Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 13 January 1927 — Page 3

THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1927.

“MA” FERGUSON DEFIES CRITICS

Challenges Judge’s Action on Indiana Convict—Pardons 38 More.

Austin, Tex., Jan. 13.—Governor Miriam A. Ferguson yesterday struck back at critics of her pardon policy, while the courts of a second county in the state postponed the sentencing of criminals until after the woman executive leaves office Jan. 18. Mrs. Ferguson challenged her apponents to cite any acts of clemency that “have not been justified.” “To prevent the further pardoning of convicts from Harris county, Judge Whit Boyd at Houston today agreed to withhold the sentencing of all criminals until Governor Ferguson’s term expires. Judge Boyd acted at the request of Horace Soule, district attorney, who declared that one man recently convicted had been freed by the Governor and that it was his understanding that another was to be

pardoned.

The action in Harris county followed the continuance of all criminal cases in Bexar county (San Antonio) yesterday. Twenty-seven full pardons and one conditional pardon were granted today by the Governor, the total of her clemency acts mounting to 3,205. In less than two years Mrs. Ferguson has exceeded by 765 the clemency record for Texas established by her husband, James B. Ferguson, before he was impeached as Governor in 1917. o

NAME SEED CORN KING AT PURDUE

J. D. Hull, Columbus, Wins Title at Agrieultuve

Cunference.

Lafayetlef^ Ind., Jaif; j l|l*3.—The grand sweepstakes on a ten-ear sample of seed corn, the premier honors in the Indiana corn show be-

Eight Accepted On Norris Jury

Austin, Tex., Jan. 13.—Eight of the twelve men who will try the Rev. J. Frank Norris, pastor of the First Baptist church of Ft. Worth for the slaying of D. E. Ohipps, had been chosen when district court adjourned here last night Only three jurors were placed in the box during the tedious cour session in addition to the five men

selected Tuesday.

A butcher, a blacksmith, two lab-' orers, a dairyman, a machinist, a retired merchant and a former sheriff thus faf constitute the body that will sit in judgment on the minister, who shot and killed Chipps, a lumberman; in the study of the First Baptist church at Fort

Worth last July. o

BRITISH REMOVE MISSIONARIES IN FACE OF PERILS

More American Women and Children Seek to Escape as Danger Grows.

SPOTLIGIfnS ADVISED FOR SAFE NIGHT DRIVING

But This Light Must Be Stationary and Set at the Right Angle.

Indianapolis, Ind. — Motorists avoid night driving frequently because they fear the danger caused through the use of blinding headlights, but the Hoosier s State Automobile Association believes this danger can be greatly reduced by the observance of a few simple

rufes as follows:

1. Place a substantially built spot light under the left front headlight and fasten it securely to the car (but not on the fender.) Direct the rays of the spot light at a suitable distance ahead and on the ground a little to the right so far to clearly show the roadside. Have this light securely fastened in its proper direction with a con-

trol button on the dash.

2. See that your headlights are directed straight ahead where they belong and not tilted up or to one side as, is frequently caused by pushing or pulling the car by tak-

ing hold of the headlights.

See that standard 21 candle power bulbs are used and that

ing conducted in connection with

the Indiana agricultural conference 'these bulbs are securely fastened

were awarded to J. D. Hull of Columbus, Bartholomew county. The new corn king, who also won the honor at the 1925 show, exhibited Johnson county white corn. A sample of Reid’s yellow dent corn won for A. O. Stewart of Greensburg the reserve sweepstakes of the show. Hull won the Johnson county trophy and Stewart the Gray trophy offered for-the best display- of yel-

low corn.

Hull’s prize winning sample was selected from a forty acre field, which averaged nearly ninety bushels to the acre. In the five acre con test, his tract measured 91.5 bushels to the acre. Hull had his field in sweet clover last year and turned under the heavy growth of this year’s crop in the spring. His cror was of exceptional quality and was gathered before severe weather with the seed gathered before frosts. ;■* • ' ■ o

PLANS TO DROP 5 LAW PROPOSALS

Bar Association Approves the Most Important Legistive Changes.

