Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 April 1926 — Page 3

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DR. NELSON ROSS FAILS TO RETURN TO STATE PRISON Had Been Paroled To Visit Sick Mother; Suicide Is Now Feared. Michigan City Ind., April 8—An intensive search by Indiana police for Dr. Nelson B. Ross, Muncie mur derer, was inaugurated last night, by officials of the Indiana state prison following Ross’s failure to return April 1, at the expiration of a temporary parole granted him by Governor Jackson. A description and photographs of Ross were sent to various police departments of the state, yesterday, according to announcement by H. D. Claudy, depuy warden, who is in charge of the case in the absence of Warden Walter H. Daly, who is at the bedside of a sister in Winchester, Ind., who is seriously ill. Daly is expected to confer with Governor Jackson on the Ross case as soon as he can leave Winchester. Suicide Feared Muncie, Ind., April 7.—Muncie friends of Dr. Nelson B. Ross last night expressed the belief that he ( may have ended his life rather than return to the “lifers’” ward in the state prison at Michigan City. Dr. Ross w r as in Muncie, last week, and at that time he talked considerably about the death of a doctor friend who ended his life a short time ago. He also seemed considerably depressed over the fact that he had been unable to obtain a pardon or an extension of his temporary

parole.

Dr. Ross was paroled about thirty days ago on the temporary order of Governor Jackson in order that he might be at the bedside of his mother, Mrs. R. E. Sisson, who was reported as being seriously ill at her home in Indianapolis. He spent most of his time in Indianapolis, but was here a few days during the last two weeks. Ross has made several attempts to secure a pardon, but each time his petition was bitterly opposed by friends and relatives of Daniel Linder, the Hartford City traction conductor, whom Ross killed in the summer of 1909. Murder Followed Argument The shooting of Linder by Ross followed an argument on a traction car traveling between Muncie and Portland. The case attracted much attention and at the time of the trial the state made a hard fight to have Ross sentencel to death. During the first years of his prison life Ross did not have a very good record but in later years his record is said to have been good and he has been gratned temporary leave without guard on one or two occasions and each time reported back promptly. Muncie police yesterday were notified by prison authorities that Ross had failed to return at the expiration of his parole and they were asked to search for him here. Ross is supposed to have left Indianapolis for Michigan City, last Wednesday, the day before he was to report at the prison. ex-klanSads ASK FORBEARING State Grand Dragon Considers Request—Has Not Received No Word.

Indianapolis, April 8.—W. Lee Smith, grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in Indiana, asserted Monday, that he had not received a communication from Geo. S. Elliott, deposed exalted cyclops of Marion County Klan No. 3 and other former officers asking for a hearing before the Indiana Realm Tribunal. Mr. Elliott during the day released for publication a copy of the deposed officers’ request foi the consideration of their ousting by the tribunal citing the Klan constitution in substantiation of their claim for a hearing. Will Consider Letter The grand dragon declared that when the letter reached him he would give it consideration and if the removed officers desired to present their case before the realm tribunal the session of that body would be called within a few days. He said that the tribunal was composed of sixteen klansmen from various parts of the state who meet quarterly to consider policies of the

realm.

Charles J. Orbison, imperial klaliff (vice president), acting on orders of Imperial Wizard Evans, removed all the officers from the Marion county Klap several days ago, for alleged participation in the activities of the Marion County Voters’ League. o It has just been announced that LaFayette, Indiana, and Tippecanoe county are soon to be provided with a modern National Guard armory and community center which is to be erected by the Indiana armory board at a cost of $100,000.

The state highway commission is in receipt of a report from John Pearce, district superintendent, that northern Indiana state roads are still blocked by snow. State roads Nos. 8 and 10 are both blocked and all other state roads on the section are in very bad condition because

of the snow.

The Indiana Dental College Men’s Glee Club will leave Indianapolis Monday morning at 9 o’clock for their annual spring concert tour thru Indiana and Illinois. Mrs. Lois Brown Dorsett, head of the college music department, is director of the club.

When the overcrowded balcony in the Titanic motion picture theatre at Mexico City collapsed, five persons were killed and nearly 100 men, women and children were injured. It is thought that many of the injured will die.

Postal Receipts Increase In March Washington, April 8.—Postal receipts, regarded as a barometer of general business conditions, showed an increase of 15.2 percent in fifty selected cities for March over the same period a year ago, the Post Office Department announced yester-

day.

The total this March was $33,454,478.01, compared with $29,085,090.49 an increase of $4,369,387.52. Fort Worth, Tex., led in percentage increase with 47.70, followed by Jacksonville, Fla., 38.45 and Baltimore, 34.20. EICKHOFFFOR A MODIFICATION OF VOLSTEAD ACT Ft. Wayne Man Seeks Democratic Nomination for Congress. W. E. Eickhoff, Fort Wayne business man has made announcement of his candidacy for the democratic nomination for congress on an antiVolstead platform. He states that he stands for modification of the Volstead law, but not its repeal, and declares against the open saloon with the same emphasis that he brands the present prohibition law as unsatisfactory and conducive to crime. He says that he plans a vigorous campaign to place the issue fully before the people. His announcement reads in part as follows: “I submit, that the enforcement of the Volstead act is a colossal failure, that this piece of legislation has created the most vicious criminal monopoly ever known in the history of the republic. “By this legislation we have unwillingly enthroned an aristocracy of crime, the like of which has never been known. “By such legislation we have made it possible for the dregs of society to enrich themselves in a lawless traffic. We have created a nobility of bootleggers, whose wealth and evil influence stagger the imagination. “I protest against the creation of this hellish monopoly by special legislation known as the Volstead

act.

