Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 25, Number 28, Decatur, Adams County, 2 February 1927 — Page 4

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DECATUR DAILY DEMOCRAT Published Every Evening Except Sunday by THE DECATUR DEMOCRAT CO. J. H. Heller —Free, and Gen. Mgr. A. R. Holthouse Sec’y & Bus. Mgr. Dick D. Heller... Vice-P;eaident Entered at the Postofflce at Decatur. Indiana, as second class matter. Subscription Rates: Single copies! 1 .02 One week, by carrier .... ...— .10 One year, by carrier ——— 6.00 One month, by mail .85 Three months, by mail 100 Six months, by mail -- 1-75 One year, by mail 8.00 fine year, at office— 3.00 (Prices quoted are within first and second zones. Additional postage added outside those sones.) Advertising Rates: Made known by Application. Scheerer, Inc., 85 East Welker Drive, Chicago 200 Fifth Avenue, New York. If Mr. Groundhog got up before eight o'clock this morning and stuck I his head out of his hole in the ground, h e sure saw his shadow and you may • depend on six weeks of regular winter breezes. That's the safe way to play it any way and we’ll probably be lucky if that’s all we have of it. The congressional appropriation bill includes a million and a half dollars for parks in the city of Washington, $400,000 for improvements to the White House, $276,000,000 for public buildings and a billion dollars in other , ways that could be cut it Mr. Coolidge and his administration really wished to put on an economy program. There's a lot of bunk in the propaganda put ■ out along the saving line in a public way. It just don't happen. = Senator James Reed, of Missouri, acknowledged leader of the senate and a prospective candidate for the democratic nomihatiou for president, ' will be the principal speaker at the annual banquet of the Indiana Demo- • eratic Editorial Association on the: evening of the 15th. A general invi- ' tation is extended, but your reservation for a ticket should be in early as the supply is limited and will be quickly taken. Don't overlook your subscription , renewal. We know you get tired of i having it called to your attention ' frequently at this time of the year, I but its the only way we know to renew our list. There is one advantage —we concentrate our efforts along bother you us little as possible. You can readily see that the subscriptions from three thousand people means something to us. Tliats why w e make the annual drive. We will appreciate your renewal. John D. Williams, director of the highway commission informs us that condemnation proceedings will be filed to secure right-of-ways on the DecaturMonroe road. He regrets that this is necessary- but feels that the benefits are sure to be greater than the damages and says it is impossible to continually change routes. Mr. Williams also informs us that the commission will formally take over the east and west road through Decatur tbis coming spring and expects to have a committee here -soon to decide upon the exact route. H c suggests the securing of right-of-ways that the work may be advanced rapidly when the time comes. We looked the legislature over for a day or two and it looks at this stage like a poorly managed affair, with lack of leadership, a rudderless and helpless and hopeless mess from which session the people will receive little if any benefit. The bill to repeal the primary is an example of what, may be expected. Senator O'Rourke has a bill to abolish the law but several members of the senate wish to be candidates for governor and feel that they couldn't get by in a convention so they have compromised by cutting out the senatorial and presidential sections of the law. Doesn’t it seem that the law is either right or wrong and that it ought to be one way or another irrespective of tlie personal desires of members? A new bill in the Indiana legislature and one which should interest every citizen in Adams county as well as

