Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 18, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 April 1923 — Page 5
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Friday. April B, 1923 THE XM X OJgg AGETIVE
KLAIIi "FRAME UP"
DENIED
PRONOUNCED RIDICULOUS SENATOR HIMSELF.
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and have stationed guards around the senator's home and the home of his father-in-law, both located in
Brooklyn.
The campaigning to discredit the
Klan has been strong here, but the membership seems to grow with
no end in sight, lhe next election of the state is expectedlo show a' decided reaction along these lines.
(Special to Fiery Cross.) Albany, N. Y., April 4. Another attempt to hang a crime upon the Ku Klux Klan has been knocked to smithereens here and by the man
most interested in the case. A short
time ago, State Senator John J Hastings, of Brooklyn, who intro
duced a bill in the Senate requiring aH secret organizations to file a list of members, copies of oaths, ritual,
etc., with the state secretary, discov
ered a package of narcotics in a hotel checkroom which had been left there
under his name.
Immediately with the announcement of his discovery, the cry was raised that the Klan was trying to
"frame" him. A fine circumstantial case was built up, but the senator has
come forth with the announcement that it was his firm belief that the Klan had nothing to do with it. He
calls the idea ridiculous.
The New York city police, however
declare they won't take any chances
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L0N6 WAIT BRINGS
BEER ACTION
CHIEF LANE (CATHOLIC) BEGINS BOOZE WAR AT THE BEND.
PERU VICE ANO LAV
ENFORCEMENT CRUSADES GETTING RESULTS
OFFICIALS ACCEPT KLAN AID VERY PROMPTLY
police officers to pay for protection, it
was decided best to take all he had, which was $20.
The police force, Including the
mayor, will be greatly surprised to learn that anyone had the audacity to
conduct a raid on gambling headquarters, almost next door to police head
quarters, and are still wondering what
extraordinary sense or observation and shrewdness made it possible for the sheriff and his "deputies" to know that gambling was going on. Additional raids in Lafayette will be conducted, unless the chief of police gels busy and arrests about 300 men who are available to conduct the raids. It was reported in Lafayette today that the mayor would ask an injunction, enjoining the , sheriff from enforcing laws in Lafayette.
UNITY LEAGUE HEAD KNOWN AS MURDERER
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investigations found no grounds for
indictment. Koach is not a member of the Indianapolis Bar Association, and his number in the Rogues' Gal
lery at Terre Haute is No. 1364. "He is of fair complexion, medium chest, weighs 234 lbs., and is of strong
build." That this man should refer to 316,000 Indiana Protestants as being persons who would conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise and enjoyment of rights given them by the Constitution of the United States, is unthinkable, and that such an indi
vidual should be employed by good
Catholics, and honored and respected
.Tews, to combat 316,000 citizens of
Indiana, designated as engaging in dangerous activities, and practicing dangerous heresy, is beyond belief.
Additional criminal records of officials and executives connected with
the American Unity League will be printed in these columns from time to time.
(By Staff Correspondent.)
South Bend, March 31. Bringing
the raiding squads into action against
several of the most notorious w
rooms and saloons of the city, Chief of Police "Larry" Lane has begun war on beer. The campaign was launched coincident with a request for an additional twelve men to the police force. The raiding activity, timed for
simultaneous excursions against eight places at the same hour, worked nicely and seven barrels of beer,
1,567 pints of the brew and a quantity of wine fell into the hands of the officers. Long has been the wait for the police to take action against beer sales. Common talk has said there was more money in beer than in "moonshine," the stuff selling at 50
cents a pint costing the 'legger but a
fraction of this amount.
The beer, it is understood, will test
between 32 and 4 la per cent alcohol,
according to advance tests which
were made by the police preceding the raids. At that time officers made
a tour of the places, purchasing the article without making themselves known. The tests revealed the lowest percentage was 3.91, the highest 4.78. Those arrested were Louis Curl,
Half-way house, 1901 Lincoln way E.; Ernest Kowach, soft drink parlor proprietor, 727 W. Ford St.; James Gerhart. soft drink parlor, at Sample St. and Lincoln way E.; Al Kagle, 2315 W. Washington Ave.; Mike Alby, 404 Chapin St.; Victor Kucmitz, 913M;
Chapiiv St.; Leo Van Sleet, 1224 W.
