Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 27, Number 243, Decatur, Adams County, 12 October 1929 — Page 3

CAPITOL POLICE IN DILEMMA ON LIQI’OR dispute What T<> Do About Diplomatic Transfers Is A Puzzle B V LYLE C. WILSON i-niteil I’rcns B,stf CJorreHpon'lent > \Vushlngton, Oct. 11—(UP)—Capital ...lice antlclP“‘ e a lively fall and winJ .eason if they must please both "■regional drys and executive ‘ h stickler* for diplomatic perocustomary when legislative and executive branches disagree, the nollcetneii s plight may some day come before the Supreme CoffH of the jitdl'ill branch tor consideration. Mean.inlP ample trouble lies ahead of Washington police if Congressional divs adopt the prohibition ideals of Sen Howell. Republican. Nebraska. Howell cites a 1923 Department of justice ruling that transportation of diplomatic liquor in a common carrier is illegal. Hut the opinion of the executive branch has changed since 1923. State and Treasury Department inter- | pietations of the law are that a truck or other conveyance of diplomatic liquir operates within the law if the shimpent is accompanied en route by I j diplomat possessing proper identification papers for himself and the cargo- ■ The ownership of the vehicle is not important." said the latest Treasury Department ruling. "Physical possession of the liquor by the diplomat and his status as such makes the person and liquor immune." In the opinion of the state and Treasury departments, any officer interfering with such a shipment of liquor is liable to three years imprisonment and a fine as a violator of laws of nations and a disturber of the public repose. These penalties are fixed in sections 4M3 and 4064 of the Revised Satutes. One Way Out That rule is squarely up to the policemen. They may take a hint from Congress whence come appropriations for the payment of their salaries or they may accept the interpretations of the executive branch which appoints and can remove them from office. Os course the police might ingeniously compromise the conflicting opinions of the dual authority to which they owe allegiance. An unofficial suggestion is that two policemen be detailed to accost each diplomatic liquor truck. Policeman No. One would halt the truck, inspect the cargo and make appropriate arrests. Police No One on charges of distrubing the public repose and violating the laws of nations through interference with diplomatic privileges. The drys would have stopped diplomatic liquir imports and interference with diplomatic privileges would have been punished. Everyone would be satisfied except the diplomats. 0 SAYS PANTAGES INSTRUCTED HER Witness Falters In Story Under Hard Examination; Then Tells Truth Los Angeles, Oct. 12. —(U.R) —Actors in the most important "show" in the experience of Alexander Pantages—his trial on a charge of assaulting a 17-yearold dancer — have not been speaking their lines as the millionaire theater man assertedly coached them to. One after another, his employes have admitted he told them what *o say to the district attorney and what to tell from the witness stand regarding events in the “conference" room in the Pantages building that Eunice Pringle claims was the scene of the attack. "Mrs. Pantages told me what to say." was the testimony of Tillie Russo, pretty 19-year-old usherette in the Los Angelee Pantages theater, and she stuck to it through attempts of defense attorneys to break it down yesterday. Her nerves overtaxed by the ordeal, she collapsed into the arms of a bailiff as she left the stand. Mondayshe must undergo another cross examination. The story of the timorous but resolute little usherette struck a heavy hlow at the defense of her employer. It followed similar testimony of two other of Pantages' employes. Miss Russo's telling blow was this: "Mr. Pantages told me. 'this is your s, ory. Say that Miss Pringle came into the balcony of the theater alone and that she left alone. Three minutes after she left you heard the screams. Stick to that three minute stuff'," “Now, Miss Russo, was that the truth?” District Attorney Huron Fitts inquired of the white-faced girl. “No, sir," she answered in a faint voicq, “Mr. Pantages showed her to a seat in my section and he came and Kot her after a while. It seemed like the screams came a half-hour after she left.” Get the Habit—Trade at Home, It Pays

BOY SCOUTS INVITED TO INDIANA •• ■. ' ’. ~ A-tfy* '•■ SF/fcD/VA* F/CLO HOUSED ■.. ft ■ c d Scoi/ts parade Zk * .g x ■ '’"Wry ?"' al*’ • M ißlfe W A Tttoop - 192.8 Roy Scouts of Indiana will make their annual trip to Indiana University, October 18 and 19, where they will be entertained as guests at a Court of Honor Friday evening and two footltall games on Saturday. The Scouts will see lowa and Indiana "B” teams clash at ten o'clock Saturday morning and will witness the Colgate-Indiana intersections! football contest Saturday afternoon. Regional Scout Executive Walter Kiplinger and members of his taff from Chicago will be honor guests. An attendance of 7.000 Scouts is expected this year. It will also l>e Dads' Day at the state university, with fathens and mothers as honor guests bf the university utd various campus organizations.

