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The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08

KNOW exist, conditions THE
POLICE DEPAR T M E N T
KNOWS EXIST, and what has
been the result?
When it became known that
we intended exposing gang
rule of this city, we were
threatened with death if we
persisted. We persisted.
Scarcely was the ink dry on
our first issue than the gang
made good their threat: Mr..
Guilford was shot down in cold
blood.
Bear this in mind, gentle
men, we had attacked no LE-
CLIMATE business; we had
simply exposed a GAMBLING
SYNDICATE THAT HAS OP-
GRATED OPENLY IN THIS
CITY AND WITHOUT MO-
HESITATION BY YOUR PO-
LICE, FOR FOUR YEARS.
We made no attack what
ever on the Minneapolis police
force and yet, in our second
issue, because | dared de-
nounce the hired assassins, the
men who employed them and
the craven officials who
DARED NOT ARREST THEM,
this paper was barred from the
news stands of this city BY
THE POLICE DEPARTMENT,
just as this issue will be.
l do not believe the clergy
of this city are men who will
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08
FIGHT OR SURRENDER
SUBSCRIBE OR SUBMIT

don't know how you folks.
out there feel about this sub
scription business but up on
that hospital cot in st. Barna-
bas, wounded MAN is asking
me every day, How are the
subs coming in?" and I lie like
a Spartan. Not that I'm too
good to lie but / hate to lie to
a wounded buddy-a man
who threw his body BE-
TWEEN YOU AND ORGAN
lied VICE and did it with a
smile.
OF course he's going to read
these lines later on in the week
and he'll know that I've lied to
him, lied for his good and to
keep him from knowing how
cheap you really were and !
guess he'll understand.
Now, listen, friends:
Neither Mr.. Guifford nor
myself have used one cent OF
the money you have sent in or
are sending in, for our own
selves. Every cent has gone
into this paper. WE AREN'T
IN THIS FOR MONEY.
Had we been, WE COULD
HAVE TAKEN THE GAM
BLERS' "ENVELOPE" WHEN
1T WAS OFFERED AND
BEEN SITTING ION TOP OF
THE WORLD" RIGHT NOW.
I'm not going to plead with
you to send in your own and
your friends subscriptions
I'm long past the pleading
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08
To the Clergy Of Minneapolis:

submit tamely or silently to CO.
ercion, intimidation or threat.
/ believe they are men of cour-
age, broad enough to take a
stand if necessity demands,
with one who holds that if hui
man lives be debauched, inn
mortal souls cannot be saved;
with one who, while differing
honestly in his opinions with
those of your creeds, dares de-
mand that commercialized vice
and gambling shall CEASE in
this city.
Mr.. Guilford may have given
his life in this fight; ! am
ready to check out if neces-
sary, if it must be, in order to
FINISH THE FIGHT WE
HAVE BEGUN.
We offer no apologies for
our past. We ask only that we
be given a chance to prove our
present, let our futures take,
care of themselves.
We must have support and
we ask you clergymen, not as
members of any church but as
MEN, will you help us RID
MINNEAPOLIS OF GANG
RULE AND COMMERCIAL
lied VICE AND GAM
BLING?
The only unshot editor on
the staff.
j. M. Near (The Old MANI
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08

age" Pm going to talk frank
ly and plainly to you:
This is your fight. Aside
from Kidding the state of that
damnable rag, the Twin City
Reporter and it's Matchmaking
gang, thereby forever prevent
ing the use of either of our
names in Matchmaking plots,
WE HAVE NO INTEREST
WHATEVER IN THIS FIGHT
no personal interest. But,
we are CLEANING THE
SLATE for you. This is
YOUR fight and you're going
to finance it OR THE TWIN
CITY REPORTER NC
WILL CONTINUE TO RULE
YOUR CITY. Now, take your
choice:
Get back of this paper with
substantial support or surren-
der to the gambling syndicate
that employs gunner, de-
bauches youth and destroys
reputations-if not your own,
then of your relatives or
friends.
Send in that subscription
and don't be afraid of getting
cramps in your liver if you
make out the check for twenty
instead of two dollars. We can
use every dime.
The Old Man.
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08
Reform in Twin Cities