Division St., and W alter Manuziak, 1247 W. Division St. Each one of
the proprietors have previously been Jack
Cultivate Self Confidence. Abilily often miss.-s sihtsss throw lack of cour-iitjx ' ' i'V
arrested for unlawful possession.
Alby, by common gossip, donates $500 yearly to Notre Dame University, and leads all the west-end drives for the . school's funds. It has been good advertising for him, and students of the school patronize his place, usually two and three deep before his bar after school sessions. "Moonshine" liquor and drunken students have brought odium upon the institution as well as upon the au
thorities for permitting the place to operate.
No "hard liquor was removed from
any of the places for which the police
had search warrants. At the Halfway house, now named the Park View-
hotel, a number of fashionably
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. Peru, Ind., March 31. The second successful booze raid of the jWeek was conducted last night by deputy constables, and Alvia Smith, 40 years old, and Charles Jackson, about 40, were arrested and placed in jail on
charges ot illegal possession ot intoxicating liquor. The arrests were
made after a search of the premises of the soft drink saloon at 314 West Main St., had netted the officers considerable more than a gallon of illicit
liquor. Although the officers making both this raid and the one Wednes
day night were deputies of Constable
Loonns, Sir. Loomis did not take part
in either raid, according to the oi-
ficials.
Hits Liquor Traffic It is believed that local underworld
characters and rum runners will be
completely demoralized by the sudden and resolute movement to "clean up
Peru," and by the highly efficient methods used by the officials in put
ting their ideas into force. Like the proverbial thunderbolt from a clear sky came two blows in rapid succession at what is thought to have been
the heart ot the liquor trade in the
city. Three Men Held At present there are three men at liberty under bond of $1,000 each, this being the sum fixed by Mayor Simons ,-hen Smith and Jackson were brought
before him and filed through their attorney, Frank D. Butler, a petition for the continuance of the hearing until tomorrow. The time for the hearing in police court Tvas fixed at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning, at which time the defendants will enter a plea of guilty, in the opinion of County Prosecutor Hugh P. Law
rence.
Harry Stcffey. special constable
working out of the office of Justice A. W. Matt, conducted a raid on the
Griffith place of business
TURN "OASIS" INTO DESERT
SOUTHERN INDIANA TOWN.
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Bedford, Ind., April 3. Acting up
on a tip from the Ku Klux Klan that
a certain booze special was running
between ailverville and Dark Hollow
and receiving notice of about vhen the car was due at a point ohe-fourth
mile north of the Pace school house.
five miles west of Bedford, local police and the marshal of Oolitic formed
themselves into a watch party.
bpeed top John reyton. Policemen
rJaclL Graham, Vol Shull. and Ollie
Ikerd, and Marshal John Gresham, of Oolitic, made up the party and went to the scene. About 8:30 n'oWk tho
car came along but refused to halt .deavors to outdo the other in forecast
Elizabeth' Tompkins, Mrs. Theodore
D. Layman, Mrs. J., A. Brown, Mrs. Harriet B. Newlin, Mrs. W. W. Wilson, Mrs. P. F. Hildreth, Mrs. Horace E. . Cox, Mrs. Beatrice Dittrich,
Mrs. E., G, Linkhart, Mrs. Anna D.
Boone, Mrs. Elemtma V. Corya, Mrs.
w. M. Wilson, Mrs. C D. Koss. Mrs.
C. E. Simpson, Mrs. William E. Rol-
linson, Mrs. W. B. Cook, Mrs. Min
erva Cook, Mrs. W. M. Stevenson.
