Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 9 September 1926 — Page 3
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1926.
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G. ft P. PAPER BACKS STAND OF THE DEMOCRATS
Condemns Jackson's Diversion of State Funds To Pay State Debt.
This Judge Knows Where Blame Lies
WAPAKONETA, O—No dance halls in Auglaize county will be closed by Judge John R. Coffin, in spite, of the fact that more than 1,300 voters of the county signed petitions asking for ? the closing of the Gordon State Park pavillion on Sunday, charging the dance hall was not in keeping with Sabbath observance and tended to lower
the morals of the youth.
Judge Coffin issued his decision in regard to the closing of the dance halls after making a survey
ques-
tionnaire he said. He also communicated with other judges in the
state ih regard to the question.
Judge Coffin places the blame for the lowering of the morals—if they be lower—not on the dance halls, but on laxity of parental discipline in homes. He based his opinion upon facts gleaned from answers given by judges in charge of Juvenile work and those who
signed the questionnaires.
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RED HAIRED GIRL KILLED BY HOTEL MAN IN KENTUCKY
Couple Quarreled Over Stone
In Ring; Man Commits
Suicide In Room.
Rushville, Ind., Sept. 9.—The Rushville Republican, only Republican newspaper in the home town of Senator James E. Watson, in a
recent editorial completely en- of the petitions by use of a
dorses and backs up the Democratic party’s position in condemning the Jackson administration’s diversion of $3,700,000 in special state funds to make possible the pay-
ment of the state debt.
This specially sharp attack by the only Republican paper in Senator Watson’s home town on the financial management of the Jackson administration is considered here to be particularly significant. Referring to an address by Democratic State Chairman R. Earl (Peters here recently, in which Mr. Peters charged that the “state debt had been paid by the mere clerical act of transferring more than $3,700,000 from special funds to the general fund,” the Repub-
lican continues:
“This is not news to people who have paid any attention to state affairs. It has been charged previously by friends of the highway commission that the commission was being hampered through the manipulation of funds in order to pay off the state debt. The highway commission does not derive its revenue from property taxes, but from the sale of automobile licenses and gasoline tax, which is paid by the consumer and not by
the general public.
"Now comes the Hoosier State Automobile Association, a purely non-partisan organization supported by and devoted to the interests of automobile owners, with a complaint that backs up the democra-
tic state chairman.
“It is poor grace indeed, says a statement from the auto association, “for the state of Indiana to take from the motoring public its own fund, of $490,000 paid in by its own motorists for their own protection.” Mr. Peters charged the sum taken from the auto theft fuhd amounted to $491,710.72. “The association rightfully makes further complaint that the work of the state motor police department is being hampered for the want of funds. If it was the intention of the certification of title law to create funds for the protection of motorists, certainly the motorists are entitled to all the protection they pay
for.”
JUDGE COFFIN REFUSES TO STOP SUNDAY DANCING
Issues Statement On Petition Asking That It Be Stopped at Gordon Park.
WORKMEN WARNED BY JAMES J. DAYIS
Former Tinplate Worker of Elwood Heard By Many At State Fair.
Indianapolis, Sept. 7— Pointing out that no other worker in the world is as independent as the American laborer, James J. Davis, secretary of labor, in an address at the annual Labor Day meeting at the state fair grounds here yesterday warned the American workman against the activities of communists. Several thousand men and women from the ranks of labor through out the state crowded the coliseum to hear Mr. Davis, who once was a tinplate worker at Elwood. Have Contributed Nothing. “Communists have contributed nothing to the wealth of nations,” the secretary said. “They are not the sort of men who have built up America. It was not such as they that subdued the wilderness, built towns and cities, cultivated farms, invented machines, applied science to industry or directed labor intelligently. The kind of work that leads to wealth was never in their line. I will defy any one to cite a single instance in the history of the world where a communist agitator ever pointed out a practical method to increase the wealth of the world or his nation.” Reed Not To Run for Re-Election Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 7.—United Staites Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, announced here yesterday, that he would not be a candidate for re-election two years hence, but declined to comment on the movement started by several Democratic county committees of Missouri to make him a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1928. The senior Missouri senator who has served eighteen years in the Senate, dismissed the presidential talk with a terse “I did not start it.” o PARTY AT ROME CITY RAIDED BY SHERIFF
Lexington, Ky., Sept.' 4.-rA quarrel over the size of the stone in a diamond ring led to the slaying of a pretty red-haired telephone operator yesterday by her seventy-year-old suitor, who later committed
suicide.