Two enthusiastic young men,
Howard Guilford and j. M.
Near, decided that Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul not only need
ed another newspaper, but re-
form.
Considering that the Twin
Cities have seen a dozen people
killed, two of them women, in
connection with bootlegging
and gang wars during the last
three months, Guilford and
Near probably were right.
At all events, they launched
the Saturday Press with the
idea of exposing conditions and
forcing cleanup.
In the first issue of the Press
which appeared Sept. "a, Near
wrote an editorial in which he
said: Word has been passed
to both Mr.. Guilford and my
self within the last week that
if we persist in exposing con-
ditions as they are in this city
we will be bumped off The
open season on editorial writ
ers ended with the assassina-
ton of Editor Don Mellett,. of
Canton, Ohio, by imported gun
men. Make no mistake about
this. We are going on through,
and if anything happens to
either of US, the stage is set so
that within twenty-four hours
after the occurrence old Sir
John Law will begin stuffing
Saltwater penitentiary full of
certain gentlemen"
Moday morning Guiiford
was shot while riding with his
sister.
The fact that he will recover
does not lessen the raWness or
effrontery of the offense.
The underworld of Mime
apolis simply undertook to sup
press the truth by violence,
just as the underworld of Can
ton did when Don r. Mellett
was murdered.
1t is common to suppose that
congestion, bad environment,
organized vice and bootlegging
are entirely responsible for this
insolent attitude toward the
law.
But there is more to. the gang
complex than that.
If such men as Mayor Duyall
of indianapolis can mock the
law, and if large numbers of
people only see a little amuse-
ment in their triumphs, why
can't the yegg. the narcotic
peddler and the bum get away
with it?
Rotten politics and a public
sentiment which enjoys it have
had much to do with the rise
and arrogance of gangs in our
great cities.
I'm. E. Tracy in Indianap-
oils Times.)
Modern Girl (telephoning
% - -
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08
Gentlemen:

GenClemon.
I am coming to you with a
message. Many of you will
scorn to receive it because of
the divergence of our beliefs,
the charges of agnosticism
hurled at me and to which l
plead guilty. But, gentlemen,
men can be men and still differ
in their conception of a divin-
ity.
So, come to you with my
message, not as a medicant but
as one man to another.
We, all of us, are not so
much concerned with the past
as with the present and future.
At the present time there ex-
lists in this city the most gigan-
tic criminal syndicate in the
city's history. It has corrupted
youth, defiled childhood,
wrecked homes and reputa-
tions. It has sent young men
staggering through the doors
of our prisons, their lives blast
ed, their hopes shattered, their
souls blackened. It has intimi-
dated our law enforcement
and police heads until they
dare not modest it. It rules to-
day SUPREME in this city.
So powerful has this syndi-
cate become that it established
it's headquarters in the heart of
our business section. Its lead
ers go boldly, brazenly into ouf.
police headquarters. Their
names are known-their occu-
pations are known, their repu-
tations are known and in more
than one instance, their prison
records are known to our po-
lice officials and yet nothing is
done.
I make no charge of bribery
against any official, but 4
charge that when police de-
partment heads permit notori-
Gus underworld characters, in
dicted blackmailers and known
but unindicted gangsters to
pass freely into the private Of
fees of these officials-when
behind closed doors the lead
ers Of vice and crime, the scum
Of the underworld meet on
temporarily even terms the
men we have selected to en-
force our laws, WE HAVE
JUST UNDS UPON
WHICH TO BASE OUR SUS-
PIGEONS!
Numerous courts have held
that the extreme secrecy which
the taking and receiving of
bride money must be surround
ed preciudes the possibility of
eyewitness testimony; that the
intimate relationship existing
and the secrecy surrounding
visits between underworld
characters and officials indi-
Gates:
Well. that there's something
rotten in other places than
tiny Denmark. In two consec-
utive issues of this paper, Mr..
Guilford and myself have call
ed attention to vice conditions
in this city. conditions that we
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08

Dangerous words; 'sStran-
ger, have a drink with me ?"
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08

Modern Girl (telephoning
home at 3 a. M. J.: Don't wor-
ry about me, mother, Pm in
Jail"
The Saturday press. (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1927-1936, 1927-10-08

Mable-Do YOU know any
thing about stews?
Nellie-I ought to, / mar
ried one"
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
YEGGMEN ESCAPE
DEATH BY BOMB
Fail to Open Safe Compart.
ment Containing Gas.

