Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 January 1939 — Page 10
LICEMEN JOIN ANG, GET DOPE IN GUN BATTLE
$150,000 in Opium, Three Men Seized After New York Trap Is Set.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 (U. P.).—Policemen, disguised as criminals and aided by Coast Guardsmen and Customs agents, sprang a trap on a smuggling mob early today, cap-
tured three men and seized $150,000
worth of opium after a gun battle on the Brooklyn waterfront. One policeman was wounded. : The opium was brought here on the S. S. Ida from Italy, and was transferred to a launch in the harber at midnight during a rainstorm. . The smugglers thought their own men were aboard the launch but it ~ was manned by policemen in disguise. The climax came an hour later when the officers took the cans of opium to the pier and kept the ren- ~ dezvous with the smugglers’ shore . gang, there to receive it.
Area Surrounded .
In setting the trap, the whole area had been surrounded with Federal and city agents in cutters, launches and automobiles. Fifteen authorities took part in the gun battle and more than 100 shots were fired. The Ida, meanwhile, h ceeded to dock in Hoboken, N. J. Fed-
. eral agents boarded her and took
off three sailors. With fiction-like sleuthing, Detectives Everett Runey and Richard Brennan . of the Brooklyn force heard rumors of the opium ring three months ago, volunteered, and were assigned to smash it. The two detectives posed as criminals, met the smugglers, introduced Sergt. John Sweeney of the harbor squad as a policeman willing to take
a bribe.
The smugglers tested Officer Sweeney with a cargo of narcotics. He delivered the cargo, received $300 and turned it in to the police property clerk. : Smugglers Set Plans
Then the smugglers planned a major exploit for last midnight. The trap was set. Coast Guard boats were stationed at the Battery, the lower tip of Manhattan Island, and in the East River, off the Bronx, the upper end of the island, cutting off escape from both directions. Four automobiles filled with policemen and Federal agents waited. Shortly before midnight Sergt. Sweeney took out his launch. With him were Sergt. Andy Devine, four ratrolmen and two Federal narcotics agents. They drew alongside the ship in the harbor. It was raining hard. : Men on board began lowering the tins containing altogether 150 pounds of opium. When the launch . pulled away, a radio notified the Brooklyn peddlers that it was on the way to meet them. Police cars and customs boats intercepted th message and closed in. : ne
NEUROLOGIST IS DEAD CHICAGO, Jan. 6 (U. P.).—Funeral services will be held tomorrow for Dr. Hugh T. Patrick, professor emeritus of nervous and mental diseases at Northwestern University and former president of the Amerjcan Neurological Association. He died at St. Luke’s Hospital yesterday of a stomach ailment. He was 78.
Dies Stamps Foot in Vain On Swastikas
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 6 (U. P.).—Rep. Martin Dies (D. Tex.), chairman of the House Committee Investigating Un- _ American Activities, strode into his suife at a Philadelphia hotel and looked at the carpet with surprise. Under his feet, woven into the design of the carpet, were groups of three swastikas on a red background. win oy «1'll be a son of a gun,” ex=claimed the Texas - Congressman. “Who do you suppose did that?” Then, turning to newspapermen gathered for an interview following Dies’ address before the Philadelphia Rotary Club, he added: “The chance of a lifetime! I can stamp out the black Nazis and the Red Communists. at the same time.” Dies stamped his foot and ground his heel into the car-
pet. = A hotel official calfed attention to the fact that the swas= tikas were of the Indian, rather than the Nazi variety— turning left on their axes, rahther than right as in the Nazi emblem. He said the carpet was laid long ' before anyone ever heard of Adolf Hitler. ;
CLAYPOOL IS DUE FOR DRESSING UP
Work to Start in Six Months; -' A. V. Brown Named Head of Board.
Work is expected to start within six months on “streamlining” the Claypool Hotel, Burrell Wright, Indianapolis attorney, vice president and general counsel of the Indiana Hotel Co.,. announced today. Arthur V. Brown, Union Trust Co. and Indiana National Bank president, yesterday was elected |
of the company which owns the hotel. The controlling interest was purchased by Waddams Hall, Ogdensburg, N. Y, Catholic preparatory school. : Other officers elected are John P. Frenzel Jr. president of the Merchants National Bank, treasurer, and Edward J. Boleman, Indianapolis attorney, secretary. ‘Wendell P. Barker, New York; Monsignor Walter Funcke, Ogdensburg, N. Y.,, and Jacob S. White, Indianapolis attorney, with the four officers, comprise the directorate. George G. Cunningham is continue as general manager. Harry D. Green and B. F. Reath are to remain dssistant managers.
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