Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 4 November 1927 — Page 2
MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1927.
THE POST-DEMOCRAT 4 Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Democrats of Muncle, Delaware County and the 8th Congressional District. The only Democratic Newspaper in Delaware County.
Entered as second class matter January 15, 1921, at the Postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879.
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Muncie, Indiana, Friday, November 4, 1927. j-—- '■ ? —L—-—a Tea Pot Dome By unanimously deciding for the Government in the Tea Pot Dome oil leasing case, the U. S. Supreme Court has for the second time placed a final and indelible stamp of fraud on the scandalous Fall-Denby-Sinclair-Doheny oil transactions of the Harding-Coolidge administration, notorious as the most infamous scandal marking any administration in the history of the United States. The Supreme Court’s decision, rendered by Mr. Justice Butier, sustained every contention of the Government, ana in branding this infamous act of the Republican administration, made free use of such characterizations as collusion, conspiracy, secrecy, etc. Similar characterizations were employed by the Supreme Court in its decision of last winter sustaining the Government in the Fall-Doheny Elk Hills case. The Supreme Court's decision restores to the government more than $400,000,000 worth of oil. invaluable to the Navy, the first line of national defense. The history of the case is, of course, well known, nor has it been forgotten that through all the long struggle to restore to the Navy these invaluable oil lands, not a single official connected with the Harding-Coolidge administration has lifted his voice in condemnation of the infamous transactions between Fall and Sinclair and Doheny, and in Congress, not a single Repub. liean G. O. P. leader has either condemned the transactions or aided in the efforts directed by Senator Thos. J. Walsh, of Montana, Democrat, and others, including Senator LaFollette and other progressive Republicans, to restore the corruptly bartered oil lands or bring any of the offenders to the bar of justice. It was the initiative of Senator LaFoliette and Senator Kendrick, Democrat, of Wyoming, which started the investigation and the untiring and patriotic services of Senator Walsh of Montana, which brought the infamous transactions to light and caused suit to be instituted for the recovery of the oil property. Not only did none of the old Guard Republicans aid in the people’s fight, but many of them attempted to block the investigations at every possible turn. In view of the strong language used by the Supreme Court in its characttrization of the Teapot Dome lease, the country has watched with marked interest the trial of former Secretary Fall and Harry Sinclair, principals in the Teapot Dome lease, on a criminal charge, which stopped so abruptly this week/ This trial when again taken up will determine whether any one connected with the scandal which the Supreme Court has so scathingly denounced is to be punished.
This Candidacy of Stump (Indianapolis Times.) The announcement of Albert Stump that he is willing to again be a candidate for (he Democratic nomination for the United States Senate should have the fine effect of causing Democrats to look over the field and discover the best man to properly represent that party in the next election. It is inconceivable that Senator Arthur Robinson will be returned to that body. There is a chance, of course, that he may obtain the Republican nomination. It is for that rather remote danger alone that the independent voter is interested in the nominee of the Democratic party. The people of this state want a chance to vote for some one, rather than against one, in the next election and to avoid that rather sad situation which existed in the race for the long term in 1926. The claim of Stump lies largely in the tradition of politics that a man who has made a losing fight in one election has some sort of a claim to run again if he sees fit. No one would make the mistake of believing that the very slight margin by which Senator Watson goes back to the Senate was due to anything but an opposition to Watson. Had the people learned from Stump last year that he was opposed to Watsonism, opposed to bargains with the Klan, opposed to all the practices which kept Watson in power and turned the State, over to the forces of fanaticism and bigotry, he would have been an easy victor. At a time when the people were eager to listen to denunciation of the treason of corruption, Mr. Stump was denounving tariffs on calico. i At a time when the State resented Stephensonism and all that it implies, Mr. Stump was talking in generalities and platitudes. At a time when the State was eager for a David to challenge its Goliath it was treated to bland smiles and blander appeals to a historic past. The people have not lost their interest or their zeal. They want to redeem this State. They want a Senator who has courage as well as conscience, who hates fanaticism and bigotry in his heart, who will take his place among the immortals who in other years made the name of Indiana respected and honored for its patriotic zeal and its outstanding courage of convictions. The people will demand, if they have a chance, some one who is no late convert to the political expediency of denouncing corrupt influences but who denounced them when they were powerful and militant and tyrannical. It takes little courage today to condemn these wrongs and these influences. - The conviction of the mayor of this city and his ouster, the Indictment of the Governor, the revelations of some of the secrets of the “black boxes”, have changed the hazards. Even a cautious man can today denounce them with impunity. Th hour requires something more. It demands leaders and leadership. It has no place for the pussyfooter. It has no use for the timid. Perhaps the voters of the Democratic party may look over their lists and decide that there are others who more completely fulfill their requirements and their ideals. They may decide they want a man who did not wait until the battle was over before he went to the front lines. Of course, there is the chance, a very great chance, that the Democratic nomination may not be so important. It is quite probable that the Republicans will so completely throw off the influences which kidnaped its name and livery that it will produce a candidate, not Robinson, who will be all that the people, Republicans or Democrats, will desire. But as long as the menace of Robinson exists, the Democratic party owes as a duty to the leadership the nomination of a candidate who will at least offer a contrast.