Indianapolis, Jan. 12.—All proposed amendments to the Indiana criminal code, recently outlined by committees of the Indiana State Bar Association, have been approved by a majority of the members of the association, it was announced yesterday. Serious objection was made to some of the proposals, however, and at least five of the amendments on which there is di vided opinion will not go before the General Assembly. The board of managers will meet hei'e Saturday at the call of William A. Pickens, president of the association, to analyze the membership vote and decide what amendments will be submitted to the Assembly. The program originally included three constitutional changes and more than thirty statutory amend-

ments.

Abolishment of the state board of pardons, introduction of five-sixths jury verdicts and reinstatement of the determinate sentence system, three of the most important of the suggested amendments, have been especially well received, it is understood. The proposal most seriously objected to and which it is certain will not go before the Legislature, is the one allowing the trial judge to comment upon the evidence and the credibility of witnesses. Q The fate of the $4-a-day increase in the pay of Jndiana assemblymen hung in the balance last night when Speaker Harry G. Leslie of the House announced that he was holding the salary bill and did'not know whether he would attach his signature.

and properly focused to throw the light, not up in the.air or immediately down to the ground, but straight -ahead. 3. With such light equipment any competent driver should be able to pass another motorist 1 ' at night without being blinded, no matter how bright the other fellow’s lights are The trouble with many drivers is that they persist in looking into the other fellows headlights where as they should look where their own lights directs, especially this -,pot light which khows the road a little to the right of the center ahead. The stn-«ngth of the rays of light from a spot light used in this- fashion will be sufficient for any driver to look where this spot light directs and not be blinded by on-coming headlights of other cars. By looking ahead where the spot light directs, the driver can at the same time out of the “tail of his eye” see sufficiently clear as to whether or not two cars will pass wthout hitting. Under these conditions the driver can dim his lights and still not be deprived of sufficient light with which to drive by and have that hght directed wherever he needs

it.

The practice of these simple rules, we believe will do more to eliminate accidents in night driv- ; ng and provide mental and nerveus comfort for the drivers more f han all the legislation or law enforcement that could be put into motion.

Pekin, Jan. 11—Agitation against foreigners is spreading rapidly over interior China and their condition has become precarious. Dispatches from foreign officials at Hankow received yesterday, stated that the British were removing their missionaries from all places they could reach in the provinces of Hupeh, Hpnan and Szechwan in the Yangtse river basin and from Fukien province along the

coast.

The Nationalist government has taken over temporarily the administration of the British concessions at Hankow and Kiukang, cities on the Yangtse where coolie mobs, incited by anti-foreign speeches and propaganda a few days ago, tore down British concessions harriers and swept in riotous fashion over the foreign section. American and British women and children placed aboard river steamers to escape jeering, hostile coolie mobs have arrived in Shanghai to receive protection of white residents there. Soldiers Long Unpaid The Cantonese soldiers of the Nationalist government, unpaid for months, have become surly and foreigners expressed little confidence that they could be controlled. Transportation w'as sought at Hankow to convey more American women and children to Shanghai following those who departed last

week.

Officials of the Ciantonese, or Nationalist government, which began its drive for a unified China last spring from the southeastern provinces of Kwangtung and Kwansi, were endeavoring to induce foreigners to return to their concessions and resume business, but with little success. The Cantonese were reminded that throughout their successful campaign over a large portion of China, they had frequently under Russian tutelage, issued official proclamations of intent to abolish all foreign conces-

sions.

INDIANA BAPTISTS STARTED IN 179$ Two Men and Wives Comprised First Congregation of Church.

POISON GROG PUT UP TO CONGRESS

Mellon Say/? Dangerous Denaturanls Were Imposed Upon Treasury.

Thirty-seven Mexican longshoremen are believed to have been killed by an explosion of gasoline on the British steamer Essex Isles Thursday. The longshoremen were loading the# steamer at Tampico, Mexico.

