Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 4 November 1926 — Page 2
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The Stay-At-Homes. There were over twenty thousand stay-at-home votes Tuesday. If all of these people had gone to the polls and registered their convictions Delaware county would have gone .democratic by ten thousand. A peculiar thing in American politics is that when people get mad through and through because of the rottenness of political machines they show Lheir resentment by refusing to vote any longer. That is their highly intelligent idea of the way to get even with the crooks who rob them. The crooks in office chuckle up their sleeves at this idiotic propensity on the part of indignant citizens that have
been robbed.
The crooks always vote and the beneficiaries of the machine are always at the polls on election day. The Post-Democrat has no patience with pacifists who are too proud, too lazy and too cowardly to vote. If your fighting ancestors had been that way America would still be a possession of the British crown. We won in this election in the greatest political contest ever staged in Delaware county and did it with twenty thousand skulkers who stayed at home while others were
fighting their battle for them.
While good people were staying at home whining about crocked .politics and complaining of the way Billy Williams and his gang gouges them and how the underworld is given the right of way in Muncie Pete Barlow and Vern
Walburn, gamblers, manned the machine wrecking crew in aois herd of eight cows us a result the “redlight” precinct and carried that district for Harry j^ 1 ;l s , li £ ht c hn!1 £f. p 1 ag . ltv McAuley for snerifi by a majority sufficient to elect McAuley ^tension department, on the face of the returns. I During the first month of the test One hundred of these stay-at-homes who sigh over pink j 3ach cow received equal amounts teas at the way the gangsters control could have defeated j ^oumfco^ulMi one’pa it o t° ground McAuley, the favorite of the gamblers, prostitutes and boot- j 1-u-s, which was supplemented with Meggers, by going to the polls and registering their votes fori alfalfa hay and own silage. The i l tj ‘ w cT ecords on the herd at the end ol donn numpni les. the first month showed a total pro-
duction of 2,494 pounds milk containing 113 pounds of butter fat having a value of $50.42. The total feed cost was $05.56. which was $13.14
We sadly fear that Road Superintendent Owen Helvie is about to vacate his office in the court house. If nobody else can be secured for the jdb, we recommend Chief Rain-in-the-Face, who stands sentry over the east entrance of the court house. The old boy would at least have more \sens< than to keep a crook like Harry Mott in the employ of the county. Almost any kind of an Indian, even a wooden one, would be a groat improvement. The sooner the quicker.
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DR. NORMS FACES TRIAL TODAY FOR CfflPP’S SLAYING
Texas Pastor Will Be Tried on Third Indictment in Career.
Fort Worth, Tex., Nov. 1. A Baptist preacher who came here in 1907 and started a tabernacle church with thirteen members, will face trial today on the third of three criminal indictments naming him during his climb to a place of power in-militant reform and fundamentalism. Such -brings to 'date the hectic, career of the Rev. Dr. J. Frank Norris, past of of the First Baptist Church, scheduled to face Criminal court on a charge of murder for killing D. E. Chipps, lum-
berman, last summer.
Chipps was shot Jo death in the pastor's church office July 17, following a quarrel between the two concerning the preacher’s utterances against city officials, notably IL C. Meacham, mayor.
Started Last Year.
The preacher’s difference with the city authorities culminating in personal attacks on Mayor Meach-
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Queen Marie’s Special train in ’ North Dakota, Nov. 1.—A colorful 1 glimpse of the old West in modern setting was afforded Queen Marie ( of Koumania yesterday when atf Mandan she became a “war woman” of Sioux Indians and later at Medora, witnesed an old time rodeo arranged in her honor. The Indian ceremony and rodewhich began at Fargo when she took into her private car the first of a series of farmer delegations who gave her information about farming conditions.
FRIGID AIRE MAKES BOW IN FIELD OF TRANSPORTATION
Although liberal feeding must al-j more than was received ways be an uppermost considers: i butterfat. ,
timi in the mind of every good ! bv ^ ^ow^t'ester ^to add” one' half I gan last year when the city tried to dairyman, equally important is the | par t of soybean meal to the ration tax revenue-producing properties
matter of feeding properly balanc- he had been feeding'and to cut
down the amount of grain and silage to a little more than half of
STATE REMAINS IN CONTROL 01 REPUBLICANS
. O. P. Makes Clean Sweep Wilh* Exception of Three New Congressmen.
