Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 8 April 1926 — Page 4

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THE POST-DEMOCRAT

THURSDAY, APRIL 8, 1926,

MUNCIE ORDER CHANGED NAME TO THATOF K.A.P. Word “KIan ,? Is Declared To Have Nauseated Decent Americans.

Samuel H. Bemenderfer, of Muncie, national president of the organizaton known as the Independent Klan of America, has announced that hereafter the organization will 'be known as the K. A. P. The meaning of these letters is to be known only to members of the order. At the same time Mr. Bemenderfer said the national convention of the order would be held in Muncie on June 14, 15 and 16, at which time the national delegates will decide on the permanency of the name chosen by the national officers. After Judge Slick, in Federal court, last week, decreed that the dependent order could not use the name of klan, the independents made application, April 3, to the secretary of state of Indiana, at Indianapolis, to change the name of the Independent Klan of America to

the name of K. A. P.

Bemenderfer, in a statement just issued, says that over half of the

8th District Workers for Watson At Meet

Indianapolis, April 8.—Members of the Eighth district organization of Senator James E. Watson, working for his renomination, held a conferenoe yesterday, at the senior senator’s headquarters in the Hotel Severin. The session was one of a series of district organization meetings being held at the state headquarters, Mrs. Vivian T. Wheatcraft woman’ state manager for Senator Watson, was one of those in charge of the session. Fay Kitselman, Eighth district manager for Watson and Mrs. James Larmore, woman manager for the district, as well as county managers were present and spoke. o 1 DISCUSS CASE OF KSINGDR. ROSS Gov. Jackson and Prison Official Confer As Slayer Is Being Sought.

Indianapolis, April 8.—The continued absence of Dr. Nelson B. Ross of Muncie, whose failure to re-

membership of the new order have I turn to the Indiana state prison at

long desired to have the word ‘klan” eliminated from their name, because of the disrepute into which this name has fallen. The very word “klan” to the people of America is nauseating, to say the least, and if this court decision had not been made it is probable that the namfc of the Independent Klan of America would have been changed at the

next convention.”

Bemenderfer says that today about one-half of the membership of the old K. K. K. is enrolled in the

K. A. P.

ARRESTS WILL BE MADE IN DEATH OF YOUNG GIRL Martha Kennon of Union City, Died After a Wild Party At Dayton, 0. Dayton, O., April 8.—Montgomery County authorities yesterday turned over to Prosecutor Eber M. Brown, Randolph County, Indiana, the case involving the death here from poisoning March '24, of Martha Kennon, 18, Union City, O. Brown intimated that Armand Jeffries, 19, Union City, Ind., who came to Dayton with Miss Kennon on March 20, would he arrested on charges of possessing and transporting liquor. The prosecutor said Jeffries had confessed bringing alcohol with him to Dayton- when he escorted the girl here. Bought Poison Tablets. Jeffries is also said by Brown to have admitted buying poison tablets for the girl at her request. The investigation conducted by Brown and Assistant Prosecutor Charles J. Brennan, Dayton, did not reveal evidence which would connect the youth directly with the girl’s death, the prosecutors agreed. Decision on procedure followed further questioning yesterday, of members of an alleged party in which Miss Kennon was a member and w-hich was described by prosecutors as “a wnld, drunken orgy in -which none of the participants seemed to remember just what oc-

curred.”

Steel Officials Are Optimistic Newark, N. J., April 8.—An optimistic forecast of business conditions was made by Eugene G. Grace, president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation at the annual stockholders’ meeting of the corporation here yesterday. "I can see no cause for alarm over business conditions,” Mr. Grace said. “We have every reason to look forward to a bright future.” Charles M. Schwab, chairman of the board of directors, touching on deeply appreciated the trust placed in them. o Keltner To Manage Campaign of Rryan

Michigan City, April 1, at the expiration of a temporary parole, was the subject of a conference, yesterday, between Walter H. Daly, deputy warden of the prison, and Gov-

ernor Ed Jackson.

In the meantime, police of the state and Indianapolis, are seeking the man, some on the theory that he has taken his own life and others on the theory that h© has voluntarily remained away from the prison.

