Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 3 June 1926 — Page 4
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SCOPES KEACHES APPEAL TRIBUNAL IN FAMOUS CASE Teacher’s Conviction On Evolution Charge Reviewed by High Court.
Nashville Tenn., June 2—Tennessee, through counsel, arose in its Supreme court Monday to defend its Jaw that no theory denying the divine •creation of man shall be taught ii Sts public schools and universities. Aft*”' five attorneys had attacked the state’s now famous anti-evolution Saw from all angles, Ed T. Seaey, as ‘Counsel for the state in the appeal of John Thomas Scopes from a conviction in Rhea Circuit court, contended the state has the power to T-rotect the children from the teachings of evolutionists. Attack Record The indictment on which the Dayton teacher was brought to trial and the law on which the indictment was based were attacked and defended. But is was evident from the tenor of kis speeches and the written hrief of William Jennings Bryan Jr., that the age-old controversy of the-
CARROLL IS SENT TO PEN FUR YEAR
$2,000 Fine Added To Per-
jury Penalty Imposed On Wine Party Host.
New Yoi'k, June 4.—Earl Carroll may be going where bathing is com-
pulsory.
The producer has been sentenced to a year and a day in Atlanta federal prison for perjury, with a fine
of $2,000 in addition.
Probably the accommodations at the federal penitentiary will be limited to shower baths rather than to enameled bathtubs, such as was used for Joyce Hawley’s “wine bath.” “I’m not worrying,” said Carroll, after Judge Goddard had pronounced
sentence.
By this the impresario meant that he was confident an appeal will reverse his conviction. Herbert Smyth, Carrolls attorney, gave notice of an appeal immediately after the sentence. It will come before the higher court next October. In the meantime, the producer is at liberty on “go any
where” bail of $5,000.
Carroll had a large audience on Thursday, when he strode into the courtroom in the federal building. He stood before Judge Goddard,
AN INCOME TAX STATUTE SOUGHT BY FARM BUREAU
Would Relieve Agriculturist and Effect Better Distribution of Tax Burden.
Indianapolis, June 4.—Formation of a state-wide organization of farm
Scopes Opinion Is Not Expected Until Fall Term
Nashville, Tenn., June 4—The ques tion of whether Tennessee’s famous law against teaching the theory of evolution in state-supported schools is constitutional was formally placed before its supreme court yesterday for decision. An opinion is not ex-
pected before the fall term.
The case, brought to the state’s highest court on appeal from the
men and women and citizens of rural | conviction last year of John T. communities who are especially in- ■ Scopes, a Dayton school teacher, teresl.ed in the prosperity of the | who was prosecuted by Williain Jenagricultural sections of the state, j nings Bryan, as one of the great comhas been undertaken by the Indiana mqner’s last acts, was argued today
ology and science was of major im- ! holding himself erect,
jaqrtance
Picturing the law as arbitrary and capricious and standing in the way of eductation, counsel for Scopes argued that it was unconstitutional. Mr. Seay contered by painted a hypothetical picture of a home in which the religion of the fathers had heen destroyed because a 'teacher” laid the school boy that life b»gan as. a single cell aeons ago instead of that “God created man in his own
image.” *
Scopes was not there. William .leanings Bryan Sr., was not there. Tiring of playing th- u cdir.e part in which he was cast nt Dayton, tM'cpes has returned to iho Cniversitr o’ Ciicago. Bryxn.. his last pub "lie rt{Fr*>uces as argamcro, he l.ad prepar* d 5 n -his ca^e, di:d soon after the trial had ended at Da.'ton. The second and concluding day’? ar-ThrufeDits will be ma e today b' Thomas H. Malone of Nashville and Mr Darrow for Scoi -S and by K, T. Ct i i.co for the state-. Kentucky Solons Vote In Favor of Sunday Baseball
-Frankfort, Ky., June 2.—In Ken rut&y it is all right to knock the ’kiver” off the old baseball on Sunday nowadays. The Generaly Assembly has lifted Lhe age-old Sunday blue law restriction as to playing of baseball on the Sabbath. It did so over Governor Field’s veto, citing the Fourth Commandment. Kentucky’s counterpart to the commandment reads in part: “No work or business shall be done on the Sabbath except the or oinary household, offices or other work of necessity or charity.” -The legislature added this: “Provided that amateur sports and athletic games shall be not considered a work, labor, trade, business or calling within the meaning of this seclion.”
his lips nervously.
