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rangements are being made by dem-- ocratic leaders to delay the keynote resolutions committee. If the com-- mittee should be delayed with this re-- port, the convention might proceed to place presidential candidates in nom-- Definite decision will not be reached until the democratic na-- tional committee meets later in the day but tentative plans call for opening of the convention at noon tomorrow, temporary organization, and adjournment until evening for tion of convention with selection of Senator Robinson of Arkansas as TORRIO RISE John Torrio's rise to underworld leadership is sketched in this in-- stallment of the "organized crime" probable program for the Democratic eonvention week follows: Monday--Arrival of delegates and eancuses of state delegations. Tuesday--Convention called to or-- der at noon, keynote speech of Tem-- porary Chairman Claude G. Bowers;: appointment of commitees and cre-- dentials, permanent organization, the rules and resolutions. The survey recalls the ascassina-- tion of "Big Jia: Co.osimo. Torriw's seizure of Colosimos power. Torrio's initiation of the bee= wars. the ap-- pearance of Frank McErlane and Joe Saltis as Torrio qsunmen, the savage war that nearly wiped out the south side O'Donrell cang. Torrio's invasion of Cicero and nis conversion of that --ity into a head-- gquarters for his zaunbling and Hquor activities are told in the following, the first, ins'allmest of the "under-- world rule® chapter of the organized crime survey, which was written by John Landesco for the .merican In-- stitute of Criminal Law ard Crim-- inology and published by the Illincis Association for Criminal Justice « Rise af «orm'o. John Tor:mo, the protese and suc-- eessor of Colssimo, was born in itaiy, _A considerable row--much of it ap~ parently for "home consumption" Law Enforcement 'There is likely to be much contro-- versy over the sort of "dry" or "law enforcement" plank to be inserted in the platform but after the drys-- Inrgely southern leaders--have gone on record as fighting for a dry plank suitable to their constituents, the econvention will proceed to nominate Emith and adopt a strong law en-- forcement program, according to the best: information from informed sources today. The influx of delegates reached its peak today Many arrived over the week--end, but the New York delega-- tion and many other groups from east, midwest and south also poured into this sweltering city with its air of battle and carnival. conviction that Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York will be nominat-- ed by the Democratic convention be-- fore the end of the week spread through many delegations today as the opening of the assembly Tues-- eede that event, however, with the I8T7, and is now ol years 0' age. The organization of la:sze--scale illegal business in vice --upported by ucliti-- eal influegce, bribery and violence, had been a matter of "ifelonz train-- ing for Torrio whes, upon the death of Colcsimio. the mantle fell uptn his within their grasp. The dry forces were reported to have agreed upon a course of action. Torrio alseady was kmuown onth by politicians and garngsters as safe and level--headed. At the funeral of Colo-- simo, Torrico was an honorary: pall-- At this time Torrio was known as boss of Burnham, where he owned the Burnham inn, a community of resorts and gambling dens. Ike Bloom had sold the Arrowhead inn to Colosimo before his death. Others of the 22d street levee had moved to the southern and western suburbs as early as 1916. The death of Colosimo occurred in the same year that the 18th amend-- ment and the Volstead act came into effect, and Torrio turned his atten-- tion to the organization of the cor-- traband business of manufacturing beer and of distributing it by con-- ¥oy through the streets of the city. But Torrio was not without com-- petition in his occupation of Cicero. *Eddie Tanc!, a Bohemian who was born and bred in the old Pilsen dis-- triet. had risen to popularity as a prize fighter, and berause of his many acts of charity among poor Bohemians was very p=pular in Ci-- cero at this time and was conducting a cafe there. Tans:! was killed by James Doherty., a gangstor (who was prosecu:«4 by and later killed with McSwiggin) Torrio's rise