Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 19 December 1924 — Page 3

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1924

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

Automobile

announces the begin-

STATE AUTO ASSN. ANNOUNCES NEW SERVICE IN 1925 Touring Information Will

Be Furnished All

^ Over State.

The Hoosier State

Association

ning of a new service, which is just j one of the many features of Hoos- ! iei* State i&IS Campaign. One pur- j pose of this service is to keep you posted on what is going on all over ' the State; to give you tips and sug- 1 gestions that will help you build up ] your business; put you next on how ( to get more out of Tourists; what to do and what to keep fnom doing to make a hit with local and transient customers; tell you what the other fellow is doing in your line and to keep in closer personal touch with you for the genera] good of H.

S. A. A.

This association would like to have you make any suggestions at any time that will aid in making the service more valuable. If you know something good, pass it along. If you have any interesting experiences, let the H. S. A. A. know about them. It’S all to make “Hoosier Service” the best in the country. Another 1925 feature of the service is—All branch offices will be equipped with touring information and data, the like of which has nev-

er been seen before.

Another 1925 featrue—H S. A. A. has recently secured the services of a man who has studied and analyzed Tburing Conditions for years. His job will be to help everybody in Indiana. Write him for anything you want to know—address Supervisor of Touring Service. Don’t hesitate, shoot in yonr questions, and see what he tells you. Civic Associations can book him for talks provided few days notice is given. Help us “Sell Indiana” by supporting the association. We have just as good lakes as Michigan; we have much better roads than Wisconsin; we have just as good scenery as Minnesota; there is no state that has better people. We have a river that the world has always been singing about; the moon shines fairer" on our Indiana Home than any place else in the world; every man, woman and child has read books written about us; in historic value and places to go we are second to none, yet over a million cars annually go to the Dells of Wisconsin when Turkey Run is way ahead of it. Thousands upon thousands visit Starved Rock in Illinois while McCormicks Creek Canyon is ten times as interesting and Pigeon Roost of greater historic interest. At our very door is one Of the seven wonders of the World, yet more automobiles register at Grand Detour in Illinois. What State can boast of a Marengo or a Wyandotte Cave? California boasts of its wonderful trees, yet in Indiana is the tallest broad leaf tree in North America. Minnesota setting way up there out of range of everything, registered over $42,000,000.00 from tourists in one season. That is nothing to what Indiana can get if the Motorists of the Country are TOLD about it and after being told, INVITED to see what there is to see. We have everything we could possibly ask for to make Indiana the greatest Tourist State of all. Pride alone should prompt us to tell the world who we are and what we possess, but as a business proposition, let’s loOk up from the old and gaze upon the new. Eighty percent of the East and West traffic must go thru Indiana; more than fifty percent of the north and south traffic (Central States) does go thru Indiana But they don’t have to stop and thousands of them are NOT stopping—WHY?' They are not invited or told what a wonderful State Indiana really is. Hoosier State is going to tell the world what Indiana has to offer—We are going out on the Highways and Byways and preach “COME TO INDIANA.” This means money to every Hoosier, no matter what line or ousiness he is in, and it means prestige, publicity and good fellowship. Do we work alone? Think this over. C. H. Kirk and L. M. Harrell of Indianapolis, repesentatives Of the Hoosier State Automobile Association ,are in Portland and will call on you within the next day or two.

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Public school children in Panama are required to bathe every day. Two Viennese chemists, according to announcement made in a German scientific paper have succeeded in making a malleable r glass out of horn substance and formaldehyde. It is said to be perfectly transparent, and impervious to water and to most chemical influences.

Costello Denies NEIGHBOR PULLS He Is Mamed: 2-YEAR-OLD GIRL

THROUGH WINDOW

Ft. Wayne, Dec. 19.—Timothy j Costello, Jr., 24, living at 127 Mas- j terson, former gridiron star, who j now lies in St. Joseph hospital recov-! ering from the effects of poison ■ which he took with suicidal intent Sunday evening, denied in a statement yesterday, that a love affair was the cause of his attempted suicide. He also denied that he and Madeline Geiger, 314 East Jefferson street, were married in Michigan,

Two Sons and One Daughter of Glen Dunlap Cremated.

Thursday.

CLAIMS HIGHT ASKED WOMAN TOCONFESS Witness Says He Overheard Conversation Be1 tween Two In Cell.

Mount Vernon, 111., Dec. 19— After Lawrence M. Hight, former Methodist clergyman of Ina, 111., confessed th poisoning his wife, he pleaded with his mistress, Mrs. Elsie Sweetin,.to ‘ get right with God” by confessing that s-be had similarly mur-

dered her husband.