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ed rations, declares the Blue Valley Creamery Institute. The importance of feeding correctly and in accordance with production is shown in the big increase in milk flow and in the feed cost in an Illi-
of the First Baptist Church. The church has not yet paid the taxes. Norris attacked May dr Meacham in
lO U UCA1C lllUiC. L11 cl 11 lIUll Vi ( ; . . . • , what it had been before. At the end connection with city pm chase
Horray! The election put enough of the fear of God into the hearts of the grafters to give back the money stolen j t on the truck deal. Now do you suppose that Harry Hoffman is skeered enough to disgorge his gravel money? We fear that something is going' to fall on Harry Hoffman in the near future, something about the size of one of his gravel
piles.
land for a street widening project
from St. Ignatius academy. In the Searchlight, organ of his
church, Dr. Norris declared the city was paying $152,000 to the academy for land to widen a street affording better access to the mayor’s department store. Meacham’s
antedated
of the second month the records told an entirely different story. Not tm'y was production increased to 3.597 pounds milk and 171 pounds of butterfat which sold for $74,08. or $23.66 more than the sale value of the butterfat production of the same cow the month before, but the
feed cost was cut to $43.16 or $22.40 j fcply was that p;eject less than it was the previous i his elevation to office, month. By comparing the feed costs 1 . r| he preacher first came into t.ie and the money returns for butter-| hmeLght in 1 ex as m 1911 amt fat during these two months, it was j when he was indicted and acqiutfouml that the increased value‘of ; Uni ol charges of burning his chinch the butterfat produced by this am l perjuring himself m connection
small herd the second month by a slight change in feeding was $46.06 over the first month when the cows were not fed a properly balanced
ration.
from in the senatorial balloting in Tuesday’s congressional election, the two republican candidates today were safely out ahead of their
opponents.
Electrically refrigerated ice cream trucks shown for the first time at the Dairy Industries Exposition held at Detroit in October, proved the sensation of the exhibit and emphasized the rapidity with which the electric refrigerator industry is growing. Five specially designed truck bodies, mounted on different makes of chassis, all Frigiilaire equipped, formed a part of this display. The refrigerating mechanism and the electric plant providing the power were mounted behind the driver's seat. “A weight reduction of from 1000 to 2000 pounds through elimination of ice, brine tanks and salt, with decreased operation costs,and more satisfactory refrigeration is provided by such an installation , Q&ys tj. G. Biechler, head of Frigidaire Corporation, which developed the cooling system used. # The first ice cream delivery truck to be equipped with electrical refrigeration is shown above. It was put in regular service more than a year ago at Dayton, Ohio, and has been in constant operation ever since. It is mounted on a GMC chassis.
The truck money is to be paid off by November 15. Will it take that long to collect $5,000 from the boys?
Parrott', the Eaton pukb who runs the so-called Muncie 1 Democrat,*complains that the republican machine owes him ! a thousand dollars for keeping the thing going. Billy and ! Hairy told Parrot they would pay him right after the elec-1 tion. Parrot is all out of luck..
Ernest Bilby, republican judge in the nineteenth precinct, quit the polls in disgust at nine o’clock election morning, after shedding his coat and offering to lick Harry Hoffman, the. police force and the entire republican machine following. Hoffman tried his usual tactics at the polls and got his calling from his own judge. Election day was just one jolt after another for the valiant county chairman, the most severe jolt being on the jaw, when a democratic worker at the twenty-third popped him for trying to run in a fraudulent vote.
My, but the cops are getting “hard” since Muncie and Delaware county went Democratic. Police Captain Vaught and a deputy sheriff made the rounds of the cigar stores Thursday morning to warn the proprietors that they will be pinched if they are ever caught violating the law. At several places the cigar store owners had to delay the card i ! j| c 'j 001 '- games for checks that were going on in order to listen to the solemn, official order. It’s a dirty shame the way the sheriff's, and police officers frighten the innocent and virtuous pro-
prietors of Muncie gambling houses.
HALL MURDER TRIAL BEGINS
Testimony of Witness Contradicts Alibi Contention of Willie Stevens.