Mrs. William G. Smith. Mrs. Bertram
Day, Mrs. Paul Simpson, Mrs. Bert Davidson, Mrs. Walter C. Zirpel, Mrs. R. Carl Galbraith, Mrs. K. M. Mosse-
man, Mrs. Maurice J. Moore, Mrs. Vernon Wise, Mrs. J, J. Daniels, Mrs.
Benjamin D. Hitz, Mrs. Raymond A. Rnl1w0(y Aire TI OCV'OIT Plnm Mve
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KENTUCKY CAMPAIGN
LIQUOR ANO RAGE TRACK
ELEMENTS IN BOTH PARTIES DEMAND GOVERNOR WHO WILL BACK DRY LAW AND ' REGULATE RACING. .
CARY VERY SICK CITY
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South Broadway last evening shortly after 10:30 o'clock. Officer Stcffey
deputized two citizens to accompany
him and caught unihtn in- the act of
destroying what is alleged to be
white mule.
The mule in question was contained
in a iruit jar wnicn was suspended
from a string and was under a trap door leading to the cellar. Griffith
succeeded in breaking the string allowing the jar to fali to the basement
floors where it was broken. A fruit
jar lid full of the liquor was recov
ered.
Three deputies working under the
direction of Constable Loomis last
night raided the soft drink saloon at
121 South Broadway and arrested
dressed women were having their Jack Griffith, who was presumably in
"afternoon" beer, when the police ar- charge of the place, placing him m
rived. Here three and a half barrels jail on a charge ot illegal possession and forty dozen of Dints of beer were of intoxicating liquor. Griffith was
seized. At Manuszak's place, fifty arraigned this morning in the court dozen bottles and two barrels were of A. W. Matt, justice of the peace,
found and at Kowach s place the po- and temporary hearing was post
lice confiscated one and one-half ponea untu z q ciocK.jvionaay alter
upon demand,
The police opened up with their revolvers on the back of the car, shooting low to keep from killing the occupants if possible. Fifteen shots struck the metal back of the Ford and several went through the seat and one made quite a dent in the back of the front seat. The tail light was
shot out by the volley. The driver of the car got a little nervous when the police opened up and killed his engine. They then closed in on the men in the car and Jack Graham or
dered Louis Craig on his side of the car to throw up his hands. Instead
he went after hisgun and got it out as Graham and Gresham reached him. Graham had burst the barrel of bis
revolver on his third shot into the
car and his gun was useless. He
turned the weapon as a club and
landed on Craig when he got in reach
oi him, as did Gresham. Craig was rendered unconscious. Rex Pruett, who was driving the car, did not resist arrest. An examination of Craig's revolver showed that the weapon was jammed and would not work. The affair would probably have taken a much more serious turn if the guns of the prisoner and the police officer had not become inoperative. Graham was in
a position to have killed the prisoner when he made a move to get his gun
alter refusing to throw up his hands.
his gun had been working and
ould probably have done so. if Craie
had not killed the officer first.
Craig had made his threats that he
could not be taken, it is said, and had
told the police officers and others that they had better send a regiment after
him when they wanted him.
He wore a large fur overcoat in
which were six quarts of whiskey in
quart and pint bottles. The liquor
as intended for delivery at Dark
Hollow, it was said.
lhe men were handcuffed and
brought to the county jail.
lhe iord automobile with the fif
teen bullet holes and scars was
brought to the City Hall and it at
tractcd much attention this mornings
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large boxes, the latter containing
Rhine wine. The alcoholic percentage
of the wine had been erased from the bottles. Twenty dozen bottles were
found at Kucmitz's parlor; a keg partly filled and three cases Of beer
at Kagle s. The visit to Gerhart's house, on Carroll St. brought in two cases and seven bottles and six and one-half cases and one barrel was
trucked away from "Mike's" place on
L.napin bt,
Bonds of $1,000 were furnished by
each of the defendants and their
cases set for hearing next week.
