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composure. Then he made a statement for the "press" : "I shall give Wayman 1,000 po licemen if he wants them," he said. The next person summoned was Peter Bartzen, president of the county board. Wayman has asked Bartzen for funds to carry on the crusade. . Bartzen prom ised to do his best to get $5,000 for Wayman at the earliest pos , sible moment. Wayman gave out a statement today. He said he was going to close all the houses if it took a raid every day and every hour of the day and that the owners of the houses would be prosecuted before the inmates. "Probably 5,000 warrants will have to be issued before the work is completed, but completed it will be. And we certainly are not going through long and ted ious prosecutions of keepers and inmates so long as they are per mitted to run by the police. We are going after the owners and agents." The levee was deserted today. When the raiding began last night, there was first laughter, and then panic. Men and women fled from the houses, some of them scantily attired. The leaders of the vice trust are s'aid to have fled the city and state. None of. them-were ar rested in last night's raid, al though one of the places raided was that of Vic Shaw, wife of Roy Jones, one of the-vice bosses. She was tipped off and escaped. t Mayor Harrison is still on .the fence, and absolutely refuses to join in the civic cleaning up. o o MILLER CONTINUES Federal Courtroom, Indianap olis, Ind., Oct. 5. District Attor ney Miljer continued opening statement in dynamite conspiracy trial today. Branded Herbert S. Hockin, secretary-treasurer of iron work ers, as thief, double-crosser and informer. Said Hockin used to pay Mc Manigal $125 for each job and charge the organization $235, pocketing the $110 difference. Said Hockin had come to Fed eral building with information against his fellows so as to try to save his own skin. Called on Hockin to stand up so he could see him. Hockin did so, his face crimson. Pictured McManigal, the in former, as a humane man, who liked to blow places up, but did not like to take human life. Rehashed old stories about "jobs" done at Mount Vernon, 111., Alton, 111., Indianapolis and other places. Nearly all Miller s- opening statement so fafjust repetition o grounds on which grand jury brought indictments. o o ITALIAN FORGER CAUGHT Betrayed by letters to his wife, Alfredo Traversa, wealthy Italian horseman of a noble family of the province of Bari, Italy, was ar rested in Chicago today and will be held for deportation. Traversa is wanted in Italy foe 'jgggammmUMimmmmmmmamm