Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 16, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 March 1935 — Page 29

MARCH 29, 1935,

BLATANT PROBE OF NEW YORK'S VICE HITS SNAG Little Progress Made in Inquiry of Bond Backet and Such Matters. BY SIDNEY B. WHIFW.E I nil. 4 rrw Staff C r.rrr.pnnd.nt ISIS, bf t'wnl Prn NEW YORK. March 29—Shortly before he |Kiwd from this vale of nn, the eminent Dr. Charles H Parkhurst. who cleaned up New York ■permanently" in the gas-light era. gave forth a cynical opinion that reform is never lasting. Today Near York is engaged in another of its periodical cleansings, but the vice investigation into which the city prosecutor's office was prodded by the fusion administration seems likely to die of inanition. The investigation of booze, bail bonds and bordellos began bravely enough with the arrest of Polly Adler, three errant nymphs from her 55th-st parlors, and two sugar papas who had paid S2O apiece for an evenings entertainment. The men were released, as is customary, after giving their evidence against the three young women. Mistress Adler is still on trial on charges of maintaining a house of ill repute. The three women wept their way out of a workhouse sentence, and are on probation. That appeared today to he the sum of the results of an “exposure '* that began with the prodigious beating of political tom-toms, and was to hr.e blown the lid off an unthinkable condition of bail bond racketeering, extortion, and various aportive activities coming under the general heading of “vice.” Arrested Countless Times Polly Adler was the most exclusive entrepreneur of midnight sin In the citv of New York. She has been arrested countless times. and never has served a jail sentence. Her luxurious establishment awoke In custom in the late evening hours, and boasted a little theater movejiriit that had as its piece de refi. nnre the showing of bawdy films. Ther** was also a bar. at which • men paid TS cents for a nogym of gin. while bald-headed butt >: .iole manufacturers paid S4O a lxttie for champagne, at nearbytables. Doormen kept out pro>pective patrons who appeared to have been hit by the depression, and assisted in throwing out patrons whose wellsprings of currency ran dry during the “fun.’* Not Exactly a “Clip Joint” pollv Adler's was not, strictly Speaking, a “clip joint.'* although the line between the clip joint and the legitimate house is sometimes hard to distinguish. A 5 a rule a clip joint is one that uses knockout drops or brass knuckles to persuade the customer to give up his money. The Adler system was more subtle, and consisted mainly of 'immoral suasion.” Sixty-nine young women were arrested m the first raids against prostitution A majority of them were given suspended sentences. Some, among them two of Polly Adler's wards, were found to he suffering from ailments that caused their immediate segregation. Few higher-ups in the vice business thus far, have been indi-ted. arrested, or “detained” Dutch Schultz, credited with being at *he top of the beer, narcotic and vice world has been indicted and is now out on bail. Bail Rond Ring Active The bail-bond racket, with which the grand jury is struggling, has not been scratched yet. and no purveyors of the racy* literature that can be purchased almost openely—or rented—have been captured. The business of providing bail bond* for prisoners has been in the hands of a ring operating through a group of lawyers who are in turn responsible to minor officials attached to lower courts. Their charges have been outrageous and. in the eyes of reformers. calculated to force the victim to “go out and sin some more" in rrder to pay up. Perjury enters into the ball bond racket, and bondsmen are accused of pledging over and der again the same property, after Swearing it is unencumbered. Vice Goes Into Hiding Fed- ral authorities have entered the investigation at two points—where narcotics are involved and where the Mann Act is invoked. In both phases they report “great progress” One large vice ring, enticing its Victims from New England and Central Atlantic farms, has been broken tip. and “traveling'' houses of prostitution. operated like burlesque houses with a change of location and personnel each week, have practically- disappeared Organized vice, therefore, seems to have been forced into hiding Individual operators are still doing business, b it only on the dark side cf the street. INDIANA ACCOUNTANTS TO MAP MAY SESSION Directors to Arrange Program for Annual Meeting. Plans fer the Indiana Association of Certified Public Accountants' annual May Meeting will be discussed at a directors' meeting tomorrownoon in the Columbia Club. W M Madden, legislative committee chairman. will make his report. Association directors are Bimey r Spradling. president; A R Chapman. John S. Lloyd. H W. Painter. John E. Keough and Mr Madden, all of Indianapolis, and J. R Wharton. South Bend, and Earl E. Thomas. Evansville. 15-YEAR-OLD HERO IS NO PUBLICITY SEEKER t Boy. Who Rescued Playmate. Tells Neither Parents Nor Friends. Mpln - 1 Prt . TOLEDO March 29 —A 15-year-old high school boy w ho rescued a playmate from drowning in the icy waters of the Maumee River was so modest about his heroism that he told neither his parents nor friends. But Dale Pringle, who made the rescue, was honaed to his parents by Vernon Jones, 14. whom he saved, and Elmer Pringle, 12, Dale s brother.

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Debate League' championships at Manchester College, North Manchester, Ind. The Tech team, one of eight to remain undefeated in the league's 116, is made up of Dorisann Johnson. Dorothy Hammer. Don Martin. Roland Boughton. Alice Cleveland and Paul Meacham. Charles R. Parks is coach. Four schools will be eliminated when the debating ends tonight. Two more will be eliminated tomorrow morning. Then, tomorrow afternoon, the finalists will meet for the state championship. Six Technical High School Demegorians will go to Elkhart Sunday to sneak at 3 in the First Evangelical Church of Elkhart, where a union meeting of 34 churches of that city will take place. The Tech pupils will speak on

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