Kelly <C. Kirtly, wealty restaurant and hotel man of Charleston, W. Va., fired a bullet into the brain of Miss Mildred McDaniel, 26, of Brooklyn, N. Y., while she slept in a hotel here Friday morning and then entered the bathroom and shot himself twice, dying before help could be summoned by Miss Alma Gregory ,also of Brooklyn, who had accompanied the couple
to Lexington, Wednesday.
For months, Miss Gregory said, Kirtley had been lavish in his gifts to Miss McDaniel. Thursday night the two had a quarrel over the size of the stone in a diamond ring. H0YIE GUNMAN IN DIVORCE ACTION Bill Hart’s Wife and Son Go To Divorce Colony; Were
Married In 1921.
Ft. Wayne, Ind., Sept. 9—Fifteen Fort Wayne youths, most of whom gave fictitious names, were assessed fines and costs totaling $1.50 each for intoxication in the court of Justice McCarthy, at Brim field, near Rome City, as the result of a raid on a resort cottage at Rome City, Monday. The lake cottage was rented one week ago • by eight 'Fort Wayne girls and a wild party was staged there Labor day, according to reports, Nearby cottages protested and a raid followed. The girls were of undue sizes and using bad or
not held.
Los Angeles, Sept. 7.—The Examiner says Winifred W T estover Hart, estranged wife of William S. Hart, gunman of the movies, has joined the Reno divorce colony. Friends of Mrs. Hart are quoted as having stated she will remain in Reno until she obtains a decree. She is accompanied by her mother and young son, William S. Hart,
Jr.
Winifred Westover and the actor were married late in 1921, but a rift soon appeared in their married life. The birth of a son failed to reconcile the pair and the actor and his wife separated. An agreement was drawn up in which Hart created two trust funds one for his wife and the other for his boy. Mrs. Hart was to get the income from $103,000 and William Jr., the income from $100,000. A proviso in the contract enjoined Mrs. Hart from entering the films. A clause in the trust agreement specified that in the event Mrs. Hart should obtain a divorce the $103,000 held in trust would be turned over to her in cash providing she had lived up to her agreement. • o — A Good Remedy for Crossing Accidents Prevention of grade crossing accidents is so easy and simple that there is no excuse for such accidents. All that is necessary is to look in both directions to see whether a train is approaching. If a train is approaching, stop and let it go by. When there , is more than one track, wait after a train has passed to. make sure that another train is not approaching on one of the other tracks. Where a crossing does not afford good vision because of view being obstructed by building, trees, curves or embankments, stop, look and listen before crossing. When signals are in action, crossing gates lowered or flagman is at crossing, train is, approaching and driver should stop and let i^ pass. These are reasonable regulations. If observed they will prevent grade crossing accidents just as effectively as grade changes. When not observed, the driver’s license should be cancelled. In other words, by such regulations, crossing accidents can be averted without loading up municipalities with taxes for grade changes.