Yeggmen, who entered three places
Of business and battered open a
safe near 1900 Deloss ST., Thursday
night, are unaware of their narrow
escape from death by gas. Failure
to pry open the inner compart-
ment of the Stratton Broom Com.
pany strong box saved them.
M. B. Stratton, president Of the
concern, told Police Lieutenant l..
Forsythe and emergency squad that
a gas bomb inside the large cabinet
was set to explode when the doors
were opened.
Forsythe learned that the bur-
glars had obtained sledge hammers
and chisels at the Baker Construc-
ton Company, 1888 Deloss ST., next
door to the Stratton Company.
After failure to open the Stratton
safe, police believe the bandits went
to the Great Western Oil Company
1902 Deloss ST., and forced open a
window.
Desks at both places were ran
sacked, but nothing was taken.
Stratton. said the hinges and COM
bination of his safe were battered
beyond repair.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
SOCIETY UPSET

Washington society was upset this
week when it was learned that the
former Nancy Hoyt, now Mrs. Gerald
Gym Wynne, had separated from
her husband of few months, and
gone back to her mothers home.
Mrs. Wynne, a modern, tempera-
mental member of the Washington
younger set, came into press notice
first, when. on the very eve of her
marriage to Lieut.. f. Wiseman
Clark Of the British navy, she decid-
ed to break the engagement. She
returned the young mans ring. He
and his parents sailed for home.
After this event Miss Hoyt began
combining a literary career with her
social activities.
Her novel, Roundabout" attained
the proportions of a best seller.
Last May Nancy married Gerald
Wynn Wynne. another Englishman.
and the couple settled down in
Washington.
Nancy's sister. Elinor Wylie Be
net. is also a well-known novelist,
while her husband, William Rose
Benet, is a poet of distinction.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04

Monroe was riding in Newby's
city auto when it collided with n
truck driven by Earl Bailey, 26, Ne
gro. 1850 Missouri St., police said.
The auto was hurled against a curb
and overturned.
Sergt. Frank Owens ordered that
Bailey be held on manslaughter
charges under bond of $4,000.
Owens said Newby was driving
south on Denny st. and stopped to
wait for truck, west-bound on New
York St.. to pass. When it did he
drove out into New York st. and
was struck by Bailey's truck, east
bound. Bailey said he did not see
the auto until too late to stop.
Active i'm Politics
Monroe, who was G.. o. p. vice
chairman Of the First ward, had
Deen active in politics for years. He
served as assistant commissioner
during the Shank administration.
Funeral arrangements have not
been completed.
Surviving are the widow, son,
Jesse L., and three daughters, Mabel
Monroe, Helen Ernest and Haze
Korowitz.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
BY FIora<G. Orr

IiWeS STAT C0rreSDOHdent
WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-"Kitty,
Kitty! Why you're my own lost
Buster brindle cat" exclaimed Mrs.
Stuart F. Reed, the wife of former
West Virginia representative at n
Washington cat show.
She had paused before the cage of
gray alley cat.
"See Senator Bayard OF Delaware, "
the club officials said.
This cat was entered in the show
by the Bayards as ''Moby Dick"
The two Congressional families
went into executive session.
Ex-Congressman Reed later ex.
planned:
Mrs. Reed was mistaken The
matter is a closed incident This cat
was purchased by Mrs. Bayard from,
local pet dealer when it was "a
small kitten and is unquestionably
the property of the Bayard children:
The point is simply that Mrs. Reed
happened to see the brindle which
looked very much like the cat we
lost. The whole matter is unfortun-
ate, and l am sorry that it hap
pened."
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
DEATH PENALTY
REPEAL ASKED
Measure Seeks Adjustment
of Capital Punishment.

A bill to abolish capital punish
ment in Indiana was introduced into
the Indiana House of Representa-
tives today by Representative Rus
sell V. Duncan, Indianapolis.
The first suggestion of such action
on the part of the present Legis-
lature came from Deputy Prosecutor
John l.. Niblack, Marion County.
1T seems a tragedy to release the
fellows with big money, or at most.
give them prison sentences" said
Duncan, referring to the proposed
measure, while the poor chap with
out money goes to the gallows.
Death" he added, sis not always
the worst punishment, and then we
must remember that a greater law
has supplanted the old eye for an
eye. tooth for TOOTH law of ancient
Judea."
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
HORSE THIEF BILL
GALLOPS ON WAY
Allows Broad Police Powers
for Membership.