Elwyn Harrol Martin, a resident of this town, took the witness stand in their trial Monday, and related a conversation he declared he overheard between them shortly after Hight had made his confession. “Where were you?” asked the at-

torney.

“I was sitting on the branch of a tree and could see right in the cell,” explained Martin, adding: “I could sure hear everything, too.” He was told to proceed with his story. “Well, they brought Mrs. Sweetin into Right’s cell. He tried to kiss her and she wouldn’t let him. She jumped away from him and said ‘If you don’t quit I’ll scream.”’ “What happened then?” asked the attorney. “Hight then tried to get Mrs. Sweetin to confess,’ testified Martin “He said: ‘Why don’t you go ahead with it? I have confessed. It is the only way, Elsie, to get right with God. You know you gave him the poison after I told you to. You know you did'” Mrs. Sweetin her pale face twitching, followed Martin on the Stand and denied that she had confessed to murdering her husband so she could be free to marry “Brother

Hight.”

“I was all wrought up when they took me to the jail,” she said. “I didn’t know what I was doing or what T said.”

Ft. Wayne, Dec. 19,—The timely act of Leander Rawers, laboref at the block factory on the Decatur road, saved little 2-year-old June Dunlap from the fate of her two brothers and sister, Von Glen, 4; Vera Aline, 3, i and Norman, 7 months old, when they were burned to death in the home of their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Dunlap, in Gardendale, four and a half miles southeast of the city,

Monday about noon,

Rawers went up to the blazing building, When the heat from it was sd intense that one could not stand comfortably within 25 feet of it, and pulled baby June from a blazing bed, through the window to safety. The child was taken to the Lutheran hospital where last night it was reported that she probably

would recover.

The charred bodies of the other three children were removed from dying embers of the home by neighbors. They were taken to the Mungoven undertaking parlors after an investigation of the fire by Coroner

Harry G. Erwin. o—

| Scutari Is Captured By Albanian Rebels London, Dec. 19.—Hot fighting in j northwestern Albania, has ended in the capture of Scutari by Albanian j rebel bands, according to Central I News dispatches from Belgrade. Scutari is a city defended by a j hilltop citadel. The report that the ; rebel activities had spread north- i ward would make the Albanian sit- \ nation appear far more serious than j when the fighting was confined to ; the south alone. o HOLDS WAR CLAIMS NOT COURT MAHER | Pres. Coolidge Expresses j His Views On Dawes Plan Issue.

LAWTOCOMPE AUTOS TO STOP AT CROSSINGS URGED Railroad Men, Manufacturers and Others Debate Question.

Easthaven Asylum Needs $414,261.50 for the Year 1925

Richmond, Bid., Dee. 19.—An appropriation of $277,036.50 in 1925, as compared With $265,609.14 for 1924, is asked for in the budget which Dr, L. F. RosS, superintendent of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, has submitted to the state budget committee, he stated here today to a conference of state senators, representatives and joint representatives of the counties which send patients to the local institution. Besides the regular budget, the institution has asked for $137,225 to cover the cost of a cottage for men, laundry equipment and electric equipment. Dr. Ross discussed the budget with the solons from the following counties': Lagrange, Steuben, Noble, DeKa\b, Allen, Whitely, Huntington, Adams, Wells, Jay, Grant, Blackford, Delaware, Randolph, Wayne, Union, Henry and Rush.

Washington, Dec. 19.—President Coolidge was represented Friday as being opposed to any plan for sub- j mission to the world court or any other tribunal of the adjudication of j war claims against Germany under the Dawes plan. His position also was said to be unchanged regarding war debt funding td the United States by France and other powers. Mr. Coolidge is known to be convinced that the American position regarding claims collection is perfectly understood by foreign governments interested and that the right of collection is established beyond question by treaty agreement. The president’s position that there is no need of referring the subject of claims collections to a tribunal for adjudication is understood to be based on the belief that whatever differences may exist between the United States and Great Britain can be adjusted by regular negotiations conducted through representatives of the two governments. Expects Recognition. He feels it is evident that the position of the Washington administration, which has been outlined to the allied and associated powers by Ambassador Kellogg during the London conference, will be recognized by the interested governments as the negotiations now being carried on be-

Washington, Dec. 19.—Possible methods of reducing the number of street and highway accidents that are taking an ever increasing toll of life and personal injury in the United States came under consideration here Monday at a national conference of state and local officials and professional, industrial and public

representatives.

