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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Nine BRANDED
BOOZE LORDS
IN u. 5. court
Federal Jury Hears Charges
Joe Modafarri Led Giant
Rum Mob.
TWO CONFESS GUILT
Possibility Is Seen of Trial
Continuing Over to
Wednesday.

Evidence purporting to show the
operation of a huge liquor distilling
ring in the city was being pre-
sented today to a federal court jury
as nine members of the alleged
Modafarri distillery mob went to
trial for violation of the prohibition
law.
At the head of the gang was
Giovanni (Joe) Modafarri, whom
the government charges with being
the leader in the alleged conspiracy.
With impanelling of the jury,
Charles and Antonio FoSso, alleged
members of the gang, withdrew
former pleas and entered pleas of
guilty to two counts in an indict-
ment charging them with operating
a still.
Witnesses Are Called
Other defendants on trial are
Paul Modafarri, brother of the al
legged mob chieftain; Roscoe Pen
gallo, Patsi Rosi, Charles and An
tonic FosSo, Thelma Santucci,
Cyril feathers, Mary Skaggs and
John Werz.
First witness called by the gov
eminent in an effort to show Moda-
farri financed operations of stills in
more than a dozen homes was Ar
thur CravenS, a bank employee, who
testified to the sale of a house to
John and Mary Da Lisandri with
money alleged to have been pro-
vided by Modafarri.
Donald Stenger, manager of the
Citizens Gas Company contract
department. testified to finding
false connection behind the gas
meters in houses at 1929 Moore av-
enue, 2442 State street and 1876
East st. Clair street, where stills
were found by federal agents.
Sensation Is Created
Mrs. Bertha Anderson, 62S DAILY
street, said by federal agents to be
an ex-Sweetheart of Modafarri, was
the third witness called. She testi-
fled threats to intimidate her had
been made by Modafarri, whom, she
testified, she aided in delivering
liquor.
A sensation was created during
the morning recess when the An
derson woman was spirited from the
corridors of the Federal building by
an unknown woman. She failed to
return when court reconvened, and
Judge Robert G. Baltzell issued a
bench warrant. Mrs. Anderson was
found in the corridor and took the
stand.
At the same session of court
several defendants changed their
pleas to guilty and were en-
fenced, the majority to short terms
on liquor violations. Betty McClain,
800 East Vermont street, was con-
victed of selling liquor and SEN
fenced to thirty days in jail.
Previously Julia Brooks, same ad-
dress, changed her not guilty plea
on the same charge, and Judge
Robert G. Baltzell sentenced her
her to sixty days in Jail.
The Modafarri trial was expected
to last all day, with a possibility
it might continue Wednesday.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
SHAMEDj SEEKS END
Inundated by Arrest, City
Man Swallows Poison.

"This is the first time I ever was
in a jam like this. I hope they put
me away for a long time," Richard
Gardner, 80, of 1131 Broadway, told
William Trent, motorcycle officer,
who arrested him Monday on a
charge of drunken driving.
Gardner was released on bond
after being slated for his part in an
accident in which his automobile
collided with another at New JERSEY
and st. Clair streets.
Today when Gardeners case was
called in Municipal Judge William
H. Sheatfer's court the defendant
was absent, because Monday night
he swallowed poison.
Gardner told patrolmen Arthur
Lowe and Harry Canterbury his
pending appearance in court had
caused him to attempt suicide.
His mother, Mrs. Anna Pollen. said
he told her, I'm leaving YOU" and
swallowed the poison. Gardner was
treated at the city hospital. His re-
covery is expected.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
VIOLATION Laid
TO TOWN CAR
Police Auto Double Parked
Illegally, Many Say.

Driver of n of the city's tow-in
trucks stands accused today of
violating the law he is commits
stoned to enforce.
Office workers reported to The
Times today that a tow-in truck,
its driver missing, was double
parked more than fifteen minutes in
the 200 block on East Ohio street
Monday afternoon.
The truck, which, according to
witnesses, bore Identification as a
tow-in truck, was left standing in
the double-parked position while
two occupants, n a driver and
the other a policeman, entered a
bank nearby.
Witnesses said several people
gathered at the scene, while work.
erS in various Offices nearby crowd
ed to windows to view the paradox.
Later, witnesses said, the police
man and the driver emerged from
the bank, entered the illegally
parked truck and drove away. .
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
LiUes Again PeriAd by False Alarms