Joshing the Great Dr. Henry Bromley, the distinguished divine who is here conducting an evangelistic campaign, declared this week at a luncheon given in his honor, that the use of nicknames for public officials, such as “Cal” for Coolidge, tends to lower the dignity that should accompany office, and to break down and destroy respect for the individual. Well, it’s just this way, Hank—no, no we mean Doc— there we went again, durn it, we’re always balling things.’ up, Doctor, that’s what we meant; Doctor, these politicians don’t care much what you call ’em, and they don’t care much whether the people respect ’em or not, just so they get the votes and the offices. If you don’t believe this, look around
Muncie.
The governor of Ohio rejoices in the name of Vic; Ed is the governor of Indiana; A1 the governor of New York and the middle name of the vice president .of the United
States is Hell and Mariar.
And as for the president, his one redeeming feature is the “Cal” part of his name. Cal, we take it, is merely the first syllable of his Christian name. Very few people know what the other syllables are—and don’t care. Cal is good enough for them and it is so easy to say, even if it is un-
dignified.
'ft might be much more difinified to add the other syllables and pronounce his name in full, whatever it is, possibly Callous, Calico. Calamity or Calomel, but who cares for dignity? Just plain old Cal is good enough for us, the rollicking, rough riding son of the desert—Big Chief Fish-With-a-Worm who has his picture took in a ten gallon hat and sheepskin panties. No live man can be dignified and get away with it. Too many people at home know all about him. One only attains dignity after the sexton puts sand in his ears. And that’s only because no one likes to kid a dead one. He said his observations led him to believe that lawlessness is rampant here and that the police are “winking at law violations.” Muncie is all right and ninety-five percent of her peo-
iviuncie is Ail Right “What’s the Matter With Muncie, She’s All Right.” Dr. Bromley, the evangelist, preached Thursday nigh on “What’s the Matter With Muncie ?” pie are all right. It is the unregenerate five per cent, tha have given Muncie her bad name, at home and abroad. ne are glad that a minister of the gospel had ill courage to fix the responsibility where it belongs. The Post-Democrat has been at it for a long time an has received numerous decorations and diplomas for m the way of jail and penal farm sentences, heavy fim and numerous attempts at assassination. It comes high, Dr. Bromley, to speak plain truth ii Muncie, and we applaud your courage placing your tinge on one of the many causes of our low estate.
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(Indianapolis Times)
If there was ever a time in the history of any city wl its citizenship should assert itself, that time is now. the courts, for the moment, have decided that 1 president of the council is mayor and that the council 1 a right to name the mayor, temporarily and will eventua choose the man who will head the city government u' the people regain the right to rule themselves. V le c ‘ 0, j nc ^ n °t a body which enjoys any great me ure ot public confidence. It has done little to deserve c\ fidence and it has done much to destroy any respect for
decisions.
Its membership lias been prone to the worst sort! ol politics and its actions have been such as to invite sus-
picion.
Its majority has for months been the pawns of shrewd men and some of its members have acted in a manner which
invited grand jury scrutiny.
No stockholder in any business corporation would feel safe for a moment with this council as its board of di-
rectors.
Every big business man and property owner in thi city, if he had stock in such a corporation, would probabl take the first price offered for his holdings. He would kikoi that it would be badly managed. He would fear even wors
than bad management.
Yet this council is to select the mayor and will probably do so, not with any eye on the interests of the citv as a whole but solely on political grounds and for political rea-
sons.
