Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 March 1940 — Page 5

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FEBRUARY a

Month Is ‘Worst in Two Years’; Evansville Has Perfect Record.

2 . CHICAGO, March 28 (U. P).— The nation’s motorists set a fatal

pace during February for the “worst month in two years,” the National Safety Council said today. The Council cited 2170 deaths from traffic accidents in the year’s shortest month. The figure represented a 10 per cent increase over February, 1939, and was the fifth consecutive month of increasing toll on American highways. ugh the first nine months of .1939, the Council reported an average 3: per cent reduction in traffic deaths. Beginning Oct. 1, however, + the rate of fatalities mounted above | previous levels land soared from a 4 per cent gain that month to Pebruary’s peak. : 4800 Die in Two Monthhs “March, 1937, the last month to show a 10 per cent increase in deaths from automobile accidents. ~ The trafic toll for the first two

months of 1940 ‘was 4800 lives, 250

| per cent from if the previous February to lead all states in safefy.

Oakland Tops List

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list, amo} ; cities of more than 250,000 persons—with a 78 per cent drop. Evansville, Ind., and Lynn, Mass., both of greatsr than 100,000 population, -led metropolitan cities with perfect records of traffic conduct during February. A death rate of 4.7 persons per month kept Providence, R. I. the lead for the year’s safety honors among cities of more than 250,000. Kansas City, Mo., was second with a 5.8 death rate. Cid! —_——

METHODIST LAYMEN , ‘LISTEN’ TOMORROW

: ov leaders lot Methodist Churches of the Indianapolis area will attend the second Laymen’s

Listening Post at the Roberts Park Church at 7:45 p. m. tomorrow; Francis M. Hughes, the son of Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes and representative of the Central Avenue Methodist Church, wiil speak on “What Is the Real Business of the Church and What Should Be Done to Make it More Effective in Accomnlishing Its Purpose in This Community?” How these purposes can be attained among young people will be discussed by Leslie Robinson, Trinity Methodist; Earl Clampitt, Brightwood Christian, ( Roberts Park; Merrill Stutsman, |

PLATTING CODE MOVES AHEAD

Park Board Ponders Aetion On Plan to- Streamline Developments. - |

The Park Board today was to consider a codification of platting restrictions proposed by the Plan Commission, after the Works Buard gave tentative approval | to the code yesterday. \ The code is designed to institute uniformity in the requirements which plats of new developments must meet at City Hall. It has described as the most forward step in. municipal planning contemplated in many. years. The codification was prepared several months ago by George Rooker, Plan Commission secre-tary-engineer. Its purpose is to codify numerous requirements affectting drainage, sanitation and street improvements in new developments. Most of the features of the have been in effect for years. The outstanding® new feature is a| requirement that streets must od \paved in accordance with Works Board specifications. | TT requirement was writ n into the code by the Works Board as a means to prevent the extension of unimproved streets, a or city headache. Board members voted to withold final approval of the code until the City Legal! Department has checked it. The code has been approved by the Zoning Board and Plan Comission, but must be ratified by the ‘Works and Park Boards and | City Council before taking effect. |

Lois Gladys Chamberlain,

Long Beach, Cal., were honey ing today. “Miss Chamberla

tained a! Reno, Nev., divorce from

. |J. L. O'Connor last week and mar-

ried Mr. Russell yesterday.

Two alleged trigger-men for Murder, Inc.,

City”

e question went unanswered.

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Editor's note—A bitter Satesh for tho \ underworld lies behind District Attorney William O’Dwyer’s investigation of Murder, Inc., the gang to which he charges some 30 killings. Mr. O’'Dwyer’s brother was killed by a holdup man. The grief of an old lady and the sagacity of a Police Lieutenant °‘‘broke’” the story of Murder, Inc. Here in the fourth installment of Murder, Ing, is how the break came.

By ROBERT MUSEL / United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK March 28.—Alex (Red) Alpert was only 19 but he demanded a larger share of the profits of Murder, Inc. That audacity brought its inevitable result on a chill day in November, 1933, when

Nl his body, a bullet in the back, was

tossed into a courtyard in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn. A few days later a tragic pilgrimage began. Every day a wan old lady walked from her home to the: police precinct to ask: “Where are the] killers of ‘my son?” For six years, although she scarcely missed a day, Mrs. Alpes he told police that her son had pointed out Abe (Kid Twist) Reles as a man “who was out to get me.” Reles and Martin (Buggsy) Goldstein were picked up—as they had- been in many slayings—and. were released by lack of evidence. O'Dwyer Reopens Case But Mrs. Alpert, her mind almost unhinged by grief, still went to the station. Then William O'Dwyer was elected district attorney of Brooklyn. Mr. O'Dwyer had a burning hatred of his own for the underworld—his brother, - John, had been killed by holdup men only two months after the Alpert slaying. - He reopened the Alpert case, obtaining indictments against Reles, Goldstein and Anthony (The Duke) Maffetore. And now, as his inquiry into the kill-for-cash ring pro-

gresses, it appears that at last Mrs. Alpert may get her revenge. Maf-

fetore and Reles are confessing as fast as they can and Mr. O'Dwyer expects to close the Alpert case and possibly 30 contract murders,

Two Men Credited

Credit for cracking Murder, Inc., largely to | two men—Mr. O'Dwyer, a former laborer and policeman, and Policé Lieut. John Osnato, who pounded a beat with Mr. O'Dwyer when both were rookie cops. Lieut. Osnato induced Maffetore and Abraham (Pretty) Levine to. confess |their activities as trigger men for Murder, Inc., this way After his arrest, Maffetore was placed alone in a guarded hotel room. He was permitted to spend a few days alone with his thoughts. Then Lieut. Osnato strolled |in, greeted him in Italian and offered a few cigarets. “They’te making a fool of you,” Lieut, Osknato jeered. “You haven't got a dime. They've been grabbing the big dough and what have you got? They eat steaks and drink champagne. They wear good clothes. They go to Florida and play the races. What do you do? You stay in Brooklyn and pick up what few dollars you can. ‘When did you ever have $1000 in cash, like Reles had when he was picked for vagrancy?” Maffetore snarled that Lieut. Osnato was ride to make him |L squeal,