This location, near the city
hospital. calls for runs by every
piece of fire apparatus within
miles of the institution.
The Times has pledged its CO.
operation in aiding in rounding
up these potential killers.
Police and fire officials will well
come any information leading to
the arrest and conviction Of these
potential killers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
OPERATES ON OLD PAL
Doctor Strives to Save Banker, His
BOyhood Chum.
BIZ United Press

By united Press
SEDALIA, Mo-, Nov. 3.-Two boy
hood pals, separated years ago by
varying careers, met again when
DR.. Walter E. Dandy, Baltimore
specialist, performed an operation
on William H. Powell, Sedalia bank
er, who had fired a bullet through
his brain.
Today Powell was given a slim
chance for recovery, and he owes it
to DR.. Dandy. Surgeons here had
held no hope for saving Powell's life.
A coincidence placed DR.. Dandy
on a train en- route from St. Louis.
Okla, while Powell lay dying fifty
miles from Sedalia. A message
asked DR.. Dandy's aid. He left
the train, performed the operation
Immediately, then left for Okla
homa City to keep an appointment.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

truck crashed while answering a
false alarm Sunday, three fake
fire calls were sent to headquar-
tiers.
While downtown streets were
crowded shortly after 5 Monday
evening with thousands of work.
ers en- route to their homes, a fire
alarm maniac informed head
quarters there was a fire on the
tenth floor of the Big Four Rail
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
HOOVER PICKS
PROBE GROUP
IN NAVY ROW
Committee to DeIve Only
Into Facts, Not Opinions,
President Says.
FIVE NAMED ON BOARD
Inquiry Is Narrowed as
Storm Apparently Dies
Down..
BY PAUL r.. MALLON
United Press staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Nov. "a quiet
and wholly factual investigation of
the Navy Leagues "abysmal ignor-
ance" charges against President
Hoover appeared to be in prospect
today.
Mr.. Hoover narrowed the field of
inquiry to such matters "as may be
determined readily from depart
mental records" in announcing the
personnel of his committee Monday
night.
From authoritative sources came
word that the President does not
expect the committee to hold hear
ings or summon witnesses. Cues
lions of the 1882 naval budget and
Mr.. Hoover's economy measures
within the department were espe-
cially tabooed by the Presidents
announcement.
Personnel Of the committee is
such as to assure the restrictions de-
sired by the President. Two gov
eminent officials, a former admiral
and two former government officials
were named on the board of in
quiry.
ROdman, Hammond Named
The committee includes: Huge
Rodman, retired admiral, Spanish
war veteran, holdeT of many decora-
tons, former commander of the
Pacific fleet Q919).
John Hays Hammond, Chairman
of the coal investigating committee
under the Harding administration
and president of the National
League of Republican Clubs, origi-
nally a mining engineer.
Eliot WadSWorth, an overseer of
Harvard university, former assist
ant secretary of treasury, and the
only member of the commission
whose home (Boston) is outside Of
Washington.
Earnest Lee Jahncke, assistant
secretary of navy and close friend
and admirer of Mr.. Hoover.
William r. Castle Jr., assistant
secretary of state, also a con1dant
of the president.
Chosen by Navy League
Hammond, Wadsworth and
Jahncke were named as represent
atives of the Navy League, accord
ing to Theodore Joslin, presidential
publicity secretary.
Their duty will be to ascertain
from the records the truth concern
ing the assertions of William How
ard Gardiner, president of the Navy
League. Gardiner issued a PAM
phlet statement last Wednesday, in
which he charged that the Presi-
dents old proposal to immunize
food supplies in times of war showed
"abysmaI ignorance"
Acceptance of his suggestion
would have worked not only dia-
metrically cou~+er to the interests
and weight Of the United States in
world affairs" said Gardiner, but,
in effect would have made for big
ger and bloodier wars"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

A T 8, Monday night, the poten-
IL tiaI killers turned in a
false alarm at Van Buren, and
Draper streets. The offenders are
believed the same who have been
operating for weeks on the south
and east sides of the city.
A false alarm was sounded at
Tenth and Locke streets at IL
Monday morning.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
TAX CHECKS JAM MAILS
Six Sacks of Belated Payments
Reach County Treasurer.