Contrary to expectations, the No
Ian bill, maxim gconstables of horse
thief detectives, was recommended
for passage in the Indiana House of
Representatives today and was sent
to second reading.
Reports that a divided committee
report would be handed down did
not materialize. o.
1t was brought out that many
members of the detective groups be-
, long to the Ku-Klux Klan.
The bill, as recommended for pas
sage, permits county commissioners
to recognize the organization and to
grant members wide police powers
Under its provisions a member of
the Ii. L. D..A. would be allowed to
trail persons alleged to have commit
ted crime TO any part of the State
and hold them until warrants could
I be issued for their arrest.
In Marion County the organization
has concerned iself chiefly with liq-
uor violations and the search of au-
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04

typical Of politics as 1t is played to-
day. l am in favor of the city man.
ager plan, because 1 believe Il will
attract higher types Of men than the
present system seems capable of do
ing. We have investigated more than
$50 cities that have adopted the man.
ager plan, and out of that number
only three reverted to the mayoralty
form. l have no plan in mind to
prevent action on the bill"
SOL SCHLOSS, former president
Of city health board: II Believe we
should get busy at once and have
many friends of the city manager
plan at the Statehouse Friday morn.
ing. At least those who have been
actively engaged in boosting the
work should be on hand"
HERBERT FOLTZ, architect: eve
need some concerted action right
away. The idea of getting together
many friends of this form of COVER
ment and having them at the State
house today is best. We've got to
show some support and oppose this
amendment. I'm in with the crowd
and will do all can. We've GER
tainly got to show some opposition
to this piece of proposed legislation.
JAMES l. DISSETTE, Indianapolis
Wire Bound Box Company vice presi-
dent: "Out best plan on so short a
notice would be to round up many
Of the opponents to this amendment
and have them at the Statehouse
this morning. Ill do my part. I'm
strong for the city manager plan and
win certainly do ell ! can 70 sid tfe
cause" N .,..s.s.s..
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
POL LITICIANS ATTACK MANAGER plan
CAST-OFF
LOVER DIES OBSCURELY
Jansci Rigo, Volinist Once Lived in Nile Castle With
American Woman Who Deserted Titled Husband.

came fascinated with Rigo in a Paris
cafe.
She left the Belgian prince, who
was her husband, and fled with Rigo
to Hungary. Later they went to
Egypt, where they built, partly with
her millions. a castle on the Nile,
where they lived in luxury.
But on a trip to Italy a baggage.
man on an Italian railroad saw the
princess one day, and there was an.
other infatuation. She left her gypsy
musician.
Rigo came to America and married
Mrs. Katherine Emerson. the di-
vorced wife Of Philadelphia artist.
Their fortunes faded.
Then the princess said that on her
death she would leave to Rigo half
million dollars. But when she died
in 1916 all of her fortune went to
others.
Rigo lapsed into obscurity, and
yesterday the man whose violin and
whose romances had once brought
him fame and luxury, died in COM
parative poverty.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
LOCAL CIVIC LEADERS
STIRRED BY MEASURE

Aroused over introduction of a
Senate. bill providing that the city
manager form of government shall
not be instituted during the tenure
of office of mayor, several leading
Indianapolis citizens gave these
opinions today:
FRANK e. GATES, ex.president
real estate board: IF the city man.
ager form is what the people want,
what's the use of going through two
years more of the old political
system. l would rather have the
law the way it stands, but I do not
see that the biz will seriously
handicap our program. 1t is natural
the politicians would be opposed to
the city manager form. / expect to
do everything 1 can to defeat the
bills passage"
EDWARD o. SNETHEN. at
torney: wen get together and do
everything possible to defeat the
bill. The bill is a direct slap at the
city manager movement, and appears
to be the effort of politicians to ce-
lay institution of the new form. a
few special delivery letters and
kilograms might help"
FRANKLIN VONNEGUT. vonne-
gut Hardware Company president:
I am strongly in favor of adoption
of the city manager form of munich
pal government, as recommended by
the citizens committee, and am op.
posed to strong-arm methods being
used to defeat this desirable end (
Carl. A. TAYLOR, Taylor Carpet
Company president: "The move II
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
BICYCLE BANDIT
LATEST BUGDEAR
Youth Tells of Being Slugged
by 'PedIing' HighWayman.