Secretary Hoover, in an address calling the gathering together, declared the rate of deaths and injuries from street and highway accidents had doubled in a decade. Eight reports of committees, which had been prepared in advance by members of the conference assigned to the work, were laid before the opening sessions for discussion.

Divided into Groups

At the adjournment last night, those attending were divided into groups to give specific consideration to various proposals. Endeavor will be made to assemble their findings today, so the conference may present a series of recommendations looking to the standardizing of traffic regulations methods, safety laws and other means that may be found

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in the final period Decatur launched a determined offensive which steadily cut down the Montpelier lead. With thirty second to play Andrews grabbed the bail after the tip-off and shot. The ball dropped through the net just as the gun sounded.

SERVICE DEPT.

years. The klan of 1867 was just as xeckless in its use of the multiplication table in broadcasting the size of its membership as is the klan of today. Legerdemain and the employment of optical delusions to impress the general public was not invented by D. €. Stephenson and E. Y. Clarke, the latter-day promoters of kluxomania. They merely imitated the example set by the mountaineers who rode from the fastnesses of Tennessee and countermarched over the streets of Pulaski until their measly four hundred members in line grew

(Continued from Page One) ed words: ‘The Ku Klux will parade

the streets tonight.’

“This announcement created greatexcitement. The people supposed

for reducing danger in highway and i that their curiosity) so long baffled, ^ t0 ten thousand in the eyes of the bestreet travel. ^ ™ i wildered onlookers.

Next week the Post-Democrat will relate further historical facts concerning the klan. We will show in a series of articles, how the klan was outlawed by General Grant’s admin-

to a stop on reaching a road cross-! " r "” ~ w , istration, how it was broken up, its

ing. C. L. Bardo, general manager of the New Haven railroad, argued

A vigorous debate was occasioned in yesterday’s sessions over a proposal which railroad representatives warmly advocated, that automobile drivers on road be required to come

would now he gratified. They were confident that this parade would at least afford them the opportunity of learning who belonged to the Ku Klux 1 Klan. i “Soon after nightfall the streets 1

that death lists from crossing disasters required such legislation and was supported in his contention by representatives of the states which have laws of this kind.

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were lined with an expectant and excited throng of people. Many came from the surrounding country. The '

members of the klan

left their homes in the afternoon and traveled alone in squads of two or ■ three, with their paraphernalia carefully concealed. If questioned, they j j answered that they were going to | Pulaski to see the Ku Klux parade.

| “After nightfall they assembled at Notice of the filing of a petition designated points near the four main for the improvement of a highway on | roads leading into town. Here they

chief conspirators sent to prison and what its real purpose was in the sixties, and how that purpose, some-

m the county i^ hat amplified in remains the

ROAD PETITION.

tween Washington and London pro-| the township line between Salem and donned their robes and disguises and

NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATION

MILFORD BANK IN

RECEIVERS HANDS ==* ~

Financial Affairs of tht* Institution In Badly Tangled Shape.

Warsaw, Ind., Dec. 19.v—Thomas J. Nye, former auditor of Kosciusko county, was named receiver for the insolvent Farmers State bank, of Milford, by Judge Lemuel W. Royse in circuit court here Monday afternoon. A few minutes later the grand jury which has been probing the failure of the bank returned several indictments to Judge Royse against persons alleged to have been involved in the wrecking the institution.

Notice is hereby given that the un‘dersigned has been appointed by the Judge of the Circuit Court of Delaware County, state of Indiana, ad-

estate of Charles

! E 1 - Sears, late of said County, deceas-

ed.

Said estate is supposed to be solvent. ANNIE SEARS. Date Dec. 8. 1924. Attest: Perry W. Mansfield, Clerk Delaware Circuit Court. Ward Marshall, Atty. Dec. 12-19-26.

& re ss. —— jMt. Pleasant townships In Delaware The American policy has been firm- j coun t y> Indiana, y in opposition to cancellation of any « Notl c e is hereby given that Solopart of the debts owed the United I T Donov an fend others have States, coupled with a desire that the j duly filed thelr petition in the audidebtor nations should refund their ! tor , s ot Delaware county, Indioblignticss, and the President sees ana> -which petition is now pending no possibility that it may be altered praying for the improvement of a in the slightest detail. public highway un the township line 0 1 between Salem and Mt. Pleasant

! townships, Delaware county, Indiana,

to-wit:

Commencing at the southwest corner of section twenty-five (25), township twenty <20) north, range eight

M'COY SECRETED MRS. MORS’ GEMS

CITY ADVERTISEMENT

Department of Public Works Office of the Board 212 Wysop Block Mimcie, Ind. To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property

