Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 May 1939 — Page 5

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 19380

FIRE MARSHAL [Flood of Poison Ring Clues Hamper Police in Six- State Inves stigation

BANS 26 TYPES OF FIREWORKS Additional Chemists Hired;

| Officials Struggle to State Order Prohibits Sale| Follow Trail. Before June 20 and gE Ec Threatens Suits.

(Second of Two Articles)

By PAUL ROSS PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (NEA). Twenty-six types of fireworks to-|_the slay-for-pay syndicate, whose day were banned from sale to the] public r e public by Shale ite Mars Of its Philadelphia principals “broke,” In an official order on regulations, carried on operations so fantastic, the fire marshal prohibited the sale so far-flung and so involved that the of any kind of fireworks before | Philadelphia police are working 24 June 20 and threatened prosecution hours a day making arrests, exhums of any retailer who sells them to|ing bodies, grilling prisoners children under 12. seeking new suspects and

Fireworks banned from sale in- victims ‘ clude 10 kinds of flash salutes more| Police of five other states are cothan three inches long, auto wheel |OPerating, and Federal agents will joker, burglar alarm, whistling tor-|enter the case. Exhumed nado, whistling cyclone, devil on the| re piling up so fast that additional walk, snakes, hot air paper bal-|Chemists have been hired to make

loons, son-of-a-gun, spit devil, auto analyses. protector and several other types of| And even as the authorities “whizzers” and “whistlers.” struggle to catch up with the syn- ‘ dicate’s 10-year-old crime trail, Termed “Dangerous there is the grisly possibility thy the ring is racing to kill its members or customers to forestall further revelations

Each day brings out new angles in this sensational case. To date

‘After a chemical analysis, this department has learned that these types of fireworks are dangerous,” Mr. Smith said. “These jtems are deceptive in appearance, seeming very small and harmless but are powerful enough to seriously injure and possibly kill persons using them.” This will be the last year the State marshal will have to issue regulations because the 1939 Legislature passed a Jaw banning the sale of fireworks except to experts, effective | next year. Other Regulations Listed : > ; For a fee and a percentage of ray leguiaiane itued vy AIV. the insurance money collected, it 1. No fireworks shall be sold on instructed dissatisfied women, and any street, sidewalk or a few men, in ways to murder, Suppark | plied poison or did the “jobs” for

2. No fireworks shall be sold. | them. ; : : " Apparently, it lighted, or exploded at any filling monial agency” station, garage or other places where bands a] lovers inflammable liquids are handled | ving dealt in roi ge My of fireworks | son and, probably, blackmail shall not be praced on display onl™ sreenic was the chief murder counters accessable to the public. means. It was retailed at 4. All dealers must keep fireworks

sbustibl i pint as “witch's brew” in on 3 MN i : in noncombustible containers 1ifiihe yietims in small doses by the these articles have been removed

: el [ring’s customers or agents, Since June 30. Shipping Cases ycenic poisoning, in some, stages, | une 20 can be mistaken for other internal] (disorders, the victims were buried | as having died from colds, pneumonia, heart disease and so on | Dug up, the bodies of most of the| victims were found to contain arsenic. Sometimes the ring bludgeoned its victims to death, sometimes ran them over with automobiles, some[times drowned them. occasionally {gave them soluble salts of tin (a subtle poison) or hemlock, which {Socrates drank to die. There is a

thorities say about it: The ring operated vania (with two “branches” Philadelphia and one in burgh so far discovered), New Jersey, New York and Connecticut. It may have done a mailorder business on the | £00.

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HIGH SCHOOL REPAIR CONTRACTS ARE LET|

