Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 20 March 1925 — Page 3

FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1925

THE POST-DEMOCRAT

$300.000.000TAX DECREASE IN 1926

Chairman Finance Committee Says Surtax Reduc-

tion 25 Per Cent.

■ Washington, March 16.—The outlook for a reduction of $300,000,000 in the nation’s taxes for the fiscal year 1926 is “now favorable,” Chairman Green of the House ways and means committee said Saturday, adding that he saw “nothing to prevent” reducing the maximum surtax to 25tper cent and general lowering of all other income rates. “It is the intention,” he asserted, “to have the new tax law passed in time to apply to taxes payable next year, and if this is done 'the administration will have the unprecedented record of having reduced taxation three 3"ears in succession.” A surplus of $373,000,000 has been estimated for,the fiscal year 1926, he said, and the exact amount will be known by the time the committee starts work on drafting a new tax bill about Oct. 15, so that much work on the proposed measure will be well under way by the convening of Congress in December. Receipts Exceed Expectations “The original treasury estimates of the surplus for the fiscal year 1925, which ends on June 30, next, was about $68,000,000,” he declared. ‘‘The receipts from taxes have been larger than were anticipated principally by reason of the improve ment in business generally. Some expenses also will be less, while on the other hand some are likely to be larger than was anticipated, of which the refunds of taxes is an instance. On the whole I think I am safe in saying that the surplus at the end of this fiscal year will ex-

ceed $100,000,000.

“The present revenue law went into full effect with the beginning of this calendar year, and great reductions were made in the rates on moderate incomes, which were fixed much below those of the original Mellon plan and far below those of last year, even after the 25 percent refund was made. In' many cases, the payment this year will be less than half that of a year ago under the same circumstances. Until the new returns which are now being made, are received by the treasury and tabulated it is impossible to ascertain the effect of the present

rates.

o Kiwanis-Rotary Clubs of Hartford To Provide Funds

T twenty klansmen had marched about his house for two hours early in the day, and said he would take his wife and their two adopted children to the Church Army Barracks for the night,

DDE , rfcT/ 1 Tf AM Ml A nr* ^ Here where Mr. I^awson has been ! Ktl/lillUn fflAUlilP-cbing and caring for the poor _____ j since he quit the Baptist Church- ’xff

Centerville. '

“I have taken along my pistol and my shotgun,” he said. “If a klansman crosses the threshold Til send Mm across the Jordan and he won’t go to

heaven, either.

“They ought to know that I can j shoot, top. I was sergeant major of J the First Battalion of the Royal En- ' gineers, a British contingent from j Canada, and I learned to shoot- dur- j ing two years’ service overseas. “The klan has annoyed me as much j as I shall permit. They have sent me • scurrilous letters through the mail l and warned me to leave town. I shan't go. 1 won’t be hounded.” Mr. Dawson two years ago was pastor of the People’s Evangelical Church of Orange, N. J. He received | considerable publicity' by announcing ! he had prayed for a bride. One prospective bride left him waiting at- the 1 church, but a year ago he was mar- • ried to Mrs. Ellen Wieber, a native of

■ Keyport.

j He once was a pitcher for the Bosj ton National League baseball team, and took up evangelism after his base ball days were ended. o

GOVERNMENT ENDS TEAPOT DOME CASE:

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night, twenty-seven bodies had been recovered from the wreckage. Many other bodies were said to have been buried under the debris, and while the exact number of dead was not known, it was reported nearly 100 persons had perished.

Hartford City, March 16.—The campaign for funds for the state firemen’s convention, which will be held in Hartford City on June 17-18, was officially launched last Friday evening at a jonit meeting of committees from the Kiwanis and Rotary clubs with the city firemen’s association. The committees from the two civic clubs are to co-operate to the fullest extent with the firemen in making the convention a big success. The two clubs are to take charge of the financial end of the event.

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Ex-Chaplain Arms To Repel Klansmen The Rev. G. W. Lawson, Who Quit Order, Establishes Deadline At His Church Barracks.

