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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01

headed off, We are advised that we are to
be bumped" This is not going to be bump
err year, so if any real hard-boiled gunner
are going to be sent, be sure and send one or
two that won't be missed much
We are not so much interested right now
in the dumping" threat as we are about what
took place in the syndicate circle. Did
cheater cheat the rest of the cheaters and
collect himself some easy money, or did the
"heavies" give out the elk" dope to bolster
the waning courage and cheer the fainting
heart of the weak sister who is referred to
among the gambling fraternity as the Getty
Hail." We crave information.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01

We know our fusil oil and our city, and we
know where Mr., Davis has, in the past,
sneaked through byways and endeavored to-
pull the fat out of the fire for the grafters-
and corruptionists that are today standing
pretty close to the powers that be in under
world circles. The Mr. Davis we know is not
the Mr.. Davis who is portrayed to the public
by Mr.. Davis ct al
We want Mr.. Davis in the open. If he is
on the square, let him step into the circle of
fire, along with us. We will risk gangster's
bullet and in what way is his hide so prec-
ious? If he is not on the square, it is high
time that he is shown up to the people who
have been mistakenly contributing his salary
under the impression they were doing some
thing for the good of the city. A coward or
crook are on pain Davis game. It makes
no difference whether fear or gold sway
Davis-the result is the same, and we've got
to smoke the long boy out.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01
Saturday. Oct. l.. 1921.
If So, Why?'
Continued from page 5

Continued from page 81
by the Journals sport editor
and later in the evening, take
in the fight.
He is also said to have lin,
gered in the city Of machine
gun sharpshoeters long after
Messrs. Dempsey-Tunney and I
the thoughtful Tex, had folded
their greenbacks and stolen
quietly away. In brief, all DUR
ing this hectic series of days in
his "ol' home town" the chief
has been attending, SO. Dame
Rumor has it, a meeting of
some sort down in "Chi."
We didn't all know, it, but
while the Saturday Press was
quietly circulating through
avenues provided by our genial
Uncle Sam - while gunner
were shooting down one of it's
editors, we were a municipal
ity without a chief!
Then after the smoke of bat
tel had momentarily been
waited away, our chief re-
turns. Happy day!
Which same brings us back
with a jerk:
If the rumor were true that
the Chief visited the County
Attorney in search of some le-
gal lariat with which to ''hog-
tie" the one paper in Minneap-
oils whose publishers have the
courage to demand that the
PROTECTED gambling den at
818 Hennepin be closed and
it's 'lean-to"-the Twin City
Reporter and that sheets gang
sters close up shop and GO,
then methinks the Chief had
better begin making excuses
for his visit.
I have no particular club in
pickle for Chief Brunskill but
l refused to be swewed one
inch from the purpose my bud
dy and myself had in mind
when we started publication of
the Saturday Press:
AN END TO GANG RULE
IN MINNEAPOLIS: and gang
rule. in this city means RULE
BY THE TWIN CITY RE-
PORTER GANG OF RUIZ
FANS. Chief or gangman to
the contrary, THAT RULE
ENDS!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01
MR.. CHARLES G. DAVIS

MR.. CHARLES G. DAVIS
We are not attempting, in the columns of
this publication, to make an issue over
Charles G.. Davis of the Law Enforcement
League. He is too small a fry for us to bother
about, or waste much space over. We are
merely putting him on record and placing
him in position where he must either fish
or cut bait
We made the assertion in the last issue
that Charles c.. Davis has never raised fin
ger in connection with gambling that was not
calculated to better the income of the pro-
tected gambling syndicate which is headed
by the Twin City Reporter, and the fixing"
done by the Reporter which seems to bask in
a sort of social red light around the City Hall.
We repeat that statement. We do not allege
that Davis is being taken care of in finan-
cial way. He may be afraid of the publicity
which the Reporter might give = he might
tremble in his boots at the suspicion of an
underworld gunman hunting for him-there
are several possible reasons. We do not know
which one to accept, but we do know that
the result is the same. Charles G.fDavis is
the tool of the graft ring in this city, and the
aidor and abettor of Twin City Reporter
wealth.
That is bold statement to make. If it is
not true we are guilty of criminal libel. We
want to hear. from Mr.. Charles G.. Davis. We
want Mr.. Davis to explain-if he can-how
it happens that he flutters around every
grand jury, never forgetting to collect his
dollar and twelve cents for each and every
appearance, hints at civic vice but never pro-
duces any evidence against the big boys,
keeps the pot boiling and his name in the
papers just enough to harvest the sucker crop
that contribute toward his six thousand dol
lar year salary, keeps in the good graces
of the decent element of Minneapolis, stands
in high esteem with judges and police Off
cfals, and never incurs the ire of the real
underworld.
If we are liars, then Davis is on the square
and Minneapolis is clean town. If we are
telling the truth about conditions, then Davis
is fourflusher-eith a crook or else an
ignoramus who doesn't know enough to be
worth six dollars year, or possibly yellow
backed crusader who fearlessly poses before
judge in chambers or poor weak culprit
who is being third degreed, and fearfully as
sures the gunner of the underworld that he
will not modest them.
We publish this in an almost apologetic
attitude-We are sorry that it is necessary to
make an attack upon a man who is not an
: open part of the graft; plunderhund of Min
neapolis-but we deem it necessary to do So
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01