, ,/' us ), 110 ' v ^ a PPears that this council is in the control of “Ote” Dodson, once the political associate of the discredited George V. Coffin and now his rival for control of the Republican political machine in this county, which means, finally, a large voice in the political control of the party in this State. \\ hen Indianapolis was relieved of the impossible Duvall, it deserved better than merely trading a coffin for a Dodson as the master of its destinies. It is time, right now, for the decent citizenship of Indianapolis to assert itself and demand the selection of d man as mayor who will receive public confidence. It will take a strong man. It will take a man who is not known in politics. It will take a man who will go in unfettered by political purposes and with secret schemes for his own advancement or the profit of his friends. If the civic organizations, acting conceitedly, should draft some outstanding citizen, one whose position anc reputation place him beyond suspicion, and then force through public sentiment his selection, the council, bad as it is, could hardly refuse. There is no man in Indianapolis too big for this job. There is no man whose private affairs are so important that he could refuse if the demand were made in the name of this city. It is time to quit thinking in terms of politics and begin thinking in terms of Indianapolis. It is time to quit watching the antics at the city hall and betting on court decisions as to who will be mayor, and get busy in the name of Indianapolis and its xirosperity and
its good name.
Of course, if that same pressure were placed on Governor Jackson to call a special session of the Legislature he might reverse his decision and consent to permit Indianapolis to get the government for which it voted and which belongs to it as a matter of right and justice. Something far more important than the spending of the people’s money, and that is important enough with the tax rate at its present figure, is involved. When the council meets on Nov. 8 to select a mayor, there should be a concerted demand for some one outstanding citizen who will redeem this city and whose selection will meet with general approval at home and be blazed abroad as the finest advertisement of this city. Some years ago, when the city of Dayton faced an emergency created by floods, the political government fail-
ed and there stepped into power by popular acclaim its greatest industrial leader, who brought order out of chaos. Indianapolis faces an emergency fully as great as could be created by fire or flood. It is a political bankruptcy and the board of directors are such as not to be trusted to follow their own advices. They need advice, or rather advice which lakes on the tone command. Surely there is in this city a man who towers high enough in public respect to save the situation. There are perhaps a dozen, but they do not come from the ranks of politicians. The city has had enough, too much, of politics. Would Hugh McK. Landon; G. M. Williams, head of the Marmon company; Fred Muskovics, of the Stutz enterprises ; Frederic Ayers of L. S. Ayers & Co.; Charles Kirk, who has made so signal a success of the gas company; Evans Woollen, Fred Hoke, Thomas Howe, or men of similar high standing as successes in executive positions, dare refuse if the demand were made on them in the name of the city and its citizenship? The city deserves a man of this calibre. It wants no petty political mind in this emergency.
POUCEMAN’S WIFE
(Continued from Page 1.) Jackson street pike construction. Harry Hoffman had the contract and the farmers west of the city say it is the rdttenest job of road building ever attempted in Delaware county. Last spring a raid was made on a combination brothel and blind tiger in the “red light” district, and two podicemen were caught in the house drunk. Patrolman Thornburg, who was given his job after serving on one of the packed juries that tried the Post-Democrat editor, became so bold in his drunkenness and association with disreputable characters on his beat, that even Chief Jones couldn’t stand for him any lager and he was dismissed. Morale Broken Down The morale of the force has broken down to the extent that same members of the department can be relied upon 1o testify for the de tense in practically every case in which notorious law violators are being tried. There are some good men on the force, but there are quite a few who ire “not so good. The city administration may be laboring under the delusion that 1 he people here will stand for its police play house forever, but they ire making a serious mistake. The people pay the salaries of the podicemen and oue of these days hey will ask for a show down. A policeman who gets drunk: a policeman who protects criminals; i policeman who associates with lewd women; a policeman who is overbearing and arrogant to the public and who depends upon some political boss fr his job, will make trouble every (ime for the administration that keeps him. Some even objec to a policeman who is now under charges of beating a defenseless little news boy who was selling the /Post-Democrat m the street, and who stole the boys papers and gave them to Judge
Dearth.