Summerville. N. .. Nov. 4.—The first of the Hall-Mills trials was opened yesterday four years after (he double killing upon which they are based, in the little county courthouse here, modernized to accommodate a human drama already allotted a page in American criminal annuals. Opening its case the state moved with contrast-
ing swiftness.
Jno. L. Dixon of North Plainfield hitherto nnmentioped even in the lists of more than one hundred prospective witnesses, was called to deliver the first blow at a defense, alibi. Ho told how he had stepped from his home at about 8:30 o’clock on the night that the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall and Iris choir singer. Mrs. Eleanor Mills' were shot, down, to find Willie Stevens, one of the defendants, at
Stevens, who with his
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lead of 11,215 over Albert Stump, democrat, in the returns from 3,442 out of 3,545 precints in the
state.
Senator Arthur Robinson was 21,094 ahead of Evans Woollen, democrat/ in the tabulation from the same number of precincts. Robinson’s return to the senate was assured in the- vote count long before it was established beyond dispute that Watson was re-elected. The republicans carried the entire state ticket into office by a substantial majority, •re-elected the en republican representatives in congress and retained control of both houses of the state legisla-|
ture.
Walh Congratulates.
Clyde A. Walb, republican state chairman, last night isued a state- , ment congratulating Indiana reMAVPrifSo’P ' publicans on the victory in TueslAUuI V Vi j (i a y’g election and thanking the Indianapolis. Nov. 1.—Speakers army of 100,000 partisan workers of national prominence will appear who helped in the campaign, at the reception and dinner of the The returns from 3,442 precincts state department of the Veiorans ! gave Watson 501,622; Stump, 490,-
Senator James E. Watson had a book"and ordered 6 the 1 dismissal of
with the arson trial. At that t.me the prosecution . charged that Norris wrote himself threatening letters and hired a private detective
to shoot at him.
State VJF.W. Will
mandamus proceedings instituted by the attorney general and prevously upheld by Federal Judge
Vdams C. Cliffe.
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407; Robinson, 499,090; Woollen,
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*■ j Stray'er, senior vice commander in . , ----* - ■ ■ jg-’—'.j a i vliloL Lw* rmncimced.-jjfestcrdaiLr<*andVlat.es-Tangirig. Trnm 25.000. to Insurgents Hold Considerate 7j by Ju(lRe goion a= Ebloe. general - — -
Power In New Congress; chairman of the committee on ar-
Coolidge Faces Quandary. mngernents.
j Among tne speakers will be Al-
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v . T . ,, , , , , j Prig- Gen. Dwight E. Ault man ol | acainst Arthur Hamrick, democrat
New k oik, Nov. 4.—Belated v ’| Ft. Benjamin Haneson, Senator
turns today emphasized indications that from next March until the end <jf his term of office the senate will furnish a problem for President Coolirige. (nOne-half of the senators will be re pub Leans but eight of
the republican
60,000 iu the final tabulations were indicated" in the count today on
the race for state offices.
Frederick Schortemeier, secretary of state, ran a strong race
from 3.231 pre-
. . , ... <7 rand the returns
Arthur R. Komnson and Mi. oti ay , c j nc t,g gave Schortemeir,» <198,532.
or. Gen. John J. Pershing and V ce President 'Charles G. Dawes have
been invited.
that half will be insurgents. The republicans will ha ve a re-j duced majority in the house ipu j lhe insurgents will be a consider-
able factor there.
hi addition there is the prosper! of the new senate reins ng to seat | two irpubLcan senuf ors-elect Vare. of Penns; Ivauia, and Smith of Illinois because of testiiimijey as to heavy expenses in obtaining I nominal ions. (ounplel e returns j show the next senate will have 18. republii-ans; democrats and quo
Fertners To Make War On Hunters
R ichuicnd, Ind., Nov. 2.- Incensed over the spread of cholera by germs carried on the feet of dogs and the shoes of hunters and by the wounding of live stock from stray shots, farmers of western Wayne county announced today that they bad prepared to take
Hamrick. 452, 412. Mrs. Grace Urbahns of Valparaiso, had 431,162 votes in 2.873 j precincts against 406,678 for Jap ! Jones, democrat, in the count on J balloting for staj.e treasurer. The count from 2,681 precincts ! for auditor of state gave Lewis ! Bowman, republican incumbent, 112,871 and David Ferguson, demo-
jera372,659. '
Charles Miller, of Elkhart counity, had 422.295 votes in 2,810 prejo i pets for state superintendent of public instruction against 385.702 for John Liuebarger, his democra-
! l ie opponent.