(New York Times)

The Rev. Mr. George Herman Lawson, former chaplain of the Ku Klux Klan Klavera of Monmouth County, N. J., declared last night he had a pistol and a shotgun in his “Church Army Barracks” at 112 Front Street. Keyport, N. J., and would shoot any klansman who crossed his threshold. Mr. Lawson resigned from the order six weeks ago during a split in the klan over the raising of $40,000 for a new building for the Baptist Church of Centerville, two miles from Keyport, of which he was then th? pastor. He said that the funds were being improperly handled, denounced the klan as “an iniquitous fake” and . also resigned from his pastorate. Since then, he has complained, he has been annoyed by members of the klan parading round bis bouse at Third and Division Streets, Keyport, in their hooded gowns. He denounCr ed them further and then announced himself as a candidate for Congress from the Third Congressional District of New Jersey to succeed the late

Frank Appleby.

Yesterday morning, he

CITY ADVERTISEMENTS Department of Public Works Office of the Board 212 Wysor Block , Muncie, Ind. Notice to Contractors and to the Pub-

lic:

Notice is hereby given, to the pub- j lie and to all contractors, that the | Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, in the State of Indiana, invites sealed proposals for the construction, in said City, according to the respective improvement resolutions below mentioned, and according to the plans, profiles, drawing artd specification therefor on file in the office of said Board of each of the public improvements herein below described, towit: I. R. No. 1234-1925 For cement sidewalk on the North Side of Seventh Street from Walnut Street to Liberty

Street.

I. R. No. 1236-1925, Fbr paving of “C” or Marsh Street, Neely Addition, from Wheeling Avenue to New York

Avenue.

Each bidder iK rrtsn to file with the Board an affidavit that there has been no collusion ini any way affecting said bid, accbrding to the terms of Sec. 95 of the Act of March 6th, 1905. (Acts 1905, p. 219.) All such proposals should be sealed and must be deposited with said Board before the hour of 7:30 o’lock in the evening of the 31st day of March, 1925, and each such proposal must be accompanied by a certified check payable to said City, for the sum equal to two and one-half per cent. (2 1-2 per cent) of City Civil Engineer's estimate which shall be forfeited to said City as liquidated damages, if the bidder depositing the same shall fail duly and promptly to execute the required contract and bond, in, case a contract shall be awarded him on such accompanying

proposal.

Said Board reserved the right to

j ject any and all bids.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF

PUBLIC WORKS.

Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. Publish oh March 20-27-1925.

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Contends It Has Proved

Existence of Conspiracy Which Involves Fall.

Washington, Mar. 20.—An investigation which probably will prove the longest in the history of the country and cost an inestimable sum of money will start soon, when the ihterstate commerce commission begins to study the entire transportation rate structure. The ■system will be probed especially as regards rates on farm products, with a view of making any adjustments found necessary. All freight express and passenger rates will be covered. The investigation, provided by the Smith-Hoch Resolution passed! by the last congress, was ordered j formally Tuesday by the commission. Hearings are expected to begin about the first of June. All common carriers, including railroads, ship companies, telephone telegraph and cable companies, express companies, pipe line companies and other agencies engaged in transportation have been asked to submit data. The commission, in its order, included a special notice to the public, outlining the purpose of the investigation and asking that any Individual or corporation interested submit a statement of its desires. Copies of the order were sent to every state governor. When the investigation finally will be concluded is a matter of speculation. Officials of the commission joked with one another as to whether any of them would be living when the investigation was concluded. One official predicted the investigation would take 25 yearsSenator Cummins, of Iowa, a railroad authority, said it could not be completed within 100 years. The testimony submited is expected to fill a veritable regiment of filing cases- Data about aviation transportation probably will be included before the investigation is completed. . 1 o Masks Are Banned By State of Texas Both Houses of Legislature Have Declared Against the Hooded Ku Klux Klan.

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Austin, Tex.,-—Both houses* of tht Texas legislature, Wecm-sday, passed measures for the suppression of the hooded Klan in this state. The house bill by Representative Mankin exempts shriners from the operation cf the bill while Senator Hallbrook’s bill passed by the senate, providing for identical penalties, does not exempt any organization, but does exempt social gatherings in private homes. Both measures make it a felony to appear in a church, commit an assault or go near a private home while wearing a mask or otherwise disguised. Both measures provide prison sentences of five years or more fox assault while masked. Appearance at any public place masked or disguised so as to make identity difficult carries a fine of $500 or confinement in jail one year, or

both.