- (8) east in Delaware 'county, IndiWitncss BpHnrpc TTp ana> at ^ west line , ® £ Salem and witness ^eciares rie ATU iMt> p leasalrttownshl p Slnsa i d counBOX Oi Her Valuables In ! ty and stete, and running thence Storage In His Name. \ east along the public highway already established along the south line of

Warrants were placed in the hands , subject to be assessed, with the of Sheriff Milo Maloy, who was [amounts of prhna facie assessments, sworn to secrecy until the arrests [have been made and are now on file were made. The indictments made a l and can be seen at the office of the bulky package, but no names were Board, for the following improve-

revealed either by Judge Royse, Prosecutor Morrison Rockhill, or members of the grand jury. There are 19 stockholders.

Body of Gompers Lies In State

ments, to-wit:— I. R. No. 10£3 : 1923, For cement sidewalk and 'curb arid gutter on North Jefferson Street from McCulloch Boulevard to Centennial Ave-

nue.

I. R. No. 1190-1924, For grading and graveling of 20th Street from Walnut Street to High Street, and on High Street from 20th Street to 21st Street. And notice is hereby given that on the 23rd day of December, 1924, the Board will, at its office receive and hear remonstrances against the amoutits assessed against their prop-

Los Angeles, Dec. 19.—For several weeks before Mrs. Theresa Mors was killed, Kid McCoy mafie frequent inroads upon her jewels and other valuables, scattering them about the city in various -storage houses and safety deposit boxes. Beginning their attempts to show j that McCoy thus systematically robbed his last sweetheart, state’s attorneys who are trying to prove the ,ex-fightet a murderer, introduced Rodney S. Sprigg, operator of a storage plant, as a witness to this charge in Monday’s session of the

j trial.

Sprigg testified that in early August, before Mrs. Mors was slain, McCoy brought a box tff valuable antiques to him and registered them under his own name. After the woman's death, the state declared, the contents of the box were irdentified as Mrs. Mors’ possessions. The prosecution will contikiue this line of argument Tuesday, when it

said section twenty-five (25) and the south line of section thirty (30) township twenty (20) north, range nine (9) east about two (2) miles and terminating at state highway No. 33 and No. 37 at a point about ten (10) rods west of the southeast corner of said section thirty (30) in Delaware coun-

ty, Indiana.

That the Auditor of said Delaware

county. State of Infiiana, fixes Tues- |. which makes a

day, January 6th, 1925, at the hour of 10 '©’clock, a. m., the 2nd day of the regular January term, 1925, of the board of commissioners of said county at’tfce office of said board of corn-

put covers of great gaudy materials ^ on their horses. A skyrocket sent up j from a point in the town was the signal to mount and move. ... In single file, in deathlike stillness, with funeral slowness, they marched and counter marched through the town. While the column was headed north on one street it was going south on another. By crossing over in opposite directions the lines were kept up in almost unbroken continuity. The effect was to create the impression of vast numbers. . . , The efforts of the most curious to find out who were

Ku Klux failed.

“Perhaps the greatest illusion produced was in regard to the numbers taking part in Ike parade. Reputable citizens were confident that the number was not less than three thousand. Others whose imaginations were more easily wrought upon, were quite

same, with one glaring exception— and that is that the klan, which was started in 1867 to destroy the republican, or “radical” party, has now been swallowed whole by the republican party and was used in 1922 and 1924 to elevate the political group against which its machinations were aimed fifty seven years ago. KLAN’SRECORD (Continued from Page One)

ed as follows:

“Dont’ forget that I am Service Director. I have authority to hire and fire. I am the only boss for you to look out for- I AM IT!” You will observe from this that the appellation ‘‘Clamorous” has ao reference to that well known chowder constituent—-the clam- In fact, conversation is the one thing that clamorous Fulk ain’t got nothing el*e but. , mayor says fulk DOESN’T KNOW LAW Clamorous Red Folk drafted an ordinance authorizing him to employ a consulting engineer at $25 a day

certain there wure ten thousand. The and persuaded COUBCll to paal it.

j truth is that the number of Ku Klux < iu the parade did not exceed four hundred. This delusion in regard to numbers prevailed wherever the Ku Klux appeared. It illustrates how lit- | tie the testimony of even an eyewitness is worth in regard , to anything i

deep impression on

him by reason of its mysteriousness.” Thus a voice from the past relates Tiow the cheap tricks that worked the Tennessee suckers over a half century ago just as effectively gold-

missioners, in the court house in the the supposed-to-be city brok-

City of Muncie, in said Delaware county, Indiana, as the time and j place when and Where said petition will be presented to and heard by said board of commissioners of the county of Delaware, in the State of Indiana, and as the time when proof of posting and publication of notice of the pendency of said petition will be made and heard by said board of

will introduce testimony to support! commissioners.