Among the police court lawyers the view is held that the anti-beer campaign is a "bluff." They promise to
prove that the confiscated evidence is "within the law" and is one-half of one per cent. There is humor to the
situation, since the defendants have sold the stuff on the representation
that there is a "kick" in it, and they got five times the sale price of nearbeer on that representation. The gullible drinker has paid a fancy
price in the- belief he was getting the
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Attorney Frank D. Butler appeared
m the court and announced that he was defending Griffith and that the defendant was not ready for trial. He
said, however, that there would probably be a trial, evidently inferring
that Griffith would enter a plea of
not guilty. - Bond m ; the sum of $1,000 was furnished by L. H. Scott and the prisoner was released from
jail.
V. E. BOARD AGAIN RAPS
IGNORING' OF ROM RUNNERS
URGES UNITED STATES TO AG
CEPT THE "CO OPERATION OF BRITAIN."
Washington. D. C, April 2. The
board of temperance, prohibition, and
public morals of the Methodist Epis
copal church is up in arms because
the state department is doing noth
beer drinker is to call his patron "bar- inS to help curb the rum fleets off
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"Dublin lager" and "Cincinnati
cream," made in Joliet, 111., is the stuff against which the local police
chief has determined to let the court decide upon. Tests show the alcoholic
content is over the legal limit. Most interesting, no doubt, will be the "efforts" by special judges in city court to find for the defendants and, if previous trials indicate anything, the
mandatory thirty days minimum jail
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the American coast, and thinks that
the British would co-operate with
this government if properly ap
proached.
A few weeks ago the board urged
the government to drive the rum fleet
from the seas with U. S. destroyer
"The scandalous assault upon American sovereignty by rum smug
glers seems to be nobody's business," the board said today in a statement
issued by Clarence True Wilson, its
CHURCHES APPEAL
FOR AMERICAN AID
EUROPEAN PROTESTANT ORGAN
IZATIONS REPORTED TO BE IN WANT AND PERSECUTED.
mg "clays ' and months. Needless to say there is visible commotion about the city hall and many whose jobs depended upon the outcome of
the trial are m great trepidation. -
Guilty, every one of the fiftv-five
defendants before Judge Anderson comes home branded with the stigma --dishonest. All know that "boot
leggers" had a free hand in and about
Gary. The community conscience is awakened to a certain conviction that
these men are responsible.
whether they are killed politically
is a question. Seventy-five per cent of Gary's population is Catholic. The defendants, with but few exceptions,
proiess the same religion and a Catholic vote may return these men to office should they desire re-election. The white Protestants are a negligible minority. Such is the political situation in
Gary and the residents who protest vehemently against the conspirators, so charged, look to Lake county for
relief. A sheriff, big enough to fight and who can deliver a squared fist at the jaw of the Gary foreign element, battering it to a recognition of the laws of the state and the nation, is wanted and wanted badly. What chance had a law-abiding
Gary citizen? A wonderful environment in which to raise a respectable
family. A Mafist blackhander could rob, pilfer and murder, and the LAW,
represented by the Johnson-OIds-
Knider tribe, would hold out that relief which was dictated by themselves.
"I welcomed the Federal prohibi
tion agents to operate in Gary," Mayor Johnson told Judge Anderson,
adding: "But l wanted them to work with the police and not with 'outsiders!."
Could Mayor Johnson more forcibly admit his part in the conspiracy to
protect bootleggers And the gang countenanced mur
der. A government witness was shot
down in cold blood;
Bootleggers and gambling den op
erators and purveyors in vice: Your Golden Age. Slimy dollars, filched by
the dirtiest know methods of thievery
irom the pockets oi the unwary.
lhe mayor, the prosecuting at
torney, the sheriff and the city court
judge convicted grafters! Conspira
tors! Dregs from putrified vomit!
Johnson accused the "outsiders" the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of
wanting to make a law unto them
Washington, March 51. "Protes
tant churches in most of the countries of Europe are in dire distress. Appeals for help are being received in America in increasing numbers. Conditions are apparently rapidlv
growing worse. The fluctuation of the value of currency in various coun
tries, upset economic and industrial
conditions, and religious bigotry arc
all playing a big part. I his is the
report made today by the Federal
Council of Churehes.
