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= a od within ate weels he ie. \ te tris -Tiewsphper attacks ‘he underworld and upon city aunty officials, Then tha Min Rag law, passed by the state ‘ure jn 1925, was invoked : Guilford and his partner,- Sear, co-publishers of the Sat- Press, The case against them osecu{ed by Floyd Clson. press gee law was pecullfar -nesota alone. It permitted ‘anty or state officials to sup- without trial by fury, papers published matter of a “mall- scandalous, or defamatory” Process of suppression was lows: The county attorney tly go before & court, make ‘sation against a paper, and e judge issue an injunction ing publication. The judge yuid decide whether the ac- was justified and the mat- ited in the paper actually ‘us, scandalous, or defama- Olson appeared in court Near the injunction against issuance of the Saturday as granted. The case was : to the Minnesota Supreme ifeh upheld the lower court, at the paper was a nuisance law valid, : time the case was attract- ‘ion-wide attention. The 1 Newspaper Publishers’ as- took it up, supplying $5,000 through contributions to- JRDAY PRESS” PaGl TWO Dress = | SINGLE GOFIES FI°E CEnwta Weng eerat dupes be aid rie Morven et cinptoytt | gum dirried $74. Tels galls wd thene airs Prove ngge rink Che jpemet Grom mie Each ome! and ee ee reeruneed, thru the ery and dee cettal artiory of the Focal eae imeaineruted othuiore ad Use Br edge Square type whe are ff wetirtater 1nd at ess of Dec, 14, 1935, ablisher. YT Committers: com ite sich wonisvies wae -- Within a short time Ritten worked “Sat an eTrangement with Alderman © Giebenhain of the Tenth ‘ward, @ Jabor representative, and J. Russell Sheffield, Eighth ward,-to accept money which would later be divided among the trie. Certain other aldermen, including John P. Eckberg, a labor party politician from the Twelfth ward; Fred Maur- er, another Jabor man from the ‘Third ward, and E, J. Sweeney and W. H. Pendell intermittently took part in the boodling. ee All went well with the ring untit John Woodward and Werner H, Ruff offered Ritten $1,000 to get enough votes in the council jicense committee to enable them te obtain @ license for a cabaret to be named The Stables, which they proposed to open. Ritien informed Weood- ward, who offered the bribe, that it would cost at Jeast $1,500, ‘This incident occurred in the summer of 1928. Ritten's confession, given on Feb. 15, 1929, follows: “The following day Woodward came into my office with the money, but & few days later he asked for it again, stating he needed it for other purposes. I returned it to him. A few days later he returned and handed me back the money. “The license was acted upon fa- vorably both in the Hcense commit- tee and by the council. George Sheffield received $500. Giebenhain got $500, and I kept $500 for myseli. “A few days after my return from New Orleans in December, 1928, Giebenhain called me by phone and told me by all means to get in touch with Ruff. I told him I would if I could. Ruff had given. Woodward the $1,500 paid us. The next day Tl arranged for a meeting with him at the home of a friend in north Minneapolis and begged Ruff not to mention my name in connection with the cabaret license. I admit- ted to him I had received the money from Woodward, and declared to Ruff that I would make everything right with him after the investiga- tion had blown over if he would remain aflent. I told him I would do anything in the world to keep my name out of the papers in con- hection with this matter. “He promised faithfully that he would say nothing. This meeting was in the afternoon. The next day I calied Frank Brunski!: [then the chief investigator for County Attor- ney Floyd Olson, having been re- moved by Mayor George Leach from the post of chief of police} because he was e very good friend of mine, and asked him to see me, “He came to the office early in the afternoon. I teld him about my meeting with Ruff. He told me SE, SS Sopa “RAE Wkly CSMEDUed o “Gee tf F000, Which Hilien prov’ 4. Sittten “tele gsc Shei Won : 4. Berocuey, iGhor alGerymen, Tidal _ —eU— me ~ ward, 2 years, acrepting