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October 24, 1923 Means’ Secretary on Bond. . NVw York. Oct. 23.—Elmer XXL 4ar necke, secretary to Gaston B. Sleons. indicted yesterday for wholesale Ni.it legging operations, today pleaded not guilty to three counts connecting him with his employer's alleged illegal ac tivities, Bail was fixed at $1.5,000. DON’T GIVE UP Tired, nervous, woraout f.omen, there ia help and comfort for you. We are glad to bring a message of hope and cheer to those who are weak and despondent from ill health. Read what this Kentucky lady says: “I was suffering from a nervous breakdown, poor appetite and loss of flesh so that 1 could hardly drag myself around. My doctor pre scribed Original Vinol. It not only made me well and strong, but 1 havegalned in weight.”—Mrs.S. M. Gray, Glasgow Jc., Ky. THIS LADY IS GLAD TO SAY: “I was weak, nervous, all run down and had no strength or ambi tion to do anything. My doctor told me about Original Vinol. I took it, and am strong and well again. 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Rheumatism, headaches, liver trouble, nervousness, constipation, dizzi ness, sleeplessness, bladder disorders often come from sluggish kidneys. The moment you feel a dull ache in the kidneys or your back hurts, or if the urine is cloudy, offensive, full of sediment, irregular of passage, or at tended by a sensation of scalding, begin to drink soft water in quantities; also get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any reliable pharmacy and take a table spoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kid neys may then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, com bined with lithia, and has been used for years to help flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to activity, also to help neutralize the acids in the system so they no longer cause irritation, thus often relieving bladder disorders. Jad Salts is inexpensive and can not Injure; makes a delightful effervescent Hthia-water drink, which everyone can take now and then to help keep the kidneys clean and the bloody pure, thereby often preventing serious kidney compli cations. By all means have your physi cian examine your kidneys at least Jwfct a year, The Indictment of Gaston B. Means New York Times. Gaston B. Moans, who ns specinl agent for the Department of -Justice unearthed the society bootlegging conspiracy re sulting in the imprisonment of the four X.aMontague brothers, has been indicted ns an alleged principal in a gigantic hoot legging conspiracy. This tvas disclosed yesterday with the unsealing of four in dictments returned by the Federal Grand >'urv last Thursday, which were plan'll under seal by Federal .Judge .John f' Knox. The seals. Were removed on motion of Special Goverpment Prosecutor Hiram ('. "odd. Who presented the evidence in the ease against Means. Rimer XV. .T :lr . necke. known as secretary of Means, al so is named in three indictments. When Means appeared in court to plead not guilty he was accompanied by Colonel Thomas B. Felder, who defended Means at the time of his trial on an in dictment charging hint with the murder of Mrs. Maude A. Hobinson King al Concord. N. C.. i„ I<ll7. Means was ac quitted of thtil charge. In court yester- Ila.v he was held in $15,000 boil. Jarneeke will appear for pleading this morning. The indictments charge means with us ing t|ie mails to defraud Sam Schmidt. L’"*! Jlilwnukce Avenue, Chicago, out of Sto.ooo in a bogus liquor deal ; with conspiring to violate the national prohi bition law through flip fraudulent with drawal and illegal transportation of liquor and with conspiring to defpat the/Jiquor tax law. ' Many Violations Charged. Through plots to supply the bootleg trade with the finest finality liquors from bonded warehouses. Means, .Jarneeke and their associates are alleged to have prof ited to the extent of more than SIOO,OOO. file liquor involved in tile transactions is alleged to have been valued at several million dollars. One transaction alone, involving the fraudulent transfer of 500,- 000 eases of whiskey, and another, in volving 12.000 eases, and 12,500 barrels of whiskey, indicate the magnitude of the transactions charged. ■ Several men who admittedly were as sociated with the defendants are not ac cused in the indictment, hut they ap peared before the Federal Grand Jury, testified and produced doeumentaly evi dence in support of their allegation's con cerning the bootleg conspiracy. The names of those figuring in the ease in elude Charles \V. Johnson. Jacob Stein. Edward L. Flannagkn. George F. Auld, Frank ('. Morgan. Charles Stuart. C. B. Xoetling. John C. Shilling. Harry Gold berg. l.eo S. Shackroff and Sam Schmidt. Other names mentioned in the indictment include "Mclntire. a Tammany attorney",! A. L. Wilson, a druggist, formerly from | Pittsburgh; Dr. I.obengier, a man rallied “Sam" and another "Bidder.” It is charged in the indictments that Means conspired to commit more than I 10(1 separate offenses in violation of the! National Prohibition Law, ami that his activities, extended over the period from November 1. 