With all doors closed, clerks in
the Office of the county treasurer
today were opening six sacks of mail
containing last installments of the
1881 tax levy.
More than ten days will be re-
CURED to compute the payments
and then it will take almost a
month to balance the books, c.. o.
Harris, deputy treasurer declared.
Cash totaling $4,000 was paid in
by the last minute crowd Monday.
The amount in checks has not been
estimated although it is expected to.
three times this figure.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
OFFERS THIEF REWARD
Photographer Will Waive Prosecu-
ton if Goods Are Returned.

Roland Reed, 412 East Fall Creek
boulevard, professional photog-
rapher, today offered a reward for
the return of more than $4,000
worth of Photographic supplies stolen
from his automobile Sunday night.
Asserting he has been deprived of
his job because of the loss, he an
nounced publicly to the thief he
will waive prosecution if the sup
plies, including several portrait
cameras, plates and equipment are
returned.
Reed declared the equipment had
practically no intrinsic value to the
thief. ~
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
HALT CONTEMPT CASE
Temporary Writ Restraints Judge
Cameron From Acting.

n '-it Of prohibition has been is
by the supreme court restrain
liz dge Clifton R. Cameron from
preslLihg in the indirect contempt
case of Ed Thomas, Negro bonds
man.
The judge must appear before the
court Friday at 2 p. IN. and show
cause why the temporary writ
should not be made permanent.
Under a 1881 statute, lobbied
through the legislature by Sigma
Delta Chi, national journalistic fra
ternity, a judge making the citation
can not preside in cases of indirect
contempt. N
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
CALLS LOVE OF PEACE
GREATEST PATRIOTISM
Hatred of Other Nations No Proof,
Stump Tells Women.

possibility of international peace
should stir our hearts with a greater
patriotism than possibility of war
fare" Albert Stump, attorney, said
at the Council of Women luncheon
in the Memorial Presbyterian church
today.
Warning that those who parade
the sentiment of patriotism should
be sc~rutinized carefully, the speaker
declared patriotism, (which means
the love of ones country" should be
rescued from the i'll repute threat
ening it because of things done in
its name.
There is no proof of the love of
ones country in the display of how
much one hates another country,
any more than parents can show the
love of their children by their ha-
tired of their neighbours children"
he said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
TOSSED INTO HIS YARD
That's the Way Negro Explains
Liquor; Judgment Withheld.

Here, officer, some white folks
just threw this in a can back there"
That was the statement George
Brazelton, Negro, 25, of 533 West
Vermont street. made to patrolman
Albert Breaum in the alley in the
rear Of 400 North West street, late
Monday, when he turned a bottle of
liquor over to the officer.
And Brazelton repeated it to
James E. Mcdonald, special judge in
municipal court three today.
Mcdonald withheld judgment on
a blind tiger charge.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

POTENTIAL murderers, whose
4 perverted instincts lead them
to turn in false alarms, still are
active, despite pleas and threats
Of city officials who seek to halt
the practice.
Less than f%orty-eight hours
after the death of Lieutenant
Lewis L. Stanley of Engine House
16, in an accident when a fire
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Start New Factory

BIZ United Press
AKRON, o., Nov. Establish
ment Of a plant for commercial
productions Of a new synthetic rub
Der which contains some qualities
not present in natural rubber, has
been announced by the E. I. Du
Pont De Nemours Company. Con-
struction of the plant has started at
Deepwater Point. N. j.
The new product officials Of the
company told the American Chem
ical Society's rubber division Mon
day night, is much more resistant
to corrosive effects of gasoline,
kerosene, oxygen and many other
chemical products than is natural
rubber.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
ASK POWER RATES CUT
81 Marion Citizens File Petitions
With Utility Board.

Seeking reductions in the Marion
Qnd) utility rates, eighty-one pa
irons OF the companies today filed
three petitions before the public
service commission. charging assess
ments are excessive and unreason-
able.
The petitions are directed at che
Central Indiana Gas Company. the
Indiana General Service Company
supplying light and power, and the
Indiana Bell Telephone Company.
julius Stawlings, president of the
City Taxpayers Association, heads
the group of protestants.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
CITY CLERK ASSESSED
SO IN TOWN CASE
Henry Goett Says He Intends to
Have Receipt Framed.

