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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
.CAPONE FATE
SOON TO REST
WITH JURORS
Defense Rests Case After
Testimony Limited in
Scope.
AL PAINTED AS SUCKER
Witnesses Tell of Huge
Sums He Tossed Away
at Race Track.
AL PAINTED AS SUCKER
BY RAY BLACK
United Press staff Correspondent

FEDERAL BUILDING, CHICAGO
Oct. 15.-Al Capone's attorneys
rested his income tax fraud case at
noon today, after a defense limited
to portraying him as a race horse
gambler who lost $375OOO or more.
A last minute motion of the de-
Tense to strike from the record
testimony regarding Capone's al
legged gambling house revenues was
overruled by Federal Judge James
Wilkerso1.
Another motion to exclude the
testimony of internal revenue bur-
eau officials that Capone admitted
he had filed no returns and paid
no income tax also was overruled.
Third Motion OverruIed
A third motion, also overruled,
would have struck out testimony that
Capone shouted I'm the owner of
this place" when raiders entered a
Cicero gambling house.
The defense then launched into
argument for a directed verdict of
not guilty on all the counts up to
1928.
Capone's defense was a paradox.
His attorneys had called witnesses to
describe the gang leader as a colossal
dupe of race track bookmakerS, as
his trial On charges of income tax
evasion in United States district
court swept toward conclusion.
Al Capone, owner of the gambling
house gold mines" in Cicero, with
a yearly net of $15O,0OO each, had
been depicted in prosecution testi-
mony.
Pictured as Sucker
Al Capone, sucker, hail fellow to
the bookmakers, who placed four
or five bets a day on each day of
the racing season, bet as much as
$4,000 on a single horse to win, and
almost always lost, was pictured
Wednesday by the defense.
Federal district courtroom took on
the color of race stand and betting
booth as procession of bookmakerS
went to and from the witness stand.
Their testimony was intended by
the defense to show that while Ca
pone was plunging gambler and
bet large sums, he lost consistently
and had no wealth on which to pay
income tax.
Some Of those who testified and
the amounts they said Capone lost
playing the ponies were:
Sam Kitelson, brother of Ike
Bloom, whose levee Midnight Frol-
les" was a night life rendezvous,
testified to Capone losses of $25, 0o0
Harry Belford testified Capone
lost $4,000 and bet every day.
Tell of Heavy Losses
William Yario said Capone lost
between $4,000 and $4,000 in 1926
and between $4,000 and $4,000 in
1927.
Sam Rothschild said the gangster
lost $4,000 in 1924 and $4,000 the
next year in bets placed with him.
George Liederman testified to
losses of $4,000 in 1924 and $4,000
in 1925.
Oscar Gutter, dapper and dimin-
utive, testified to losses of 100000
in 1927.
Milton Held testified to losses of
$4,000 in 1924 and $4,000 in 1925.
None of the bookmakers could re-
call any of the also rams" on which
Capone wagered from $1,000 to
$4,000 ION the nose" All agreed
Capone was good credit risk.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
PISTOL.F|RiNG
DRY SLEUTH IN
JAIL AS DRUNK
Federal Agent Pulls Gun
and LegionnaireS at
Barbecue Flee.
LAYS BLAME ON JOB
Tells Deputies He'd Been
in 18 SpeakeaSieS as
investigator.