St. Marys, O., Sept. 9.—Probate Judge, John R. Coffin, has refused to close Gordon State Park danc ing pavilion, near this city, on Sundays, as he was petitioned to do by some thirteen hundred citizens of Auglaize county, who declared that Sunday dancing was harmful to the morals of young persons and a desecration of the Sabbath Day. After making extensive investigation into ths subject by questonnaire and counselling with other Juvenile and Probate Judges of Ohio, Judge Coffin has concurred with about eighty percent of the Judiciary of this state that the responsibility for today’s juvenile problems rests, primarily on the home and parents. He supported, his ruling in this matter with the following reasons: 1. There is no law on the Statute Books of Ohio prohibiting or making Sunday dancing illegal. The State Legislature recently defeated an amendinent specifically prohibiting Sunday dancing. No member of the Judicial branch of the Government is permitted to read into law a clause which the Legislative branch has by its majority vote refused to pass. 2. Personal opinion, even though based on a religious conviction, cannot be enforced as law. 3. Sabbath observance is primarily a question that must be settled by the individual. Home and church training are the basis upon yhich opinions are formed of how best to observe the Sabbath. The passing of laws and making of ruling on this subject has no material influence towards creating the proper attitude in the minds and lives of voung boys and girls. 4. Sunday dancing is permitted in a number of places within an hours drive from any part of the county, and to close the pavilion at home would drive the boys and girls elsewhere. The automobile makes this possible. Keep the youth in their own community where their activities can be sup-
ervised.
oYOU CAN QUALIFY NOW TO VOTE AT RECri0NN0Y.2 Registration Started Today and Will Last Until October 4th.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 4.—^Registration for the election on November 2, began in all parts of the state today. Today is the first day of a thirtyday period, ending on October 4, in which voters not already registered must register in order to take part in the election this fall. Four classes of persons must register in order to be eligible to vote, under an agreement being worked out between the Democratic and Republican parties to accept as valid the amendments to the registration law passed by the last legislature. These are: Persons not 21 years of age at the election in November, 1924, who are now or will on November 2, this year be 21; persons who did not vote at the general election in 1924; persons who voted then but have since moved out of the precinct where' they voted, and persons whose precinct boundaries have been changed since the 1924 election.
Boys Saw World Costing Them $65 Logansport, Ind., Sept. 9.—Frank lin Hillis and Robert Elliott, students at Indiana University, have returned to their homes here following a 11,000-mile trip which cost them only $65 each. The trip included a 9,000-mile cruise of the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea, during which they worked as common seamen on the freighter, Liberty Land. Most of the money spent on the trip was for souvenirs, chief among which was a baby baboon obtained at a port in Algeria. They have made arrangements with the shipping company for a trip in 1927 that will take them to South Amer-
ican ports.
JUDGE MAKES A THREAT TO JAIL THREE PASTORS
Wayne Co. Jurist Irritated Over Criticism of Liquor Cases.
Richmond, Ind. Sept. 9.—A showdown loomed last night as imminent between the Centerville law enforcement league and Wayne County officers, when Judge J. H. Hoelscher of the Wayne County Circuit Oourt, struck back at insinuations of three Centerville ministers involving the administration of his court with the declaration that misrepresentation of facts would result in filing of contempt charges against the preach-
ers.
The Rev. L. F. Ulmer, pastor of the Christian Church in Centerville, Sunday, declared in a sermon that the state law of 1925 governing liquor cases says nothing about suspended sentences. This claim, Judge Hoelscher asserts, is misrepresentation of the law and quotes sections to show that the court is permitted to use his discretion, except in the case of frequent offend-
ers.
Officers A.rrest Editor
The controversy broke out a week ago when the Law Enforcement League hired detectives to get evidence of alleged bootlegging in the village of Centerville. As a result, Robert S. Peelle, publisher of The Old Trails Echo, was arrested in a raid by federal officers from Indianapolis, who claimed they found 192 pint bottles of home-
brew beer in his home.
“If persons are going to misr_e~ resent or give false or grossly inaccurate reports of what transpires in this court, I will have them brought before the court and pun-
FROSH WEE FOR I. U. COEDS OPENS AT BLOOMINGTON
New Students Attend Mass Meeting^—Program to Close Monday.
Bloomington, Ind., Sept. 9^—The program for Freshman week at Indiana university, which is compulsory for all beginning coeds, opened yesterday and will close Mon-
day.
The week’s program will consist of required mass meetings, physical examinations, psychology tests, registration and payment of fees, campus tours, examinations in English, special church services, Panhellenic rush and optional convoc-
ation.