MINERS HOLD LARGE MEMORIAL Troubles Forgotten*As Tribute Is Paid To Deceased Members Mount Olive. 111., Oct. 12. — (U.R) — Miners who gave their lives in tlie Virden riot, near here and which resulted in the organization of the United Mine Workers of America, were glorified in speeches by union leaders in a memorial service on the riot's anniversary here today. The service which was attended by hundreds of miners from central and southern Illinois consisted of a parade to the cemetery where four of the victims of the riot lay buried, and speeches, principally by Harry L. Fishwick, president of the Illinois miners union, and Oscar editor of the Illinois Miner, militant organ of the state union. The Virden riot occurred in 1898 and was occasioned when miners were imported from out of the state to break a strike. It> the battle follow ing the attempt to man the mines with the strikebreakers, seven union men were killed, and many others injured. Both Fishwick and Ameringer chose the occasion to attack John L. Lewis, international president of the United Mine Workers of America. Lewis yesterday suspended the charter of the state union and appointed officers of a provisional state organization because of “insubordination" by Fishwick and his associates in defying Lewis. Fishwick has obtained a temporary injunction restraining Lewis from enforcing his order. "We who have met here today to show that we have not forgotten the many brave men who gave their lives that the United Mine Workers of America might have more and graver problems to discuss and consider than is usual on such occasions,’’ said Fishwick. "Harry Fishwick does not matter. John L. Lewis does not matter. "There have been charges of corruption in our organization. We can take care of such charges. ’ Mismanagement by Lewis was attributed by Ameringer to weakening of the United Mine Workers after the World War. He declared that the miners' union was the only one of the old established union to decline after the war and this he said “was primarily due to the incompetent leadership of John L. Lewis.” “The $7.50 day wage in the union mines north of the Ohio demanded a leveling up of wages in the coal fields south of the Ohio. It was therefore imperative to hold what union members we had in West Virginia and Kentucky. Every dollar in the treasury of the U. M. W. of A. and every man capable of doing organizing work in its reach should have been thrown

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in the southern fields to hold and if I possible to strengthen our union in those fields. “John L. Lewis did the opposite, iHe led the loosely organized fields south of the Ohio to the boards. “Moreover, while the miners of Illinois and Indiana were striking to maintain the wage scale of the amendled bituminous coal commission reward agreement, he permitted the then still organized miners of Kentucky to remain at work driving hundreds of union operators to the verge of bankruptcy and causing misery and poverty in mining camps of Illinois and Indiana. “And while our union was destroyed the operators ruining our men, reducing them to paupers, moonshiners and moochers, he (Lewis) drove every leader of our organization, who had the manhood and the knowledge to oppose his homicidal policies, out of the union. “Only a fool or q madman or a conspirator in cahoots witli the Mellon interests who control most of the non-union fields could done to the ori g»nized coal industry what John L Lewis has done," he said. — —O —— Convention Scheduled At Blue Creek Sunday The annual Blue Creek township Sunday School convention will be held Sunday afternoon and night at the Union church in that township. Two interesting sessions have been arranged. The program is as follows: Afternoon Session, 1:30 Song Audience Devotional Rev. Bragg Recitation Lois King Song . .Class No. 3, Salem Reading Dollie Miller Recitation Paul Spencer Address Rev. Bragg Song Mt. Hope Recitation Ellen Faye Spencer Song Class No. 6, Union Missionary Talk. Mrs. C. H. Suckau Recitation Faye Virginia Meyer Duet Class No. 4, Mt. Hope Remarks— County .Officers. Offering. Benediction. Evening Session, 7:00 S ong Audience Devotional Lowell Smith Recitation Fern Young Reading I nion Quartet Class No. 5. Union Recitation Mattel Wolfe Reading Mrs. Ben Tickle Address Rev. A. E. Burk Song Class No. 4, Union Duet Rev- and Mrs. Burk Talk County President Solo Mrs. Minnie Corey Reading Lucille Byer Offering. Benediction. o Burns are Fatal Martinsville, Ind., Oct. 12 —(UP)— Mrs. Nellie Musgrave, 22, was fatally burned at her home here yesterday when she attempted to start a fire with kerosene. When discovered, Mrs. Musgrave was lying on the floor, her clothing and hair aflame.