When the smoke cleared and pis-
toll shots sounded their last echo
from the Happy Hour barbecue, fill
ing station and dance hall early to-
day, Patrick A. Currie, As, federal
prohibition agent, was under arrest
on charges Of drunkenness and dis
orderly conduct.
Currie admitted to deputy sher-
ifs he had made eighteen inves-
legations in bootleg joints in Mar
ion and Putnam counties during the
afternoon and night.
And with testing of beverages in
each Of the eighteen places it is not
surprising what man might do at
the Happy Hour, Rockville and High
School roads. at BIS in the morn
ing, he also admitted.
After an hours investigation of
their own, deputy sheriffs finally
sifted the story of fight and a
shooting that occurred at the bar
becue-filling station dance hall.
Ex- Soldiers Step Up
Inside the place were members Of
an American Legion post and on the
outside was Currie, demanding two
receipts for ten gallons of gasoline
he had purchased.
In a government-owned automo-
bile sat George Armstrong, 36, Of
1923 Rockville road, who said he
is Sworn in" deputy of Prosecutor
Marshall Abrams of Putnam county.
AS Currie demanded a receipt, an
argument flared between him and
Charles Reimbold, Happy Hour en-
ploye.
AS the argument waxed warmer,
members of the Legion group
stepped up.
BIazeS Away Swiftly
Believing Currie was a holdup
man, they demanded to see his Gre
dentials and one jerked his memo
randum book from his pocket.
With that, Currie drew his auto
matte pistol, firing four times and
barely missing the legionnaireS who
surrounded him, deputies we're told.
The eX-Soldiers scattered for cover
and John Lazaro, proprietor of the
place, called for help.
Armstrong rushed Currie to his
house and called for more help.
Deputy Sheriffs Ed KasSenbrock,
Gilbert Thomas, Louis MikeSell and
Howard Armstrong answered the
calls.
He Gets the Last Word
They returned with Currie and
Armstrong to the place and said
Currie charged he had bought four
drinks there before the battle start
ed Deputies said the agent smelled
bottles in the place while they were
with him.
On Lazaro's plea the deputies
searched the place and found no
liquor and said persons there had
not been drinking.
The officers said the agent stag
gered while bottle shifting and they
declared he should spend a few
hours elsewhere.
But Currie had the last word.
When he was placed in the cell
he yelled
I'm going to get your jobs and
you'll sweat for this
After several hours in jail, Currie
was released on his own recogni-
zance and deputy sheriffs took him
before Charles Britt, deputy prohi-
bition administrator
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SHORTRIDGE PIT. TO
HOLD FIRST SESSION
Russell Wilson, School Board Head
to Make Address.

Russell Wilson, School Board Head,
to Make Address.
First meeting of the Shortridge
Parent Teacher Association for the
1931-1932 school year will be held
at Tuesday night in Caleb Mills
Hall, the Shortridge auditorium, at
Thirty-fourth and Pennsylvania
streets.
Russell Wilson, president of the
board of school commissioners, will
speak, dedicating the new Shortridge
high school organ.
Mrs. George Losey, president of
the association, will preside. Ad-
dress Of welcome will be given by
principal George Buck.
Dale w. Young will be organist
during the musical program. Two
bass solos will be sung by Fred
Newell Morris.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
LESLIE'S AID
DENIES PULL
ON COAL BIDS
State Job Holder Revealed
as Agent of Company
Seeking Contract.
JUST NOT INTERESTED
Dr.. John w. Hewitt SCOTS
at Intimation That He
Will Use Influence
BY DANIEL NJ. KIDNEY

DR.. John w. Hewitt, who is on
Governor Harry G.. Leslie'S pay roll
for SO ,0C0 as director of unemploy-
ment relief and occupies the lieu
tenant governors Office at the
statehouse, also is agent for the
Electric Coal Company. 531 Mer-
chants Bank building, it was
learned today.
The company has bids pending to
supply coal to state institutions, but
Dr. Hewitt declares that he became
agent after the bids were made and
isn't interested in them"
Contracts for some 100000 worth
of coal deliveries are to be made
soon by the joint state purchasing
committee.
Daily Mccoy, who retires as state
purchasing agent Nov. l, said today
that he expected the purchasing
committee to consider the coal bids
at a special session next week.
Hewitt never has talked to him
about the possible success of the
Electric Coal Company in the mat
ter, Mccoy said.
Leslie Knows All"
Hewitt explained that Governor
Leslie knows all about his position
as coal agent and that he isn't SELF
ing to the state, but to Indiana
manufacturers.
Hewitt, at one-time Republican
state senator from Terre Haute, quit
practicing medicine after the 1929
legislative session and opened the
Indiana Coal Bureau in the Lieu
tenant Governors office.
This was done with $4,000 a
year, Governor Leslie providing
$4,000 from his emergency contin-
gent fund, the Indiana coal opera
tors another $4,000 and the Indiana
union miners the same amount
Hewitt went throughout the state
boosting the use of Indiana coal.
But the miners union failed to
come through last year, and on Oct.
l, the operators stopped further APP
preparations. So Hewitt revived the
unemployment activity which he
handled last winter. The Governor
agreed to give him $4,000 for that,
he said.
So He Sells Coal
"But l can't live on that, and I
am selling coal for the Electric Coal
Company, but not to the state"
Hewitt asserted.
Other state pay roll Republicans
who work for companies selling or
attempting to sell to the state in
clude Representative Sam Farrell
and Homer York, reformatory trus-
tee, salesman for the Indiana Truck
Company, state highway department
favorite
Recently. Attorney General James
M. Ogden gave an opinion protect
ing them in their position. He is
also a Republican.
On the Democratic side is Rep
resentative H. Curtis Bennett, fell
| low member with Farrell of the
state budget committee. He sells
coffee to the purchasing board when
he can.
May Delay Coal Deal
That the coal deal may be held
up until after McCoy's successor,
Wallace Reiman, Shelbyville, takes
office appeared likely today.
Mccoy, however, will submit his
findings regarding prices and burn
ing tests at the meeting next week.
He refused to say whether the
Electric Coal Company will be
among those bidders recommended.
He estimated that approximately
175,000 tons will be purchased at a
cost of around $250,O00, to which
100000 shipping costs will be
added.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
BUDGET STILL
OVER HOOVER MARK