Appearance near or an attempt to enter a private borne, while masked, is punishable by imprisonment for a term of from one to ten years. Entry into a church by masked persons would be punishable by imprisonment of from two to ten years. Entertainments conducted by churches are exempted from this provi-

i si on.

■ ■ ~ j Masked Parades

Farmount, W. Va, March 19.-A1-' Parades by any secret society by though rescue workers struggled ! ™aeked members are given a fine o all day in an effort to locate the 34 : from $100 to $500 or a jail sentence of

miners entombed in an explosion in six months, or both,

mine No. 41 of the Bethlehem cor- J The vote j n the house was 84 to 22. poration at Barracksville, R. A. T 8 ' ena t e pastsed the Holbrook bill

Lamble, chief state mine inspector,!

announced early Wednesday night i 26 to 2. The senate rules were susthat the men who are believed dead, | pended to complete the passage of

could not be reached before mid-1 the bill from second reading. ^ a In Austin the people agree that the

It was declared that thp explos-' , . ion was caused by gas, and that the P assa S e of these measures by such entire level on which the entombed ■ overwhelming majorities, means that miners were at work was swept [ the people of Texas have had a suffiby billows of flame, which penetrat-; ciency of the Rlan and that many Tex mile h anfr‘ , oUed t0 up a th? t S taft con-'*"” ' he f er are suming machinery a power house ' aware it was a mistake and are pei

TRAPPED MINERS NOT YET REACHED

Entire Level for Mile Was Swept By Consuming

Flames.

and the company offices.

Only one elevator escaped In the blast, which tore the machinery' from its foundations, and the cage jammed when an attempt was made j

to lower t.

A hoist bucket was rigged up and' by this means rescuers have been j tediously lowered into the mines. The same slow process is being j used to haul out the wreckage.

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Indian women of the Mandan i tribes climb hilltops at night to wail I

declared, for ^ dead -

| fectly willing to get rid of it through

legislative enactment.

—Western American 2-28-25.

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1.000 KILLED IN fContinued from Page One) Terre Haute, Ind., March 19.— The entire southern section of Princeton, Ind., was razed by a tornado which struck that city late Wednesday, and, according to advices received here at 9 o'clock last

Princeton, Ind., March 19.—Upr wards of a score of persons were killed and millions of dollars' damage was wrought here late Wednesday afternoon when the south part of Princeton was laid flat by a tornado. The Heinz factory is in ruins and an unknown number of employes are entombed, either injured or dead. The Southern railroad shops here was wrecked and also is believe'd to be entombing scores of workers. Hundreds of homes were blown to splinters in the southern part of the city. The only known dead person early this evening was Mrs. Thomas Nash who was killed when her home on the edge of the city was blown down. Darkness which followed the storm materially Interfered with rescue work.

Sl PftSi: l *TMADif.c Colorado Made Laugh-

Chicago, March 19—More than 1,500 persons are reported killed or injured by a tornado which swept southern Illinois and Indiana late Wednesday, causing great property damage and virtually wiping out two or three towns in its path, from Missouri to the northeast. Wires wer e down in every direction under the fury of the wind and it was impossible last night to check the reported casualties. West Frankfort, 111., a mining town on the face of last night’s reports suffered the greatest loss of life, estimates of the dead running as high as 1,000. Fire Rages in Debris. Murphysboro, thirty miles southulation of 11,000, suffered severely with a casualty list reported as high as 250. Great havoc was wrought to buildings in this city and fire broke out in the debris. On report of this situation an effort was made by Governor Small to send troops to Murphysboro, while relief trains and Red Cross workers prepared to depart from Chicago and St. Louis for the storm areaAmong the other towns and cities to report damage and loss of life were Desoto, 111., with 150 casualties reported; Parrish, III., with all but three of a population of 500 reported either killed or injured; Princeton, Ind., with an estimate of the 100 casualties; Griffin, Ind.» with twenty; Gorham,, 111., with eightyseven; Carmi, 111., with 150, and Crossville, B.ish and Hurst, 111., reporting serious damage and numerous deaths. , -fl — WOMEN’S CLUBS TO - MEH IN MAINE National Federation Will Gather In Portland July 12-18.

