Evening Star Newspaper, March 7, 1930, Page 24

“DINGBAT” MURDER - STORIES CONFLICT Chicago Police Believe Mc- Erlane or His Chief Gunner Took Foeman Ride. B7 the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 7.—All of gang- land’s footprints tracked by the law today to find the killers of John Oberta, the dapper “Dingbat,” led back in one way or another to Frank McErlane, styled “Chicago’s Toughest.” ‘Moreover, Chief of Detectives John 8 believed the “war is on” between “Polack Joe” Saltis and the O'Donnell clan for control of the beer business in the stockyards district. At one time both Oberta and Mc- Erlane sold beer and fought in the Saitis ranks; then McErlane broke away and swore allegiance to the O'Donnells. This. Stege believed, sounded the tocsin of | zenewed warfare. | Two Tales Given Police. | Gangland's grapevine tipsters pro- | wided the detective bureau with two| tales of the ride that brought death to “the Dingbat” and his chauffeur and | bodyguard, Sam (the Shadow) Malega THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1930. Gandhi—India’s “Great Soul” .Problems of Country and of *“Crusader” Are'Found Inseparable as N ationalists Press Demands for Independence. eves of his follow Gr'e;t o ers Mahatma, the T Organizing & mass refusal of In- dian laborers to register their finger- prints he was imprisoned at Johannes- {burg in 1906 for two months. In 1913 | he organized strikes of protest at a poll future.) ‘]t'a‘;( :-ll.tir‘t: be aimed at Asiatics. He . processio; o BY BATES RANEY, | try with the .mn“mnii‘iu?‘.’“'o‘r Associated Press Staft Writer, ‘.lvilill’i" As it v‘v,;nt its numbers increased. ables were m en LONDON (#).—The Indian problem. | pinally the South Afresy ::\.v:r{a:t::t' which has so suddenly assumed :ch & had the procession surrounded. formidable size, is largely the problem members were placed on trains and of Mahatma Gandhi. It is diffcult to | JReK, COME, “gEE, Candni was agein separate the one| conditions for his followers and de- from the other. |parted in 1914 for India. In June, 1891.|" Indian politics had become acute, and Gandhi, having!soon after the World War started Lioyd graduated fromthe George, harasseq by the rebellion in University of Lon- | Ireland, promised India a greater m dcn, was admitied | ure of home rule. “At that time the Na- (o the British bar | tionalist Congress, an unofficial body. and quit England | founded by two Liberal Englishmen, for hus native land. | was the only voice of Indian National A Hindu firm sent lists. Ramsay Macdonald, now prime him to South Af-|minister, wrote 3 rica to conduct a | 1010 R e law suit. He found | “The history of the Natios - the Indians 1iving | gress is the history of the Nationalint in South Africa movement. Started in 1885 by men treated the same | who were rich, who were liberals and | (Editor's note—This fs the first of four articies dealing with the career of Mahatma Gandhi and the political prob- lem of modern India, which are insep- h have assumed acute sent One was that Oberta was slain in retaliation for the recent raid upon McErlane's hospital room, and the at-| tempt to kill the “tough one” as he lay | already wounded on his bed: the other | was that William Niemoth, chief gunner for McErlane, was generalissimo in charge of Oberta’s last ride. At Niemoth's home there were indi- ecations of a hurried leave-taking. His| attorney, however, said he would have him at the bureau for questioning to- day. “I didn't want him locked up as the aboriginal | who had been educated in Western | natives. He became | ways, it was purel s de- | Tnterested. in their | ‘m Ry el s efforts to _raise thefr status and remained in Natal to| conduct a successful campaign against | the government's anti ic laws, sac- | rificing his large legal income. Became “'he Great Soul” | He founded an agricultural colony near Durban in 1904, based on his idea of renunciation. He abandoned his legal | Mahatma Gandhl. Tps | League. mand was for enfranchisement and for