/ reduce naval expenditures in as
drastic manner as desired by
President Hoover.
High naval officials indicated that
operations will be reduced mate
rally under the revised plan. with
reduction in personnel, rotation Of
ships in commission, and abandon
ment of some navy yards furnishing
the major economies.
There was no intimation of the
number of men who would lose en-
ployment under the revised pro-
J gram.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
A. R. HOLIDAY MOURNED
Fletcher Trust Directors DepIore
Death of Fellow Member.

Resolution lauding the career Of
Alexander r. Holiday, city business
man, who died Wednesday after an
illness Of two months, was adopted
by directors Of the Fletcher Trust
Company, Of which Holiday was a
board member.
The resolution read, in part:
mo other member ever served
with more fidelity. Especially, as
one Of the auditing committee, he
gave Of his time and effort dill
gently and with discernment. Com
partnership in the service of the
company with gentleman of such
quality has been privilege which
viii be missed sorely."
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
JOY REIGNS AT REUNION
Boy Crosses Ocean to Join Mother
BY CARLOS LANE

IRON his pillow this morning,
L 15-year-old Helmuth Schulz
looked out on his first Indiana
morning.
1t was gray, cold and dreary.
But not so was his heart. 1t leaped
happily, brighter and warmer
than the sun hidden above the
foggy clouds.
For at his bedroom door was a
football he had loved in baby
hood. but missed poignantly since
the day, more than eight years
ago, when his mother kissed him
goodbye and set out for a home
in new land, where soon she
planned he should come to join
her.
AS a train numbered to stop
in Union station Tuesday after
noon, the mother, Mrs. Hertie
HUM, of $50 Leland avenue, and
the son, Helmuth Schulz, were re-
united.
r r
q TELMUTH'S father fell with a
4 l. gray-green wave of imperial
Iermany'S fighting men in the
World war. The years that fol-
owed peace were bleak with pri-
Walton in Germany, and finally
Mrs. Schulz saw hope in the land
that had helped to conquer her
country.
She would slave there, save
money, and bring Helmuth to
America with her. Meanwhile,
she left him with his grandpar-
ents. Here she married John
HUM, also native of Germany,
and they saved their income for
Helmuth.
But the grandfather heard tales
of wealth, photograph, and an
automobile. He demanded money
for the boys board and room
when Mrs. HUM at last wrote
that she could pay his steamship
passage and railway fares. That
was three years ago.
The Fletcher Savings and Trust
Company, the American consul
in Berlin, the North German
Lloyd line, and the Red Cross in
tervened, and a few months ago
the grandfather capitulated, even
threatened to place the boy in an
orphanage if he were not sent for
at once.
Thus a long time before the
train arrived Tuesday, Mrs. HUM
paced the platform in the station
here, awaiting completion of her
boys long trip from Germany.
Il WILL know him! I will know
i him!" she exclaimed as the
1omotive pulled around the last
curve into the station. Il only
hope he will not be so big as me"
But suddenly her joyous heart
was CONSTRUCTED with fear as a ia
n1lldr inquire SGrOIloU ny.
THAT is my own brother; he
won't speak to me-" she said. 1t
was a continuation. here Of the
family tragedy of hatred.
The boys uncle was the first to
greet him. Her small fists
clenched, Mrs. HUM ran to the
boy.
81 will take him away if I have
to use these" she cried, shaking
the fists.
DUT force was not necessary.
- The blue German eyes of her
son dimmed with happy tears as
he clasped her.
In her excitement, Mrs. HUM
talked only English to her boy,
forgetting that he knew not a
word of it.
"You are all right? You are all
right?" she asked over and over.
He only grinned and chung to her
arm.
With his mother and StepfaCner,
Helmuth went to his new home,
stopping en- route for new Ameri-
can clothes to replace the German
raiment he wore here.
Tuesday night there was
party at the HUM home, with
friends and relatives celebrating
Helmuth's arrival. Today he is at
home-hiS mothers son again.
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RING THIEF IS JAILED
Judge Baker Sentences Confessed
Crook to 1 to 10 Years.