Prof. Lillian Gay Berry of the Latin department, and Prof. Paul Y. McNutt, dean of the I. U. law school, will be the principal speakers at an optional convocation Friday. Prof. Berry will speak on “Campus Traditions” and Prof. McNutt on “How to Study.” Panhellenic rush will begin today and end Saturday. Three required mass meetings are on the freshman schedule. At the required mass meeting yesterday morning, Prof. Juliette Maxwell spoke. Dean Agnes E. Wells presided yesterday afternoon while talks were made by Miss Katherine Wasmuth, Huntington, president of the Women’s Self-Government asociation; Wanda Miller, Evansville, president of the Women’s Athletic association; Alice Bierman, Bloomington, president, of the Young Women’s Christion association, and Miss Walters. Prof. Maxwell will speak at the required mass meeting Saturday morning. Dr. William Lowe Bryan, president of the university, will speak to the new women students at special vesper services Sunday after-
noon.
ALLEGES DEAL IN ALIEN PROPERTY COST 7 MUM
Lured Her Husband To Be Murdered
Gary, Ind., Sept. 9.—Confessed accomplice in the murder of her husband, Mrs. Virgie Mullins took the stand in Criminal Court in Crown Point yesterday afternojdn as chief witness against her confessed lover, William Donaldson, facing a death sentence fot the murder of Joe Mullins, steel worker, here last. April. Admitting three previous | tempts to kill her husband, t widow told in detail how she and Donaldson had plotted the murder and how she had led her husband through East Bide Park here in order that Donaldson might shoot him.
DELAWARE KLAN CASE CARRIED TO HIGHER COURT
New Trial Refereed By Judge Wheat and Appeal Taken.
1V- . -oraO’/- > ,67 The Klan suijt, brought here 1 from Delaware voiihty, entitled the- Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, incorporated, et' al, vs. the Independent Klan of America et al, will be carried to the Appellate court. A motion made by the plaintiffs for a new trial has been overruled by Jucjge R. D. Wheat, and an appeal to the higher court granted An appeal bond in the sum of $200 was fixed, and thirty days allowed in yvliich to file the
bond and bill of exceptions.
This suit ip the outgrowth of a split in Delaware Klan No 4, at Muncie. When a large number of members of the old klan seceded because of the dictatorship of the high officials in the klan, it was alleged that they took a sum of money and certain property Ue-
longing to the old klan.
A hearing held in the circuit court here this spring, disclosed a lurid tale of graft, whereby members in the klan were soaked for about everything that could be sold, robes and paraphernalia, jewelry, booklets, etc., being sold at exorbitant prices, the money being divided among officials in the state and national organizations,
Richard Merton, German Citi- . while the common or garden va-
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Couple Held Up and Robbed by Young Gunman Who Returns Loot When Girl Gives Him Kiss
ii§%» |i\ . N. _____ _ Miss Elinore .Sweet and John Martin were startled while talcing an even-, j ing stroll in a New York park when a pistol was levelled at them hy a youthful gunman. The young holdup-man’s courage lasted until he had taken 50 cents and a watch from Martin and $4 a-id a bracelet from Miss Sweet. Then his embarrassment overcame him and he handed the girl’s belongings back. “I ain’t got the nerve,” he said, “but you gotta give mo a kiss.” The bashful hold-up man timidly kissed her and fled. James Murray, a 16-year-old messenger, was arrested later as the result of a description given to the pollQS v by Miss Sweet. _ v
zen, Says Daugherty and Miller Made Payment.
.New York, Sept. 9—The government struck swiftly yesterday in the trial of Harry M. Daugherty, attorney general in the Harding administration, and Thomas W.
ish them by imprisonment for con- Miller, former alien property cus-
tempt,” Judge Hoelscher said last night. “I have no objection to anyone stating the facts. I do not fear
the truth.”