“I protest against renewing the legal franchise of this sin-laden octopus whose evil influences have stretched out over our fair land like a gigantic death-dealing blight. “I declare myself as unalterably opposed to the old abomination known as the saloon traffic, and 1 equally declare against the pernicious abomination known as the bootleg industry. Wants Government Supervision “I declare for a modification of the Volstead act to license the sale of beer and wine sold under government supervision. “This is the only w~v that we can dismantle and destroy, this evil botlegger monopoly which is eating at the vitals of American moral

life.

“The existence of the Volstead law in its present form is a national immorality—a contradiction of the principles of free government. It is a virus in the stream of our national life, that spreads its infection wider and wider until the whole body sickens. “Disrespect for law has become an epidemic throughout the land. The minds of our boys and girls coming into maturity are exposed to the shameful spectacle of a nation of hypocrites, violating the law, by the millions in places high and low. “How can we under these circumstances, mould into the forming characters of our youth, the basic virtues of sincerity, honesty, temperance and respect for the law? Prisons Overflowing ' “We are failing shamefully. The vice and intemperance of our youth is appalling. In our own state the recently enlarged and added penal institutions are filled to overflowing. This unusual and startling situation is a matter of common knowledge. “My friends, it is time to act. The hour is coming, and is now here, that we, American sovereign citizens, must resume our responsibilty of free government. “We must rid ourselves of this governmental heresy, prohibition, and substitute for it an era of voluntary temperance, honesty and decency. “Let us recharge the American home, and all places of education with their fundamental responsibility of promoting morality and temperance by education—not by legislation. “I propose to discuss this declaration fully and in detail during the course of the campaign and to submit evidence and argument that will convince critics of the sincerity of purpose and soundness of this posi-

tion.

“To my fellow-citizens who are sincerely interested in the promotion of temperance, but still believe that absolute prohibition is the means to attain it, let me say, i*hat since our respective efforts seek the same ideal, we can proceed with mutual respect and discuss the issue without bitterness or rancor. With this spirit our discussions will be most fruitful of solution and the real interests of our country best served.” o BONE DRY BILL AUTHOR AGAIN IS A CANDIDATE

Indianapolis. April 7.—Frank E. Wright, author of the bill which in 1917 made Indiana dry ahead of the nation and whose bone dry measure in 1925 strengthened the original law, was next to the last candidate to file in the state house of representatives! just before midnight Saturday. Wright is a candidate from Marion county. He was elected to the legislature in 1915, 1917, 1919 and 1925 from Randolph county, but in the last year has changed his permanent resident to Indianapolis. He is auditor of the state securities commission at the present time.

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Four bandits, with coat collars up and caps pulled over their eyes entered the office of the Alco Gravure Company, 2242 Grove St., Chicago, yesterday afternoon, held up nine em ployes and escaped with a payroll that amounted to $3,400.

Disabled veterans of the world war today will be given Easter baskets fiilled with candy, fruit and cigarettes.

More than 100 men, armed with shot guns and riot guns, have been searching the rural districts around Vincennes, Ind., in an effort to. locate James Shumake, slayer of Simon A. Carrie, a plain clothes man on the Vincennes police force, who was shot fatally at noon Thursday.

Fifteen men and women who were trapped on thfe the upper floors of a burping apartment building in Chicago'’s north side were all saved from death yesterday by a series of thrilling rescues by firemen who were fighting the flames.

Hugh McK. Landon, president of the James Whitcomb Riley Memorial Association and chairman of the governing body of the hospital has doubled its subscription to the hospital by giving another $30,000.

Nicholas Longworth, Speaker of the House, outlined to President Coolidge yesterday a tentative legislative program for the house for the next two weeks, which would include consideration of aviation legislation, American-German claims and Spanish war pensions.

Joseph Stewart, executive secretary of the postoffice department in a statement before a senate committee considering postal rate charges, showed that the operating deficit of the postoffice department for the fiscal year 1925 was estimated at $28,000,000.

Do you know how much meat was your share last year? According to the Department of Agriculture, the per capita consumption of meat last year was 154.3 pounds. Persons are eating more veal and less pork. Beef consumption reached the highest point on record in 1925, with a production of more than 7,146,000,000 pounds. The per capita consumption of lard last year was 13.4 lbs.

The state department of conservation plans to erect a hotel for the convenience of visitors at the new Lake James state park in Steuben county. Work probably will begin late next summer or fall. The cost will be approximately $50,000. President Coolidge is of the opin-

ion that congress should enact coal legislation before the present session adjourns so that any future labor troubles in the mine fields will not leave the public without fuel. Senator Arthur R. Robinson, who is to return to Indiana next Friday, will make a speaking tour of the state for about two weeks in his campaign for renomination. One of the most daring bank robberies ever committed in Rhole Island was staged at Phenix when bandits entered the Phenix Trust Company Friday morning, held up the attendants, handcuffed them, secured about $20,DOO, and made their escape in an automobile. They entered the bank just a few minutes after it opened at 9 o’clock.

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