“SUPER ” MOTOR CAR TO BE DESCRIBED
Farm Bureau federation, which is sponsoring the enactment of a state income tax statute and which it contends will lift some of the heavy burdens of property taxation off the farmer and small property owner by fairly distributing these burdens among all the people according to
their ability to carry them.
The bureau income tax organization will be headed by-W. T. Martindale, director of organization of the farm bureau, and it is proposed to weld the district, county and township farm bureau organizations into a compact of acquainting the rural voters with the merits of the income tax but to get out the vote on election day for the tax measure. The income tax resolution, providing for an amendment to the constitution, has passed two sessions of the state legislature and now goes to the vot-
ers for ratification.
The difficulties in the way of amending the state constitution are recognized by the Farm bureau. In the past most amendments proposed have failed, not because they were voted down, but because of failure of a majority of the electorate to vote on them. Thus it is the double purpose of the Farm bureau campaign to acquaint the voters with the proposition and then get them to the polls to vote on it. While the approval of the proposition at* the polls does not necessarily mean that an income tax statute will be enacted, it does open the way for the enactment of such a statute by the legis-
lature.
The Farm bureau proposes to use its efforts to bring about the enactment of such a statute, and recognizing that the additional revenue provided by an income tax would not reduce the tax rate generally if a spending orgy were permitted in anticipation of the increased funds, it has adopted the following policy: “In view of the fact that in Indiana the agricultural population, consisting of 31 per cent of the whole, receives but 8 to 12 per cent of t’he state’s income and pays 25 to 28 per cent of the state’s taxes, the Indiana Farm Bureau federation is ad-
but wetting \ vocating the adoption of a state in-
come tax policy, and at the same time pledging its forces to the task of preventing any increase in public expenditures that would nullity the effect on the tax rate due to the increased revenues provided by an in-
come tax.”
and yesterday before five justices.
FRENCH DEBT BILL PASSED BY HOUSE: SENT TO SENATE Charge Made That Group of Bankers Control All Things.
Washington, June 4.—The French war debt settlement, which calls for the payment to the United States of $6,847,674,000 in principal and inter est over a sixty-two year period, was approved today by the House. By a vote of 236 to 112 a bill to ratify acceptance of the agreement
Clarence Darrow of Chicago, who worked out by the debt commission opposed Bryan during the trial at was sen t t 0 the Senate, where it is Dayton last summer, concluded the ! ex p ect ed to encounter greater op-
argument for Scopes today with a position.
plea for the intellectual freedom of | j t wag 0 pp 0ge( j on th e House roll man. He was one ol six attorneys 1 ca jj by twenty Republicans, eighty-
who appeared for two for the state.
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Scopes against
BEVERIDGE CITES CHANGING ORDER IN NATION’S LIFE
Former Senator Speaks At Event Marking Independence.
Philadelphia, Pa., June 4.—Intolerant minorities and radical organizations are carrying the United States far from the beacon light of independence erected in Philadelphia 150 years ago, Albert J. Beveridge, former United States senator from In-!
Indiana Farmer Noosed By Gang
Jeffersonville, Ind., June 4.—^Because of lack of evidence to connect any person with the crime, County Prosectuor Grover C. Todd had filed no charges last night against four young men, who John Ballard, 29-year-old farmer of Blue Lick, Ind., charges held him on his toes for half an hour at the end of a nosed rope, warned him to leave the community and then released him. Nothing could be learned yesterday from city and county officials regarding the alleged crime. Ballard, however, declared that he had a misunderstanding with John Reed, on whose farm he and his wife Mrs. Anna Ballard, live at Blue Lick, eighteen miles north of Jeffersonville.
eight Democrats, two Farm-Labor members, one Independent and one Socialist, while fifty-one Democrats and one Progressive-Socialist combined with the Republican majority in voting for acceptance.