The Journal owes technical apology to
Roy A. Young, governor of the Minneapolis
Federal Reserve bank, for the undeserved
and unwarranted prominence it gave him in
it's issue of Sept. FL, but as it has thus far
failed to deliver the apologize epistle, the
Saturday Press herewith makes delivery
thereof, etc.
Perched jauntily at the top of a front page
column was Mr.. Young's journalized photo
with the usual Identification heiroglyphics
but directly under and separated only by
dinl-lined dash we read:
Gambling Raid in Loop
Hotel Nets City $500"
The unsophisticated ruralite might garner
the impression from the location given Mr.
Young's portrait that in some magic manner
that gentleman was connected with the loop
roundup and we wish to correct any such
erroneous impression. He was not. Keep the
change, Journal!
The "Veiee Of the. People, two decades
hence: "Pst Sh! Phist! Wzzzz!
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01
THE BEAUFORT GAMBLING RAID.

The Law Enforcement League of Hennepin
County came to life last week and staged
raid on a gambling venture in the basement
of the Beaufort Hotel. The raid was led by
Mr.. Davis in person, with supporting cast
consisting of Mr.. Kilbride of the City Attor--
ney's office and four flatfeet "supers'' requi-
sitioned from among Minneapolis finest.
Three hundred dollars in loose change,
scooped off the poker tables and the floor,
was confiscated to replete the city's fast
dwindling funds, and five hundred more was
levied in fines.
The raid was wonderful coup, and elm
mated poker game that has been drawing
trade away from the gambling syndicate's
Monte Carlo on the third floor Of the West
Hotel. The West Hotel game was opened six
weeks ago, simultaneously with the Law En-
forcement League Grand Jury investigation of
baseball pool gambling. A few uniformed
humorists, who thought they'd have some fun
at the Beaufort, opened game there. The
game detracted somewhat from the glamour.
of play at the West, and the uniformed soon
felt the iron hand of the league for law en-
forcement-law enforcement in all except
few places.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-01

DollSO1OuS WOIops CCl GILL
ger, have a drink with me? ?"
When is a man drunk? A
Los Angeles, Calf, policeman
gave as his definition: ''When
he gets so piped that he lays
down on the front lawn and
hangs to the grass to keep from
slipping off the earth" Expe-
rience OF just suspicion?
If. Prohibition lasts another
ten, years, half; the American
people will be crosseyed. Con-
dition brought about by look
ing askance at every stranger.
Evening star., 1927-11-10
PRESIDENT IS TOLD
OF FLOOD SITUATION
Vermont. Governor Wires Mr..
Coolidge. Stressing Plight Of
Flood Victims.

By the Associated Press
President Coolidge has received i,
telegram from Gov. Weeks Of Yer.
mont regarding the food situation
The text Of the telegram as made pub
lie today at the White House Is as
follows:
THE recent flood has SO completely
disrupted our lines Of communicated
that I have been unable to reach YOU
earlier. appreciate under the cir.
cumstances your action IN placing at
the disposal of our stricken comnuni'
ties the services of the Army and the
Red Cross, which agencies have ten
dered much-needed help to tEose IN
distress. Our loss has been so. great
that we shall need all the lSs!sta nct
the Government and the Eed Cross
can give"
1t was recalled at the White House
that Mr.. Coolidge. upon learning Of
the food. Immediately instructed the
Army to render every possible assist
ance and called upon the Red Cross
to do everything 1t could. These meas.
ures are considered by the President
to meet the situation at present.
Evening star., 1927-11-10
LIFE INSURANCE MAN
FOUND DEAD IN KITCHEN
Coroner Gives Accident Certificate
in Case of William w.
Sisson.

