Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1936, Page 8

KNOX FORECASTS (0P PLURALTES Claims . New York, Pennsyl- vania, Ohio, Indiana and lllinois. Br the Associated Press. ABOARD KNOX CAMPAIGN TRAIN, TOURING ILLINOIS, Octo- ber 30.—Col. Frank Knox, Republican vice " presidential nominee, has pre- dicted the State will go Republican | next Tuesday by “over a quarter of a million votes.” ‘The Chicago publisher, campaigning i Campaign Cigars Branded Fictional By Market Expert Consumption Actually Slumped in Election Years, He Says. By the Associated Press, The election campaign cigar today was branded a fictional tradition. “There's nothing to it,” said Ernest | G. Beinhart, who is a Federal expert | on tobacco marketing at the Agricul- | ture Department. And to prove it Belnhart showed that cigar production and consump- tion had actually slumped in the last three presidential election years, THE EVENING business has been on the upgrade in recent months, which might lend credence to the “campaign cigar” theory. Beinhardt sald that some 150,000,000 more cigars had been made since June than in the. same period last year. “A curious thing About the in- crease ip cigar smoking,” the expert said, “has beem big gains in cigars ihat cost 20 cents and more recently.” Nearly 300,000 of these have been made in each recent mounth, he said, compared with about 250,000 for the same periods last year. Still the expert insisted these were not cam- paign stogies. 3 . Poland will be in the market scon to replace obsolete and worn out farm tractors. STAR, WASHING EIGHT POLIGEMEN INDICTED BY JURY Action Follows @ne-Man In- vestigation by Former Federal Sleuth. By the Associated Press.. CLEVELAND, October $0.—The youthtul Eliot Ness, a major factor in the Government’s successful drive to TON, D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1936. place Al Capone behind jail bars, sev- eral months ago started & one-man investigation of alleged police depart- ment graft here during the prohibi- tion. era. First he suspended Capt. Michael J. Harwood. Then Cleveland's safety director relieved from duty eight more members of the force, with a lengthy report to County Prosecutor Frank Cullitan. Testimony of more than 70 former bootleggers was presented be- fore the grand jury and today eight of the nine were under indictment. A Unlversity of Chicago graduate, the 33-year-old former prohibition agent has his own ideas on proper conduct of & police department. Transferred 122 Men. Two weeks after his appointment early last December, he instituted 122 transfers in the department in order to break-up political cliques. ' Of 26 patrolmen promoted ta the detective buresu—a city’s principal crime com- bating agency—15 had been in the seryice little more than a year and four others had been appointed within the previous four months. . Thus did the Jeader of the Federal Government’s squad, of “untouch- ables” inaugurate bis drive to “clean up” the city’s police force, and instill “new blood™ into the ranks, Ness for several weeks has becn absent from his office, again taking the trail of‘the “lone wolf.” He has said that the “grand jury's investigation marked only the “first phase” of the present drive, “I'm glad to hear that the jurors are eager to continue this investigation to ' its proper conclusion,” Ness, who came here originally in August, 1934, as in- vestigator in charge of the alcohol tax unit's enforcement division, said when informed of the indictments, returned yesterday. Ness first took the limelight five years ago when he led seven young prohibition agents—all college-trained and whose average age was 30—in & series of raids on Capone Breweries, 50 drying up the Chicago gangster's in- come that he had difficulty in making the $50,000 borid set for him wher in- dicted on Income tax charges. Considered the living example of the sclentific detective personally léd raids here on gambling clubs and race bookmaking places. It was in one of these that he uncovered evidence that s relative of Capt. Har- of fiction—Ness | §, wood was operating a bookmaking place in the captain's own precinct, : ¢ BN Curious Puritan Name. .That Puritan gentleman of classic | name, Praise-God Barebones, had a brother called If-Christ-Had-Not-Died« for - You - You - Had - Been - Damned Barebones, generally known- to his {family and associates as “Damned | Barebones.” — STEAMSHIPS. "4 CARIBBEA! very week with the K dave. $17 Nor! zent Pt | Luxe service_o; ITALIAN U1 AL In his home State, also claimed for | 1924-28-32. his party four other States rich "‘L However, Beinhart admitted that electoral votes, each covered in his!the peak year in cigar consumption 20.000-mile campaign travels—New | for this country was 1820, an elec- York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana. | tion year. 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