1021. to March 1, 1023, de spite the fact that from November 1, 1021. to September 15. 1022. he was pin-1 ployed as a special investigator by the Department of-Justice to break the kind of hiiotlcgging enterprises in which he is alleged to have participated. Big Movements of Whiskey. The first of the indictments charges that a conspiracy was entered into by Means, Jarneeke. Charles XV. Johnson and Jacob Stein in the period from No vember 1, 1021, to December 31. 1922, to illegally transport from Brownsville. Pa., to Pittsburgh, fifty barrels of rye whiskey stored in the warehouse of the Sam Thompson Distillery at Brownsville. Describing the acts, the indictment charges that Means. Jnrneeke and John son met in XX’nshington, I). ou De cember t, 1022, “there discussed the ways and means of carrying out the un lawful and felonious conspiracy combi nation. confederation and agreement, in furtherance of which Johnson paid to Jarneeke the sum of $15,007.00." The transaction, accordiug to Govern ment officials, was cloaked by the follow ing receipts given to Johnson by Jar neeke and appearing in the indictment : “Reeeieved from 0. XX 1 . Johnson, the sum of $15,007.50 for the purpose of tax paying and removing fifty barrels of Sam Thompson rye whiskey, from thf Sam Thompson distillery at Brownsville, Pa., as per list furnished—certificates for five barrels each, as follows; Certificates No. 2S.lt>'-!. 28.101, 27,9X0, 27.082, 27.260, 30.412, 30,413. as per list attached. “If proper papers are not furnished withiif ten days from (Dee. 4) for the re moval and tax iwyment stamps, above amount will he returned to said C. XX*. Johnson.'’ The indictment charges that on the same day Johnson paid to Means $5.- 297.00, and tells of other meetings in Manhattan and Pittsburgh of the alleged conspirators. 500,000 Cases in an Alleged Deal. In the second indictment it is charged that Means and Jarneeke conspired to violate the Prohibition Act through the removal of 12.000 to 12.500 barrels of whiskey from the Old Sweet Springs Dis tillery XX’a rehouse at Hnrrodsburg, Ky. In that transaction it is ulleged they conspired with Auld. Morgan. Stuart, Xoetling, Shilling aud Stein to commit 100 offenses in the transportation of liquor by motor truck to a secret house. A meeting of the defendants with other alleged conspirators who were not in dieted because of the information given before the Grand Jury, is said to have been held in Manhattan on Nov. 15, 1921, when, according to the indictment. Mar gin and Auld signed n contract for the sale by the former to Auld of 500.000 eases of Kentucky Bourbon, including the 12,500 cases. Noetling signed his name as witness to the contract, according to the indictment, and Means came to New York from XX'ashington in connection with the matter. , The third iudictment name* Means alone as defendant, charged with con spiracy to defraud the Government in violation of Section 3290 of the Revised Statutes, and also with violatitoni of the Prohibition act. It is charged in that indictment that he conspired with Har ry Goldberg and Leo 8. Shackroff, be tween Dee. 1. 1022 and March 1, 1023. for the illegal removal of eighty-eight barrels of whiskey stored by Goldberg it| the warehouse of the Meadville Distil lery at Meadville, Pa. In furtherance of that alleged con spiracy, the indictment further says that Means and Shackroff met on Feb. 1, 1023, at a hotel in Manhattan; that on the following day Shackroff paid to Means $5,200. On February 20, Goldberg, ac cording to the indictment, made a pay ment of $2,000 to Means. Tin' transaction by which Means and Jarneeke are alleged to have used the mails to defraud Schmidt is covered in the fourth indictment, which alleges that Auld was also a party to the conspiracy, and that it was fraudulently represent ed to Schmidt that Means, through his connection with the Department of Jus tice. was able to obtain the withdrawal of five barrels of whiskey from a t’liicago warehouse and deliver it to Auld for the benefit of Schmidt, with 12,090 cases and LoOO barrels of whiskey from the Sweet Springs Distillery sit Harrodsburg, Nine Counts in Indictment. Tile indictments contain nine counts, each of which deals with correspondence between Jarneeke and Schmidt. Auld, who in March, 1922. was slopping at the Pennsylvania Hotel. the indictment states, got this letter from Jarneqke: f'Youi! letter received find eonteni)s noted. 