William Waller Sisson, 6S years old,
in the employ Of the Prudential Life
Insurance Co., was found dead on the
kitchen floor of his home. at 825 Fifth
street northeast, about noon today by
NJ. d. Grimsley, a neighbor, whose at.
tention was attracted by the odor of
gas. He broke down the kitchen door
and found his neighbor's dead body
on the floor near a water heater, a
coffee pot still gripped in his hand.
Members Of the Fire Department
rescue squad and DIR. Lawrence Muir
ply Of Casualty Hospital responded to
emergency calls and worked on the
body half hour in futile attempt at
resuscitat!on. Coroner Nevitt gave a
certificate of accidental death. The
coroner concluded that Sisson, who
was alone in his home, his wife being
on visit to relatives in Atlanta. Ca,
was taken sick while preparing break
fast and fell 10 the floor, accidentally
opening the gas burner.
Evening star., 1927-11-10
PLAN OF new RAILWAY
GIVEN TO COMMISSION
Norfolk and Western Explains
$1O,OOO,OOO Project to Federal
Control Group Here.

Plans Of the Norfolk & Western
Railroad to construct a new line
through the Guyandot Valley in West
Virginia were explained to the Inter
state Commerce Commission yester-
day by w. r. Witsee, chief engineer
Of the company. The proposed line
would pass directly through territolE
into which the chesapeake & Ohio
has already projected an extension,
and the two railroads are engaged in
a contest over the right to build. in
which the Virginian railroad is also
concerned by reason of its own build.
ing plans.
AS Wiltsee described his roads con.
templated line. it would run from
Elmore to Wharnclffe and would cost
approximately Sl0.000.000. He pre-.
sented the proiiles and maps prepared
for the construction ard WAS followed
by George Duncanson, traffic officer
Of the railroad. who estimated that at
the end OF five years the proposed
branch would be carrying 1000 000
tons annually Of 'bltuinInous. If
further extension from the new
branch should be undertaken atJng
Pinnacle Creek by the Norfolk &
Western. Mr.. Duncanaon estimated
that an additional tonnage OF about
100000 Of coal traffic could hs
obtained
Counsel for the Norfolk & Western
and Virg;nian cross.examined both
witnesses The Virgin:an's building
project in the same territory will he
explained later
Evening star., 1927-11-10
BOY SCOUTS WORK
= IN FLOOD PRAISED
Youths Saved Lives, Guarded Prop
/ erty and Built Dikes, Di.
rector Claims.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
SPRINGFIELD. Mass. November
1o.-Fourteen hundred Boy Scouts.
who turned out for food relief work in
western Massachusetts. saved lives.
guarded property and helped build
dikes against the flood waters. Frank
n. Robinson. of the Boy Scouts of
America. revealed yesterday.
THE services of the Scouts have
been enormous" Robinson said, in de
scribing them to the Associated Press
The Scouts have rescued flood
trapped people. saved cattle and prop.
erty and acted as guards until the
militia came
They have served as traffic officers.
messengers and Red Cross aides. and
have collected thousands of garments
for refugees
Some worked 4s hours at a stretch
with their leaders, who have also
rendered yeoman service.
They have performed great SER
vice in locating separated families and
in helping TO build dil<es agajnst the
flood waters
Evening star., 1927-11-10
GOVERNOR SOUNDS
vERM0NT'S PLEA
FOR FLOOD RELIEF
Continued from First Page.)

.
worthless. but that it will reach far
into the millions is conceded.
Farmers in VerLlont were described
by Thomas Bradl,e. director of the
extension bureau OF the Vermont
Agricultural College. ga too crushed
to carry on" He estimated $4,000
cows had been ios., beside great guam
titles of other 81 >ck. and in some
cases, every building on the farm.
Gov. Spauiding of New Hampshire
put the damage TO State highways
and bridges As Sc.7O0.000 with no at.
tempt to estima te loss to railroads and
private property owners.
Vermont railroads have pressed their
econstruction efforts. but there was
little mileage today that could be
operated with safety. Stories were
told of station agents on the Central
Vermont who labored to dig their
posts out Of many feet OF silt. but the
most optimistic estimates were that
parts Of that line would not be in
operation for three months.
NJ X. Reckord in charge for the
Red Cross of work in Massa chusetts.
reported that some sections Of Spring
| field would probably not be dry for a
| week and that refugees were not
being allowed to return to their homes
without approval of health authorities.
:.4OO Are Homeless.
He estimated the number of home
less there to- be between 2,400 and
| 1000. At Chicopee. 800 persons were
| affected and there were three cases
of scarlet fever. A similar number
were, homeless at Northampton and
| many buildings were damaged and
live stock lost.
The situation in Connecticut is clear
! ing, although the main highway from
/ Middletown to Hartford is still i'm
passabIe. The river has receded halt
dozen feet and is still going down.
| At Manchester, a. H., police rounded
up 200 unemployed men. who were
recruited to the Boston & Maine
| labor gangs. working to restore the
right Of way through New Hampshire
and Vermont
Farther north In the same State,
300 Dartmouth College student volun.
teers took q day off from studies to
| help clear away food debris at Hart
| ford. Vt.
In western Massachusetts,, Lieut..
| Gov. Frank e. Allen. completing a
| tour Of the storm area, said the Stn Ia
| expected to spend 100000 in highway
reconstruction and other works there.
AIR MAIL STARTED.
Evening star., 1927-11-10
WOMAN, 81, VICTIM
Of TRAFFIC M|SHAP
Miss E. N. Wilson Severely
Hurt by Street Car--FWe
Others in Accidents.