brie, | == ee eee aS _Semenore money 20 gato of ty sn 7 : Se ~“eeying « grand jury subpena Rad “been ispuefi for his appearance. in - all Ritten gave Woodward $3,300 to get out of town. Then he was toh thet Hoff wee about to go be- tere the -gren@ tory" “Hle then de.” cided to go before the grand jury and try to get immunity, on advice of Cary. The confession continues: “A few days lafer Cary arranged for a-meeting between myself, County Attorney Floyd B. son, and himself in a room at the Minne- apolis Athletic club. At that time I told the county attorney every- thing I knew, except the payments — to Woodward. The next conference was in the office of the county at- torney on the morning of the day I appeared before the grand jury. I was alone with the county attor- ney part of the time. I had got there early to evold being seen. The county attorney told me he would get me into the grand jury room as s00n as the jury convened. “ After I had been in:ihe county attorney's office for a short time Cary came in with a document signed by Judge Bardwell] granting me complete immunity. Cary told me I was ‘absolutely clean’ on ev- erything up to the time I went into the grand Jury room, “Before entering the grand jury room I was told by the county at- torney to answer all questions that he or any member of the grand jury asked me, which I did, After I had completed my testimony the county attorney stated that I had made a good impression, in his opinion, on the jury members. I remained in the county attorney’s office until the grand jury adjourned, and then he assisted me in getting out without anybody noticing me.” From the testimony given by Rit- ten to that grand jury indictments were returned against Aldermen Eckhberg, Glebenhain, Maurer, Shef- field, Sweeney and Rendell. A group r ‘When I feel ron down? headachy, half sick—when the children get irritable, eranky—then I know it’s a sign of con- stipation. ] get out our family bor of FEEN - A- MINT, the chewing-zurm laz- ative. There used to be a time when wa took old-fashioned, barsh, “gil-at-once” cathartics, bat that’s all over now. We just chew FEEN-A-MINT for thres minutes before going TUNE IN National Amatear Night, radio's smash hit, with Ray Perkina, Arnold Johnaon, and Amatent Glare —Columbia Network, 57. M., €. 8. T., Every Sunder, eg re Morr: Wisenstadt, Aeaner and ~ ayer, convicted of giving bribe, _ Paid 32,500, James ED Fox, off broker, pleaded guilty Jo giving —-_-- bribe; paid $750. Toe Charges Dismissed. Consent of State J, Russell Sheffield, “silk stock- ing” Eighth ward, indicted for re- celving bribe; Don Green, agent for fire apparatus manufacturing company, indicted for giving bribe: Irsae} Ridker, real estate “broker, indicted for giving bribe: E. P. Brown, business man, indicted for giving bribe; Henry M. Basker ville, business man, indicted for giving bribe; Emil Sheffe, garage Proprietor, indicted for giving bribe. Not Indicted Louis N. Ritten, “sitk stocking ™ Second ward: John H. Woodward, cabaret proprieior. A glance at the table shows that only jabor representatives were given prison sentences. Ritten, the self-confessed leader of the graft ring, came free untouched and today is a grain merchant in Minneapolis, Fox, the oil broker, resisted ex. tradition from St. Louis, Mo., for nearjy a year. Then he threatened in speeches made to newspaper re porters to “biow the roof off the county building in Minneapolis if not granted immunity.” After sev. era] conferences with County Attor- ney Olson the defendant. pleaded guilty and was fined $750. Yet it was this incident which made it possible for Floyd Olson to run for governor in 1930. He was elected by a plurality given him by the labor voters. —_— The third of this series on “Mur- der in Minneapolis ” in an early issue. will appear INNO more half-sick feeling for me...no more harsh all-at-once’ catharties’” to bed—(that's why it's called “the three. minute way”)—andit goes to work easily, pleasantly, and gradually. There are no cramps, no nauaca, no bad sfter-effecta, Our family wouldn't be without it for anything. Costs only Ibe and 25¢ « box,