Wants Amendment
Representative Wefald (Farm-lab-or, Minnesota) sought unsuccessfully to amend the settlement by eliminating a provision enabling France under certain condtions to postpone any payment of principal or interest for three years. Representative Michener (Republican, Michigan) presiding, however, held the agreement was not subject to revision.
Cites Banking Group
Representative Howard (Democrat, Nebraska), in opposing the agreement, said the United States had been ruled for the last four | years by a “Morgan-Mellon group of
internation bankers.”
Approval came after a day and a half of debate during which Representatives Collier, Mississippi, and
Automotive Engineers To Hear of Remarkable Automobile of Future.
French Lick, June 4.—The “super” motor car of the future, with headlights that do not blind; cushions that do not fatigue; tires which can be removed without tools and an engine that one man can lift out of the frame, was described by speakers at the Society of Automobile Engineers’ convention here this week.
RATES ELSEWHERE MAY BE REDUCED
Public Seimce Commission Forecasts Cuts At Decatur and Richmond.
Indianapolis, June 4.—The strong possibility of substantial reductions r rr ,n rr, ,r tas -
ond afternoon of the coTvenSoV by' terday by 3obn W Mc0ardle ' chalr -
diana, declared here last night. Rainey, Illnois, both Democrats, in Mr. Beveridge spoke at the intro- the ways and means committee, led a duction of sesquicentennial celebra- ! heated attack against the settlement, tion of the signing of the Declaration j Collier asserted the terms of the of Independence held under the aus- agreement were so liberal as to be pices of the Pennsylvania Historical “unfair” to American taxpayers.
Society.
Mr. Beveridge declared the recent order empowering local officers to
become agents of the national gov- [ bankers
ernment was a step, which if “it succeeds and becomes permanent, will change our form of government.” “This in effect destroys our political subdivisions; subjects towns, cities, counties and states to a national control, centralize^ at Wash-
ington,” he continued.
Mr. Beveridge declared that if this change in the American system has a constitutional pretext for it, as claimed, it will result in a bureaucratic form of centralized government, and the planners and builders of American institutions have wrought in vain. He also said this power could be exercised to build and run a powerful political machine, national in extent and dangerous to the liberties of the great mass of
people.
“Radical Minorities.”
Turning to “radical minorities,”
while Rainey assailed the settlement as too liberal in the time and declared it was sponsored by New York
AFFIRMS DRY ACT ON POSSESSION
Supreme Court Upholds the
Wright Law Against Liquor Ownership.
WILL NOT GRANT PARDON TO PERFECT Huntington Business Man Must Serve Sentence for Assaulting Girl.
Indianapolis, June 2.—The state pardon board yesterday denied a petition for a pardon for T. Guy Perfect, Huntington business man convicted of criminal assault. Governor Ed Jackson approved the findings, which was included in a board’s recommendation. No statement accompanied the long list of recommendations in other cases. Perfect was convicted in Huntington Circuit Court in September 1921 of mistreating a girl and sentenced to two to twenty-one years’ imprisonment at Michigan City. He appealed the case repeatedly and only entered prison April 17, 1926, nearly five years after being convicted. State-Wide Interest. .Due to the man’s prominence and the sentiment that was aroused over the case in Huntington, Fort Wayne and other northern Indiana cities the case attracted state-wide interest. o Veterans Decorate Graves Last Time
Zach T. Dungan
Supreme
Renominated for Clerk of
Court.
Factions Break At Presbyterian Church Meeting
Baltimore, June 4.—An open break between fundamentalists and liberals occured at the close of the 138th general assembly of the Presbyterian yesterday when Dr. Clarence Macartney, fundamentalist leader, issued a statement charging that a coalition of modernists and others had served to bring the assembly to “a terrible climax.” An attempt to introduce the resolution before the assembly by a floor commissioner was defeated, as this constituted new business, and Dr. Thompson, moderator, pointed out that the constitution forbids introduction of new business so late. The statement had been circulated hardly more than an hour before Dr. A. Edwin Keigwin, chairman of the assembly’s committee on overtures, issued a flat denial of Dr. Macartneys statements.
NOTICE OF LETTING OF SCHOOL COAL Muncie, Indiana, May 26, 1926.
The Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals at
Huntington, June 2—The Hunting ton post of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled Monday morn-
ing and decorated the graves of war! the Business Office, 139 Central High veterans in this vicinity for the last School building, Muncie, Indiana, up time. j to 11:30 a. m., Tuesday, June 22, Due to the fact that the decoration 1926, for the furnishing of coal for of graves has proved too strenuous use in the several school buildings a task for the elderly Civil war vet- j in the school city of Muncie, as per
Indianapolis, June 2—A clause of erans, the memorial services, which' specifications on file in the office of the Wright “bone dry” law, covering they have taken charge of for many the Business Director, Board of possession of intoxicating liquor for I years, will be turned over / to the School Trustees. personal use, was upheld by the In-! Spanish-American war veterans next Proposals will be received upon diana Supreme court yesterday in a year. The G. A. R., however, will any or all of the following named decision denying a new trial for Mat-; continue to hold a memorial program coals, and upon both 2 inch and 4 thew Gnetling of Evansville. The each year as long as there is a post inch screened lump, and egg size, of said Thrunited States ! court upheld the constitutionality of in the city. . each kind.
Mr. Be^idge said the United St tes ( ^ ^ ^ ruled that <(the possea q Begt quality West Virginia coal. regulated,^directed, cont ^ Rlnn nf intoxicating liquor for a per- DOG ATTACKS CLFFICEFT Ecst quality Hocking Valley cem!
army air service-flyers from the Me
Cook field, Dayton, Ohio.
man of the public service commis-
sion.
. . , i The commission, Mr. McCardle An airplane equipped with photo- said ig examining the financial red[n™ 1 | < L aPP f aia v, US Wl1 Pf t0 th -n H*" P° rts of 111686 utilitl ' es ver y closely taken to the soctety’s Stars ar“ a '', d ^nfiSn ” G^Dtcator ranged to form the Initials of the and Rushvffle comparator E n wi 0n me nefative wUI°be de* ^ those recently effected in other
sion of intoxicating liquor
sonal use may be forbidden by a state without infringing on the con-
stitutional rights of citizens.”
Gnetling was convicted in Vanderburg county in June, 1925, after a
AS HE DIRCETS TOURISTS
was ....
and suppressed,” by more rules and acts than any other people in the
world’s history.
“Many well meaning men and women are afflicted by an “ecclesiastical complex,” Mr. Beveridge averred, and “have come to look upon law, administration and even judicial function itself as aspects of reli-
gion.”
Warns of Meddling.
Mr. Beveridge cautioned against participation in European affairs because “meddling” in foreign affairs disrupts the racial groups making up the nation and sets back the work
of the “melting pot. I aua ntity and makes possession nrima j mediately had the laceration dressed
For American “ ust be J® ?^ ie e ; ide nce of intent to sell. It by a phys ician. “America first” and none other sec ; a6 s e contested fn the a pp e al on the ond, Mr. Beveridge said. The De- fhnt ft ig uncertain and
Best quality Indiana Linton coal. Best quality Eastern Kentucky
Huntington, June 2—While direct- coal,
ing a party of Michigan motorists The option being reserved by the here Tuesday afternoon. Patrolman said Trustees of contracting for
raid on his home had netted fifty- William Millen was bitten on the either kind of coal or for each kind seven quarts of home brew. Gnetling left cheek by a German police dog. in such quantities as they may in
is said to have admitted ownership a large closed car containing several contract elect. people and a large dog drew to the Blanks for bidding upon any or all curb in the downtown section, and nf the above may be had at the ofMillen, who was standing nearby, fine of the Business Director, Board
of the liquor. The Wright law, including the possession clause, which has been the law’s most contested section, was effective on April 25,
1925 * . “Had Enough Time’”
was asked the way to Fort Wayne. The policeman stepped to the window of the car and began talking,
of School Trustees, 139 Central High School building, Muncie, Indiana. To insure their consideration all
hotel lawn,
veloped and a print made from it while the plane makes a series of revolutions in mid-air. Within a few minutes after the exposure is made, the finished print will be dropped by parachute to the waiting crowd be-
low.
o FIND AND BREAK UP PLOT OF PRISONERS FOR LIBERTY DASH
Michigan City, Ind., June 2.—Six prisoners, headed by James T. Shepard, a former Milford banker, made an attempt about ten days ago to break out of the Indiana state penitentiary here, but the attempt was frustrated. Warden Walter V. Daly
stated yesterday.