Henry Goett Says He Intends to
Have Receipt Framed.
Henry o. Goett, city clerk, has
paid the price of parking his auto
mobile in Pearl street, adjoining po-
lice headquarters.
Monday afternoon, Goett discov-
cred his car missing and was pre-
pairing to report it stolen, when he
was informed the police tow-in
truck had taken it.
Here's n receipt I'll have
framed" Goett said.
ut signifies that Goett has paid
So to the traffic department and
garage to regain possession of his
auto.
Pascal Pyle, clerk in municipal
court four, also was a victim of the
impounding car Monday and was
forced to surrender So.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
PLEDGE POOR AID FUNDS
5 Per Cent of Receipts From Schultz
Store to Go to Sullivan.

Five per cent of receipts of the A..
Schultz Cigar Store, 2 East Wash
ington street, Thursday, will be
turned owe to Mayor Reginald H.
Sullivan for poor relief, it was an
nounced today.
David A. Shuttle, head of the store,
personally will donate a similar
amount to augment the poor relief
fund. it vas announced. Sullivan
viii have charge Of disposal Of the
gift.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
BAR REMOVED
TO GAS PLANT
RULE BY CITY
Judge Weir Denies Plea in
ReCeiverShip Against
Company.

Removal of the final legal OBJ
stacle to the city'S acquisition and
operation of the Citizens Gas Com
pany was accomplished today, it
was believed, when Superior Judge
Clarence Weir ruled in favor of the
municipality in the Allen G.. Will
liams r~eceivership Ease against the
utility.
Attorneys for the city said the
only step remaining before &C
QUESTION under the 1905 franchise
will be to obtain funds to redeem
outstanding gas company secur-
tiles.
The courts ruling upheld the
city'S demurrer against the case, in
which it also was sought to have the
lease of the Citizens company and
the old indianapolis Gas Company
declared invalid.
Charged Chicanery
William V. Rocker, attorney for
Williams, a taxpayer, had con-
tended that the lease between the
indianapolis and Citizens companies
and creation of the public service
commission in 1913, were brought
about by "scheming and chicanery
on the part of capitalists"
Asserting that if the lease was
invalid, Rocker claimed the Indian
apoliS company must repay $10,-
100000 in rentals to the Citizens
firm.
The indianapolis company, it
was alleged, was inSolvent and
claimed if the Citizens COMPANY
lease was invalid, the present com
pany vas inslovent.
Utility Public Trust
Weir, in his ruling, set out that
since the utility was a public trust
the suit should have been filed
either by the encouragement or
the county prosecutor.
In concluding his opinion, Weir
upheld the public service commits
sion, and said:
"The public service commission is
a constitutional body exercising
lawful powers delegated by the leg
islature.
THE alleged conspiracy set forth
in the complaint between the own
ers of the Indianapolis Gas Com
pany and others, having for its pur-
pose the enactment of the public
utility law, does not impeach or af-
feet the validity of that law or the
acts of the commission in pursu-
ance of it."
No Funds Diversion
Weir declared there was no diver
sion of trust funds, as charged in
the complaint, because the Citizens
company, acting on the public SER
vice commissions approval, per-
formed the terms of the lease.
He said the surrender of the Citi-
zens company's franchise in 1921
and its acceptance of an interme-
date permit under the utility act,
was not under inquiry in the case
before him.
Recently United States courts up
held the city'S rights to acquire and
operate the utility.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
FORESEES MOVES TO
RELEASE KIRBY DAVIS
Possible Action Is Predicted by Os-
borne, State Department Head.

~ ~
borne, State Department Head.
Rumblings of efforts to obtain the
release of Kirby Davis, Muncie
gangster and former pal of Gerald
Chapman, were heard today by the
state bureau of criminal identi1ca-
ton, according to E. L. Osborne,
department chief.
Davis is serving a fve-year SEN
tence in Leavenworth federal peni-
Tertiary on an auto theft convic-
ton. It was reported here today
the state had nolled indictments
against Davis charging his compli-
citing in the Angola Qnd.) bank
robbery several years ago.
Osborne explained that Davis
sentence, started in 1929, might be
cut short by a parole if the indict-
ments have been thrown out Of
court. AS long as they were pend
ing the state held a detainer which
blocked freedom moves.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03


eminent has come the great
est economic and social ex-
pertinent in modern history.
A nation is being remade.
What of its people? What
are they like? How do they
live? How are they bringing
up their children?
Never was their story more
timely as they work towards
the completion of their Five
Year Plan, while the rest of
the world wallows in depres-
sion.
Julia Blanchard, writing for
NEA Service and The Times.
has returned from Russia
with a series of twelve ar
ticleS on IF You Lived in
Russia"
1t is NOT lust another
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Rail Hearine to Pc NV 10