|in every county, is senate bill 197, ' 'introduced by Senator Drake, minority leader and providing for the abolishment of county highway superintendents and placing all road supervision under the state commission. Surely they could not do it with the small amount of funds now used. It you want some real taxes you will have them when the state assumes charge of the 700 miles of road in this county, provided they spend the same proportional amount on each mile that they do on the state roads now. Better take enough interest to write your representative and senate about this. Spring, most beautiful of all seasons, is just around the corner. Soon the aip will be scented with the redolent fragrance of the flowers. The birds will be returning from their southern home, filled with new life and new energies and preparing for their summer sojourn. Their songs of greeting will be heard from every direction. The trees will be bursting into bloom for the glorious months to come. Spring is the time when all nature is busy and it is a time in every person’s life when he is glad that h e can see it afid be in it as well. Human beings soon will be breathing in the very spirit of the vernal season radiated by all the animal and plant life around them. It is in the springtime that mankind realizes most how little he understands nature and her I phenomena. And it is in this season that many men, women and children awaken to an insatiable desire to learn the secrets of the great out-of-doors. Thoreu differed from millions of others only in the degree of his nature-loving. Nature in her newdress soon will be luring people out of their snug homes into the open Some will respond with fishing rods, 'others with cameras and still others with walking sticks. But all will answer the same call. When spring is just around the corner humanity experiences that same thrill of happy but anxious anticipation which children feel on Christmas eve and the day before the last day of school. ♦ TWENTY YEARS AGO TODAY ♦ ♦ * ♦ Twenty Years Ago This Day. 4 ♦ From the Daily Democrat File ♦ ♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦♦♦* February 2. —C. H. Rittenhouse and Col. Hall of Jackson, Michigan, want to locate a gas engine ♦ • H' .iii <»»•»»’• Louise Scherry. Three-hour passenger service begins on the traction line. Ground hog fails to see shadow and winter is practically over. Crowd of men from Chatanooga, O. here to urge extension of tracticn line through that county. L. C. Helm is a member of the regular jury panel for the February term. Real cold wave is on the way according to the weather-nan. Mr. and Mrs. A. fl. Smith entertain lor Mis. J. Torrence of Marion. Thaw jury is completed. Hearing of evidence will begin Monday. ++♦++♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦ BIG FEATURES * ♦ OF RADIO ♦ ++♦++++♦♦♦♦+♦♦♦♦ THURSDAY’S FIVE BEST RADIO FEATURES Copyright 1927 United Press Central Standard Time WJZ —Hookup 1 stations—B pm. Shannon quartet, the Revelers, and entertainers. KGO —Oakland 361 M, 10 pm. —Opera "The Chimes of Normandy.'’ CFCA —Toronto, 435 M, 8 pm. — Address, Rt. Hon. W. L. MucKenize King. WEAF —hookup 15 stations, 9 pm.— Henry Burr’s artists, WBAP Fort Worth 476 M, 11 pm. Organ recital. 0 — Spears Considers Offer Minneapolis, Minn., Feb. 2. —(United Press)— Dr. Clarence Spears, head football coach at Minnesota University announced he would wait a few days to "think over" an offer made him to become bead football each at Northwestern University. Alonzo Stagg To Speak At Van Wert In March . Alonzo Stagg, veteran coach of the , University of Chicago 'football team, will give an address to the Rotary Club of Van Wert. Ohio, on the night of March 14. it lias been announced, lie will be a speaker at a program for boys,

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Temper Os Senate And House Brought To Light Tuesday Is Hectic Day In General Assembly; Members Os Roth Houses Show How They Stand In Voting On Two Measures; Sen. Cravens Makes Dramatic Speech, Denouncing Marion County Criminal Court; Petition Charging That Courts Os Indiana Are Under Dominance Os Corrupt Interests In Govermnment, Expected To Be Introduced Today.

By Walter A. Shead Written for the Daily Democrat. Indianapulis, Feb. 2. —Tuesday was a hectic day In the Seventy-fifth general assembly, the Hirst day in which either branch of the legislature has shown really how they stand on any question. The two important measures was the Marion county criminal court bill in the Senate and the Indianapolis city council measure in the House. In the Senate, Senator Joseph CraveAs (Democrat, Clark, Ohio, Switzerland and Jefferson) gajned his end when he made a speech on the floor bitterly denouncing Judge James A. Collins, of the Marion county criminal court, branding the court as a "blot upon the good name of Indiana” and asserting that Collins and his grand jury of 1925 was under the control of D. C. Stephenson, former Klan grand dragon. In the House, the Democrats for the first time voted as a unit and largely through their votes defeated a measure backed by the- Republican machine dominated by George Coffin, Lem Trotter and other political lights in the capitol city which would have increased the council membership in Indianapolis from nine to fifteen members. While these two measures were not of such state-wdde influence their import was to show the temper of the senate and house which has lain dormant through this first three weeks of the senate. The criminal court bill in the Senate, was of course lost, a strictly ■party vote being taken, the Democrats voting as a unit to abolish the court. Senator Cravens in a dramatic speech recited the history of the indictments brought against the State Highway commission, charged that they were framed and that they were brought at the instigation of Stephenson on no evidence whatever. He asserted that he and former Senator Walter Chamber of Newcastle, former Democratic state chairman, were indicted by the grand jury at the instance of Stephenson and that William H. Remy, Marion county prosecutor had refused to prosecute the indictment's. The veteran Democrat leader further asserted that a messenger was sent to John D. William, director of the highway commission and to Earl Crawford. iJemoc'ratic member, both of whom wore under the framed indictments, (promising that if they bought asphalt and bituminous macadam from a company in which Judge Collins holds stock and of which George Coffin, Seventh district Republican chairman and former confederate of Stepjienson also holds stock, that the indictments would be quashed. Senator Cravens