invited envy and com-- Inr addition to the vice and gam-- bling houses in Bumham he khad es-- tablished several resorts in Stickney. Then he originated the scheme of making the town of Cicero a base for the operations of beer distribution and gambling. In the fall of 1923 he installed a vice resort on Roose-- we't road. NOT T0 PUT OUT SMITH Occupation of Cicero. Torrio took possession of Cicero in issue as the pivotal point. Smith forces are standing pat Map Out Program IS$ RELATED lighted to note the effective meas-- ures for the better appearance of the reservation. Spring itself, some newly acquired funds, and an energetic improvement 'policy are accomplishing this long-- desired beautification of Fort Sheri-- dan, which lies between the lovely |suburbs of Highland Park and Lake Through the influenee of Torrio all slot machines in the suburb were raided by county officers. Thus Tor-- rio made it known that if he edu'gn't import women others couldn't have slot machines. After a few Gays the slot machines started going @again 'and Torrio, Capone and their fol-- 'lowers meved into Cicero Some-- 'where an understanding was made '"The mob came in strong." | 'They opened . gambling houses 'peddled beer, but did not brinzg wo-- men into Cicero again (except as vico was carried on furtively at the Haw-- thorne hotel). Stickney and Forest 'Park and other places in the courts were utilized for vice optrations, ~which were developed on a large Hijacking and Gang War "Morrie" Keane and William Egan, invaders of Torrio territory, one night in December, 1923, started from Joliet at midnight to drive three truckloads of beer to Chicago. At a lonesome stretch of the road, called "The Sag," Crowe began a "relentless investi-- gation of the beer war." Torrio was now reputed as the "brains" of the biggest beer--running syndicate in the country. He surrendered, in company with his attorney Michael L. Igoe, to general. McErlane was arrested at the Tn-- stance of the Chicago News by Capt. William Schoemaker, then chief of detectives, indicted on a murder charge on the evidence produced, and crdered held without bail by the grand jury. At the request of the state's attorney he was admitted to bail, and a little later the state's attorney Gropped the charge, and the killer was released without a trial. John Sbar-- baro, now a municipal judge and then an assistant state's 'attorney, was in charge of the case against McErlane, whom he called "Frankie." the state's attorney and was to be they were stopped, it was later charged, by McErlane, Torrio gunman and his hijackers. Aiter the beer had been turned over to some highway policemen, Keane and Egan were forced into McErlane's car. After shooting bullet after bul-- let into the two prisoners, McErlane and his friends threw them out of the On Sept. 17, 1923, George Meegan, 5620 Lafliin street, and George Bu-- cher, 5611 Marshfield avenue, were killed. Both men were considered dangerous because they threatened to reveal the murderers of Jerry O'Con-- ror. |\ Monday that although his 6 motor-- cycle policemen worked Saturday and Sunday only a few arrests were made. Wet pavyement accounted for "this to some extent, while the fact that four of the men had new motorcycles and |thus had to drive slowly also aided gangster, wa:m:hot dead.. O'Connor was a pal agent of the four O Donnells. . . In this investigation, Chicago News showed that Walter Stevens, Danlel, McFall and McErlane were leading Torrio's armed forces in the disputedi territory. Walter Stevens, the dean; of Chicago gunmen, at this moment| was wanted for the killing of--an Au-t rora policeman. He had served time| in Joliet. It was known that he was| a favorite of Gov. Small for services: rendered to him in his trial at Wau--| kegan. It was later disclosed in the pardon and parole mill inquiry that Stevens was one of ,the stockholders in the' "Messlein Engineering com-- pany." After the death of Meegan #@nd Bucher in 1923, McFall and Mc-- Erlane were indicted for the double assassination, but the indictments were later nol--prossed. RESERVATION AT FORT SHERIDAN UNDERGOING BEAUTY TREATMENT S One of the most welcome spring-- time sights along the north shore is the transformation of the military reservation of Port Sheridan. North shore residents are more than