Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 13 July 1923 — Page 3
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 19?3.
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of ensnaring that same womanhood j find out by asking. Incidentally he and however is it, that they are so j will discover that the lawyers were .'rampant to enforce the Volstead act, thoroughly disgusted with the task
when the very latest accounts show their principal method was by trying
that was wished upon them, of trying to get signatures to the most un-
to drink every thing in sight. These popular petition that was ever circu-
j and other questions of great import- ! ance to the American people con I cerning th's scorpion we have warm- ! ed to our bosom, are to be discussed in the following weeks as well as the j lifting the masks by publication of j names with a view to regaining our j religious end political freedom after /next election. We are presenting here, for the , consideration of the people of Grant county, the names of a few klans-
men:
j MARION WINE, county commissioner elect, R. R., Marion, i REV. W. C. ASAY, Thirteenth I street church, Maricn. I HENRY BILLINGS, salesman Osborn Paper company, Marion. < TIP BOXELL, Center townshhip trustee and democratic county chairman, Iroquois building. EARL CARR, postoffice, Marion. \ BURR CUSTER, automobile re, pair, 315 West Second street. 1 FRANK URY, ex-constable, Marks
1 building, Marion.
j CHARLES WILMORE, barber, ; North Washington street, Marion. | B. B. CROSS, Gas City. J. W. PRITCHETT, carpenter,
lated in Delaware county.
SOFT DRINKS
Ice Cold Pop Ice Cream
Dennis Shanahan Indianapolis Brewery Co. Bldg. 600 SOUTH NTO'NROE ST.
New York—On the verge of depor-. a photograph showing him in an tation because the quota, had been; American uniform, as an A. E. F. sol-
exhausted, Sophia Zisimation, won dier in a Rheinish village. Photo Spencer Avenue, Marion, entry into this country, when Mike ; shows: the happy couple, Mr. and Mrs. | FRANK SHUGART, milk dealer,
Spesser, now her husband produced j Mike Spesser. Marion.
i WALTER MICKEL, 31st and Wall
~ streets, "groceries, both sergeants, all of the police which, when put in operation, may [ JOHN BRYAN, no address,
force but two members and the city put some stiffening in ihe spines of i judge are klansmen and eight of the the faint hearted broihers who would ! thirteen members of the city coun- rather take off their hats to the! cil belong to the order. klan and lick the boots of the whzard ! Muncie is notorious for its “red'- than lose a nickel’s worth of busi- j
light/’ where women, booze and dice ness.
serve to make Muncie odious. In
HEAD KLUCKERS IN
MONEY SCRAP IN BIG
FIGHT FOR CONTROL
Simmons, the Drunken Em-
peror, Defies Wizard Evans, the New Boss. !.
34 ARRESTED IN LIQUOR CLEAN-UF AT FORT WAYNE
“Vice Squad” Leader Amongf
Those Arrested—Prisoners Enjoy Big Spree.
; Near East Relief Worker Decorated by Greece
Starts New Klan To Oppose Old Emprie
AFTER STEALING HOOTCH FROM CELL Three So Drunk They Had To Be Placed In Padded Cell. Lis* ^ —^
Ckas. W. Fowle of New York, Foreign Secretary of the Near East Relief, who has been awarded the Cross of St. Xavier
Regime Is Going To the Damnation Bow-Wows.
CHARLES HOWARD, no address.
LAW FOR THE OTHER
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KLUX CONSTABLE
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principle that laws did not apply to them. The system would not work. Most of the Barons died suddenly and painfully. Ku Kluxism in this country is building up a hatred
BANK STATEMENT
0. W. Storer, President. Report of the condition of
that district certain law breakers operate under the protection of this
ku klux police department.
