Air, Rum, Millions

It is a clever man who can accumulate a fortune of $5,000,000, five years after being released from the penitentiary, but it is a wary man who does not get caught doing so.

Frank G. Parker of Chicago was clever but not wary. In 1921 he emerged from the Joliet Penitentiary after serving for four years because he had once been the "crown prince" of automobile thieves. He discarded automobiles in favor of airplanes. He became a hero. In 1923 a colony of fishermen were trapped by a blizzard on South Fox Island in Lake Michigan. Aviator Parker flew to their aid, carrying food and clothing. In 1924 he was a guarantor of the Carpentier-Gibbons fight at . Michigan City, Ind. People wondered whence he had acquired his wealth. Last week he and eight of his employes were indicted as the operators of 45 breweries and an airplane bootlegging system. Federal agents said that Aviator Parker's transportation methods had put his profits over the $5,000,000 mark.