Anthony Maffatore (left, above) and Abraham Levine (center), sing” job secrets | to shes King’s County: District Attorney William F. O'Dwyer (right).

il 3 Officials Credited W ith Cracking 'Kill-for-Cash' Ring

|“Why shouldn’t you think of your-

torneys for the coal company and

“Sure,” the policeman agreed. self for a change, and your wife and baby? They're going to be evicted next week—not Rele’s or Goldstein’s families.” The next time Lieut. - Osnato called, Maffetore began to cry “1 love my wife,” he moaned. “I don’t want to leave her. I’ll talk.” When he had finished with -his story, Levine was brought into the hotel room. “Pretty,” Maffetore said, “You're just a punk like me. They made us that way and they were ready to knock us off if they decided we knew too much. Now you've got to think of your wife and kid.. That's what I'm doing. I'm talking my head off and that’s what you’ve got to do.” Levine did. Mr. O'Dwyer came to this country from Ireland in 1910 when he was 20. He worked as a hod-carrier and coal-passer while attending night school. In 1917 he was appointed a policeman. He was graduated from Fordham Law School in 1923, started the practice of law in 1925 and was appointed a magistrate in 1932. In 1938, he was appointed to the County Court bench, a position he held until his election. It was while he was a magistrate that Mr. O’Dwyer’s hrother was killed and from then on he waged an unceasing war against crimes of violence. He frequently warned gunmen they could expect no mercy in his court.

Inc., investigation.)

‘Warning Murder’ Laid

To Murder, Inc., Trio

NEW YORK, March 28 (U, P.).— District Attorney William O’Dwyer of Brooklyn ‘announced today he had obtained eviaence that three

members of Murder, Inc., nad killed a man to provide an object lesson to prospective Ee in a racket investigation. Mr. O'Dwyer. aid he had enough evidence to indict’ the three on first-degree murder charges in the death of George Rudnick in 1937. Mr. O'Dwyer named the three men as Frank (The Dasher) Abbadando, Harry (Pittsburgh Phil) Strauss and Harry (Happy) Malone. He said Rudnick had been picked as the victim only to warn others who might “sing” in Manhattan District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey's racket inquiry. There was no evidence Rudnick had intended to tell Dewey anything. Meanwhile, reports were current that Martin. (Buggsby) Goldstein, one of the leading strongarm men of Murder, Inc. was talking. - Reports that a politician is behind the ring gained strength when it was disclosed that wire-tappers listening in on a conversation in another case heard a man they helieved to be the secretary of an important politician talking to Goldstein and Abe (Kid Twist) Reles. Brooklyn authorities today were questioning Frank (Little Frankie) Galluccio, the gangster who gave Al Capone his scar. -

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COAL TAX CASE

Agree on All Others At Hearing.

The Winslow Coal Corp. case being studied by a three-judge Federal Court resolved itself into three questions today. ~~ On all other issues in the case at-

the Government have been able to agree. Still at issue in the case are

the following questions: 1. Do intrastate sales of coal affect interstate commerce and are they subject to Congressional conrol? 2. Is it possible, without drawn-out-litigation and unreasonable expense, to recover coal taxes paid to the Government? ~ 3. Is the National Bituminous Coal Act constitutional? th Carl M. Gray of Petersburg,

ert L. Sten of Washington, special assistant to thle Attorney General, have agreed that the company is not liable for the 191 per.cent tax on sales it believed it had to pay under the law. Both agreed that the taxes now due the Government, if the law is constitutional, amount to $2365 at one cent a ton. " The company fe€ls, however, that if it should pay the tax it would not be able to recover it without unreasonable expense if the law should be invalidated or if it should be de-

not subject to the law because its sales are all made to another coal company in Pike County, Indiana. Special findings of fact submitted separately by Mr. Stern and Mr. Gray yesterday reduced from $250,000 to $160,000 estimated assets of

jected to paying the tax because its rate of profit is less than 3 per cent. The bench in the case includes Circuit Judge Walter E. Trainor of Chicago and Circuit Judges William Woodward of Chicago and Robert C. Baltzell of Indianapolis.

KILLER BACK IN PRISON

MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. March 28 (U.P.).=CIliff Baum, 55, today had been returned to the State Prison to complete a life prison term for the slaying of his wife at Washington in 1915. He walked away from a prison farm in July, ,1937. He was captured March 14 in

the company. The company has ob-|

Test Colors for Election. Tables

‘The County. Eleétion Board today called on science to settle its latest problem in plans for the first central counting of ballots after the May primary election.

of two colors should be-used in painting the 100 counting tables to be set’ up at Tomlinson Hall the night of May 17. The problém is this: The Dem-

Fepublican ones pink, - County Clerk Charles Bhiiger ex-officio Board member, contacted several eye special: ts and all seem to be agreed that either gray'orya dark “ping pong” green would do. | The Board will try out both colors tomorrow and decide which! it will use. 3 ——————— SON OF U. S. JUDGE DIES SAN FRANCISCO, March 28 (U. P.) —Dr. Leonard Fiske Wilbur, son of Justice Curtis D. Wilbur of the U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals, died of typhus in the Mission Hospital at Taiku, Shansi Province of North China, on Easter morning, his father was informed today. |

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