Protestant Christianity in Europe
is coming to a standstill and may
be disorganized unless help is given
promptly, according to Dr. Adolf Keller, secretary of the Federation
of Protestant Churches of Switzer
land and secretary of the newly-
established central office for relief work, which will be the agency of the
churches in their relief activities.
The churches of Germany are prob
ably the worst hit, but those of Austria, Italy, France, Belgium, and
the new states are suffering severely
Day by day the situation grows
worse, he declared.
sentences will be forgotten and super- general secretary. lhe matter is ceded by suspensions. j not officially before the state depart-
It is well recognized that the ef- ment. it nas not Deen omciany forts of the police to abate liquor law brought to the attention of the British
violation cannot count for much un- government. less the St. J.oseph county courts take I British Promised Co-operation a firmer stand and forget about Mnntiia n v TTnitpH Statps
minimums and suspended sentences government proposed to the British ong enough toput a .few of the boot- Uoverriment that police iurisdiction
leggers in jail, and give the most flagrant-offenders the maximum of
six months. The evidence is suffi
cient guilt, it is not for the prosecutor to determine HOW the defendant
came into possession of it. No wonder the 'leggers are buying new houses and limousines. What are they going to do with Curl? With Alby? With Leb Van Sleet? Manuszak has a six months' penal farm sentence hanging Over him. Will it be revoked?
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be extended to twelve miles from shore. The British government did
not find assent to this proposal advisable, but voluntarily assured the United States government of cordial
co-operation in curbing runt smug-
gling. "There has been no co-operation, So far as we know no: co-operation has been asked. Why? "Should not the British government be taken at its word and be given the opportunity to do the decent thing? Is there any reason to believe that it would not immediately, if properly
approached,, formulate with the
United States government a program
which would wipe out this irritating
and dangerous international abuse ; Can't Blame British
"There is no justification for Diamine the British government for a
state of affairs which it has not been
asked to correct or to assist in cor rpr-timr.
"We do not lor one moment believe
that if the United States were to deal
in drastic' fashion with the infamous scoundrels who anchor at the three mile limit, or who aUnd. 'off and on'
in violation ox "all national ana inter
national law against ihoverinjr,1 that
firpnt Kritailt would Dlect, Un the
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Louisville, Ky., March 31. Politicians maneuvering to put up machine-made nominees in both Repub-. lican and Democratic parties for the . Kentucky gubernatorial election, next fall already are discovering the ex-, istence of a strong element which demands a new order of things and is at work for the nomination of men
who favor absolute enforcement of prohibition laws and also strictest
regulation of the race tracks. This
element believes that a machine candidate would be the worst thing that
could happen to Kentucky politically
this year. .
There are five prospective candi
dates. It is practically certain that
all of them will subscribe to the demands being made for lower taxation and will support the $50,000,000 bond issue for construction of an adequate system of state roads, both important issues, but not so important as the prohibition and race track issues. Convention Might Help Two seekers after the Democratic nomination, who will oppose each other in a primary on the first Satur
day in August, are J. Campbell Cantrill of Lexington and Alben W. Barkley of Paducah, both members of the lower house of Congress. There is no indication that there will be any other Democratic contestants. On the Republican side, Charles I. Dawson of Pineville, the state attorney-general
is the only avowed candidate, and he is making an active campaign- Prof. George Colvin, state superintendent of public instruction, would enter the race if the reform element so requested. Hustin Quin, mayor of Louisville, will not take part in a primary contest, but it is known that
he would accept a convention nomi
nation.
The outlook today is that there
may be a convention of Republicans,
instead ot a primary election. The
convention would add to the hopes of
the reiorm movement, as it might
permit the circumvention of boss dictation.