Muncie has far too many policemen. The board of safety should get rid of the dead wood in the department and make no appointments to fill the places made vacant. Better have a force of twenty men who are “right,’ than a force of fifty, the majority of whom don’t know what it*s all about. RELIGIOUS WAR (Continued Horn Page 1.) find their own way.”—Dante, Another masterpiece of literature written no doubt by the same author who accused the ‘‘republican presses that are now- indulged in wrecking the republican party” and republicans who had sacrificed all “princpals,” was also distributed over the city at night. In give the whole series, we repro-
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PROTESTANT PEOPLE YOU MUST AWAKEN
Never in the history of our “No Mean City” have the forces of hatred been so solidly massed agairtst
you.
and recreational grounds and other school purposes, w'hieh said real estate is more particularly described
as follows:
Lots numbered 9 to 16 both inclusive in Block numbered 60, and lots numbered 1 to 18 both inclusive in Block numbered 61, all in Heath, Lenon and Mitchell's addition to the City of Muncie, Indiana. The matter of the purchase of said real estate and the expenditure of said mney will be considered and determined upon by said School Board of School Trustees at a special meeting thereof held at the office of the Superintendent of City Schools in the Central High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, at 4 P. M. on Wednesday, November 16th, 1927, at which meeting any interested taxpayers shall have the right to appear and be heard thereon. Such expenditure shall be made out of current tax levies and will not require any additional levy. Dated at Muncie, Indiana, this 1st day of November, 1927. GEORCrE L. HAYMOND WILLIAM P. WHITE EDWARD TUHEY Board of School Trustees. Silverburg. Bracken & Gray,
Attorneys. Nov. 4 & 11.
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CITY ADVERTISEMENT
Department of Public Works Office of the Board City Hall, Muncie, Ind. To Whom It May Concern: Notice is hereby given that the assessment rolls, with the names of the owners and description of property subject to be assessed, with the amounts of prima facie assessments. have been made and are now on file and can be seen at the office of the Board, for the following improvements, to-wit: I. R. No. 3(MM927. For a General Sewer in Gharkey Street from Twelfth Street or Memorial Drive to Fifteenth Street. And notice is hereby given that
on the
15th day of November, 1927, the Board will, at it office receive and hear remonstrances against the amounts assessed against their property respectively on said roll, and will determine the question as to whether such lots or tracts ot laud have been or will be benefited by said improvement in the amounts named on said roll, or in a greater or less sum than that named on said roll or in any sum at w'hich time and place all owners of such real estate may attend, in person or by representative, and be heard at 9:00 o’clock A. M. BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, Mary E. Anderson, Clerk Nov. 4 & 11. ' o CITY ADVERTISE,Mfc'JTS
JUDGE COLLINS SCORES DRY LAWS WHILE ON BENCH
Declares Odious Wright Bone Dry Law Takes Away Peoples Rights.
Imifttnapolis, Nov. 4.—When a widow stood in Criminal Court today to defend herself against the charge of possessiong a small quantity of liquor, Judge James A. Collins scored the prohibition law and declared that the possession phase of Indiana’s bone dry statute “sooner or later would have to he declared unconstitutional, because it transcends the personal rights of
citizens.”
The woman. Mrs. Martha Copeland 54, of 2110 N. Rural street, the testimony revealed, has for eighteen years supported herself by running a stand at city market. She had but three weeks schooling. On Ss«t. 5, police officers saw some beer in her home and on Oct. 12 arrested her, after obtaining a
search warrant.
Fined and Sentenced. On Sept. 25 they again found some contraband—one-half of a pint of alcohol in a jelly glass on her kitchen window. So Mrs. Copeland was fined in Muncipal court 5100 and costs on the beer charge and 5200 and costs and 45 days for possessiong the alcohol. Her attorneys, William K. Mawson and W. B. Waddell, appealed the cases to the Criminal Court, but not, acording to the testimony today, until they had obtained her signature to a contract pledging her home to pay for her $3,500 bond and for attorneys fees. Oct. 14, the attorneys filed a suit in the Probate Court asking that a guardian be appointed for the woman because she was incapable of taking care of her own affairs. . Miss Jessie Levy, attorney, interceded for the woman in this suit and is acting as her attorney in the Probate Court. Orders Contract Cancelled. Judge Collins scored Mawsou and Waddell, and ordered them to cancel their contract with Mrs. Copeland by tomorrow or he would “come down off the bench” and
see that it is.
‘fThe unfortunate thing about this law is that this character of arrest makes it ridiculous,” Judge Collins said in releasing Mrs. Copeland on her own recognizance until Friday, when he will pass judg-
ment.
Collins also ordered Police Sergeant William Gillespie to check up on the case and see if any one had ever complained about the -Bawdl am mint of liquor she Is leged to have kept at her home.