1 surely have noticed and read the contract. If the money is placet! in your name isn't* it a guarantee, and as good as a letter of credit, for the bank lias a continuous deposit of $140,000 in your name? Once in your name who can take it away only yourself? “I also know that it stands you SOS per east', and as for paying anyone any thing, there is only ‘Hither aud Schmidt and that amounts to 50 cents a ease, each. That would leave $4 tier ease, or about $2 per ease, freight paid. XX’hat he wants is two ears of what you have now. and four ears of R. If you can furnish it per day they will take care of their own goods. All they want is it delivered to their warehouse, and there will be a side track at every warehouse." A letter received by Sclnu ; dt, which was signed 'George.' ran as follows: "XX'e have signed a contract and they are to put up Friday Mclntire. it Tuni many attorney, and A. 1.. XX'iison./a drug gist formerly from Pittsburg. IV They were introduced to us by Dr. Loßengicr. and he says he will hank his life oil them, and we feel the same way. Had a wire from Jarneeke this morning." After the arraignment. XX'illiam ('sil vers, associated witli Colonel Felder as counsel for Means, gave out the follow ing statement: "111 the latter part of June. 1922. Gas ton R. Means rami; to the City of New Xork from XX'ashington to make n prelim inary ami general investigation of the! prohibition situation in and around New York City. He was given letters author izing him to make this investigation by Nobel Walker XX'illebrandt. Assistant Attorney General, and by Rimer Dover. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. He was also given letters of introduction by Wayne 15. XX'hecler. General Counsel of t lie Anti-Saloon League, and introductory letters by various other parlies, and in addition to this he carried credentials from two other departments of the Gov ernment. ■’He conducted .this investigation from June until October, and he was! instruct ed to lay these facts before Major John Holley Clark. Assistant Cnited States District Attorney, who was in charge of prosecuting- the- ‘lhmU legging' -rases. I presume that Major Clark XWfFbenr testi mony as to the efficiency of the work per formed. Tells of Work Done by Means. "In prosecuting the investigation a discovery was made which involved cer tain high officials connected- with the In ternal Revenue Department. XX'hen these officials learned of this they requested that he be recalled to XX’ashington and that his activities along these lines should cease. For reason which will be hereaf ter revealed these names/are not now giv en to the public, but when Congress con venes, if they should so desire, all of these reports will be handed to Congress for investigation of the facts. When Means was sent to New Y'ork he was given definite instructions to thoroughly investigate the rich, aristocratic people who were engaged in the bootleggiug bus iness iu and around New Y'ork City,' XX’heti he returned to YY'ashington during the early part of November, 1922, he was given a secret commission to con tinue his investigation from an entirely different source of authority. "Among the important matters inves tigated in New York by him was to ob tain all of the data,concerning a formula used by a German chemist in connection with the production of concentrated ex tinct of grain alcohol and artificial fla voring used in connection with making Scotch. Rye aud Bourbon, not only used in this connection hut also with regular alcohol. This data was secured by him and the production of concentrated ex tract of alcohol was immediately' sup pressed. Iu addition he was charged with ascertaining the circumstances in connection with the production of poison ous whiskies and poisonous alcoholic bev erages that had caused the death and also permanent injury to a utimber of citizens who had come into the possession of such alcoholic beverages either law fully or unlawfully." Assistant fnited States Attorney Ma jor John Holley Clark, Jr., commenting on the the statement of Mr. Chilvers, said: “Means did very efficient work for me in several important investigations, in cluding the La Montague case and the Republic warehouse ease." Chicago, Oct. 22.