said the messenger came from the office of a United States Senator. While he did not mention the senator, the inference is that the senator was Ar' hur R. Robinson. The speech of Senator Cravens is merely a foreiunner of what is to come when the Saunders resolution providing for a legislative probe of alleged graft and corruption gets out on the floor of the house, likely on Wednesday. Preparatory to the report of the house committee on the, resolution, Representatives James B. Brewster (Democrat, Crawford and Harrison) was expected to present a petition in the House Wednesday from Otto Gresham, at) attorney, a son of a former United States Attorney General, charging that the courts of Indiana "are under the dominance and control of special and corrupt interests in government. I ,’ Gresham charges in his petition , that the courts of Marion county, particularly the court of Judge Clinton H. Givan was dominated by the > George Coffin faction of Republican party to such an extent thut "star cliamiber” sessions were held in which political expediency dominated; the petition further charges that I D. C. Stephenson and his henchman. Court Asher, of Muncie, on the first of March, 1925, drew the indictments t against the members of tho state highway < <|iiimission and that at that time Stophensoh said "this is a bone head report or audit (the state board of accounts audit) and cannot l>e sustained, but the indictments will force I Williams to resign and he is the man who is standing in our way.” 3 Tho petition further sets out that . In Hie absence of William 11. Remy, f the, Marlon county prosecutor, the ipII diet meats were drawn by Daniel I. White, a deputy prosecutor, who has r s|nce been made Judgo of one of the Indianapolis Municipal courts; that

this appointment was made for White before the Municipal court bill puss- ' cd the legislature, at the instance of Judge Collins; the petition further sets out that Judge Collins was frequently intoxicated at tlwf home of Stephenson and that he accepted a gift of a valuable oriental rug from Stephenson January 31, 1925. The petition sets out that the in* dictments against Williams and Earl Crawford never could be and never were valid for the reason that the title of the property involved (surplus war natc rials) were in the name of the United States Government and that the Government through the department of justice made an invest!-' gation and found nothing upon which' to base a charge. i Next the petition brings United j States Senator James E. Watson into the limelight by asserting that on Oct. 1, 1925 Senator Watson in tho Severin hotel in Indianapolis with John D. Williams. Charles W. Zieg-J ler of Attica and Fred S. Purnell, con-' gressman from the ninth district and Lawrence Orr, conferred on the' board of accounts report upon which the indictments were based and Watson asserted there was nothing criminal in the report if it was all true. Watson asserted, according to the petition that he talked with Albert Ward, United States District attorney, about the report and that, Ward said there was nothing upon which to base an indictment and that 1 Watson insisted he would take the question up again upon his return to Indianapolis, but that he never did. The petition further charges that' through the dominance and control of the tiwo United States Senators from Indiana, exoneration has been withheld in the department of justice! of the two highway commissioners; , that the two United States Senators in collusion with Judge Collins for; political reason held up the trial of Williams and Crawford and finally Collins named Judge Alonzo H. Blair, of Shelby county to prosecute the indictments, although Remy asserted he needed no aid; that Senator Watson on August 15, 1926 sent word to Williams that if they would purchase supplies from the Stephenson-Coffin-Collins corporation that he, Watson, in thirty minutes could dispose of the indictments in the Marion crlmi! coip-t and also have the report of the district,’ attorney rallied. The petition then cites happenings relative to the reeen grand jury investigation of charges instigated by Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher, and asserts that Uie drawing of the grand jury was illegal and irregular. Much of this testimony. It is ex-

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pected, will be brought out In debate on the resolution of Representative ' Saunders. The day’s happenings indicate that the legislators are arousing from a state of legarthy which has been manifest since the start of the hearing. Ono thing is shown by tho vote on the two important measures, and that is that the Democrats although much in the minority have adopted a program and stuck to it and that the Democrats In the House and in the Senate too, for that matter on debate and parliamentary manipulation are the masteos of the majority faction in both houses. Tho Bradford bill for the repeal of the Absent Voters law passed to engrossment In the senate. The primary repeal measure occasioned bitter fight in the committee on elections of which Senator Janies J. Nejdl is chairman. A majority of the committee was against tampering with the primary, but Nedjl insisted that he would bring in a mi-

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