Detectives today continued inves-
tigation Of an alleged. attack on Al
len Stewart, IS. of 1858 E. Thirty
Eighth ST.. Technical High School
student, who told them he was
slugged and robbed Of $3.50, Thurs
day night, by a bicycle bandit"
Lieut.. o. d. Thomas and squad
found the youth at his home, where
he had been carried by l.. r. c. John
son, 1928 Denny st. Johnson said
he found him lying aside of the pave.
ment at 1900 e. Thirty Eighth ST.
Stewart said he was accosted on
the street near his home by a man
on a bicycle. When he ignored an
invitation to ride the stranger struck
him, he said. Police were told
Stewards head was uninjured.
John Green, S22 w. North St,
told police he was robbed of $4S by
two Negroes at Michigan and North
Sts.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
Dynamite Skaters
"Diuine" Illusion,
BIZ Tnifc1 PreR2

BU United Press
MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4.-Unable
TO disperse by persuasion 600 per-
sons, mostly women, who gathered
at a stone quarry on which a like
aess of the Virgin Of Guadalupe was
reported to have appeared, police
yesterday blasted the cliff with
dynamite.
Reports that the divine manifesto
ton had appeared brought the crowG
streaming to the spot. They refused
to move. Police insisted the indepta-
tions on. the wall We're caused by
blasting. The women answered by
singing national anthems.
A charge of dynamite was then
set off at the base Of the cliff and
shattered the alleged likeness. The
crowd fled.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
'R0BBER' NAMES PALS

John Combs, 21. of 2519 z. Pearl
St., labeled by police the lazy ban
dit" Thursday night added eleven
filing station hold-ups to a confes-
sion of two he made Tuesday, and
implicated Charles Beaver, 21, OF
2619 E. Pearl ST., and Clyde White,
%, Of 23 E. McCarty St., with him,
Detective Chief Claude M. Worley
and Detectives McGlenn and Mullin
said today.
The trio also admit they smashed
windows at three local business
places, and escaped with considerable
loot, much of which was recovered
by the officers.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04

Republican politicians intent upon vtatng the Indiana
city manager law captured another objective today
State Senate accepted without dissenting report of
the elections committee favong passage the bill to save the
Jobs OF mayors in cities which adopt the manager commission
form of government.
The same quiet political efficiency which marked inroduc-
ton OF the bill the close of the morning session Thursday
ana Its rapid consideration Thursday afternoon by
conee OF which Senator James Nedl (Rep) Lake Coun
W is chairman marked the acceptance the committee report
this morning.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
Test Your
Blood Pressure

radio reported the Hendricks
described basketball for The Times WFBM,
dianapos Light broadcasng
excited he almost bit chunk his speaker
Maybe you better that doctor
tells heart will not exciting
tions don't
tune in WFBM at 745 tonight when Hendricks starts
broadcastng the Butler Franklin college basketball game
from the Armory
Here's bound to be a thriller to the
the schools traditional very peak
" and wooly college basketball season
Two great basketball
hves-and of the sport country
you minute details of the struggle progresses
Take chance heart enjoy exciting
The Times has arranged for tonight Hendricks line
ups and sdeghts at 745
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
Rush Measure Vitiating Indiana Law,
Permitting Change of City Gov
ernment, in Senate.
WOULD SAVE JOBS OF 2 MAYORS
Proponents of Business-Like Opera
tion Plan Vigorous Fight.
Save This Law

The bosses endeavorng to kill the city manager
form of government for cities through subterfuge.
They are attempting to prevent the people of this city
from changing if they DESIRE the government of this
city until the expiration of the of the present mayor
They know that the people would vote tomorrow, if
they had the opportunity, for such a change.
1t is time for the people to act If you want the chance
to keep your own under your control tell
your Senator's that you have intelligence know what you
want and when you want and need such guardianship
or intrusion into your affairs
The Marion County Senators Sumner Clancy Fred
NJ Dickerson William P. Evans Russell B. Harrison Will
liam T. Quillin.
The Indianapolis times., 1927-02-04
CAT "HIGH-HATS" HER

The Washington cat show not only
upsets the Bayard children and Mrs.
Reed but also gave Mrs. Wynn
Wynne a surprise,
She said she wanted to see A cat
named London Lad. exhibited by
Miss India Corea. daughter of the
former Nicaraguan minister. ,
London Lad" was once owned by
Mrs. Wynn-Wynne. Having brought
him over from London only last fall,
she thought he ought to recognize
her
When she spoke to him. and
reached out her hand to pat him, he
turned up his nose, gave. her. stare,
as if to say. "Who are you, any
way?" He then walked away, very
dignified and naughty. -