Alleged kleptomaniac tendencies
of John Carpenter, %, Negro, of 1867
Draper street, were treated today by
Criminal Judge Frank P. Baker.
Baker sentenced Carpenter to the
state reformatory for one to ten
years on theft charge. Carpenter
pleaded guilty.
Carpenter was house boy and
chauffeur for James A. Babcock,
attorney. 5245 Broadway. Accord
ing to testimony he stole diamond
ring from the Babcock home, Aug.
26. and pawned it for Sc.
The ring Babcock said, is valued
at $500. @
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-The
navy department submitted to
President Hoover today a revised
budget for 1882, in which many
millions were trimmed from the
original S4O1 100000 estimate, but
in which the navy was unable to
meet Mr.. Hoover's demand for a
SCI 900 900 cut. There was no COM
ment at the White House.
Secretary of Navy Adams de-
clined to make public details of the
revised schedule of expenditure, but
said he had found it impossible to
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15

A fathers desire to see his r.
year-old daughter, missing two
years, has led Homer Gilbert, 645
Birch street, to make a public ap-
peal for information which may
result in his finding Eulamae Gill
bert.
Gilbert said he and his wife
separated about six years ago,
Eulamae being left with him, but
that two years ago, while he was
at work, the mother visited the
home and took Eulamae with her.
Gilbert said he does not wish
TO take Eulamae from her mother,
but merely to see her.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
FAIL TO NAME BANDIT
PIainfield Bank Employees Can Not
Identity Suspect.

Employees of the First National
Rank of Plainfield Wednesday failed
to identify Forest StrotherS, alleged
gang leader, as the early bird
bandit in the robbery of the bank
Dec. Is, 1880.
StrotherS was viewed at the
county Jail Wednesday afternoon by
four persons who we're herded into
the banks vault almost a year ago
bv a bandit who escaped with ap-
proximately $4,000.
Strothers and six other men are
being held by police in connection
with a series of robberies and safe
crackingS.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
PROOF OF SPANKING
Husband and Wife Friendly
After Whipping.

By United Press
FIT. WAYNE, Ind, Oct. 15.-Mr.
and Mrs. William j. Crawford are
on amicable terms again today, all
arguments settled as to whether he
was man enough" to spank her.
Crawford resented his wife's care
less remark that he was not strong
enough to administer spanking.
He decided to show her.
His proof, however, was so con-
elusive that she filed assault and
battery charges. Crawford paid a
fine of $40 and both left the court
room contented.
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p a r t m e n t COM
m a n d er, at a
Twelfth district in
stallation meeting
in t h e A alters
Wednesday night.
I'VE did not go
on record as wet;
we merely went on
record to S u b m i t
the question to the
American people, p"
Gates declared.
Outlining the In
diana legion pro-
gram for 1882,
Gates said that it
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
Gates DEFENDS
LEGION STAND
For Referendum, Not Wet,
Says State Commander.

"The Detroit convention was de-
Lucrative to the extreme. The
American Legion suffered great
injustice from individuals and
spokesman Of other organizations
who slandered our membership"
This was the declaration of Ralph
F. Gates, newly-elected Indiana de-
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tinuation of work on behalf of the
veteran, his widow and orphans -
rehabilitation, Americanism, unem-
ployment and relief.
John w. Hano, new Twelfth dis
trict commander, announced dis
trict plans for membership cam
paign with a goal of 10000 for the
state. officers and committee chair
men for the district were announced
by Hano.
Ollie A. Davis, department adju-
tant, installed commanders of sew
enteen posts in the district.
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POISON TESTED TO
AID MRS. SIMMONS