Suhstantal leads were being
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Liquor flowed in endless quantities on the Soulhside on
election day. The hard stuff was distributed by bootleggers . from his sister’s automobile working for the republican machine. The money and' , J iat he understood Wiiiie to whisky of the machine failed to turn the trick. The good ' [ , ' vo , lnR1 h sel1
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-old Soutnside returned to its lirst love, the democratic party,; )] 1e enfire evening in question at for the first time in five years. I five hundred yards from the sup-
! posed scene of the murder.
bVother. Henry, and his sister, the minister’s widow, is on trial for murder, has asserted be spent the Hall home. His; statement to this effect has been supported by
Mrs. Hall.
Dixon testified that. Willie told i Vvimm’isin; Frazier of North Dako him he had just been set down XorriS alul iloWt q, of N(
bra ska.
farmer-hibor. Bliipstead, of Minhe- 'im mu*''< (op > h'es'paFsi]m”i>H • L v Gharleg Biederwolt. ropuba republican majority of nine. For- j !:;| oir . Ia . r fi , . ! i l!> t ,ty . dvvellers J s(ate y U pn; 1;i0 court, Julius Travis tvadght republicans in the new:' i;ltK,r Kitterman. banker and all( j it. Martin, republican can-j i- fiirim-i- nf n.-miKruien Gi<v ^Lpdate for justice of the supreme
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.senaie will include Brookhait. <d[" f Gambridgc City, is Iowa: Nve of North Dakota. 4ml ' h muimg the movement to protect 1 as the following who did not h3ve Mhe property rights of farmers. The {to go to the polls; Lafollette. m j Farm Federation Bureau lias takejf
up (he Crusade and will assist. Farmers reported tha( I lie hunters have out. wire fences to permit their dogs to pass through and that much live stock had been maimed. Farmers also sad they had trouble keeping visitors from taking hickory nuts and walnuts and that damage had been done to
That maggot story was a rather gruesome and nauseating piece of literature, but it was convincing. Shroycr might just as well begin packing up his traps and getting ready to move. Andy and John are about to retire to well known oblivion.
If Billy is tittering this time nobody has caught him at it. Postoffice jobs won’t go the second time to political bosses who get the sort of a skinning that Billy and his crowd got last Tuesday in Delaware county. It’s probable that Congressman Vestal would be afraid to be seen speaking to him on the street.
Now on with the dance. The good work is started. The next move should be a movement for a commission form of government for the city of Muncie. Let's finish the housecleaning, so auspiciously begun.
Faces conspicuously present in years past in the clerk’s office while the votes were being canvassed, are strangely absent thi'} week. It didn’t’ seem like old times. The onlookers who have always been entertained by Billy’s merry jests ana' Harry’s happy little jokes waited in vain for their appearance. The clerk’s office this week was no place for the chief cook and his head bottle washer. They had business elsewhere. For once in a blue moon something had been forced down their throats which does not agree with them. Goodbye Billy, take good keer of yourself. Selmy is yearning for the return of the prodigal son.
Truitt and Jackson carried but two precincts outside of the city of Muncie and carried but one township out of the twelve. That, of course, was Liberty township, where several hundred absent voters ballots, including the poor farm entourage, supplied the necessary majorities.
Among the county assets to be invoiced by the newdemocratic commissioners are included a mountain range or
Europe Inundated By Deluge of Rain
Paris, Nov. 1. Western Europe from Holland to the Pyrenees is a stretch of mud caused by rains which have fallen almost without letup for several days. The ordinary affairs of life have been made unpleasant and in some regions damage has been done by the persistent downpour, particularly in Belgium, in the Vosges, where some of the rivers have overflowed their banks. Rain Avas still falling last night in Paris and most other parts of France'with the prosiiect that it will continue. Communications have been considerably interfered, with in the region surrounding Belfort. The land from Paris to the Atlantic coast is one vast stretch of water and mud. In iSwitzerland il is raining in the lowlands and snowing in the mountains to an unusual extent for such an early date. —o— Another tragedy in Avhich a woman plunges to Iter death from the fifteen story room at the Hotel Sherman in Chicago. Mrs. B. J. Burke, of Cleveland Ohio Avithout a hint of moth'e or intent, met instantaneous death in the plunge.