—The indictment of Gaston B. Means in New York iu con nection with alleged bootleg operations Cannes close upon the decision of the Il linois Supreme Court last Saturday to throw out the second Will of James O. King, millionaire lumberman, for whose widow, Mrs. Maude It. King. Yleans act ed as legal adviser until she was shot dnd killed at Concord. N. on August 20, 1017. The second will, by which Means and others would have benefitted, was called a forgery iu 1020 by the late Judge Jesse Baldwin, and from that de cision the case was appealed. Sam Schmidt, who it is alleged Means and Jarneeke conspired to swindle in n $75,000 liquor deal, is a jeweler with nil establishment on Milwaukee Avenue. He was reluctant to discuss the ease, and when asked if he had paid money to Means and Jarneeke, said: "It didn't amount to much." Clio, S. C.. Man is Killed at Crossing. Wilmington. Oct. 23. —11. L. Gallo way, prominent banker and business nan of Clio, S. C., was instantly killed at Dillon, S. C., th : s afternoon, when his automobile waa struck b; a westbound Seaboard Air Line passenger train, ac cording to advices received here fro.n Mullins, S. C„ tonight. Howard Stan ton, of Clio, who was in the car with Galloway, was badly hurt. THE CONCORD DAILY ffcIBUNE MODERN JOAN LEADING SPARTAN I FIGHT ON THE DOPE EVIL Mis. Wallace Reid Decries Vltimpt to Impugn Her Motives. A Spartan figure in tin* inns: difficult and the most iinpoitant war ever waged by mankind, in wlt'eh the forces of sci ence and medicine are linked and the only effective barrage is enlightenment of the masses in regard to its danger, is Mrs. XX'allacp Reid. Robbed of her husband, with two or phaned children In ask her innocent hut painful questions about their abs»nt father, who was not only their idol hut the favorite of a lirtlion fans, Mrs. Reid became the imp'acablc foe of the propa gators of the vicious habit that is now jobtaining a deathlike grip on the flower! of American youth. Ltisparing of her jown sensibilities, she bared every do Mail of h r daily heroic struggle at the bedside of her martyr husband, so that the dope ring and its agents might ex perience the scorching lay of publicity and, like the they are, lie forced to scamper from cover. XX’liat effort this immolation >n the 'altar cf public service cost her will nev ,er be known. But first-hand contact' with this menace and its nitemlant tragic denouement in her own home has made of the little stooped figure of grief the shining symbol of a great crusade, and she herself took up flic gage of battle, a mofjern .Jeanne d'Arc in a universal war to spvX civilization. So. as a next, step in the advancement of the cause to which silo bail dedicated her life, and braving the possible mis conception on part of the public of her real motive, Mrs. Reid invoked tie great est medium of today for reaching the public--the screen. As a result then' is being shown today, on screens 'through out the country, "Human Wreckage." in which slu* appears and which' brings home to the I lion sands who otherwise would not be reachable the lesson that must be learned by all before the dope beast can be successfully cornered and conquered. In entertainment form, puls ing with action and replete with acting of the highest type. Ibis photogramatic expose of tile evil is supplementing the Tremendous missionary campaign .which lias already been waged in the public prints as a result of Mrs. Reid's un stinting discoisures of her own private battle with the monster. No one can doubt Mrs. Reid's sin cerity in this desperate tight. None better, realizes that it will he a long, bitter struggle that can hr won only when a lethargic public conscience has been a roused. "I have no doubt that my motives will be misconstrued in this campaign," said Mrs. Reid to the reporter. "Some peo ple have been unkind enough to believe that 1 am capitalizing misfortune. I should not have the courage to go on were I to be distressed by Midi thought less and cruel judgment, and the com forting thought' to me in the circum stances is that hundreds of homes will be saved the'heavy hand of affliction that touched me if my mission is suc cessful." This great picture will he shown at the Piedmont today. Thursday and Fri day. “How does Gwens, manage, to keep up his extravagant mode of living?" "He has credit." “How does he get it?" "By pretending to be worried almost to death over the income tax." Sure Relief FOR INDIGESTION Bell-ans LQfcMjCSJ Hot water Sure Relief DELLANS 25it and 75C Packages Everywhere Brings food joy and strength to j all. ■lHmilk Maiot |||: EIPEAD J BilpNCOdD BAKERY I ~K U fAFrOHJf F - IHIHSM&s At once Stops Colds in 24 Hours Hill’* Cascara Bromide Quinine gives quicker relief than any other cold or la grippe remedy. Tablets disintegrate in 10 seconds. 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