Editorial in Newspaper. Peelle, who will be called before a federal judge about September 15, published a front page editorial in The Old Trails Echo in which he declared that the league had employed drunken detectives to get evidence against him, and asserted that the people of Clenterville who want liquor v/ill continue to get it despite the league. Peelle’s editorial, widely read in the county, said the ministers who were attacking him had never endeavored to “save his soul,” by a kind word or an invitation to attend church. It was said that a meeting between county officials and the Centerville enforcement league might be held this week In an effort to adjust the row.
THE SHOE POLISH AGE
Indianapolis police are wondering what “soaks” will use next, for intoxicants. Canned heat was had enough, they say, hut .one drunk, arrested by Plainclothes. Officers Merchant and Clark, capped the climax when he admitted he had been eating brown paste shoe polish and had become intoxicated.
BREAD AND WATER DIET SENTENCE
Nebraska Courts Revive Punishment of Dark Ages for Liquor Violations.
Tekamah, Neb., Sept. 9.—Sentenced to serve the first and last twenty days of their sixty-day jail sentences on a bread and water diet because they violated the prohibition law, Roy Carson, 35 years old, and Thomas Nelson, 50 years old, farmers, arrived at the Burt county jail, Tuesday night. Carson weighs 123 pounds and Nelson 150. Each declares he is a heavy eater and can not stand the bread and water sentence, recently affirmed by the state Supreme court, to which they appeal. A physicial examination by Dr. Isaiah Lukens resulted in a declaration by him that neither man was fit to stand the sentence. “The bread and water diet is not only cruel, but murderous, because it damages the vital organs,” he asserted. Sheriff Smith said three similar examinations had been made under the same sentence, but that two men were excused because of physical disabilities Such sentences, he maintained, were necessary to rid the country of liquor law violators. o Mark Rhoads, heacj of the st^te automobile license division, estimated, Friday, that 6$0,000 license plates for automobiles, in Indiana would be needed during 1927, and 110,000 for trucks.
Robert Peale, ditor of the Centerville paper, is a cousin of Attorney Tod Whipple, of Portland. o • Shower of Small Toads Is Reported
Greenville, O., Sept. 9.—A report came to Greenville, Monday, of a shower of small toads in the vicinity northeast of Dawn, Darke Co. After the heavy rain, Sunday evening, which occurred about 8:30 o’clock, automobilists who traveled on the cement highway and residents in the vicinity, report that hundreds of small live toads were found in the highway and the fields
nearby.
It is said that these toads came from th*e heavens with the heavy rainfall. Hundreds of toads were killed by passing automobiles. Showers of fishes have been reported in this locality several times but this is the first time that a shower of small toads has come to public notice. —o— BAVARIAN TOY INDUSTRY IS HAVIING SLACK YEAR
todian. Richard Merton, the government’s chief witness, testified that the Societe Suisse pour Valeurs de Metaux, of which he, a German citizen, was agent, was owned by the Metaligesellschaft and the Metallbank, German companies of which Merton was an officer, at the time Daugherty and Miller paid him approximately $7,000,000 in lieu of property of the American Metal Company, which had been siezed under the enemy trading act. * District Attorney Buckner in his preliminary address outlining the government’s case held that the refund was illegal, even without consideration of the graft factor, since the law required all such payments to be made only to neutrals or companies controlled by neut-
rals.
Letters In Evidence. The government also produced two letters, which were in files in Miller’s office as alien property custodian at the time of the restitution, which showed partial German ownership of the Societe Suisse. The jury hearing the case in Federal court was told of a champagne dinner in the exclusive Ritz Carlton hotel at which were present the principals in the transfer i of the $7,000,000. Daugherty was charged by Mr. Buckner with having personally destroyed bank records to obliterate the trial of graft which the government contends marked the $7,000,000 transfer, and out of which, it is said, arose one of the biggest post-war graft cases affecting the government. o
riety of klansman paid the hill and took the blame for everything
that went wrong.
MANY ATHLETESML COMPETE IN BIG PENNSY MEET
Railroad Employees Will Have Big Time At Indianapolis September 11th.