Miss Elizabeth NJ. Wilson, 81 years
old. of 1911 Fifth street WAS knocked
down and rendered unconscious by q
street car last evening as she at
tempted to cross Pennsylvania avenue
at Eighth street. She was taken 10
Providence Hospital by passing mo-
torist and treated by DIR. Donahy tor q
Oossiple fracture of the skull ana
shock. The street car was in charge
OF Motorman George Chrisman OF
Cherrydale. Va. and Conductor ii.
Simpson of 2l21 Fl street.
A street car also knocked down ana
Injured Frederick Shortleeves. 1S years
old, of GIG Twenty-second street as he
was crossing the tracks on Pennsyiya'
mia avenue at Seventeenth street. He
was given first aid at Emergency Hos
pi.ai. where his injuries were pro-
nounced not serious
Policeman's Wife Hurt.
Mrs. G. Virginia Warren. 80 years
Old wife of Policeman N. w. Warren
of the eighth precinct, had narrow
escape when the car she was driving
- Wisconsin avenue skidded at
Thirty-fifth street and crashed over an
embankment into tree at the knick-
erbocker Athletic Field yesterday aft
ernoon. Although the car was badly
wrecked Mrs. Warren received only
slight injuries to her face and right
hand. She was given first aid at
Georgetown University Hospital.
James Buti,r, colored. years old
of 3012 Eleventh street. was knocked
down yestef day afternoon while cross
lng the street near his home by an
automobile driven by Robert Z. La
mond. 1909 Nineteenth street. His
right arm was severely injured and
he was given surgical aid at Elmer
gency Hospital.
Child Injured in Crash.
Two-year- Muriel Reilly Of 7S5
North Capitol street was injured
when the car in which she was riding
with her father. William j. Reilly.
was IN collision YESTERDAY afternoon
ht the intersection of New Jersey
and Massachusetts avenues with an
automobile driven by Roy d. Edelin of
S07 Third street southeast. She was
treated by DR.. G. j. Murphy for
laceration of the face.
Eight-year-old Peter Knobois OF 1904
Seventh street was knocked down and
slightly injured by a motor cycle rid
den by Benjamin Ford, colored, of 907
Bell place northeast, yesterday after.
noon, on r street between Seventh
and Eighth streets. The boy was
given first aid at Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1927-11-10
COMMITTEE HEARS
FLOOD REMEDIES
Diversion of Missouri River
Surplus Water to Canada
Proposed.
By the Associated Press.