The plot was hatched in the dining room of the prison, but authorities learned of the conspiracy and the six men were confined to their cells at the time they were schedul-
Lowest In Any State
“Indiana tonight has the lowest average rates for electric light current of any state in the United States,” he said. “Out of investigations made of 85,000 cases of domestic consumers in 37 states, the average cost per consumer per month in Indiana is 79 cents less than in any of the others. This investigation was made in cases involving cities from 5,000 population to New York. Gas rates also show an average cost
discussion and experience.
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ona, mr. oeveuuBc e-rounds that it is uncertain ana claration of , In ^ 6p ? nde . nce T . ^ prevents possession without making an accident, he declared. It was the P vlBion ^ legal disposition of any Decatur, | cKmax of many decades of thought, P i(iuor Qn hand w&en tbe act became
^The V <x>urt held that Guetling, who was sentenced to sixty days on the Indiana state farm and fined $200 and costs, had “plenty of time to dispose of the liquor between the time the law went into effect and
the time the raid was made. The opinion was written by Judge
Willard B. Gemmill.
3 Clews Tangle Evangelist Trail
The clause prohibits the owner- when the dog leaped to the opening proposals must be made out in reguship of intoxicating liquor in any an d bit him in the face. Millen im- lar form, be fully itemized, and ac-
, i i ...... . . . com p an j e d by the affidavit required
by law.
The Trustees reserve the right to reject any and all bids. Frederick F. McClellan, President, George L. Raymond, Treasurer, Edward Tuhey, Secretary, Board School Trustees School City of Muncie. May 28, June 4, 11
Los Angeles, Cal., June f. —The tangled skein of inquiry into the death or disappearance of Aimee Semple McPherson, evangelist, who dropped from sight at the Santa Monica-Venice (Cal.) beach May 18 yesterday led investigators to three widely separated points on the Cali-
"than C a e nv tB oSr P o? fornia coast, exclusive of Los Angeb
es, where the hunt started.
^Bandits Take $6,000 From Seymour Bank
1,000 cubic feet than any other
the 37 states.
The demand of 80,000 conductors and trainmen of eastern railroads
Jor a 20 percent wage increase was e( l make their dash for freedom. refused Thursday by officials of the ° ■ - roads at the termination of a two- A large proportion of the children day conference with representatives in this country drink tea and coffee of the Brotherhood of Conductors regularly, according to recent sur-
and Trainmen. | veys.
High waters, lightning and wind accompanying a violent rainstorm in Osage and Creek counties in Oklahoma Wednesday night claimed seven lives and caused damage estimated at between $300,000 and $500,000. Five members of the family of F. L. Blocker, an itinerant salesman, were drowned by the sudden rise of a creek near Hominy, Okla., when a wall of water swept away the approach to a bridge and engulfed them.
At Long Beach, Cal., a blind attorney, R. A. McKinley, walked the streets awaiting a tap on the shoulder which would tell him that sup-
Seymour, June 2—Two men yesterday afternoon robbed the Union State bank at Crothersville, 12 miles south of here, of $6,000 in cash. The
Fire early Thursday morning at Regia, Cuba, which is just across the bay from Havana, destroyed the warehouse of the American Agricultural and Chemical company. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Two
men were injured.
posed kidnapers of the woman; bandits escaped in a roadster, driv-
preacher and self-proclaimed healer i ing gout b
had come Mck for a second inter-, The> rob bers entered the bank view - A * rr, * . ' about 1:30 o’clock and with revolvMcKinley reported Tuesday to the erg forced j A Bovardi the presidistrict attorney that t wo I ^ 6 -^, bad ! dent, and Miss Amy Kingsburg, book accosted him on the street, told him; k ee p er> to stand against the wall they could produce Mrs. McPherson, w bji e , they scooped up the currency and demanded $25,000 for doing so,, f rom the teller’s window. They then of which they promised McKin e yjthen entered the vault and took all
$5,000 for opening negotiations. I available cash there^
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