Portland, Me., March 19—Women of every vocation will he specially feted and entertained at the con- j vention of the National Federation ' of Business ad Professional Wome’s ( clubs to be held in this city, July j 12 to 18. Eleven vocational lun- 1 cheons are being arranged which will take in practically all groups of business and professional women, and this list will be increased as statistics come in from the various clubs of the country regarding unusual occupations followed by their women. The luncheons thus far arranged are the secretarial, bankers, law- 1 yers, doctors, teachers, insurance | saleswomen, social workers, florists. \ nurses, saleswomen and press. These will take place. Tuesday noon, July 14, at the various hotels in the vicinity, and are arranged by a \ committefe of which Miss Harriette G- Ohler is chairman. Leading women in these various vocations in all parts of the United States will be speakers. Judge Florence Allen of Cleveland, Ohio, judge of the court of Common Pleas of Cayuhoga county, is to speak at the convention banquet Thursday evening, July 16, and the note of international fellowship will unquestionably be sounded, as Thursday is to be set aside as international day, and women of other countries are to be special guests. This great banquet at which the j songs of all the states will be fea- j tured, and state colors and souven- [ irs will be much in evidence, will [ be one of the most picturesque j features of the convention. ! At the birthday luncheon which will b e held Wednesday noon, July 15, Mrs. Lena Lake Forrest, of Detroit, Michigan, honorary president, who held a longer term of office in the federation than any other executive, will preside This year it has been arranged to have a speaker for each year of federation history who will brieflly present the outstanding events that have marked the achievement of each milestone. Names of the speakers have not yet been announced. The federation closes its sixth year with the meeting in Portland, and the usual attractive ceremonial will be followed out of having a mammoth birthday cake which wil be distributed afterwards to th«s many hundreds of delegates, and upon which at the opening of the lunch, six candles will be set burning for the six years of federation history. At the close of the luncheon the seventh candle for the new year that is to be will be lighted These ceremonies are always accompanied t»y the soft singing ci The Long, Long Trail.

POSSE AT MARKLE Ralph Lee, Who Escaped from Franklin Connected with $11,000 Cache. Bluffton, March 20.—Policemen and a body of constables kept vigil Monday night at a farm south of Mairkle on a tip from the sheriff of Johnson County, Indiana that Ralph Lee, alleged murderer, who escaped from the jail at Franklin, Sunday night, might show up at the farm to seek the recover $11,000 supposed to have been hidden under one of numerous large rocks on the farm. Lee and pals, supposed to have aided him to flee from Franklin in a large automobile, failed to show up, and this appears to have been explained yesterday, when further information was received from the Johnson county sheriff to the effect that other prisoners in the jail x-e-

Jated to Lee, before escaping, told

them of writing with invisible ink, on the backs of letters and th-t his pals had secured the hidden loot be-

fore coming after him.

Local officers are Inclined to credit the story of hidden loot, supposed to have been secured in some big robbery, from the fact that the same story was told by two prisoners, at widely separated points. Previous to the word from Fi-anklin, Monday about Lee’s escape, police had received information that . Leroy Brickley, former Bluffton man, convicted recently in federal court of forging government checks at Ft. Wayne and serving time at Atlanta prison, had written to his wife from jail at Indianapolis, that he had $11,000 hidden within a radius of a few miles of Bluffton awaiting his

return from prison.

SENATE ADJOURNS STORMY SESSION From First To Last Upper House Was Turbulent —Turn Down Woodlock.

