The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1922-06-15
OFFICER
HERE TO
CLEAN Up
State Prohibition Chief De-
clares Reports in Paper
Are Facts


investigated the reports of condi-
tions as printed in this paper and
had found them TO be true.
Combined with the calling Of ;.
grand jury by Judge Martin Smith
of the Criminal court Of Lake coun-
ty, the statement of Morgan is dou-
bic assurance that The Times ex-
pose viii be the basis of wholesale
prosecution of law vlolators on a
scale never attempted before in the
county.
Further efforts by Prosecuting
Attorney Dwight Kinder to white
wash the vice and gambling ring
will result in impeachment proceed
ings, said Attorney w. J. McAleer
today.
STATEMENT BY McALEER
Attorney McAleer who volunteer
ed his services to help The Times
in cleaning up Lake county, made
the following statement today:
II Prosecuting Attorney Kinder
continues to attempt to white-wash
the vice and gambling ring in Lake
county he will be- impeached. If
Kinder uses the power of the Of
fee of prosecuting attorney to OBJ
struct itsstice 1t will be necessary
to remove him from that office.
Lake county has had a black-eye
in Indiana long enough. No man or
combination Of men is ever going
to run slot machines, gambling
houses. houses of i'll fame or sell
liquor openly in this county again.
l don't care who they are or where
they come from. 1 am in this fght
to the finish.
The day of the houses of III fame
and the slot machine in Lake county
has passed. There are 130 slot
machines IN Gary. according to the
Information secured by The Times
There are more than 13o under-fed.
ill-clothed children in that city who
need the money their fathers pu.
into those slot machines.
You can say that I am In this
fight to the finish and that ehere
can be but one finish. and that VIII
be the finish OF the gamblers. dive
keepers and moonshirer."
PRAISE FOR LAWYER
Yesterday at the Gary Commercial
Club. the Superior court room in
Gary. and other places about the
Steel City there was manifest praise
for McAleer. Leading attorneys OF
Gary heartily endorsed his stand
against Kinder.
One lawyer said that McAieer by
the fight he made in the City court
saved the day for the crusaders.
SOUTH END HEEDs WARNING
The south end of the county took
heed Of the warning. When The
Times story of lass evening was
read around Cedar Lake. containing
the Supreme court decision regard
was an immediate cleanup by pro-
prietors of soft drink saloons from
Shererville and Dyer to Cedar Lake
and Lowell.
Times reporters touring the south
end OF the county last night found
but three slot machines. The frst
was in L. L. Hartman's soft drink
saloon at Dyer. the second at Rick
erts" at Brunswick, and the third
at Otto Alias at Cook. They did
not find a slot machine at Cedar
Lake. although in several saloons
the prizes which arc given with
punch boards were still on the bar.
The punch boards were gone.
Cedar Lake was evidently dry.
MACHINES ILLEGAL
The slot machines exhibited every
where in Gary are OF iron construc-
ton. Most Of them set on the bar
or cigar counter. The player places
a nickel in the slot and pulls tho
lever. Disks bearing pictures re-
volve. When they stop. an indicat-
or says mo" or yes" If II is mo"
1t means that on the next turn the
player will receive nothing and IL
1t is yes" he will win some slugs
which can be used to purchase
drinks or can be cashed at the bar.
Except in one or two instances.
the reporters never received the
"mints'' which are merely a blind
to circumvent the law. Almost in
variably the slot at the side Of tho
machine containing from fifteen to
twenty packages OF mints would be
locked. In one saloon the other
night where the reporters were ap-
parently recognized the proprietor
insisted on giving them package
of mints from a box on tho back
bar every time they played tho ma
chine. He gave them one package
too many but refused to take II
back.
At Hartman's in Dyer last night
the proprietor insisted on giving the
reporters .:igars for each nickel they
put into the slot machine. The ma
chine at Hartman's was OF a differ
ent type than those at Gary. The
player inserts a nickel and IL falls
through a series of pegs into slots
at the bottom. Most of these slots
have 20" printed upon them. while
a few have Il" 20" and "3." indi-
eating that the player has won
CORRUPTs PUBLIC OFFICIALS
These slot machines bring thou
sands of dollars into the gambling
ring" said McAleer. The profit on
a machine IS tremendous. One ma
chine may rot be such an evil. or
two, three. four or five, but In the
aggregate they rob the people OF
the community of thousands or ooI-
lars a week This money comes out
Of the pocket of the working man.
There is nothing fair about the
slot machine. 1t gives the greatest
percentage in favor OF the house
of any gambling game known. The
percentage IN favor of the machine
is from so to 90 per cent.
TT isn't gambling. 1t is simply
robbery. Men stand up and put dol
lars into those machines without get
four or five sluss they invariably