A bill to prohibit officials or employes of the Federal government, including members of congress, from participating in any political party convention,” was introduced in Congress Wednesday by Senator Couzens of Michigan.

Washington, Jan. 12.—Congress has; required the use of poison denaturants for industrial alcohol. Secretary Mellon yesterday informed the Senate in a reply to its request for- information. “The treasury does not wish to use dangerous substances as denaturants,” Mr. Mellon said, “but Congress has imposed upon the treasury the duty of specifying an effective denaturant readily available to industry.” Wood, alcohol “is the simplest denaturant” meeting the requirements of the law, the secretary said, and while the treasury has been searching for years for a substitute, none has been found. “The treasury feels, then,” he declared, “that it has not the discretion under existing laws to abandon an effective denaturant in favor of one not harmful, but effec-

tive.”

As for the Senate’s request for any correspondence exchanged between Wayne B. Wheeler, general counsel of the Anti-Saloon League, and the treasury regarding the use of poison denaturants, Mr. Mellon a,dvised thpt there was nope. o Plans for a vigorous attack on some of the. provisions of the Wright “bone dry” law were being formulated Wednesday, by members of both houses of the Indiana General Assembly and it was reported that the “opening gun” will be fired in the lower house at an early date by Representative John W. Scott, a former service man of Gary, Ind,

Vincennes, Ind., Jan. 11.—Two men and their wives comprised the congregation of the first Baptist church organized in Indiana 128 years ago. Meetings werh. held in members’ homes. The church, located in the wilderness of Knox county, on Owens creek, was founded Nov. 22, 1798. The church was named “Fourteen Mile.” Isaac Edwards, who constituted the church, was a Baptist preacher from Kentucky. The first meeting was held Feb. 16, 1799. In July of that year three more members were received in the church. The membership grew slowly, until in Dec. 181, it was so large that it was determined to erect a meeting house. In 1802 a committee was appointed to find a suitable site. Two people offered an acre of land, but for some cause the enterprise failed. Log House Completed On Dec. 8, 1804, “a comfortable log house was completed on Silver creek, near the mouth of the Sinking fork.” In 1818 the membership had outgrown the crude log cabin. \ brick meeting house was the re-

sult.

The first discord in the history of the church in Indiana occurred in 1829, when a division took place following the voting out of the articles of faith from the constitution. The minority withdx-ew to the ‘Shade,” near a large basin, not far from the meeting house, and became the faction known as “the Sink-hole Elect.” They were recognized as the Silver Creek Church by a council appointed by the Lost River Association in the ensuing \ugust. o

LAWMAKERS GET $10 DAY RAISE

Solons Think Services Are Valuable; Move Adds $36,844 to Payroll.

Florida Is Hurt By Cold Weather

Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 12.—In the wake of the lowest temperatures in several years, southern Florida, yesterday, witnesses the temporary closing of several schools and saw overcoats become the vogue for the first time this season. Lack of heating facilities Ih,a region where the sunshine rarely proves insufficient for warmth caused the suspension of public schools in Miami, Fort Lauderdale and Broward county. Five public schools closed at noon in Miami and several hundred children enjoyed a holiday. Miami’s 37 degree temperature at 7 o’clock yesterday morning, was the coldest since 1920. Fort Lauderdale thermometers registered 34. It was colder in northern Florida, varying from 22 degrees at Tallahassee, the lowest recorded, to 24 at Gainesville, 26 at Pensacola and Jacksonville, and as low as 27 to 37 in widespread portions of central

Florida

NOT A FAIR TRIAL

(Continued from Page One) Ryman, Holaday’s attorney, out of the room and started in on the examination of witnesses. Judge Dearth suddenly adjourned the grand jury, just as real revelations

were about to be made. Holaday Conspiracy

The Post-Democrat charged that Ryman and Ogle were in the conspiracy to protect Holaday and published a statement that the records of the Holaday investment company showed that Clarence W. Dearth had acted as an attorney for Holaday in 1921, before Dearth became judge, and that the records also disclosed that certain liberty bonds had been transferred to Dearth by Holaday. Also that Dearth was a stockholder in the Holaday Investment Company.