In a dozen cigar stores of Muncie
gambling for money .goes on, day gown of the Wizard, will be employ- against it that, becoming aggressive, and night, under tlffe hoses of po- ed to spread the meaningless propa-, will lead to the severest measures licemen who belong to the klan. Chief ganda of kl&nsmanship. : that police and courts and penitenof Police Benbow knows these gam- The klan has announced its inten- tiary wardens can put into effect.— bling houses are running and the tion of obtaining control of both po- New York Record-Press. chief belongs to the klan, which litical parties here and will strive to j —— stands for law and order. fill both tickets with klansmen. They; FARMERS OPPOSE DEARTH Once an hour policemen on the are especially active in conspiring to J beats are required to go through and name the nominees for governor, | (Continued From Page One.) . inspect these games. When the po- representative in congress and the ; —-— i the lice enter the front doors of these state legislature and sheriff of the j and then voted, unanimously, in op-
Ft. Wayne, Ind., July 13.—The number of victims of the federal prohibi-
tion raiding squad wnlch has been operating in Ft. Wayne since Saturday . ,,
Says Klan Under Present mounted to thirty-four last evening, t , ie J 11 -- llest Civil honor, by The */ I »ur oTkv^’Pivmimit ir» i»o**no*r»irirm
when seven were brought into the county jail b&the federal officers be-
tween 4 and 6 o’clock.
About thirty prisoners at the county
ja«l yesterday enjoyed champagne- street
Beaumont, Texas,—William J. Sim- Martini cocktails and other fine wines mons, emperor of the Ku Klux Klan, an ^ liquors, which were part of the spoke to a crowd estimated at fully supply captured by federrl officers 20,000 at the South Texas state fair from the home of Sam Wolf, former grounds Friday night following a loca i merchant. Seven bottles were
barbecue
all
Greek govermnent in recognition of his services in relief work.
Paul Wutzer, 2200 block Chestnut
Jacob Wilson, colored, Culbertson
street.
John Collins, 2205 Spy Run avenue. Herman Tillman, East Main street.
. .. . Theodore Glusenkamp, 1311 West There were visitors from stolen from a cell in which the booze Main street sections of Texas and Louisiana had been stored. Three of the men ■ 1
as the event had been extensively ad- are dead drunk and have been placed s^eet
Jess Studebaker, 1311 West Main
vertised.
Simmons made casual reference to his break with the present adminis-
in padded cells, it was learned. j Alab eHe Rfppe, 1320 1-2 South CalSheriff Bobilya said today that one houn street
of the prisoners had managed to up-
William Vachon, 2126 Gay street,
(police department.)
Sam Wolf, 313 West Berry street. Agnes Daniel King, 1320 1-2 South
., . _, . , , . . - Edward Felger, Main street, near
tration of ihe klan but in an inter- se t one of the barrels with a broom R unn j on * view previous to the speaking he de- which was projected through the bars dared that he intended to make the and had rolled the bottles to within klan as he wants it or he would aban- reach from the outside of the cell. In don it altogether. order to prevent the theft of more Every railroad ran a special train booze, the sheriff has placed an iron Calhoun street
to the barbecue. Forty beeves were door in the present repository. The B E codette, Lone Oak roadhouse, cooked for the occasion. liquor was stored in the jail because Lincoln Highway east
Previous to the speaking Simmons there is not sufficient room in the said: I vault in the sheriff’s office, he said. “This much is true, that I shall' The sensational series of raids on either succeed in building this sec-! alleged violators of the liquor laws ond order to carry out my original came to a climax today with the ar-
Muncie Banking Co., Bank at Muncie protected gambling houses to look county. They are also looking for-1 P° sltj on to the salary increase, in the State of Indiana, at the close over the games, the boss announces ward t0 tlie cit y Action of 1925 and ^ It: was lhe concensus ol opinion of its business on June 30th, 1923. | in advance that the police are com- arroiantly Tjoast that they will soon; taat the Present salary, $4,200, is
RESOURCES ! ing and lor everybody to put their be in control, one hundred percent,; ade<luat€ ’ and that the y could see no
Loans and Discounts 10476.50 money in their pockets until the blue in Marion. ; particular reason for favoring a Other Bonds and Securities. .11500.00 coats go out. This meanrs that patty Tines :have ; movement to reward him with an adFurniture and Fixtures 1000.00 This dismal farce goes on, day been wholly obliterated in Marion dTional eighteen hundred dollars a