Washington, March 19—The Senate adjourned sine die Wednesday bringing to an end the stormy special session which began March 4. The close saw no abatement of the intensity and feeling that characterized the entire session resulting in a breach with the White House. President Coolidge continued to the very last to challenge senatorial opinion on his nomination to office by resubmitting the name of Thomas F. Woodlock, New York, to be a member of the interstate commerce commission which the Senate failed to confirm at the last session. As in the case of harles B. Warren to be attorney general, the Senate accepted the issue with the Presdent by refusing again to give its approval to the Woodlock nomination. It was not even considered by the interstate commerce to which it was referred. Close friends of the President now believe he will give Mr- Woodlock a recess appointment. Opening on March 4, with a fiery speech by Vice-President Dawes, who aroused the senators by his denunciation of Senate rules, the special session was almost as turbulent in its last hours. Debate covered a wide field, including discussion of Teapot Dome. Muscle Shoals, the Warren nomination and Federal water power. Then, just before the senators agreed to quit and go home, they heard a discourse by Senator Stanfield (Republican, Oregon) on the need for better homes. RECORD INQUIRY TO START IN JUNE

ing Stock Of Nation’s Editors By Klan Rule

(Catholic Register) ' T r , he Klan administration in Colorado has made the state the laughing stock of the nation. The Register would hardly dare to print some of the editorials that are being sent to it from all parts of the United States but the following—really a rather mild one—from The Tablet of Brooklyn is typical: Denver is the Place This paper is not concerned with the past, present or future problems of the national Democratic party. It cannot, however, overlook without a laugh, the story published in the papers the other day that the McAdoo wing of the party wanits a reorganization and for that reason urges a meting of the executive board in the inmmediate future. Denver is., suggested as the meeting place. Hollins Randolph, Georgia Ku Kluxer, is one of the two principals mentioned in the reorganization story and thinks Denver is a good central place for the

meeting.

Denver is just the place for some of these reorganizers to meet. Just, now a movement is under way there, directly attacking the Catholics. Feel ing is ripe and bigotry strong. Governor Morley although a Republican, might be prevailed upon to open the meeting with prayer. Dr. Davis, Zeke Marvin, Elton Watkins and the other A. P. A. boys who were so active in New York, should have box seats. Hiram Evans and' Walter Bossert would not need a hotel near the meeting hall to manipulate things. The praying ladies from the Southland, trusting to keep the Pope at a distance, would not have to fear much. And Irish cops and “clergymen with collars” would not place the fear of God in the hebrts of the assembled brethren. Needless to say Cardinal

Hayes would not be present to open things with prayer. In fact, it might be safe for the McAdoo rooters to wear hoods and gowns. As for the deliberations, little need be said. The object, moreover, js to lower the representation at conventions of the large Eastern states’ delegations. By doing this, and, if ! possible, increasing the Southern and 1 part , of the Western delegations, i things might be simpler for Dr. Mc- ! Adqo. the Klan pet, in 1928. They ; might even go further. Since Cover | nor Morley seeks to use prohibition as an excuse for abolishing the Mass, these boys might use prohibition as a means to pass a rule preventing any j Catholic running for office on the naticmal ticket. In this way Mr. McAdoo | would not have to suffer the embarI rassment of last summer when he j was asked to voice his. opposition to

: the Klan.

Denver is the place for the reoi’ganization meetings. McAdoo’s friends are the boys to do the reorganizing. A few words on the “Irish-Catholic crowd”, “the liquor interests” and then something on “we progressives”, “the forward-looking forces,” “the real Democrats,” etc., would work fine. Of course, the Klan should not be mentioned, “we don’t want to advertise the organization.” Then, in 1928, some “wild men” would take the mask off the supposed progressives and beneath it the Klan would stand out and the wise boys would be fooling themselves once more. The show would close with a conflict over McAdoo’s affiliations. One group would say he was a kleagle while the other would say he belonged to the Holy Name society. And all the time McAdoo would be silent. If 1924 is to be repeated in 1928, Denver is the place to make the start.

tion to him as a matter^ of record,’' Mr. Roberts said. “Otherwise there was no reason for placing Mr. Fail under oath I had no desire to call him merely to see him take the

stand.”

lion there is no signature to the letter perhaps you will be good enough through your news columns to extend to the members 'of this organization my appreciation of their courteous invitation and the statement, that I am

Striking back at the moment trie {so definitely convincedTlvif th6ir or

Inestimable Sum to Be Spent on Investigation Into Common Carriers.