Hearing on a petition for aban-
donment of the Indianapolis South
eastern traction lines running to
Greensburg and to Shelbyville will
be held Nov. IL at the Rushville
courthouse, Frank Singleton, mem
Der OF the public service commits
sion, said today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
WAGE SCALE UPHELD
Mine~Pay Set by Contract Favored
by 1000 Workers.
By United Press

By OHtted Press
CLINTON, Ind, Nov. "a reso-
luton in support of the present
contract between miners and opera
tors, which will be effective until
April l, 1882, was adopted at a mass
meeting of approximately 1000
miners here. The meeting, not a
scheduled union assembly, vas
called in an effort to relieve desti-
tute conditions among workers in
the Clinton coal fields.
Abe Wales, president Of District
Il, United Mine Workers of Amer
lea, explained that it would be use
less for miners to agree to work for
wages below the union scale. There
is no markek for the quantity Of
coal that would be mined on that
basis, Wales said, hence the result.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
OFFER PASS SYSTEM
AS FARE SCHEDULE
Public Service Commission Given
insult Lines Proposal.

Inauguration of a weekly pass,
which could be used at will after
paying for a round trip at 2 cents
a mile, was among the new fare
schedules which have been proposed
to the public service commission by
the Indiana Railroad lines, insult
interurbans.
The lines include all interurban
roads coming into indianapolis, ex-
cept the indianapolis & Southeast
ern.
j. H. Gregg, independent bus
operator, appeared and asked time
to study the new schedules with the
view of objecting to them.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

road building. Meridian at Mary
land streets.
Through the crowded streets
every available downtown COM
pany rushed to answer the call.
Lives of hundreds, including the
fremen, were endangered. When
firemen arrived they learned the
building is only a nine-story struc-
ture.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
WOMAN LEGGER TO JAIL
Efforts to Keep Faith in Drinking
public" Prove Futile.

Efforts of Mrs. Edith Allen, SO,
OF 514 North Alabama street, not
to disappoint "her public" today re-
suited in her sentence of thirty DAYS
IN Jail and a fine of 500 and costs
Tor operating a blind tiger.
Police said Mrs. Allen operated
the booze joint while her husband is
serving a sixty-day sentence on a
similar conviction.
Police said they found four quarts
OF liquor in her house Oct. 81.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03

story on Russia. 1t is the story Of a people, not of a cause. Julia
Blanchards story win stir you as nothing else about Russia has
stirred you.
Starting Thursday in The Times-the story of a people. NOT
of a cause.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
By United Press

BY OHitCu BTCSS
PHOENIX, Ariz., Nov. 3. 49, Ar
raignment of Mrs. Winnie Ruth
Judd, the first step in a series of
legal moves by which Arizona hopes
to send her to the gallows on
charges of numbering Agnes Anne
Leroi and Hedvig Samuelson, two
former friends, was scheduled for
today.
Some time before 5 p. m, Mrs.
Judd will be moved from her quar-
tiers in the juvenile ward of the
county Jail to appear before Clar-
ence E. Ice, justice of the peace.
The date of the preliminary hear
ing will be set and Lloyd j. An
drews, county attorney, will begin
preparations for the woman'S trial.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
Church ADDS
TO Judd FUND
Money Given Parents of
Alleged Murderer.

Bg Times Special
CLAY CITY, Ind, Nov. 3.-An
offering was taken at the Free
Methodist church for the Rev. and
Mrs. H. j. McKinnell, Darlington,
whose daughter, Mrs. Ruth Judd is
held in Phoenix, Ariz., charged with
the murder of two women.
The Rev. Mr.. McKinnell was pas
tor of the local church thirty years
ago. His first wife is buried here.
Commenting on the offering, the
present pastor, the Rev. G. E. Roller,
expressed doubt that the Darlington
minister will accept money which
is being raised in some towns with
shows and basket ball games.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-03
A Nation Re1nQde! And
Where Would You Fit?

THERE is no bigger story in the world today than what is going
Il on in Soviet Russia.
Out OF the revolution that swept away the power Of the cars