Appealed For Pardon

Agents from the state prison have sent photographs to various police departments in the search. An investigation by local police at the home of relatives here failed to reveal any trace of him, members of the family declaring that he had left here last Thursday, ostensibly to return to the prison. He has made repeated efforts to obtain a pardon, according to the Rev. George S. Henninger, president of the state

board of pardons.

At the conference yesterday, Governor Jackson was formally notified of Dr. Ross’s continued absence. Dr. Ross was serving a life sentence for the murder, about seventeen years ago, of Dan Linder, a Union Traction conductor. The slaying occurred near Muncie. STEPHENSON TO MOVE FOR APPEAL Convicted Man’s Counsel Asks Permission To

File Exhibit.

Indianapolis, April 8.—One of the last steps prior to the filing with the court of evidence of the trial of D. C. Stephenson, serving a life sentence in the Indiana state prison for the murder of Miss Madge Oberholtzer of Indianapolis, began this afternoon in the Hamilton circuit court, before Judge W^ll M. Sparks, of Rushville, who presided during the trial of Stephenson last fall. ' A petition was presented by Eph Inman and Ira M. Holmes, of Indianapolis, attorneys for Stephenson in his long court battle against the charge of first-degree murder growing out of Miss Oberholtzer’s death, asking permission to substitute an exhibit introduced as evidence during the trial, for one that has been lost since. The exhibit than can not be found is the blue print of the floor plan of the Indianapolis Union station, introduced by the defense. Mr. Inman said last night that an exact duplicate has been obtained and permission will be asked to substitute the duplicate. —o The northern Indiana conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, now in session at New Castle, will probably vote to hold the 1927 conference in Goshen, Indiana, according to the Rev. Dr. Charles H. Smith, superintendent of the Goshen district. This will be the first gathering of this kind for Goshen

since 1879.

W. O. Mills of Mooresville, a successful farmer, has been appointed field man for Purdue University school of agriculture, to work for the improvement of Hoosier farming methods by maintaining and developing interest among the agricultural alumni of the university

scattered over the state.

Anderson, Ind., April 8—Sanford M. Keltner, president of the board of trustees of the Indiana State Normal schools at Terre Haute and Muncie and prominent Republican lawyer and business man of this city, has been appointed state manager of Oswald Ryan’s campaign for the United States Senate for the short term, according to an announcement by Mr. Ryan yesterday. Mr. Keltner will be assisted by a committee

of leading Republicans of Anderson After two years of persistent in the work of promoting the An- prodding by President Coolidge, Rederson man’s candidacy. The Ryan .publican leaders of Congress have headquarters will continue to be finally agreed on anti-strike legisla-

Secretary Hoover says that the six hundred million dollars worth of radio receiving equipment used in American homes ‘‘might as well be thrown into the ash can” unless broadcasting control is protected by new legislation or by court decisions upholding present regulations.

located at Anderson.

Fearing Floor At Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, Ind., April 8.—Possibility of a night’s rain increased danger in Fort Wayne last night of the Maumee river overflowing its banks and flooding the eastern section of the city. The river rose steadily all day, and early last night had reached flood stage at fifteen feet. A flood warning was issued in a bulletin from the weather bureau here yesterday afternoon, with the forecast that continued rain would cause the depth of the river to in_ crease to seventeen feet, sufficient to flood the district around the river bank.

tion to save American people suffering and profiteering which attend

coal strikes.

Secretary Kellogg is Tn receipt of Mexico’s reply to the latest Amerj ican note of protest regarding MexI ico’s petroleum and land laws. It is thought that this will conclude the I protracted diplomatic exchanges which have passed between Wash- , ington and the City of Mexico, in i the last several months and which | were started by Secretary Kellogg in an effort to safeguard American | interests in Mexico from retroactive provisions of the tw T o laws.

In a report issued by Archie N. Bobbitt, state gasoline tax collector for the state of Indiana, he states that during the month of February there was an increase of 4,399,516 gallons of gasoline used over that for the same month last year.