responsibility. It was never anti-Brit- ish, and it has always contented itsell with demanding a measure of self-gov- ernment under the British Raj. “But it gave birth to a Left wing, which gradually gained an independent position and drew a: from it. The Anglo-Indian adm: istrator lost his op- portunity. ,The Congress which ought to have béen accepted by him as & useful critic was regarded by him as an irreconcilable enemy. He resented it. He misrepresented it. He handed it over to the mercy of its Left wing. | The doctrine of a Sinn Fein kind of self-help, the dream of the pelitical boycott, were encouraged by the blun- ders of the government.” Gandhi came_into prominence in India with his first political coup in persuading the Nationalist Congress of Hindus to ke common cause with the Moslems in their support of the caliphate movement, and in 1916 he effected the Lucknow patc creating an alliance between the Indian Nationalist Congress and the Indian Moslem In 1919, when the home rule en- visioned by Lloyd George failed to ma- terialize fast enough, Gandhi an- nounced his Satyagraha movement, the principle of which is the asserted ri ght to repudiate and disobey unjust laws. His first brush with the Indian govern- ment came when his unregistered newspaper was suppressed. Later Gandhi stimulated a strike and ordered his followers to spend their time praying and fasting, but riots oc- curred in Delhi when Nationalists had Hemstitching Pleating M. E. HOLLEY 2651 15th St. NW. Col. 9378 fatal collisions with the police. Gandhi tried to make peace, but was detained by the British. The result was a Hindu-Mohammedan umlnl through- out the provinces of lbay and the Punjab. Disregarding the military orders not to assemble, a mob of several thousand Nationalists met in Amritsar in a pub- lic square. A company of soldiers, un- der Gen. Dyer, ordered to the scene, fired on the crowd, killing 400 and wounding 1,200. This precipitated a minor but bloody revolt, which was eventually suppressed. Gandhi de- manded that Gen. Dyer be punished, and the agitation became so intense ;::lt the {enfi;-l Was wt;kden o‘I‘lt of India | tloieq and eventually prome 3 . e s and retired. | e fuse had burned within a few - inches of the dynamite when Sergt. JOHNSON LAUDs cHlNEsE. Herman Dorf smother:d it with his gloves. Envoy Says Nanking Government Gives 100 Per Cent Effort to Cause. SHANGHAI, March 7 (#).—United States Minister Nelson T. Johnson, in a _speech here last night sald “that the officials of the Nationalist governmient at Nanking cannot envision tke far- reaching effects of their efforts. How- ever, they are giving their energies 100 per ‘cent In sincerely seeking to give China a stable and efficient govern- me’l"’l‘k Ministe: k: nister's remarks were made at a banquet at the American Club. dlofds 1214 F St. N.W. LARGE BOMB IS FOUND | BACK OF CHICAGO RESORT Police Sergeant Smothers Fuse After Answering Anonymous Call About Explosion. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March enough to demolish the entire buflding was found last night in the rear of the Little Club, North Side cabaret, by po- lice answering an anonymous telephone call that a bomb had already been ex- 7.—A bomb large For THE YOUNGER SET, PARIS SPONSORS PoiNT D’EsPrIT overnight, you know,” the attorney said. Has Bad Reputation. Niemoth's reputation for all-around toughness is about as bad as McErlane’s. | Since 1926 authorities in Baltimore, | Md., have been trying to extradite him | to stand trial toro murder lrnd g}l:ncxpa- | tion in a $47,000 pay roll robbery. | u 3 < . | R #3000 vk tramsacton severl | iolh il 1o’ Ve Er o & s B Tble motive, Saltis, Oberta and Mc- | R. L. ISHERWOOD, ane sold the whisky; McEriane | Line. 5350. 1513 28th_St. B.E. collected for 1kllnd‘reruudd whnpul'; t:e\ rofits. Shortly afterward he broke | l’.., and joined up with “Spike” Pl ANOS TO RENT $5 Per Month ODonnell. DE MOLL’ garb and began wearing only a loin| | cloth. 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