Washington, Dec. 17.—The funeral train bearing the body of Samuel 'Gompers reached Washington

at 3:15 p. m. yesterday.

A military detachment escorted ! erty respectively on said roll, and the body on an artillery caisson to j will determine the question as to the headquarters of the American ' whether such lots or tracts of land Federation Of Labor temple. Mem- | have been or will be benefited by said

hers and the veteran labor leader’s three sons, met the casket in the President’s room at Union station. The executive committee of the American Federation of Labor, various delegations of labor leaders and fifty women from the bureau of engraving and printing, were in the cortege to the labor building, where : the ’ body 1 lies in state.

improvement in the amounts named on said r611, 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 rea l estate may attend in person-or by representative, and be heard at'7:30 o’clock P. M. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS Mary'E. Anderson, Clerk. Advertised^n Dec.'12^1;9-1924.

the claim that McCoy h-arS stolen thousands of dollars worth of jew elry and antiques from Mrs. Mors. The tactics fit into the -state’s assertion that when McCoy was deprived of this source of in-come he went into a murderous rage and killed the woman for whom he had sworn undying love. -o According to an old superstition, bread baked on Christmas eve will never become stale or moldy. At ten, D. P. Lowe, Jr., is a freshman at Central State Teachers’ College at Edmond, Ok'la., and expects to graduate at fourteen He finished ‘twelve years -of grade school work in five years. His ambition is to have a Ph. D. after Tils name at sixteen or seveuteieu. Both parents are iteachera.

Dated December ’9th- 1924. JAMES P DRAGOO, Auditor of Delaware County, Indiana. Omar <J. Weir. Atty. for Petitioners. (Dee.l2&19) o Decatur Leaders Beat Montpelier

Montpelier, Ind., Dec. 19—A field goal from long range by Andrews in the last thirty seconds of play gave the Decatur Leaders a 33-to-32 verdict over the Montpelier K. of P. basketball team here Monday night. The game was one of the fastest and most -sensational ever played in this city. At half time the locals were on the long end of a 23-to-19 count but,

en wisecrackers of the twentieth cen-

tury !

That the klansman of today is the lineal descendant of the Tennessee kookoo of ‘67 discloses itself by the i naive remark of the historian that j-klansmen on their way to the town of ^ Pulaski to attend that first night shirt I parade, declared that they were | merely on their way to witness the j performance. The first qualification I of a klansman in 1867, as it is now in ! T924, was the possession of a certifii cate of membership in the Ananias

club.

We have the word of the historian that the title of the order was “absolutely meaningless.” He might have gone further and declared that the objective of the order, like its cogno-1 men, was also meaningless, but j fraught with potential disaster. The thoughtless young men, who conceived the idea of the klan, carelessly threw a match in a powder bin and the subsequent explosions have re- j suited in death, disaster and the I j destruction of the harmony of the j greatest nation on earth. Note the similarity between that first parade in Pulaski, Tennessee, and the silly performances of these supposed-to-be more enlightened

‘‘Windy*’ Stevens vetoed it, saying it was illegal. What becomes of Clamorous Red’s wonderful reputation as a law sharp? WHO WANTS TO BUY THE OLD CITY PRISON? Why is “Windy” Stevens so anxious to move the city prison? Does one of his klucker friends need the city prison site in his busi-

ness?

Where will he get the several thousand dollars necessary to make the change? The city prison has been Occupying the present site for half a century. Who told “Windy” the city did not own the ground?' Better change your brand of “hop - Windy. See Howard.

WANT TO REDUCE FIRE PROTECTION IN SOUTH END When “Windy” Stevens’ subway L built, there will be only two streets available for traffic from th Q other parts of the city. This will make k rather difficult tor the Central Fire Department to get there in a hurry In case of a bad fire, and that is when speed counts. Oh, well, what does “Windy” care for the South end? He doesn’t live there—in fact, like Scotty the lawyer, he says he wouldn’t live there. Then, two, he may get his itching fingers on some of that subway fund. TEN AND COSTS STANDARD FINE Last Saturday two men pleaded guilty to stealing corn in Judge Kollier’s kourt and were fined $10 and costs. On the same day two train riders got the same dose. Might just as well have a parrot to yell “$10 and costs!”