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y * gt PHILADELPHIA EVAIINS BULLETIN. . ch va i Nay 26, 1932. . ae Ee lyre . cee Jenaing sane on tosses, GN a :|U. S. OPENS DRIVE | |u.s OPENS DRIVE ewrs hse ’ a — -, \ Pa; and are said to have conducted So Jury—10 Accused of Bank- | ;/0n base ball samen, horse races, policy ‘The ten bankrupts were indicted es & result of complaints by their credi- tors that they had lost over $150,000 in the failures of the firma concerned. - Those indicted Included: : Irving, Zasiow, Samuel 1.. members of the bankrupt firm of the Philadelphia Dr. Goods Co., with concealing ruptcy Frauds * " - 75 TRUE BILLS RETURNED A drive against Jottery agents and fraudulent bankrupts in Pennsylvania 23-25 Rag ty My Charges . was started today by the United States Albert H. Gittelmacher, president and ae treasurer of Gittelmacher Sons. Inc.. manu- Government with the return of indict- ments by the May Federal Grand Jury. Of 75 true bills returned 19 were against alleged lottery operators and 10 against bankrupts. The rest repre- sented prohibition lew violations and other offenses. Particular emphasis was placed on the bankrupt indictments. Recently representatives of business howses all over the country, testifying before a Senate investigating committee in Washington, charged that Philadelphia was the “easiest” city in the country in which to conduct fraudulent bank- ruptcy proceedings. . Most of the principals in the lot- teries, according to the indictments, er, 416 N. d 1 9 Holland "Gprol an eneral matager o 0) Ole atered, Furniture ee 220 8. 24 at.. todleted J. dealer, of 24 st. a facturers of men's clothing. 418 Cherry at., charged with concealing cash of $9,822. Leon B. Goldman, proprietor of the Point Breeze Furniture House, 1608-10 Point Breeze av., charged with Biding §30.208 in mer- chandise and cash. . Jack Coopersmith, fruft and uce deal- $11,000. from his assets, of wit « : tm his esse’ Abraham Charnofsky, treasurer f 022 in mer- for foncealing $50,022 e ‘A. Sandler, @ bankrupt retal! furniture ve Market. indicted with Charnofaky, for atding and him is betting the secretion of §1, tp casb and furniture worth $100 Louts Cohen, men’s furnishing, who had Gtores at Tth st. and Poxser av. {th and Jackson sts., and 621 Market st. The tdict- tent charges he used false financial atate- ents to obtain merchandise on credit and operated out of Reading and Ephrata, Gisposed of $30,940 in caah within 32 (Continued on Page Two, Column Cohen recorded the expenditures as expenses or ‘‘aAvertising. salaries,” and other over- Those indicted on the lottery charges are: Two men who gave their names as Jo- seph Berkowitz, Ruben Berkowitz, Jack Lep- singer, Aj Offerman. ene Koren, My.o Hilyard, Samuel Welsh. . Jack Podger, all of Reading: George Kline- fetter, Roland H. Garber, Wiitfam H. Shump Melvin G. Faust, Hayden Brubaker, ond Bheeffer, J. L. Manghis. Bam Drybr George F. Groves, aff of Ephrata... AAT Se . 7 eines ope gentin Ee OPvercm samere Ae amen y-* ULFARTMENT us . Leanne VEILAL BA. , Raat els