Carrie Simmons was the purchaser
of sixty grains of strychnine from
Charles w. Friedman, Indianapolis
druggist.
The defense first tossed a barrage
at the state with testimony of Harry
Short, New Palestine druggist, that
he thought Jackson purchased sixty
grains of Strychnine from him to
kill crows.
The second slam of the defense
came with the testimony of Miss
Louise Robinson, Of Bargersville,
that she, not Mrs. Simmons, was
the purchaser of the bottle of
Strychnine' from Friedman.
Druggist Denies Story
Friedman denies that Miss Rob-
inson was the purchaser. Mrs. Sim
mons and Miss Robinson do not re-
Semble each other in either man.
nerism, dress, or facial expressions
The defense's third strike at the
states case came with the identi-
fcation of jackson as the person
who attempted to purchase a dimes
worth of poison from Mrs. G. H
Johnson of Cumberland. Jackson
was not in the courtroom when the
charge was made. He will be re-
called by the state.
Aged Woman on Stand
But with identifications flowing
thick and fast from the defense
and charges of "lies" hurled by both
sides, a mellow moment struck the
trial when Mrs. Charity Simmons
stepped into the witness box to tell
of the family life of Mrs: Carrie
Simmons and her son.
Her horror of the tragedy that
bore down on the family that Sun
day of June 81 was told simply, as
she said, I'D seen them so happy
together that morning"
The simplicity with which she
told how her son called out at the
picnic, Don't eat those sandwiches,
folks, they've got something in
them, Softened the harshnesS of
the intrigue and bitterness apparent
in the courtroom.
She testified that Jackson told
her, while lying i'll on the ground,
Nav, don't come near me and
don't let the hem of your dress
touch me-"
Boon to Defense
Affectation did not tinge her
words. She gave them for what
they were worth and their worth
proved more for the defense than
the state.
She described Mrs. Simmons as
being pure as the sun" and related
how she had "cried hard" upon
hearing of the death Of her daugh-
tiers.
The state charges that Mrs. SIM
mons was "cold-blooded" in actions
during and following the picnic
tragedy that cost the lives of her
daughters.
Defense won a point when obiec-
tionS halted Mrs. Charity Simmons
from telling the jury whether she
was trying to cast suspicion on any
one"
COnsOled His Wife
The elderly woman said she saw
John Simmons attempt to console
his wife and she saw one of the
poison capsules con top of the
chicken" in the sandwich of Mrs.
Emma Pollard.
That Mrs. Carrie Simmons zap
peared agitated" following the
deaths of her daughters was brought
out by the defense in the testimony
of Franklin Durham, Lebanon
youth, who said he was seated in
an auto near the hospital the day
Of the picnic.
The state is expected to offer evil
dence to refute charges that the
Identification by Friedman of Mrs.
| Simmons is not a true one
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ZenSnlp committee,
at the weekly XII
wants luncheon in
the Claypool.
Fortune, for for
ty years prominent
in civic affairs,
was a leader in or
ganization Of the
Chamber of Com
merce, both in city
a n d s t a t e. H e
guided Red Cross
activities during
the World war and
is a former presi-
dent of the Amer
iN1n Pno 70 GOciofvy
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
BEER SURVEY Barred
Lawmaker Says Government Knows
It'll Yield S3OO,OOO,OOO Tax.

By UHitCd Press
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15.-The as
sertion that the treasury depart
ment has made a survey of the
revenue-producing possibilities of
beer was made today by Representa-
tive Britten, (Rep., ILL, who said he
had been told the treasury figures
show possible governmental in
come of $3OO,OOo,OOO annually from
this source.
This figure, Britten said, was
based on estimates for the first year
consumption with tax of $40 a
barrel. This would permit the re-
turn of scent beer, he added.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-15
'TANGIANA' WILL BE
DANCED AT BALLROOM
Times Readers Given Opportunity
to Learn New Step.

to Learn New Step.
The "Tangiana," new dance hit,
will be demonstrated publicly for
the first time when JAG Broderick
and his dancing partner, Miss Alice
Stanton, dance it before visitors at
the Indiana Roof Ballroom tonight.
The dancing couple will be
accompanied by Henry ThieS and
his WLW orchestra, who are to
wage a musical battle against
Morrey Brennan and his CHS Or
chestra tonight on the Roof.
Times readers are to be given free
instructions on the new dance start
ing next Tuesday, Oct. 20.
A full description Of the Tan
giana" will be given. at that time,
in a daily series of articles, and
Times readers will be granted free
admission to the Indiana Roof for
dance instructions.
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Holdun SUSPECTS Jailed

Accused by a woman OF holding
up Gilbert Buck of 1910 West Wash
ington street, John Ford, Tenth
street and Eagle creek, and William
Hanley of 100 Parkview avenue,
were held in city prison today on
vagrancy charges.
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ATTORNEY GENERAL TO
BE CHURCH SPEAKER
Ogden Scheduled for Address at
NorthwOOd Christian.


Attorney General James M. Og-
den will be the principal speaker to-
night at the weekly fellowship din
ner of the Northwood Christian
church, according to announcement
Wednesday by G. G. Dunphy, din
ner chairman. Ogden will discuss
the recent laymens retreat, held at
the j. K. Lilly country home.
First of a series of addresses on
history of the Disciples of Christ
church will be given by the Rev.
Herbert Wilson, pastor.
In charge of devotions will be
Dunphy and K. v. zimmerman,
chairman of the church board. The
choir, under direction of Mrs. Caro-
Ign Ayres Turner, will sing special
numbers.
Mrs. M. E. Penrod, chairman OF
Electa circle, will be in charge OF
serving the dinner.