Not in several years has friendship between China . and Japan been closer than it is today. The estrangement that folloAved the “twenty-one demands'” apparently has been forgotten of is being forgotten.
Seven seats in the senate were lost by the republicans Tuesday, by defeat of Wadsworth of New York; Butler of MassacbuseUs: Ernst of Kentucky; Cameron ' of Arizona; Williams of Missouri;
Weler of Maryland and Harreld of j man y trees.
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Watson and Robinson of Indiana Aveve among the last regulars whose election Avas made certain. In Oregon, SteiAver, republican, got a belated victory, defeating Haney, democrat and Senator Stanfield, republican incumbent running as at
independent.
Republicans are certain of electing a senator in a special t election in Maine, November 9, to’fill a va
eancy.
Democrats Avill actually begin to reap the" benefits of their victories next Wednesday when Walsh of Massachusetts and HaAvos of Missouri, take their seats. They Avere elected for the balance of unexpired terms which had been filled until election day by appointment! Republicans Control House With six congressional districts missing in the returns the republicans today bad 41 more seats' for the next bouse than the democrats the figures being 234 republicans. 193 democrats. one farmer-labor and one socialist. Tire republican classification includes some dozen insurgents. Of the missing districts three are now held by republicans two by democrats and one by a fannerhtborite. . In teh persent bouse there arb 65 more republicans than democrats, the republicans having €46 seats, democrats 181. farmer-labor 3; socialists 2, Avitli three vacancies.
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court.courl. and Solon Enloe, Chas Remv, Willis McMahon and. Alon zo Nichols, republican appellate court candidates. ? Control Legislature. The republican party av<11 control 87 of the 50 spats in the state senate. Fifteen republican senators wore, elected Tuesday and terms of 22 others hold over through the 1926 session of the
legislature.
The, democrats elected 11 senators and have two bold overs. In the bouse returns indicated election of 59 republicans out of 92 representatives. James J. Nejdl. of Whiting, president pro. tem in the last' session of the state senate, avhs one of the republican holdovers, and Harry Leslie, speaker of the house in 1925. was r-elected in Tippecan-
oe county.
'Nejdl and Leslie will be. candid ates for presiding officers of the two houses a*.hen the legislature.;
opens in anuary. — o— —
I. C.C. Halts Indiana Freight Rate Plans
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Los Angeles, Cal.. Nov. i.—The nxth batch of documents connee'pd with the Aimee Semple McPherson criminal conspiracy case disappear-
od here yesterday.
This collection of exhibits, negative films of pa per s, Avhich have figured Jn the preliminary bearing of the evangelist, went, up in smoke when a fire of unknown origin yesterday inA-aded t he photographic room of the Los Angeles Times. Some of these pictures destroyed yesterday in negative form figured in a. hot court battle last Aveek when the defense undertook to prove by a i^iirography expertf that originals of written papers credited to Mrs. McPherson by the prosecu-
tion had been retouched. . , , , ,, . , , , Yesterday’s tire followed- the ^onlphshed by he schedule close of evidence taking in- the pre- wl lch f all ol the prmer-j liminarv hearing last week. Argu-1 pal steel Prqduemgf centers. The
Washington, Nov. 2.-—A revision in rail rates on pig iron throughout Central Freight association territory. Avliibh railroads proposed to make-, effective yesterday, jj was, Ira Red by the Interstate Commerce Commission pending fairest-j
igation.
A large number of increases and) ’koine reductions would have been'
ments will be heard Ijefore Judge I eor ? m ^ ss '’ on suspended the -^arifls u
Blake next Wednesday. The accus- ' un ^ March 15. ed evangelist preached her usual . , - o— •
Sunday sermons yesterday . to a ! Litigafibii qf several yepys btjv crowded, temple, the seating capac- r twe««l tlie. government and the Ryot which is more than five thou- large packing companies over the (Sand. jfoyeriunent’s right to exarmine the
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A beaver trap, by Avbiclt heavers j eided for' the packovk Wednesday e-m he caught alive for propagation by the United States circuit court purposes .has beau invented by a J of appeals at Chicago, which ruled government biologist. the government has no right to
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