Cheyenne, Wyo., March 20.—With its battle for annullment of the naval Teapot Dome oil lease completed, the government yesterday, rested its case with the contention that it had proved the existence of a conspiracy between Albert B. Fall, former secretary of the interior and Harry F. Sinclair, lessee of the big oil field. The refusal of M. T. Everhart, Pueblo, Cal., rancher, banker and son-in-law of Fall, to testify yesterday, caused goevrnment counsel to rest its case without calling the for mer cabinet official to the stand, Owen J. Roberts said last night. “If I had been able to have gleaned any information from Everhart connecting Mr. Fall with the pas•age of bonds between Sinclair and himself I would have called him im mediately and put the direct ques-

government rested J. W. Lacey of counsel for defense—the Mammoth Oil company—asked the court to wipe out of the record all evidence regarding the alleged passage pf Liberty bonds from the Continemial Trading company, said by the government to have been organized for the benefit of Sinclair and o f hers, to Fall, on the ground that nothing in the government’s evidence had connected Sinclair or the Mammoth Oil company with Liberty bond transactions. Mr. Lacey’s objection was overruled when he made, the statement in reply to a question by Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy that the defense would be willing to stand on the record made in the governnent s side of the case and take chances on the government’s evidence failing to convince the court of any connection with the Liberty bonds and Sinclair. Judge Kennedy overruled the motion to strike out after Mr. Laceyhad made that statement. Dr. Bell Declines Klan’s Invitation

Holds Order Is Wicked, Un-American and Provokes Lawlessness.

(Poughkeepsie (N. Y.) Eagle News) Dr. Bernard Iddings Bell, presidemt of St. Stephen’s College put himself on record as opposed to the Ku Klux Klan, Friday, when in a letter to The Eagle-News, he declined an anonymous Invitation he had received to attend a Klan meeting here January 22. Dr. Bell requested The E’agloNews to publish his letter to that “the members (of the Klan) can un-dex-stand my position.” In his letter, Dr. Bell expresses his appreciation of the Klan’s “courteous invitation,” but asserts that he is “definitely convinced” that the or ganization is wicked, un-American, and provocative of lawlesness and

disorder.

The letter folows: January 15, 1925. To the Editor, Eagle-News, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. My dear Sir: I have received an anonymous invitation to be present at a meeting of | the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan on j January 22nd in Poughkeepsie. Since, in the usual manner of this organiza-

ganization is wicked, unAmericafc and provocative of lawlessness and disorder that I must decline to be present. If you will print this so that the members can understand my position, I shall be grateful. Very sincerely yours, BERNARD I. BELL, President.

NOTICE TO ROAD CONTRACTORS.

Notice is hereby given that the board of commissioners of the county of Delaware, State of Indiana* will at the court house in the city Of Muncie, said county and state, receive sealed proposals for the improvement of a certain highway in said county by grading, draining and paving the same with cement in accordance with specifications, plans and profile now on file in the office of the Auditor of said county, by and under the laws of the State of Indiana. Said bids or proposals will be received up t 0 10:00 o'clock a. m., on the 7th day of April, 1925, at which time said bids will be opened. The road to be improved is located in Washington township, in Delaware county, Indiana, and is to be known as the E. W. Shaw et al road. Each bid shall be accompanied by a non-collusion affidavit as required by law and by a personal or surety bond in a sum equal to double the amount of the bid, to be approved by said board of commissiners of said county, conditioned for the faithful performance of the work, and for the benefit of any person or corporation who shall suffer any loss or damage by reason of such bidder failing to enter into a contract to perform such work if awarded him, or to carry out the same in any particular, or to pay for any labor or materials which may have been furnished to such contractor or to any sub-contractor agent or superintendent under him in the construction of said work. The sureties on such bond if personal shall be resident freeholders of the State of Indiana one of whom shall be a resident of Delaware county. Said work will be let as a whole to the lowest responsible bidder and said board re»®rv«* the right to reject any and all bids. The estimated cost of said work

is $18.6S0.

The time for the completion of said work will be agreed upon after the letting of said contract by said Board to the successful bidder. JAMES P. DRAGOO. Auditor of Delaware County, Ind. (Mch.6-18-20)