Due from Banks and Trust [after day, the police and the gambl- and Grailt county. The voting con-; J ear for Performing his Co’s 7695.19 ers “playing like” the gambling for t€sls in the coming campaigns will ^ uties * Cash on liand 525.07 money is being kept a dark and dis- be kIan and auti-klan, the forces of
Current Expenses 311.70 mal secret from the officers. The orderly 'government opposing the | m attempting to justify the salary Other Assets , 3352.09 police who visit these gambling arrogant and domineering minions | S r ab, caused the farmers to sit up in
joints are
Total Resources 34,860.55 jority 0 f cases the proprietors of the , . LIABILITIES [Places belong, in order to get pro- Jt is to be observed from talking Juvenile campaign, and of the numer-
statutory
The argument presented by Dearth
plans and purposes or I shall aban- rest of Special Police Officer William street don the whole thing. The order of Vachon, head of the so-called “vicethe Knights of the Ku Klux Klan is squad,” on a charge of conspiracy to in a peculiar sense my child. If I violate the national prohibition act. cannot save my offspring from pros- The affidavit upon which Vachon was titution I shall at least never VOU- arrested alleged that Vachon “did contribute to its degradation.” spire, confederate and agree with Thus Simmons told of his deter- Jacob Wildemann and Leo Poinsette mination to establish the Becohd to violate the national prohibition act.” order of klan knighthood, the The most sensational of the twentyKnights of the Kamelia, the promul- seven arrests since the raids began gation of which has precipitated an Friday occurred late Tuesday night avenue open break between Colonel Sim- when Sam Wolf, prominent business mons and Imperial Wizard Evans. man and a former owner of the largest Without mention ng Dr. H. W. EV- department store in north Indiana, was ans by name, Colorel Simmons re- taken and an assortment of chamfnted statements attributed to the pagne, wines, liquors and fine ‘Whiskey
Louie Brudi, Lincoln Highway, east. Clarence Hegerfeld, 2006 South.
Broadway.
Alex Bednorski, 1833 Gay street. A. C. Aichele, 627 East Lewis
Charles Degitz, 1102 Wells street
Oliver Miller, 1410 Lillie street.
Carl Stendhal, 901 Woodview ave.
Earl Heutt, Stellhorn road.
Frank Deischel, Sec. West End.
Athletic club.
C. C. Sosenheimer, 1219 East Wayn-e
street
H. Tonsing, 1219 East Wayne street Aloisius Poinsetta, 1016 Maumee
t , rriv. - , , ,. . ; klan wizard "to the effect that estimated to be worth $15,000 was con- ^ klansmen and in'the ma- of ~ a iupergovernment which hides • e y a € ® n reJ L lnS in i nothing but harmony prevailed with- fiscated. Wolf was held in the county Bernard Moran ises the Drnnrietnrs r>f tho behind a mask. | the daily press of Judge DttMrt * full until early yesterday moruing,! ^ernaM Moran,
me when he was released on bonds. Wolf.
Pete Ostrovski, 1801 Weisser Park
avenue.
George McCarthy, 133 West Colum-
bia street.
F. H. Sessler, bartender in Mc-
Capital Stock—paid in 10000.00 tection from the sheriff, prosecutor with the citizenship of Marion and | ous s P eech e 8 ™ ad e by him in church-
the juveniles in his jurisdiction and were painfully surprised to find out the price demanded by the Judge
Surplus 4817.40 and police department. Grant county tliat the masses of the j es ’ country school houses and before Interest, Discount, etc 449.14 1 The klan sent investigators to An- People are not in favor of the hooded various organizations, in behalf of
Demand Deposits, .19594.01 ; derson, Where only a small percent organization but the apparent reluct-
! of the peace officers are klansmen, *mce, of many who believe in the
Total Liabilities 34,860.551 and found plenty. If they will take ri S ht to espouse the cause of the
STATE OF INDIANA, COUNTY OF, the trouble to come to Muncie and fundamental principles of the con- j io J beJn S a “ bl g brother” to helpless DELAWARE, ss: j investigate they will find that the stitution (said one of Grant county childhood^was eighteea hundred dol-
I, O. W. Storer, President of the Post-Democrat has not exaggerated, citizens) is a cause of grave conMuncie Banking Co., do solemnly I We congratulate the klan, and its of- cern; for it would indicate that swear that the above statement is ficial organ, the Fiery Cross, for re- Klansmen sit in high places and
! largely control the local government
true.
j pudiating the Muncie klan officials,
O. W. STORER, | who have finally become too rotten Subscribed and sworn before me, even for the invisible empire.
this 3rd day of July, 1923. (SEAL) Theda T. Hafner,
Notary Public.
