every one might know she had been tardy. When the rest of the children filed back into the classroom, they could not suppress their giggles. There, in bold letters was this legend: “Slippery Annie Gimber.” For the boys who loitered on the Goose pond when they should have been on their way home to chop wood and do chores, Brothers Leopold and Mark would whistle in a loud, piercing tone. If the boys feigned deafness, they were rewarded by a thrashing. Throwing clay balls, made from the mushy clay in Palmer and Union streets, was a favorite rport not on the curriculum. The clay provided material for a brick yard worked by a Mr. Finneman who owned a farm across from the church. 000 THE farm, which included a plundered apple orchard, ran along Union street and was bounded by a walnut rail fence. Along the fence were “sageorange" trees, as the boys called them. They looked more like hedges than trees, with their big green bulbs as large as oranges. Behind this tract was the -rick yard surrounded by a stone wall,

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upon which many children performed acrobatic stunts. Across Palmer street, on the present site of the defunct hominey mill, was Bachman's Lumber Company. This company used a pond near Minnesota avenue and Madison avenue for storing its logs. Many near calamities occurred when neighborhood boys would try to see how long the logs would stay afloat with the boys on top of them. The company finally hired men to keep the boys away. This move was never forgotten. A long-suffering individual was the mailman who often found himself the victim of the boys’ tricks. Wriggling, slimy snakes were slyly put in the mail boxes, or the postman's pockets. Tomorrow: Murder on the South Side!

VETERAN FIREMAN PREFERS DEATH TO LIFE WITH ONE LEG

Mil United Press CHICAGO, Nov. 21.—Fire Commissioner Arthur R. Seyferlich, 63, a fighter of flames for thirty years, lay with his face to a hospital wall today, determined to die rather than live as a cripple. The white-haired commissioner learned yesterday that he has scarcely one chance in a hundred of surviving an attack of diabetic gangrene unless his right leg is amputated. Dr. Ernest B. Moore told him so. with the backing of hospital staff physicians. Friends say Chief Seyferlich, emaciated by fever but undaunted, growled at the doctors. “I won’t have it,” he said. “A one-legged fireman is n > fireman at all. If I can't have both legs I won’t have any.” He was adamant against all pleas. Dr. Moore said the' commissioner may live two months or three but can not be saved unless the leg is amputated. FOUNDERS OF ORCHARD SCHOOL ARE HONORED 125 Attend Dinner; Director on Speaking Program. Founders of Orchard school were honored last night at a dinner, attended by 125 prisons, at the school. Speakers included Mrs. G. H. Clowes, one of the founders; Hillis, Howie, school director, and Thomas A. Hendricks, who acted as toastmaster. Among the guests were Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Gardner, Mrs. John Kern Sr., Mr. and Mrs. Filiiam H. Coleman, Dr. and Mrs. Clowes, Mr. and Mrs. Morn- Haines, Mrs. J. S. Holliday, Mrs. Fred Hoke, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Thomas, Mr. and Mrs. Harold West, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin G. McNally and Kurt Vonnegut.

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Annual Religious Drama Tourney on This Week HV WALTER D. HICKMAN

TODAY Mrs. C. Norman Green, chairman, announced the judges for the sixth annual one-act religious drama tournament which will be held Friday and Saturday nights starting at 8 o’clock each. Harold Ehrensperger of Northwestern university will be the out-of-town Judge and this writer a local !judge. Mr. Ehrensperger, who serves as head of the drama department of the Methodist Episcopal church, recently wrote and produced the pageant for the tercentenary anni--1 versary of that denomination in Baltimore. He will address the Council of Administrative Women in Indianapolis in February. On Friday evening, first night of the tournament, plays will be presented by the Playcrafters of the Central Christian church, the young people of the Second Presbyterian and the Third Masque of the Third Christian church. On Saturday night the young people of the First Presbyterian and the Little Theater of West Park of the West Park Christian churches will present plays. The group winning first place will receive the Sutherland Players' trophy and a makeup kit presented by the Indianapolis Regalia Company and the Sutherland Players. The winning group will present its play as part of the regular servHUGE MEMBER GAIN REPORTED BY LEGION State List Tops 47 Per Cent of Quota, Committee Learns. American Legion officials were cheered today by the report that the legion membership reported at the executive session yesterday was 314,070 paid-up members for 1935. as compared with 281,034 of a year ago. Indiana, with a quota of 32.070, reported an advance membership of 15,133, or slightly more than 47 per cent. The total quota for the entire membership is 909,970. The Florida department has reported the highest percentage of the quota.

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ice next Sunday night at the Sutherland Presbyterian church. The group receiving second place will be given a religious drama library by the Meig s Publishing Company. Following the final production Saturday night, the Judges will conduct a group with the directors and the participating casts. 0 0 0 INDIANAPOLIS theaters today offer: A Girl of the Llmberlost.” at the Apollo; "Great Expectation.” at the Circle; “College Rhythm." at the Indiana; “We Live Again." at Loew’’s Palace, and We’re Not Dressing and Bolero," at the Ohio. SAFETY BOARD HEARS CHARGES AGAINST 3 Withholds Decision in Cases of Two Firemen, Cop. The safety board yesterday reviewed three disciplinary cases and withheld a decision in each instance. Evidence was given in the charges of conduct unbecoming a fireman preferred against Lieutenant Everett L. Tatlock and private James Kenington, both of Engine House 15, by patrolmen’ Frank Owen and Charles Rairdon. The officers accused the two firemen of having been intoxicated. The other case was that of patrolman Frank T. Brooks, accused of having struck Adam J. Geisler. 1008 North Jefferson street, with a ginger ale bottle in an East Tenth street barroom. The board appointed Arthur Arnold, 1219 Wade street, as circuit repairman in the Gamewell department.

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UNIVERSAL CLUB TO NAMEHEADS Campaign Entertainment Is Offered at Weekly Luncheons. Candidates for offices on the Universal Clubs ticket No. 2 will stage a campaign extravaganza at their luncheon meeting Tuesday. Other candidates, members of the “No Won" ti.ket, gave their campaign program at the meeting at the Columbia Club yesterday. Jack Tilson sang a comic song about the candidates, who are Ike Riley, for president; Ralph Bales, vice-presi-dent; Cecil R. Dillon, secretarytreasurer; Gilbert T. Carter, ser-geant-at-arms: L. R. Carsons. Bernard Schotters. George Woody. Charles C. Peek. Robert St. Pierre and Max B Merritt, directors. Candidates on No. 2 ticket are John Geiger, for president; George Mess, vice-president; Cecil R. Dillon, secretary-treasurer; Carter Lewellen: Frank G. Sink. Horace R. Riggs. Albert L. Rust. Fred Hageneisen and Earl Z. Sigmon, directors.

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