Where Holaday secured the lib-tprotect “all’

SAYS NICARAGUAN POLICY OF U.S. IS TO GUARD RIGHTS Coolidge in Communication to Congress Says That American Interests Involved.

Managua, Nicaragua, Jan. 11.— Prinzapolca, a port fifty-five miles north of Bluefields, was established as a neutral zone yesterday when United States naval forces were landed. The troops of the Liberal government are coming inland by way of the Grande and Escondido rivers.

erty bonds we do not know, but it is a notorious fact that in the course of his swindling operations here and elsewhere Holaday induced many persons to trade in their government bonds for his worthless “securities” on the representation that gbvernment bonds paid only four percent per annum, while the Holaday paper paid seventy five percent a month. Judge Dearth had prepared a long, typewritten statement concerning the law which provides for the drawing of juries. The law which he quoted was good but it was hard to see that it met, in any way, the question of how Eppard, the Sample woman, Mrs. Cranor and other prejudiced persons came to be called up by phone to sit in the trial - of one whom they had every reason in the world to want

to convict.

In a very moderate and temperate address to ine court, Special Prosecutor Francis Shaw made it very plain why a new trial should be granted. “If the last prosecutor had made a number of confessions of error,” declared Mr. Shaw, the supreme court would not have reversed so many cases sent up from

this court.”

Ryman the Best Evidence.

“The very best evidence that Dale should have a new trial, is, in

my mind, Mr. Ryman himself,

Mr. Shaw. “He

Washington, Jan. 11.—In a special message to Congress yesterday, President Coolidge minced no words in telling where he stands on the Nicaragua crisis. Laying bare the facts which underlie the government’s policy, the President told the House and Senate that he was acting not only to preserve American lives and property, but to protect the interests of “this government Itself,” whether assailed by internal strife or “outside interference.” And he made It plain that the government is convinced the “outside interference” comes from Mex-

ico.

The President detailed how the Sacasa faction, seeking to upset the Diaz government which has been recognized and supported by the United States, has been armed with munitions from Mexico, seme of which beaP evidence of having come from the Mexican government itself, and gave notice that he intended to use all his power to protect “all American interests.” Throughout his message, which was sent to the Capitol by messenger and read by clerks in both houses, the President emphasized the inclusiveness of his policy to

American interests.

Americans, with their lives and property, the rights of the United States government in its treaties providing for a Nicaraguan canal route, the rights to a naval base in the Bay of Fonseca and the stability of Central America all are included. HIGHWAYB0ARD WANTS ANNUAL FUND DOUBLED

Iircreased License Fee, Entire Gas Tax, Asked To Meet Budget.

Indianapolis, Jan. 10—A proposal that state automobile license fees be increased and that the entire •state gasoline tax be turned over to the highway department in order tc meet a budget request of $40,000,000 for the biennial period starting Oct 1, 1927, was made Saturday by John D. Williams, director of the com mission. A^out the same time, for mal motions to discharge three per said Isons, one an employe of the depart

at things ment, from charges of grand lar

P is sore

Dale has said about him in his I ceny and conspiracy to commit em newspaper. He wants to get even, bezzlement, pending in the Marion Hisj intemperate language this i eounty Criminal court in connection afternoon, demonstrates his unfit- ".n alleged irregularities of Wil ness to prosecute Mr. Dale. The de- !iam s and others in the disposition

Cendant could not have had a fair trial with a man prosecuting him who has shown the malice and vindictiveness which marked his talk,

this afternoon.”