My commission expires
1923.
lars a year, the price to be paid out of the pockets of the people who had been fed up to believe that it was the good of the cause, and not the
and it is to be noticed that all three | desire for more money, that had of the local papers keep a discreet stirred the judge to such voluble exsilence and touch on no subject, fremities in promoting his campaign in any way incur the , f °r tb e reform of juvenile delinquen-
in the o'ganization.
“From information coming to
in Atlanta, it is indicated that some in a statement to newspaper men after 6 i- reet sections of Texas are approaching his release, said the liquor was in his revolt,” Simmons declared. possession before the Volstead act and “My purpose of coming to Texas j eighteenth amendment went into efis to discuss with klansmen of this ; feet, and some of it has been in his great state the restlessness and un- [ home since he was married, twenty-
happy condition of the organization, j two years ago, he added.
This condition in Texas is similar j The victims of the raiders follow:
to conditions obtaining throughout | E. C. Delong. 1322 Gay street,
the invisible empire. Some states j Mrs. Winnifred Jemison, 928 East
formerly vigorous and aggressive in i Washington street,
klan craft -are now merely marking | John. Chakos, 1423 South Calhoun
time with all activities suspended,” street.
801 Monroe street.
Otto Neuman, 626 Harrison street. Henry Ryer, 1948 East Washington
J. Clyde Wilhelm, 202 West Superior
street.
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS
OFFICE OF THE BOARD
212 Wysor Block
Muncie, Ind., . .
Anniston, Ala., is the largest producing center of cast iron pipe in
the world.
MUNCIE OFFICIALS. (Continued to Page Two)
cy matters.
The people of Delaware county are without exception absolving Judge Murray from any active connection
If the “grand dragon” of the in
visible empire wants to make a real ’which would hit in Muncie, and wants to gain the displeasure of the Klan.
Sept. 23, good will of citizens here who de- Gn ^ be other hand those same loride the klan’s law and order pre- cal organs are quick to comment on tensions, let him institute here one meetings of the night riders, and in
of the Man’s vaunted moral clean-up a favorable tone, which brings us to i "’ith ihe propose. salary grab, campaigns and then tell the world the QUeation: Could it be possible Judge Murray had nothmg to do what he found in the net that men of the apparent intelligence | with the origination of the idea. The
of these publishers, be members of plan was hatched in the fertile brain so despicable an organization, found-1 of Clarence Dearth and it 'was ed only on the false premise of hat- j through him that lawyers were pracred, or hae their red blood turned to j tically black jacked into circulating
water that they stand in fear of the petitions. official organ, really means what it | Post-Democrat? One wealthy Ca- those who dare not reveal their vissays, the cartoon is important, in j tholic business ma»’s even carrying age and who deny their identity that the klan itself cannot stomach j an advertisement in the Fiery with the institution? the klan officials of Muncie. J Cross! It is a matter of comment among One thing >which has prejudiced i It is time now for the rank and Marion citizens that the merchants the Post-Democrat and citizens of file of those, who for various reasons who almost without exception are
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JEW AND CATHOLIC
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The Post-Democrat has been informed by lawyers who attended the bar meeting at which the matter was brought up that both Judge Dearth and Judge Murray were present
Colonel Simmons explained.
France, a great prune-producing i area, bought millions of pounds of the. dried fruit from the United!
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the
_ amounts of prima facie assessments, Michael B. Koehl, 2101 Weisser Park j ha '' e beea made and are n °w on file
| and can be seen at the office of the
avenue. [ Board, for the following improve-
Frank Kendjersker, South Anthony ments, to-'wit:—
William Raney, 1932 Fairfield ave. John W. Lynch, 1928 Broadway.
States in 1923,, due to a short crop, j boulevard.