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FIVE MEN PICKED BY CIVIC GROUP FOR CITY MAYOR
Indianapolis Expects To End Disgraceful Situation in
Very Short Time.
Department of Public Works
Office of the Board
City Building, Muncie, !nd.
Notice of Declaratory Resolutions.
Notice to Property Owners. Notice hereby is given by the
Board of Public Works of the City of Muncie, Indiana, that it is de sired and deemed necessary to make the following described vacation for the City of Muncie, Indiana, as authorized by the following
i .i . j ^ . j .numbered declaratory resolutions. In the not distant past, fretting j adop(ed , sajd B on tUe 2gth under Catholic rule, when it was day of October. 1927, to-wit:
necessary, as you remember, to be endorsed by a’ Catholic priest to receive a government job, you comblmed yourselves and elected real Americans. Your enemies, smarting under the blow, immediately set to work to destroy you. They have accused your officials. They have dragged the fair name of our staite and city thru the mire and muck, you sitting idly by believing si I that their newspapers have said
to you were true.
What are you going to do? Will you consent to stand idly by while vour protestant brothers are being not prosecuted hut persecuted by this vile element which represerrt the forces of a foreign religion. Your enemies are now basking in the sunshine of victory and are now trying to conceal the fact that they believe you are crushed. You must arise and with one mighty effort shake off the chains and shackles that are slowly but surely weighing you down. A gigantic mass meeting will soon be held and you are urged to attend it. They cannot anid will
not succeed.
Awake, Protestants, Awake! o
NOTICE
Notice is hereby given that the Board of School Trustees of the School City of Muncie, Indiana, contemplate the expenditure out of he special school fund of said City, of the sum of $10,500.00 in excess of the amount set out in detail in the published budget of said School City for the year of 1926, in the purchase of certain real estate lying adjacent to the Wilson High School Building in the City of Muncie, Indiana, to be used for athletic
Declaratory Resolution No. 368,
1927, for the vacation of:
Grant Street from the North property line of Seymour Street to the South property line of the right of way of the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago and iSt Louis Rail road in the City of Muncie, Indiana. The several tracts of real estate which may be injuriously or bene fieially affeced are owned, as appears by the records of Delaware County, Indiana, by the Warner Gear Company of Muncie, Indiana Tfie Board of Public Works hafixed the 22nd day of November, 19'27, as the final date on which remonstrances may be filed by persons interested in, or affected bysaid described vacation and on said date at Nine o’clock A. M., said Board of Public Works will meet at its office in said City for the pur pose of hearing and considering any remonstrances which may have been tiled, or which then may be presented: said Board fixes said date for the modification, confirmation, rescinding, or postponement of action on said remonstrances; and on said date will hear all persons interested or whose property is affected by said proposed vacation, and will decide whether the benefits that will accrue to the property abutting and adjacent to
the proposed vacation and
to said:
City will be equal to or exceed the name not be considered,
estimated cost of the proposed vacation, as estimated by the City
Civil Engineer.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS, By: Mary E. Anderson, Clerk. VVhite & Haymnd. Attorneys for Petitioner.
Nov. 4 & 11.
Indianapolis, Nov. 4.—Civic and business leaders of Indianapolis, neeting yesterday at the Hotel Lincoln, put the stamp of approval m five business men as their selecions- for mayor. They will present hese five names to the city Council, Tuesday with the request that me of them be elected permanent mayor in order to rid the city of
laeticnal discord.
Out of a field of twenty seven persons nominated by the 165 rep’esentatives of civic and business organizations, the five receiving the
highest votes are:
Fred Hoke, vice president and reasurer of the Holcomb and Hoke Manufacturing Company. J. K. Lilly, president of Eli Lilly
& Co.
William 11. lusley, president of die Insley Manufacturing Company. Charles F. Coffin, vice president md general counsel of the State Life Insurance Company. Thomas C. Howe, former presi lent of Butler University. On motion of Frank P. Manly, it vas voted that the five be the unaninous choice of the meeting and that all the organizations reprelented work to the end that the luncil name one of them. Called By Manager League The meeting was called by the ioard of directors of the Indianapolis City Manager League, and Mr. Coffin, chairman, presided. He innounced that the two delegates -epresentiug the league would not be permitted to make nominations. The committee that will present the five names to the city Council is announced by Mr. Coffin after .he meeting will be composed of Dick Miller, president of the Chamber of Commerce, chairman: O. 'B. lies, Sol Schloss, Mrs. J. W. Moore, Claude H. Anderson, H. *F. Kott’iamp, Mrs. L. 'll. Dunning and John