“I don’t blame Ryman much for feeling sore at Dale,” said Shaw with a grin. “If he had said the

of surplus war materials, were’ filed with Judge James A. Collins. Neither Mr. Williams nor Earl Crawford, former member of the commission, both of whom are un der indictment, are asking to be discharged. Those in whose behalf the motions were filed are Victor

same things about me, and if they, Goldberg and his father, Moses ^ 4- 4- X.. . T 1 .1 1. 1. 1 V • ' ,O 1 /J "K V* »-»■ -ill 1 r «-I 1 C* r, V> /I t• rv «•

Indianapolis, Jan. 12.—Legislative interest tinged with personal concern yesterday pushed to the very door of the governor’s office the first enactment of the seventyfifth session of the Indiana General Assembly a bill to add $36,844 to the legislators’ salaries.. To each lawmaker the measure means an increase of $4 a day, or a total per diem of $10. It also added a like amount to the salaries of the lieutenant-governor, presiding officer in the senate, and to the speaker of the house, who heretofore has received $8 a day. The salary provision was a rider to the bill appropriating $100,000 for expenses of the session, and was attached after it had been learned ' there was no statutory provision for payment of salaries to the members of the 1927

session.

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were not true, I would have had him arrested myself. If you still feel that you have been libeled by Dale the prosecutor’s office is open to you

for redress.”

Charging that Mr. Shaw had con suited with the defense attorney before the confession of error was drawn up, Mr. Ryman turned to Prosecutor Davis and suggested the possibility that the matter had not been discussed with him, and that he could not be “blamed” with it. Davis Assumed Responsibility. “Relieve your mind at once', Wilbur,” replied Mr. Davis with some heat, “my signature appears on that confession of error and I accept full responsibility for its

presentation.”

“Haw,” gargled out Ryman, “then you saddle this do you?”. “Call it that if you want to,” was Mr. Davis’s response. At the conclusion of the argument Judge Dearth promptly overruled the.motion for a new trial and sentenced the defendant in accordance with the verdict of the jury, which fixed punishment of three months’ imprisonment and a fine of four hundred dollars. ‘Take your time to getting the bond, Mr. Dale,” remarked Judge Dearth. “I don’t believe you are going to run away I don’t even believe you coiVl be run out of town.” Wherein the judge spake a mouth-

ful.

Goldberg, junk dealers, and Georgi Bartley, former employe of the commission. • The amount asked in the budget filed Saturday is almost double the amount appropriated for the last biennial period, when the Legislature appropriated only a total oi $22,000,00 for the department. It is pointed out also that if the requests are granted, it would mean that approximately $1,000,000 of the gaso line tax, provided by law to go t(

the highway fund.

All other state department budget? the use of counties and cities foi road work, would be diverted to have been on file with the budgei committee for several weeks and all requests should have been h the hands of the committee by Oct

15, according to law.

Increases in salary including s boost from $6,000 a year to $7,500 for Mr. Williams, a per diem which would give the members of the commission $7,00 a year and many other salary increases form an important part of the budget.

NOTICE TO BIDDERS

Pope Pius was greatly distressed Tuesday op learning of the arrest in Mexico of Bishop Diaz, of Tabas co, and five other Bishops.

Secretary of State Kellogg, in a statement made to the Senate foreign relations commitee, gave extensive quotations from declarations by soviet leaders in Russia, resolutions adopted by the Com munist‘party in Russia, the United States and Mexico; proceedings of the executive committee of the communists international and the red international, all proclaiming that Mexico and Latin America are to be bases from which an attack is to be led on the “imperialistic”

United States.

COMMOTEE GETS FARM RELIEF BILL

Lack of Agricultural Interests’ Unity Perplexes Members.

Washington, Jan. 11.—The perplexing farm relief question will be thrust forward with renewed force today, when, the House agriculture committee begins consideration of the new McNary-Haugen bill.* ■The situation has been complicated by the lack of a unanimous indorsement from leading agricultural organizations of any one measure, which led two House committee members yesterday to complain. The complaints were precipitated by the appearance before the committee of L. J. Tabor, president of the National Grange, who asked enactment of the Adkins debenture bill. Referring to the indorsement of the McNary-Haugen bill by the American Farm Bureau Federation, Representative Williams (Republican, Illinois) declared: “Here are two of the greatest farm organizations advocating dissimilar measures. How can this committee be expected to act wisely when there is such a difference of opinion between farmers themselves?”

