Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-03
MINERS RULE
CLOSING SHOPS
TO BE PROBED
Judge Anderson Announces
Move in Trial of Miner on
Booze Charge.
ASKS WHO MADE LAW

Indications that the grand jury will
make sweeping Investigations of rules Of
the mine workers union during the pres
emit coal probe developed in the federal
court yesterday during the case of Tom
Ferguson, former auditor OF Vigo county.
Ferguson entered a plea OF guilty to
q charge Of having caused liquor to be
transported from Westville, Ill, to Terre
Haute, Ind, in violation of the Reed
amendment. He was fined $100 and
costs
Fred Sheppard, miner who was
charged jointly with Ferguson, when
questioned by Judge A. B. Anderson,
told the court that he was not permitted
TO work in the mines unless he belonged
to the Miners Union, which led the
court to remark:
'.This is a free country and there is
lot of talk about the old flag, and
yet man can't pick coal unless he be-
longs to union. Who made that law?
II is not in the statutes OF Indiana.
We are going to find out about that.
The grand jury is in session now"
Didn't we go to war to make the
world safe for the democrats?" the court
asked Sheppard. The latter volunteered
information to the effect that he was not
a democrat.
Maybe that's the reason they won't
let you work." suggested the court.
SHEPPARD was fined $50 and costs for
his part in the liquor transaction. Glen
Foresman, who was alleged to have
hauled the booze in an automobile, was
fined 500 and sentenced to serve three
months in Jail. Elmer Adams of Seeley-
vile was fined 500 and costs. When Fer
guson's plea of guilty was entered the
court remarked that people in Terre
Haute did not seem to pay much atten-
tion to the law, not even county officials.
MANY "ITCHES"
CALLED TO COURT.
There was an epidemic OF 'ftches" in
court when a case from Gary, Ind, which
arose over the theft Of some bootleg
liquor en- route from South Chicago, ILL.,,
to Gary, Ind, was called. Milan Man
dich, John Ivanich and Dan Lem1ch were
arraigned for the offense. After calling
the names of the defendants, Judge An
derson ordered the marshal to bring on
the itches" 1t was charged that Milan
Mandich and John Ivanitch were carry
ing liquor into the state when they were
held up at the point of a gun and re-
lfeved of a barrel Of whisky. Ivanitch
was fined 500 and costs the other de-
PENDANTS being released. Among the wit
nesses in the case were Milan Divitch,
Tony Laduovitch and Alex Damonovttch,
uldhluS IL Oh AbSHJ No@S Nit wv W.
through.
william c. Payne, grocer at. Belmont
and New York streets, Indianapolis, was
fined So and costs on a plea of guilty to
making home made beer. Judge Ander-
son stated that the hops used to make
the beer were needed by the government
during the war.
SOUTH BEND MEN
FINED IN BOOZE CASE.
Christian thinner, Carl thinner and
Eugene Dambacher, alias John Nichlini
of South Bend, Ind, were each fined
500 and costs on plea of guilty to
violating the Reed amendment. They
were alleged to have shipped 100 cases
of booze to South Bend.
Louis Kohler, Joseph Szabo, Irene
SzabO and Emery Berkusof South Bend
were found not guilty of a charge Of
having caused liquor to be transported
from Chicago. The affidavit on which
they were charged was faulty and the
court ordered the finding.
Israel Nuremberg. taxi driver OF Gary,
Ind, was found not guilty of having
transported liquor into the state. He
was arrested with two passengers and
twelve quarts of liquor in his machine.
George Kreynak, on a plea Of guilty
to violating the Reed amendment, was
find 500 and costs. He was indicted
with Albert WIKI, who died recently.