Among the five active or prospec
tive candidates, the element which is
seeking reform finds three friends. They are Mr. Barkley on the Democratic side and Mayor Quin and Professor Colvin on the Republican side. "Boss" Interested in Jockey Club The other two candidates, Mr. Cantrill on the Democratic side and Mr. Dawson on the Republican side, are well-known as friends of Kentucky's so-called liberal element. They are "wet" in their sympathies
and the reform group is convinced that, if either were elected Governor, the race track organisation would nt be molested. ... . . . Mf. Dawson's manager and backer" is Maurice L. Galvin tf Covington, ' Republican "boss." Galvin is interested financially in the Kentucky Jockey Club. Mr. Cantrill has the favor of the Democratic machine. Chesley H. Searcy, Republican na
tional committeeman and the real
selves. Shades of Morpheus!
Did the American Unity ieague as- i,a, v, ; 1 -
sist the federal investigators in their factor to be reckoneH with. With Hi
Mpusuic ox graiL in uary ; a 101erance representative dropped into
Gary, solicited funds for the A. U. L., found it a lucrative field insofar as donations were concerned, but left.
He was kind enough to tell the city officials that the Klan was a dead
ssue here.
Of the fifty-five convicted grafters
and bootleggers, none of them are Klansmen.
While the size of the foreign ele- i
ment in Gary is so large that it precludes any possibility of "kluxing" a deciding factor in local politics, the 1 1 1 s . 7 . 1
county ja loo&ea 10 10 proviae me deficiency. Hammond, Crown Point,
Whiting, Indiana Harbor, East Chicago, Hobart and surrounding territory must sponsor a reform move
ment that will put other men than "Hut" Olds and Dwight M. Kinder in
office. I hey must be of a different stripe. They must be the kind who
are willing to hold public office and
accept the known respect of their fellow citizens as their greatest and
most lasting rewards.
influence supporting, either Mr. Quin or Mr. Colvin would have excellent prospect of winning the nomination and election. Though Mr. Searcy backed Mr. Quin in his race for the mayoralty, the mayor has made the Searcy marline fight to continue effective, "tie has made war on the bootleggers, gamblers and so-called "soft" drink stands. Reports hav been floated that Mr. Searcy will
patch up differences with Mr. Galvin, with whom he usually is not friendly on - issues inside the party,,, which would put a different complexion on the Dawson candidacy. Orlflln oP Wrongful Things. It may be safely asserted that halt the wrong things men dor taking an ; average of human action, half at least are done not In despite of con
science, but with Its dubious consent, when the first clear decision has been set aside. Rev. Robert A. Watson, D. D.
Educational work to foster a senti
ment in favor of the teaching of the Bible in public schools is being
started by the Bible Textbook League,
organized ' at . the ' Irvington Presby
terian Church by- a group of women,
The organization Will seek to agi
tate public sentiment and hopes to present a bill to the next legislature providing 'for teaching of the Bible in the schools, This course will be adopted in case it is found impossi
ble to put the Bible teaching into the
curriculum through the board of ed
ucation.
Mrs. F. H. Day is president of the
league; Mrs. H. C. Matlock, vice-
president; Mrs. L. C. Corya, corresponding secretary; Mrs. L. J
Doche, secretary-treasurer, and Mrs.
Charles Wells, publicity committee
chairman.
The league constitution declares for
the. compulsory teaching of the fun
damental principles of the Bible in
the elementary schools, asserting the
study will give pupils the necessary training at an impressionable age to
aid in building ideal characters. List of Members.
Members of the league are Mrs. W.
W. Southard, Mrs. Fred W, Rubin,
Mrs, J. E. Wilson, Mrs. H. S. Miller,
Mrs. J. U. ptilz, Mrs. js. v. uruegge man. Mrs, Harry .Wright, Mrs.
Cm-re.; Stone.' Mrs. Geoi'tre ,W. Alii'
son, Airs. Bertna, ' viii.' nn. ju. u. L-.;toa lij. Circle UjJ, Ib.
News Correspondents
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