MAC DONALD HAS BIRTHDAY PARTY British Premier Observes Anniversary In New York In Quite Manner New York. Oct. 12.—(U.R) —Ramsay MacDonald today marked his birthday in a luxurious hotel suite more than 3,000 miles away from Lossiemouth' where he was born 63 years ago in a fishing shack on the bleak Scottish, shore. He apparently regarded his birthday as unimportant: there was the bigger business of working for world I peace to engross him. Tlie prime minister's daughter, Ishbel, had what she called a surprise' ’for him. but that was a family matter and neither chose to reveal the nature of their modest celebration. MacDonald obviously was tired from the round of dinners, receptions, speeches and conferences which have been on his schedule since he arrived here from England a week ago yesterday. Today he was to have an opportunity to rest. His weariness was apparent when he reached New York from Washington, but it was not until last night that the fatigue crept into his resonant voice. The prime minister already had made three speeches during the day before he aroke at the banquet of the council on foreign relations last night to make another address. It was the most lengthy one ] of the day. filled with MacDonald's | graceful phrases and a renewed plea' to "enthrone peace all over the world.” Radio carried his message through ' out the United States and across to England where it was rebroadcast. Elihu Root, chairman at the dinner, introduced MacDonald as one who fought for peace "with the weapons of frank and open friendship.’’ MacDonald emphasized the problem of moral and physical disarmament was not a simple one. “This is the problem of statesmanship,” he said. “On the one hand you get your moral disarmament. Sentiment is w th you, pity is with you, resolutions read fair and sound well that are carried t-nanimoiisly. But the moment you start to apply them for the purpose of transferring the mentalities of peoples from a mentality security to a mentality of political security, then the poor statesman is beset by a thousand and one exceedingly intricate problems. "Obviously, the first step that can be taken to prove our sincerity is that you and we say to each other, ‘we are beginning to get indifferent! as to our relative fighting forces.! What is the use of troubling about something that is never going to be used?” 11 ■ — " ■ O'" — The entire building is being remod-l elled.

ROYAL BELL TO BE TOLLED FOR COLUMBUS DAY King Alfonso Makes Gift To Old Mission At Santa Clara, California Santa Clara, Cal., Oct. 12—(U.R)— Public ceremonies for formal blessing and installation of the new mission bell, given by King Alfonso XIII of Spain to the old Spanish mission of Santa Clara have been scheduled for today, Columbus Day. The striking figure of the Spanish caballero, the American pioneer and others famous in 15 years of California history will participate in the program. Events of the day will reach a climax when the royal Itell is tolled for the first time. Garbed in picturesque costume, hundreds of representatives of fraternal, civic and historical organizations will march through the mission town of Santa Clara, enter the University of Santa Clara campus and halt at the steps of the restored Spanish mission. Invitations have been issued by Father C. J. McCoy, president of the university, to members of old Spanish and American pioneer families to participate in the day's program. King Alfonso caused the new bell to be cast and sent to the university upon word that fire in the old mission had destroyed a bell given to the people of California by his greatgrandfather. Charles IV of Spain, in 1798. o Set the Hab’t—l rade a* Home. It °-.v'

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Twenty-Two Irish Girls Are Robbed Os Clothing Londonderry, Ireland. Oct. 12 (Ul’l The sensational holdup of 22 Londonderry girls by a band of masked men who stripped them of their shoes, stockings and clothing so occupied the attention of the population i.ere today that it had little mind for anything else. On Friday night, the girls piled into a truck and started off to u dance given by British sltoldiers ut one of the Ixiugh Swilly forts. As they were approaching tlie fort 14 masked men ent urged from the side of the road. Hailed the chauffeur and ordered him to stop. The girls were forced to alight ami the masked men stripped them of their shoes, stockings, party dresses and lingerie. All the wearing apparel was then piled into a heap and burned, while girls shivered In the wind. Tile girls and the chauffeur of the truck were then lined up and told they were going to Ice shot. One 1 girl,’however sprang in front of the chauffer and cried: “He's my husband, if you are going to shoot him, shoot me first.” When it was discovered that two of the girls had managed to escape and were undoubtedly on their way to sum mon civic guards, the masked men quickly dispersed. The- guards arirved soom after, supplied the girls with blankets and accompanied them back to Londonderry. It was believed the holdup was perpetrated by men who were jealous because the girls were going to a dance given bv Britishers. _» 0 Don’t fail to attend Washing, ton township Sunday school convention at Christian church Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.

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