The horrors Of floods along the Illi-
nois River and upper Mississippi were
pictured today to the House flood con-
troll committee by long string of wit
nesses, who offered various remedies.
one of them diversion of surplus
waters of the Missouri River to Hud.
son Bay.
That proposal, involving impound-
ing Of the Missouri's head waters,
and directing it by way Of a channel
to Devils Lake. n. Dak.. thence to
the Cheyenne River and to the north.
ward.fowing Red River in Minnesota
to Hudson Bay, was offered by Gov.
A. G.. Sorlie Of North Dakota.
lie headed Dakota delegation that
Impaired its views after Charles La
throp Pack, president of the Ameri'
can Tree Association. gave denud-
ing of forests as an important cause
of the Mississippi's floods.
Reforesting Il Help.
NO one claims forcsted hlllsides
and headaaters will prevent floods.
but they will help control then." he
said. Forest cover acts like "A
sponge"
Referring to the New England flood,
MI. Pack said New Hampshire had
1.723,575 acres of idle unproductive
forest land. While Maine. Massa'
c.lusetts and Vermont had 1.000.n0o
acres each.
Gov. Soriie advocating impound,nS OF
the HIissouri's headwaters near Stan
ton, N. D., declaring similar control at
all major sources Of the Mississippi
would eliminate floods. His views
were supported by his delegation.
rrlao Tii;r>c;c pivor SifuatiOn was
brought before the committee by j. +.
Kerr of Versailles. H.. president of
the drainage and levee district of that
State, who advised raising the levees
feet and changing the rivers chan
mel to direct it's current. He said that
nearly half million acres In the 1lli'
uOis Valley were subject to floods.
Reservoirs Proposed.
Construction of reservoirs at the
neadwaters OF the Mississippi River
tributaries as an important step IN
controlling floods, was proposed yes
terday to the committee by three mem
bers of the Oklahoma congressional
delegation.
After advantages OF the reservoir
system had been outlined. Senator
eject Thomas Democrat. Oklahoma
told the committee that he planned to
introduce at the next Congress IL bill
proposing creation Of Federal
emergency fund for the relief of dis
aster sufferers. The fund would carry
a $4,000 900 appropriation and provide
relief for sufferers from earthquakes.
floods and storms.
While Thomas proposed that the
cost of the reservoirs be borne jointly
by the national and State govern
ments. two Oklahoma Representatives,
Howard and Swauk. both Democrats.
declared the Federal Government
should bear the entire expense.
Both Representatives voiced tho
view that If the Nation can spend
$500 900 900 for the Army and Navy,
1t can spend a similar amount for
food control,
Evening star., 1927-11-10
VICTORY FOR DRyS
SEEN IN DETROIT
Anti-SaIoon League Official
Says Defeat of Wet Shows
Voters Loyal
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio. November To-
Detroit's election of John G. Lodge to
the mayoralty against John w. 81 'ith,
wet incumbent, was characterized to-
d. 7 - Scott Mcbride, general su-
per ltondent OF the Anti-Saloon
League of America, as one or the
hr ,htest spots in the fight to win the
big city to the Constitution and con.
sti' Hional government that has re-
Gently come.
This election indicates that our
democratic govern ment can prevail
against those who would destroy or
derly government" Mcbride said.
1T is encouraging to see that even
many who might not fight prohibition
principles yet are loyal and patriotic
enough to lend th~'r efforts on behalf
of constitutional government ana
a inst nullificati"n."
Importance of Contest.
McBride's statement said:
1.-THE most important contest OF
r, ursdav' election as it relates to
constitutional government and the
eighteenth amendment was the De-
troit mayoralty election.
Mayor Smith made his appeal to the
bootleggers. promising them wide
open town if they could re-elect him.
He said there were now 10000 blind
tigers in the city and called upon them
to deliver at least 10 votes each ~
him. His administration has record
of wide-open city.
His opponent. Mr.. Lodge, made q
unique campaign. Being drafted in
the primary, he made no campaign
for himself, but merely stated if the
people of Detroit wanted him as their
mayor he would serve. He has a
good record back of him.
Question Clearly Defined.
This election brings clearly before
the people of big city the question
as to whether or not constitutional
government can prevail.
1.-The defeat of Mayor Smith, particu.
iarly in view of the fact that, being
the incumbent mayor. he possesses
the advantage Of city patronage. is
one Of the brightest spots in the fight
to win the big city to constitutional
government that has recently come"
Evening star., 1927-11-10
J. T. ENGLISH DIES.
Conducted Shop on Sixth Street Ia
Years-Was AZ.

Joseph T. English. Al years old. who
had conducted a barber shop at 21S
Sixth street for II years, died at his
residence, 427 Fourth street, yesterday
after a long illness.
Funeral services will be conducted
at Oldhams, Va. Saturday.
Mr.. English is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Edna G. English; a
daughter. Miss Gladys Louise English;
two brothers and three sisters.
Evening star., 1927-11-10
eliminates Long Probe.
oRME FUNERAL RITES
WILL BE TOMORROW
Burial to Be in Oak Hill After
Ceremonies at Christ Church
{ at ii O'Clock.

Funeral services for the late VIII
nam B. Orme, who died Yesterday at
his residence in Kew Gardens, will be
keld at II o'clock tomorrow morning
1t Christ Church. Int t.cment will be
In Oak Hill Cemetery.
! Rev. J. Pinknsy Ross. rector OF
Christ Church. will 1tficiate at the
services, and viii be. assisted by
Rev. James Ii. W. Blake, rector
emeritus. Mr.. Orme was for plany
years a vestryman OF the church. and
always took an ACTIVE interest in the
parish.
The honorary paiibearers will be Ord
Preston, Rc>,ert d. Weaver. Lawrence
Townsend. George NJ. Whitwell. James
S. cIlhenny, A. b. Telly. Charles
H. Cragin. DR.. George p. DuBose
William King. s. Kearney Radford
George A. King and DIR. Robert S
Reale.