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DRYS ASSAIL WETS IN CHURCH DRIVE

Shumaker, in Address Here, Says Liberty League Seeks the Whisky Drug Store.

Fr. Wayne, Ind., Jan. 10.—The guns of the Indiana Anti-Saloon league were put into action in Fort Wayne, yesterday. Prohibition advocates opened fire an organizations seeking to destroy the nation’s dry forces in addresses delivered in a number of the city’s Protestant churches. Dr. E. S. Shumaker, czar of the ndiana Anti-Saloon league, in an ' address, Sunday morning, at the first Methodist church, called attention to the forces that are at work to modify and eventually reteal the prohibition laws both in ndiana and throughout America. “The Indiana Liberty league which is a branch of the Associa:ion Against the Prohibition Amend nent, is planning a drive on Indima’s dry law, either to have this iaw repealed outright, thereby leavng the federal government alone to mforce prohibition in Indiana, or ,o modify Indiana’s dry law in such i manner to permit the reopening if whisky drug stores in the state.’ Jr. Shumaker said in his talk on ‘A 1927 Forecast.” . “Certain drinking doctors, most of them in Indianapolis,” Dr. Shunaker declared, “are using the Inliana Liberty league as an agency hrough which they are making a >ig drive to bring booze back into he state under the guise of using t as a medicine. These doctors on he Liberty league’s letterhead have lent a request to all the physicians n Indiana asking them to join in his drive against the Wright boneIry law.”

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Notice is hereby given that the Trustee of Mt. Pleasant Township County of Delaware, State of Indi ana, will receive sealed bids at the office of said Trustee in the town of Yorktown in said Township up co two o’clock . P. M. on Tuesday 'die First day of February, 1927, for the following Township equipment: One or more School Bus or Hack Bodies, in accordance with specifi cations, or their equal, now on file in the office of said Trustee. All bids shall be accompanied by bond in full amount of the Bid, and by the usual non-collusion affidavit. Said Trustee reserves the right to reject any and all bids. MONT Z. RUDY, Trustee Mt. Pleasant Township. Paul S. Brady, Attorney.

Jan 12 & 19.

0 : Republican editors from all parts of the state arrived in Indianapolis Thursday to‘ attend their annual midwinter meeting which will be held at the Columbia club.

STATE PAYS BILL FOR PROBE CAUS

Adams Inquiry Costs Indiana | $256.70 Through Highway Commission.

Indianapolis, Jan." 10.—Indiana, through the state highway commission, had to dig down in its purse to pay for 118 long-distance telephone calls, most of them to Thomis H. Adams, Vincennes editor, luring the period he was conductng a crusade against state officials and others whom he charged with corrupt relations with D. C. Stephenson in the days of his remted political power. That is what the record of the mditor of state shows. The numerous long-distance telephone calls nade by members and employes of he highway commission, for which he state paid $256.70, were placed luring the period from March 12, 1925, to Oct. 31, of last year. John D. Williams, director, called up Adams at Vincennes sixtyhree times and charged the bill to he state, according to the records. Williams placed three calls to Adims at Chicago and called the Vincennes editor up once at Michigan City and once at Loogootee. Will O. Feudner, Rushville .editor, who was associated with Adams in probing, received sixteen 'ong distance calls from Williams. Carl Crawford, former member of the state highway oommission, called Adams at Vincennes five imes at state expense, and Adams ised the state telephone once to call Feudner. Williams Comments. Mr. Williams, when asked if he had anything to say on the nature of these calls which have been paid for by state warrants, replied: “H—1, no! Your paper would not tell the truth if I did comment.”

There is no belief in administra tibn circles that there is a possibil ity of the United States being em broiled in war over the Nicaraguan Mexican developments but it is gen erally held that the government by quick decisive action in landing Marines in Nicaragua to protect American lives and property and by, rushing war craft to the vicinity, has nipped the possibility of drift ing into a serious situation /that

might lead to warfare.

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