de-- ly~ overhauled, particularly in the matter of painting of buildings. In the past it has usually been the cus-- tom to paint one building or group of buildings without respect to any other. Consequently, . the color scheme has been far from uniform At Ft. Sheridan, this spring, all the wooden structures are to be repaint} ed, with special attention to ha;-- mony of color. The headquarter; group which comprises the hostess house, post headquarters, post chape! and Red Cross flagpole, is to be painted in white with contrasting green trimmings. The / hospital group, which lies between Sheridan road and the lake, will follow the same scheme. The many stone buildings, which are the barracks and officers' quar-- ters, are covered with the stains and discolorations of weather, to which they have been exposed since the or-- iginal construction of the post years and years ago. It was first planned to remove these unsightly discolora-- tions by means of sand blast or some acid process which would renew their original appearance. However, these methods were found to be in-- jurious to the materials, and that Torrio opened his resort vithout protection. The Cicero police raided it. Torrio moved the same big re-- sort to Ogden and 52nd avenues and the police wrecked it. . 2 Frank McErlane is still in power in| his own district and recently, with, Joe Sailtis, succeeded in nominating John ('Dingbat") Oberta state sena-- tor and electing him republican com-- mitteeman for the 13th ward. It is practically a new departure for a military post to be so complete-- In the suburbs Torrico, Capone. his first lieutenant; LaCava brothers, and Mondo, assisted> by Frankie Pope, Joey Miller (Italian). Jimmy Murphy, the Gusicks, and Charlic Carr managed a business which in-- cluded vice, beer and gambling: Torrio and his lieutenants used in-- trigue and bribery and succeeded in controlling elections. * NEW BIKES AID TO FAST AUTOS Girls today don't seem to be much interested in breaking hearts. But some of them go out of their way to keep our young men broke. In the days when Chicago known as the "Windy City" ho were blown down instead of us. Eheriff Lawrence A. Doolittle said AV 1 .3 : > Doolittle said E his 6 motor-l un Saturday and ' = sts were made.| = ed for 'this to| 3 fact that four| = otorcycles and g wly also aided s Noh . s § seem to be| = eaking hearts.| S + out of their| = ig men broke.' m |~ mz Chicago was,; = --City" houses| = \-- The plant is being built by the 'North Shore Sanitary District, and is the eighth plant' constructed for \sewage treatment by this organiza-- tion along the North Shore. Work of construction is under the direct | supervision of J. W. Nemoyer, of Waukegan, who is Field Engineer for Pearse, Greeley and Hansen, the Chi-- cago engineers for the North Shore Sanitary District. to have a hearing Monday before Justice Coulson. , Eight arrests were matie on .liquor charges over the week--end by Con-- stable George Stried , and Harold Finer, investigators for State's At-- torney A. V. Smith The majority of the raids were made in the lake re-- gion. The victims of Col. Smith's agents follow: -- Elmer (Harju of 52 Tenth street. The raiders confiscated a liquor sup-- ply. He was fined $100 and costs by Justice Coulson. _ ' Charles Cochinni of Grass: Lake. Beer was found on tap. He was to appear before Justice Hoyt Monday afternoon. j Charles Ambrose, 845 Lincoln ave-- nue. He was taken on a warrant charging a liquor violation. He was treatment -- plant is going forward, work to date including partial exca-- vation for the settling tanks and the sludge drying plants. * 4 + Paul "Duke" Bein of Fox Lake. Beer was found on tap. He was to be arraigned Monday before Justice of the Peace Harry Hoyt. * A. Banko, 1146 Sheridan road, North Chicago. Beer was found. The raiders dumped out two kegs of beer. He was to appear Monday before Justice Hervey C. Coulson. A man named Schuemann, located in the lake district. Beer was found. His case was to come up before Jus-- tice Mason Monday. WORKING FAST ON ZION PLANT Mrs. Cassidy o6f Bluff uake. Beer was found. She was to appear before Justice Charles E. Mason Monday. A man named Weden at Grass Lake. Beer was found. He was to have a hearing before Justice Mason Monday. . -- -- ; plan had to be abandoned. Now