Large Sum Lost By Farmer, Found
Decatur, Ind., Sept. 9—O. E. Ewell, farmer residing near Ossian who lost $1,000 In $20 bills Tuesday, was alt smiles again late Tuesday afternoon, after finding the money, still in the large envelope, where it had fallen from
his pocket. On his way home from this city Tuesday morning;, after drawing the money from, a local bank, Mr. Ewell stopped ^ the home of his brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Otto We/el, and and one-half miles northwest, of Preble for dinner. The envelop and money, which Mr. Ewell had placed in his pocket, fell from his pocket when he alighted from his automobile to open the barnyard gate at the Wefel home. ' ■ 1 ‘
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Divulge Unusual Mellett Angles
Washington.—The Bavarian toy industry is poorly occupied, according to reports from Nuremberg, Germany, states to the Department of Commerce from Assistant Attache Douglas P. Miller at Berlin. A number of plants are working on part time, although this should be the height of the export season, whereas prices are showing a tendency to fall. Foreign markets everywhere are becoming increasingly competitive through the growing importance of the toy industry in the United States and other countries, and there is said to be some prospect of increased sales of American toys in Germany this year. German toy manufacturers have expressed their dissatisfaction with the results achieved up to this time in the negotiations of commercial treaties.
. Canton, O., Sept. 9.—Several oi the more sensational phases of the Mellett murder case were present ed to the Canton civil service com mission which yesterday ^ begar hearing the appeal of S. A. Lengel deposed police chief, who is seek ing reinstatement. Fifteen wit nesses were put on the stand bj counsel for Mayor S. W. Swarts in an effort to show how Lengel is alleged to have blundered in com ducting the inquiry into the mur der of the publisher, Don R. Mellett, and to have had intimate con tact with known law violators. The testimony included not only evidence intended for use against LengeTs reinstatement, but evidence in the murder case, evidence in the chse of Floyd Streitenberger city detective, suspended yesterday for alleged association with “known law violators,” and revelation of some of the workings, customs and life of the underworld.
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The Indiana University faculty at Bloomington, Indiana, will Consist of 212 people, which includes 25 new members of the teaching staff.
Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 9.—Athletes of the Western Region of the Pennsylvania Railroad, numbering more than 400, will participate in the annual athletic championships to be held here on September 11. Final arrangements are being completed to entertain the biggest crowd of Pennsylvania Railroad sport fans and athletes that ever attended an event of this kind. The Pennsylvania’s Western Region includes the states of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan and Kentucky and thousands of employes and their families from these states are planning to be on hand for the biggest event of the year in Pennsylvania Railroad athletics. Track and field events will be important features of the big program and will be staged at the Pennsylvania Railroad’s athletic field here. Special-trains and extra cars on regular trains will carry the entrants and their supporters directly to the. scene of the big
event.
A baseball game between the Pitcairn, Pa., team, champion club of the Central Region of the railroad, and the Columbus, O., nine, champ nine of the Western Region vill be another feature. Golf, tennis, horseshoes, quoits, rap and rifle shooting and swimning, will be other features on the )ig sport card which will begin at 3 a. m. and continue until evening. Many other entertainment features have been arranged to delight the thousands of Pennsy folk. More than one-half dozen bands will be on hand, clowns will perform and there will be numerous other events of interest, which will make the day a gala affair for Pennsylvania Railroad people.
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SUSPECT DECLARES HE IS HOOSIER CONVICT
Middletown, O., Sept. 9.-—nAfter admitting he was an escaped convict, from the state prison at Jackson, Mich., Rodney Wolff told detectives here Tuesday, that policp of Indianapolis were seeking him for an attack on a 12-year-old girl, and for burglaries. Wolff says he lives on High street, Indianapolis. He was arrested on an automobile theft charge. Wolff also says he was in the Indiana state prison at Michigan City, Ind. o Practically all arrangements have been made for the annual better yards fall flowers festival to be held in the courthouse at Fort Wayne, September 14 to 17. Thotisands Of displays, representing every kind of fall flowers are expected to be on display. -
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