Harding Decorates Boy Scouts for Bravery
When the matter of the salary in-
Muncie, against the klan, is the pre-. are opposed to the klan, to perfect anti-Klan) do not refuse their patron- j crease was mentioned, Judge Murray tension that the organization stands a protective organization. The Ca- age to these papers and compel them ! hurriedly arose and suggested that for law and order, with the stench i tholics, negroes and white protest- to lend their aid to the eradication i he and Judge Dearth retire from the
under our ( ants who do not believe in the klan, of this octopus which is slowly but, meeting, in
order that the attorneys
in discuss-
of Muncie officialdom
very nostrils. j have confidence in the Post-Demo- surely crushing the life from free ’ might not be embarrased Judge Dearth, a klanman, belong-1 crat and look to it as the only agen- people and institutions. i ing it.
ing to an order which professes to | cy in Muncie that is resisting the en- The intelligent and proper think-1 It was stated that Judge Dearth at be the guardian of free speech and | croachments of the insiduous foe. ing women and men of Grant county | this meeting reminded the lawyers a free press fined the editor of the j The Post-Democrat has about as are wondering how a class of per-1 that he had always observed the fee Post-Democrat one thousand dollars | large a family of readers in Muncie sons can be one hundred percent! schedule of the local bar and that he and sentenced him to six months j and vicinity as any otheT newspaper American and float with a flourish ! always expected to, and the inference imprisonment for criticizing the very j here. We like our readers and they of trumpets the Stars and Stripes ! was drawn-' that the remark was inofficials whose heads were chewed like us. We ask these readers to while they at the same time form an ! tended to convey the idea inasmuch
look over this issue of the paper and empire, with an emperor, living in an | as he had scratched the back of the
take note of the few advertisers who imperial palace, to say nothing of have courage enough to be seen in their klegals, cyclops, goblins and all our company. Stay with them other such tommyrot. through thick and thin, but don’t Another man wants to know how shed any tears over the Jew, Catho- happens it, that some of the Klan lie or Protestant merchant who re- principles wishes to protect the wofuses to advertise in this paper manhood of the country all at once,
through fear of the klan. when they are well known to have J may, if any citizen of Delaware counI am ready to present to Post-Dem- used every artifice of their vulgar ty wants to know the private opin-
off by the Fiery Cross dragon. Sheriff Hoffman and Prosecutor Ogle, klansmen, were nominated and elected by the consolidated votes of the law breaking element of Muncie, and are now helping to protect Bob Graves and other law breakers in Whose dens of vice they both participated in drunken booze parties
in the last election.
members of his bar by allowing them all the fees they ask for, that they should “scratch his hack” by helping
him get his.
There are also some who construed the remark to be not only a. promise, but a threat, but be that as It
The chief of police, both captains, ocrat readers a plan of organization and twisted minds for the purpose ^ ion of any member of the bar, he can
Six Boy Scouts of Butte, Mont., re- Harding for heroism in aiding to save ceived decorations from President j the lives of several persons on recent ' occasions.
I. R. No. 924-1923, For paving of the alley between Wilson Avenue and Kilgore Avenue west from Powers street to alley south of Orcutt'S Addition west to Kilgore Avenue. D. R. No. 943-1923, For Benefits and Damages for the vacation of Reeves street from west line of Martin Street to east line Of McKinley Avenue, except the street intersection of Calvert Avenue and the alley intersections between Martin Street and Calvert Avenue and Calvert Avenue and McKinley Avenue. , I. R. No. 953-1923, For a local sewer in alley between Macedonia Avenue and Lincoln Street from First Street to Second Street. I. R. No. 959-1923, For cement alley between Willard street and Fifth Street from High Street to Franklin Street. , I. R. No. 977-1923, For cement alley between Madison Street from Columbia Avenue to Myrtle Avenue. I. R. No. 991-1923, For cement SideWalk on north side of Columbia Avenue from Elm Street to first alley east of Elm Street. And notice is hereby given that on the 27th day of July 1923 the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts of land have been or will be benefitted by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum, at which time and place all owners of such real estate may attend, in person or by representative, and be heard at 9:00 o’clock A. M. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Advertised on July 13-20-1923.