it is the scheme to capitalize on the age of these buildings insofar as it is possible. This will be accomplished mainly by the use of ivy and other clinging vines. Of cburse, there can be no immediate results or even within a few years, these buildings will justify this method of improve-- ment. SPONGE SQUAD _ ARRESTS FIGHT Cope and Fisher of Decatur, I!l., are the contractors handling the'job, un-- der Mr. Nemoyer's general direction. W. M. Flemmings is superintendent oi that firm. f are to be resurfaced and improved, insuring much more comfortable pas-- sage to the automobile traffc which passes through the reservation in great daily volume. The entrances to the post are to be improved in every manner possible. * tion will be soon one of the North Shore beauty spots. e The various unsightly features of the landscape have been taken under consideration by a prominent Chicago landscape architect. 8hrubbez will be placed so as to obliterate points of buildings, unsightly outhouses and other unattractive lines. Unneces-- sary patch and wagon tracks will be obliterated and proper thoroughfares outlined. manner possible. -- f Practically all of this work has been started since the arrival of Major Ceneral Malone as commandant at the post and with his reputation as an efficient executive and "go--getter" there is every réason to expect that the entire plan will be carried out with the result that the army reserva-- *Shrubbery in groups will be ar-- ranged to obtain greater,artistic val-- ues from available plants. The plan ot procedure will be to determine what situations are critically in need of improvement. and to concentrate upon those points in the order of their relative importances The meth-- ods used in the earlier cases will be applied later in the other situations In co--operation with various civil-- ian highway commissioners in the vicinity of Fort Sheridan, the roads The construction of the 27--inch ocutfall sewer from the treatment plant to the lake has been sub--con-- tracted by thesbuilding department of Zion Institutions and Industries, and will be built under the general super-- intendence of Ralph Steel. Other Plants Aside from the Zion plant, Mr. Ne-- moyer has the construction of several other plants in band. Under his di-- rection, the North Shore Sanitary District is just completing the North Chicago sewage treatment plant. which will be formally put into opera-- tion at 2:30 p. m. on next Saturday, June 30. -- Those interested are cor-- dially invited to attend the opening. The plant is located a short distance north 'of the Cyclone Fence company plant on the east side of the E. J. & E. railroad. a > In addition 'to this, Mr. Nemoyer is building a water filtration plant at Kenilworth, putting in a breakwater and extending the present intake at Winnetka; and soon will start con-- struction of a water filtration plant at Highland Park. The government has removed the $1 toll charge at a bridge in the Gr@iult Canyon.. Now if somebody will remove the. cost to the Canyon every Libertyville motorist will be happy. Construction of the Zion sewage gtmmnnmmlmmmunumnmmmlmnmnmnllmmmunmnmmmmmmmlmlumlmmmummmm'g t § KAISER BLDG. CHARLES JORDAN g .'.mmmmnammnummmlmmmmmmmmmtmmmmmmnumlluuumnlmuummmmmmmfi Save money. Buy a new pair of men's oxfords MEN'S OXFORDS Libertyville Shoe Store $5.00 -- $5.50 THE BEST MADE Entries close July 3rd. Lieutenant Wilmer G. Bennett, Aide to Major General Paul B. Malone, command-- ing the Sixth Corps Area, is secre-- tary of .the Horse Show committee. Forms and information may be pro-- cured by addressing him at, Fort Sheridan. Tllinois. f s ter they had caused accidents im-- perilling the lives of several per-- sons. One drunken | driver arrest-- ed: last Friday was discharg-- ed ~when given a hearing Monday before Magistrate Walter A. Taylor. George C. Bristol, of 31 Jefferson avenue . was fined $65 --Monday when he pleaded guilty of driving while drunk and crashing into a coupe owned by Mack Wigen, of Wau-- kegan, in front of 825 South Jackson street. Bristol could not pay his fine so 'was returned to his> cell. Friemis are _ expected to-- come to his rescue. Three drunken drivers were jailed in Waukegan over the week--end af-- Walter Palmer, of Detroit, and A:. S. Thompson, of Paducah. Kentucky, two