F. White.
Before the nominations were dosed two of the twenty-seven were stricken from the list. Evans Woollen, who bad been nominated, was eliminated because be lives outside the corporate limits of Indianapolis, Frank P. Manley asked that his
WALL ST. TALK CITES COOLIDGE
Rumors Centering About Ceo> lidge Circulated To Influence Market,
Washington, Nov. 4.—Mysterious rumors which have been floating into Washington during the past three days to the effect that President Coolidge was about to amplify his statement that he did not choose to run in 1927, finally began to penetrate into the White House itself Thursday, but there was no indication that they had any foundation. The reports have flitered in from New York, Chicago and other populous centers, always witli the stipulation that Mr. Coolidge’s action would he taken “after the close of the market.” Some of those about the While House believed they were circulated in an effort to influence the market, while others contended contended their purpose was to influence Mr. Coolidge into making another statement. Call White House, The rumors gained such wide circulation here that finally they resulted in numerous telephone calls to the White House from business circles and members of Congress The first report to reach the executive offices was fimm Wall street sources which declared that the President would announce after the closing of the stock market that he would consent to become a candidate after all.
NEW FORD WILL BE ODT IN TWO WEEKS
Factory Started Producing 200 Cars Early This Week; Dealers Are Rejoicing.
Canada’s national preserve, Wood Buffalo park, is half the size of
Scotland
In the semi-barbaric Malay islands, chess is a favorite pastime.
It is estimated that 60,000,000 tons of fuel is wasted in this country each year because of imper-
fect combustion.
Street , cleaners in Portland, Ore., wear lights that they may not be hit by motorists ?t night.
New York, Nov. 4.—Ford dealers all over the country will have models of the new car to display within two weeks, Herman Lasky of the Lasky Motor Car company, said Thursday on his return from De-
troit.
“All I am at liberty to say is that the new model is better than we expected.” said Lasky, ivho explained that the Ford officials had asked the visitors not to disclose the de-
tails of the new car.
“The Ford factories started producing 200 cars a day early this week and my understanding avhs that all dealers were to have models within two weeks,” he said. Lasky and several other Brookal- JfU 18todayalter being forced down twice in the airplane that carried them from
Detroit.
Yesterday afternoon they were forced down near Buffalo and later they descended near Batavia, N.Y. After the second landing, the dealers returned to New York by train. WITNESS THIS OF DRIVING AUTO FOR U. SINCLAIR Money Spent During Oil Trial In An Attempt To Control Jury. Washington, Nov. 4.—The government set about Thursday to bridge the gaps in the trail of evidenee. touching the activities oil Burns’s detectives in shadowring jurors in the FallBinclair oil conspiracy trial, as the grand jury investigation went forward. Seeking evidence to directly connect Harry F. Sinclair and A, Mason Day, to whom it is charged the Burns operatives reported, districts attorneys obtained the statement of ne witness that be was employed by Day,to drive the wealthy oil operator about Washington during the trial and that Day paid him $371 in cash only last night for his serv-
ices.
Another surprise element to the whole proceeding was furnished when Mark B. Thompson of New Mexico, one of Albert B. Fall's atroneys, was sent before the grand jury after a conference with District Attorney Gordon. He was questioned about a. telephone conversation he had with Dan R. Jackson of El Paso,.Tex., a special assistant to Attorney General Sargent. Jackson said this conversation! was entirely personal, adding that it had nothing to do with the oil case. Thompson declined to discuss it. explaining that he could not divulge Avhat he had told in the grand jury room. This angle of the investigation was opened up when agents of the disrict attorney found several reports of the movements of another assistant to the attorney general in the papers seized by Federal agents in the raid on the headquarters of the Burns men at the Wardman Park hotel last 'Monday. Inquiries were made to ascertain why the detectives should have been trailing an assistant to the attorney general and while they were in progress it was disclosed that Thompson and Jackson had been in eommunicatin with each other. o — About one out of nine persons in Mexico belongs to the modern or European type of civilization. The world’s biggest pig, weighing more than half a Ion, is insured for $25,000 and has traveled 35,OGO miles to exhibitions and fairs. Physicists have discovered rays so penetrating that they will go through 120 feet of water before they are completely absorbed.