Work on the remodeling of the] Washington High School boys’ and girls’ shower and locker rooms and the repairing of the Crispus Attucks High School shower and locker] [suspicion that the syndicate also rooms and the repairing of thelyseq typhoid germs. The known Crispns ~~ Attucks =~ High School |yjetims in Philadelphia alone numventilating system will begin im-/per 35 and will probably total at mediately. {least 100. Police say 100 others were Bids for both projects were ac- | killed elsewhere. cepted by the School Board yvesterThree Called Leaders

day so that construction would be completed by July 1. The Wash-|{ The ring was probably the brain ington High School project was|child of Herman Petrillo, Mrs. Faawarded to Clarke Brothers on a bid |vato and one Rafaele Polselli. cone of $4285 which was $505 under the|fessed accessory to three slavings next bid. An alternate bid of theirs|Polselli declared that after he and totaling $1825 was taken under!two others thought ud the sche.ne option for 80 days they were at a loss how to operate Fred G. Janitz was awarded the it. So he brought in one Cesare contract for the Crispus Attucks! Valenti. professional murderer and High Sci eam heating surface member of the sinister Black Hand and nections for the ventilating] Valenti and Herman Petrillo took system on his bid of $3958. Three [North Philadelphia for their “ter bids for accoustical treatment for | ritory. » according to the police, and the Manual High School cafeteria;gave South Philadelphia to Paul and the Shortridge High School|2etrillo and one Morris Bolber, groce; and self-styled “psychiatrist.”

faculty lunch room were referred to Vaienti-Herman Petrillo specialized

a committee for study. The Board also accepted the bid in unhappy wives. Bolber-Paul Petrille specialized in sex-hungry, foot-

of the Shell Oil Co. for 10,000 gallons of gasoline | at 11, 543 cents a gallon. loose men. As bait, they used Rose Carina, otherwise known as “the

woman With _the of death.”

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Valuation of building operations! in Indianapolis up to May 13, 1939.| stood at $6,772,608, or a gain of $3 610,983 over the same period a year ago, George R. Popp Jr, Building % Commissioner, said today IRN

operations during the same time in| \ 1938 was $3,161,623, or only about| half of what it now is, he pointed |} out. Building operations for the week ending May 13 were approximately the same as the corresponding week a year ago.

EX- HOOSIER NURSE ON SNITE VOYAGE

Times Special LOGANSPORT, May 17.-—Kath-ryn Graf is one of five nurses accompanying Fred B. Snite Jr, iron | lung patient, to France. She for- | merly resided in Logansport and is! the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward J. Graf of 530 Wheatland Ave. | Mr. Snite, wealthy infantile paralysis victim, and party sailed from | New York Tuesday on the Nor-| mandie, They will go to the famous French Shrine of Miracles of Our Lady of Lourdes.

STOP SIGNS PLANNED AT SITE OF ACCIDENT

Two flash type stop signs will be erected at 38th St. and Boulevard Place, where two autos caught fire last week after an accident. The| Safety Board yesterday voted to put up the signs after Chief Morrissey | {\ explained that the intersection was|§ a “dangerous corner.

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PHILADELPHIA, May 17 (U. B). ~The far-flung forces of the G-Men : 4 Fa | swung into action today in the inDN SO. ho? vestigation of a mass murder-for-Ra | insurance syndicate blamed for more | than 100 deaths in the most heinous | series of crimes in United States | history. | Justice agents arrested one of five | syndicate fugitives today less than [12 hours after they had actively en- | tered the case. X RE pb 4 v 8 | Dominick Rodeo, wanted for the | 3} i | “three men in a boat” drowning of 3 | Joseph Arena, was picked up by | Federal agents in Cleveland. At the | same time the G-Men were reported [closing in on the other fugitives, in=cluding Mrs. Rose Carina, the womfan “with the Kiss of death.” With the F. B. I. under personal direction of J. Edgar Hoover at Washington already actively engaged in tracking fugitive members of the death corporation, | Federal agency was prepared to lend its aid in the investigation. It has been known that the merdifficult for the harassed police,| chants of death who disposed of (they have recently turned up evi-| heavily insured husbands with ar- . (dence that there may have been |senic, other and more subtle | two murder rings, instead of mere- | poisons, drowning and ly one. The second is said to have | “accidents,” operated a matrimonial | been a rival of the arsenic syndi- | bureau aparently to obtain new hus- | cate, and to have murdered for a/bands and victims for the * flat fee, using antimony as the le-| widows.” |thal weapon, | Postal authorities, How the Philadelphia trust was able to keep the insur-|that the mails were (ance companies from learning of | tion with the matrimonial {the plot to slay-for-pay is due to|oOperations in the fact that in virtually all cases | fraudently. the type of policy the ving took out | == (Was the “industrial” or “weekly |] meeuy | payment” type. t

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