of <the: country's outstanding horsemen, will judge the. varics classes of the saddle horse division. Lieutéhant Colonels George T. Lang-- borne and Ben Lear, Jr.. both cav-- alry. United States Army, will judge all military classes. * LIQUOR MIXES ~Among the various classes listed are nine pertaining to --military per-- sonnel, including one jumping class for reserve officers on government owned mounts. Two classes are scheduled for children under four-- teen. The hunters and jumpers haye been allotted fourteen classes cov-- ering, practically all angles of -- the division. Among the features will be .the always brilliant Olympia Jumps, a figure eight combination in which performance only counts. Otherclasses for th> hunters and jumpers include the familiar touch-- and out; two sweepstakes, one for amateurs only; and the usual hunter championship for the blue ribbon winners. -- Seven classes are sched-- uled in the saddle horse division. and two in the polo pony class. The fourth annual Fort Sheridan Horse Show, calling for morning and afternoon sessions, will be hneld in the outdoor ring at the Fort on Fri-- day and 'Saturday, July 13th and l14th. Thirty--four classes are -- in-- cluded in the prize lists which, ex-- cepting cash awards for the two sweepstakes, will consist entirely of plate amounting to over three thou-- sand dollars. The proceeds of the show, for which more than fifty socially prominent women are pa-- tronesses, will go to the benefit of the Army Relief Society and to the fund for the education of Post children. : l The two--day program is well rounded, giving many opportunities for exhibitors in the various divi-- sions. In addition, there will be sev-- eral distinct military features in-- cluding Roman riding and a musical ride by the personuel of the 14th Cavalry. -- * HORSE SHOW AT FORT SHERIDAN Decker & Neville BATHING CAPS all kinds_, and Prices 15¢ and up. ILL WITH GAS Libertyville DRUG STORE ceived at the local police headquar-- Assistant Chief Kennedy has asked the Joliet police that the boys be re-- turned for trial -- on the auto larceny charge. According to in-- formation given Assistant Chief Kennedy, the youths gave the fol-- lowing names when booked. MAnrdinabnadnabrdnabnrdnabatia Lrabladla ds ie 25. 25. 28. A. M 1ndess 422. 28. 28. A,. A,. A :"}'""@M':":"M':"o"o"o"o"o"o"0"0"0"0' '0"0"0"0"0"0".".".".":%.".",00,",".".".".< Aston Needham, 14,237 South West imi-- _ odo. ME' . 950 """Ered 0s _ Ray's Furniture and Paint Store Reclining chair, cover of yel-- low and green wov-- 4 ] 5 en awning stripe & A complete assortment of this unusual furniture _ now on display; pay us a visit The chance for which thrifty buyers have be , f waiting. We offer the famous IN HIGHLY COLORED LACQUERS FOR A LIMITED TIME AT THESE GOLD MEDAL Folding Furniture 27, 1928 Chinese Fire Crackers Flower Pots Flash Cracks -- Pin Wheels y I?ay-Go Bombs Colored Lights Roman Candles Sparklers of many kinds Cap Pistols, single slu?t and repeaters Our merchandise is the best; Our prices the lowest 505 North Milwaukee Avenue Eugene Jackson, 131 Water street. Harlie Johnson, 16, 35 South Gen-- esee street, Assistant Chief Kennedy said he has good reason to believe that Johnson and Jackson are false iienves the pair to be youths well own to (Waukegan police god wanted at this time. * According to the Joliet police the Langworthy's Variety Store LOW PRICES Folding campers' table like Folding camp This chair popular for the porch, sun-par?r motor laun:ch or lawn. Finished in Olive'drab, value each | 5.50 d s "#4 3 EC a 1 PRA P <J d This chair popular for the Ed ; Sky ; Rockets I%)ay-Go Bombs Roman Candles The trio are being grilled by the | _ _ _ anmimemegnient 9 13 xtate's attorney at Joliet and deve--| -- Second though#'are best in a case lopments growing out of ghe confer--| of love at first cash register of $%56. Their arrest was brougnt about by information furnished by George Benedict, Joliet garage man, who repaired a tire on the stolen Nash the fugitives were driving. e Libertyville, HL. This strong practical dur-- able arm _ chair 375 only"...:" ... i the ence will ide whether or not they will be prosecuted in Joliet or brought for trial. two cars are Some of ty who used to : "two heads better than now have chiljren who argue that and