DRY DETECTIVE UNDER BIG BOND AT WAPAK.. OHIO Is Charged With Perjury, Assault and Battery On Woman. Greenville, O., April 8.—Frank Roney, the dry detective, who has been working in Darke county oqt of the court of Mayor Wilson, of Greenville, since his release from the Wapakoneta jail about a month ago and who was arrested Monday night by Constables Havwood and Horrmann of Auglaize county, and taken to Wapakoneta on a warrant charging perjury, was arraigned before Justice Belcher at Wapakoneta and pleaded not guilty. His bond was fixed at $2,000 and he was released when it was signed by Dam Ramge and W. B. Jack, citizens of Auglaize county. Roney, who was brought to Auglaize and Dark counties by dry forces, is claimed to have “planted” bottles of booze at the homes of several residents of these counties, in order to secure convictions. In the instance of the charge of perjury, Roney is charged with having testified th a t a bottle and its contents, taken in one of his raids was the same as Exhibited when he was tried o n the charge of giving a drink to one Charles Graessle, when In fact it was not. When arrested here Monday night Roney had a big pistol and a blackjack on his person. He said the revolver was given him by Chief Lynch of Greenville, but the chief denied this. Roney is under sentence inWapak oneta on the charge of assault and battery on the person of Mrs. Anna Howard of that city, and another on the charge of destroying property. If found guilty on the charge of perjury Roney is liable to a penitentiary term of one to ten years. Samuel R. Martin, etux, to Pearl R. Jones, part Lot 37 in Yotaw’s Addition Portland. Consideration $300. Ira E. Woodard, etux, to Indiana Glass Co., Lot 2870, Dunkirk Land Company’s Addition, Fourth Addition Dunkirk. Consideration $50. o The appointment of nine managers to prosecute the case against Federal Judge English of Illinois was made by the House, yesterday. The Senate was also formally notified of Judge English’s impeachjment on the charge of “high misdemeanors” in office.

No Opposition For Chambers Newcastle, Ind., Apr. 8.—Both the Republican and Democratic tickets for the primary election, May 4, were announced yesterday, after all candidates had filed by last Saturday. Practically all the Republican county offices will be contested, while the Democrats have only one office that will be contested, that of recorder. Paul Benson, incumbent, Republican, will have no opposition in either the primary or election next November for prosecuting attorney the Democrats having failed to file a man for that office. Luther Draper, Republican, candidate for joint senator of Henry, Hancock and Madison counties, will have no opposition in the primary as will Walter S. Chambers, Democrat candidate. o Dean of Indiana Journalists Dies South Bend, Ind., April 8.—John B. Stoll, dean of journalists in Indiana, died last night of influenza, following an illness which started last Sunday afer his return from Michigan City, where he had been attending a meeting of the prison board of which he was a member. Mr. Stoll was 83 years old March 13, last. All of his life, with the exception of the first twelve years, were passed in the print shop, editor’s chair or as a contributor to newspapers, his last assignment being on the South Bend Tribune staff as a writed of a department, “Observed and Noted.” o Postmaster General of the United States, Harry S. New, has indorsed the movement just getting under way to bring about throughout the states of the old Northwest territory a general celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the conquest of the Northwest by George Rogers Clark. The observance will center in Indiana in 1929, commemorating the capture of Fort Sackyille at Vincinnes. Charles H. Tuttle, testifying Tuesday before a joint session of the House and Senate patent committees in the interests of the National Association of Broadcasters, charged the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, from which Broadcasters secure much of their popular music, with being a combination in restraint of trade.

California U. Bucks Atheism Movement San Francisco, April 8.—A movement looking to the formation of atheistic organizations to solidify the country’s unbelievers has been started by Theodore Beard of Colorado, organizer for the American Association for the Advancement of Atheism. ‘‘Plans have been made to form chapters in almost every university town in the west,’ he said yesterday. Beard declared the chapters wnuld be styled after the “Society of the Damned Souls,” which was recently organized in Rochester, N. Y. Simultaneously an announcement was made by W. W. Campbell, president of the University of California, at Berkeley, ‘‘that any attempt to organize an atheistic chapter here would be promptly squelched.” o Need for sanitary regulations in garages is shown by the fact that lead is present in garage dust, and carbon monoxide is often present in the air in dangerous quantities.

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