Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 April 1947 — Page 5

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THY RSDAY, APRIL 17, 1047

Elwood's Gambling,

is that the heat is on all over

complained to no avail. Sister cities .in north central Indiana have been “cleaned up.” But the easy money boys apparently counted on their theme “There'll always be a wide-open Elwood.” Yesterday all that was changed, at least temporarily. “Regular customers” could stfll find a place to play a friendly card game, but a man at the foot of the stairs in the single bookie joint stopped all comers with a terse: \ “They're closed up there.”

Gambling Room Dark

That's a handbook which reputedly “covers” a lot of horse bets from other cities. where the local money finds them “too hot to handle.” It's out. of that handbook that “salesmen” run routes in Indianapolis, picking up bets and placing them for capital city citizens, then returning with the win-nings-or the “bad news.” The big card room in the same establishment, which has enjoyed more or less of a monopoly on the “big time” Elwood gambling operation, was dark last night. Local folks sald it was the first time that had happened in many months, Where only a couple of days before slot machines had stood in pairs, there was only an empty and|, apparently useless shelf.

Several Theories Advanced

Several theories were readily advanced when inquiry was made as to what had happened. One theory, the one most prevalent, was that recent unfavorable publicity directed at Madison county gambling, particularly toward operations in Anderson, the county séat, had caused the development. The Indianapolis Times only last Saturday published a report of “wide open” conditions in Anderson. Early this week, according to a story yesterday in the Elwood Call Leader, County Prosecutor Harold J. Anderson wrote all law enforcement officials asking for a “careful” survey of the alleged gambling situation. Then there was the theory that

ABookie Joints Closed —The Heat Is On

Slot Machines Disappear, Dice, Card Games Gone os kid Is Clamped on ‘Wide Open’ Town

By ROBERT BLOEM Times Staff Writer

ELWOOD, Ind., April 17.—The heat is on in Elwood. Talk on the streets of this little “Mecca” of gambling

Madison county,

Only two days ago Elwood was widely known as a town where you could turn a few hands of stud or put an occasional two dollars on a fast horse. Law abiding citizens have

the temporary shutdown was merely a “seasonal” proposition. It's getting near primary election time, the time when city officials hold up their “records” as a .basis for|’ re-election. It's also the time when reformers sound off against city administrations, raise a rumpus in general.

“Seasonal” Proposition A~third theory was that the sudden outburst of state police raids in Lake and Montgomery counties two days ago had frightened some of “the boys.” It's not that they frighten easily. It's just that they hate to lose a lot of expensive stuff, one batrkeeper remarked. Extent to which the lid has been clamped on was indicated by reports current in the taverns that much’ of the crap-shooting equipment in the county had been hauled to storage. It also was reported that even - fraternal organizations removed their slot machines to the

Still another theory was that gambling had been closed down {temporarily here for “All Elwood | Week,” a promotion affair designed to “sell Elwood to the world.” “It would have been ironical to put on a big publicity campaign like that,” remarked onc citizen, “and then maybe have some Indianapolis paper come out with big headlines about gambling in Elwood.”

Charles Rogers Horn Dies Here at 39

Charles Rogers Horn, 2507% Northwestern ave., died early today in Sunnyside sanatorium. He was 39. Mr. Horn was a former employee of the Indianapolis Glass Co. and lived here most of his life. Services will be at 1:30 p. m. Saturday in the John A. Patton funeral home, with burial in New Crown. Survivors are his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Horn, Indianapolis, and two brothers, Monroe Horn, Detroit, and Louis Horn Jr., Indianapolis.

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Mimcie Citizens Fight Rackets

Reform Group Led By Schoolteacher

- By RICHARD LEWIS Times Staff Writer

which is widely publicized

on the issue of rackets.” ’

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up the town and get municipal services in the bargain.

Tired of Pushing Around By and large, they represent the perennially frustrated citizenry which is hardly vocal at all, As individuals, they are sick and tired of being pushed around, hullied and threatened nearly every time

TE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES one of them suggests some tunda- port.

MUNCIE, April 17—This city as America’s “typical town" is facing its first post-war municipal election “right versus

That is the slogan of a small but courageous coterie of reformers known as the . Muncie Citizens

They have decided to try to clean

mental municipal improvement, Everyone in town calls them the Reformers, They are led by P. D. Burkhalter, director of visual educaeg in the Muncie high schools.

Target of Reformers The tdrget of the Reformers is the city administration, headed by Mayor John 0. Hampton, a quickwitted and pérsonable man, who with City Oontroller John D. Lewis has given Muncie a balance in the

city treasury and what their critics call a deficit in municipal services.

Mayor Hampton is running for re-election and has the backing of the county G. O. P. machine. The Reform group charges him with the responsibility for conditions in Muncie.

The Reformers are nonpartisan in their desire: to back a cleanup candidate. On the Republican side, they lean toward Rex Gelly, a watchmaker, who vows: “No racketeer is going to tell Rex Gelly what to do at no time.” On the Democratic side, “Doc” Rollin H. Bunch, a former mayor of Muncie, has “the machine _sup-

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Democratic side. He is the son-in-law of the late George R. Dale, who as mayor cleaned up Muncie years ago. The Reform group is small, but its effect has been large. Mr. Burks halter, its most vocal officer, has won the respect of a good many voters, including his enemies. Even the underworld seems to hold him in threatened indirectly with the loss of his post in the school system, but he goes on nevertheless.

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