Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 21, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 April 1923 — Page 9

Friday, April 27, 1923

THE FIERY CROSS PAGE NINE

FT. WAYNE, WITH POLICE IN ACTION, LOOKS TO COURTS AND HIGHER-UPS Police Efforts to Clean Up City Avail Little While Courts Suspend Sentences and Protected Haunts and Dives Go Untouched

PROGRAM FOR M UNGO VAN'S SUCCESSOR

(By Staff Correspondent) Fort Wayne, Ind., April 25. A campaign for a city-wide clean-up has been launched, and already some very good results have been obtained. A reorganized police department, with William Moehler as chief, has ploughed some deep furrows through the booze marsh, thrown no little fear into the denizens of the underworld, have made the landladies of the cheap rooming houses "moro careful," and have abated open gam

bling. The chief has run some of the bootleggers ragged and has succeeded in putting a few of the "soft drink" parlors out of business. Ho has encroached upon the sanctums of the perfumed parlors and has bought

who are known to be in accord with

the Incumbent and who will, upon a

finding of guilty, place the defendant

behind the bars if the offense car

ries a jail sentence. Payments of f 10 for every docket entry, for every continuance granted, should not be tolerated. The $10 covers the entire

trial of the case and attorneys In search of "easy money" will not be

so anxious for the job

Arguing with defendants and fights between counsel and prosecutor wastes time and turns the court into

a schoolroom. A man doing wrong

smirks at this show of contempt and

as the prisoner before the bar, he

doesn't have to be told about It. A good police court "judge knocks 'em

down under the hammer, and, fur

thermore, ha3 confidence in himself.

From city court will be sent up

BANKRUPTCY FILED FOR TOLERANCE

(Continued from Page 1, Column 3) s.try to .fight flra with fire, the Fiery Cross had determined on the policy that if the American Unity League

were going to fight the small, merchants and Individuals, that a counter barrage would be Inaugurated

with atteution being given to the

"Big Boya" in the Jewish and Catholic-world, with the thought in mind

that their influence would be suffi

cient to end this reign of intolerance

and stirring up of religious strife.

that promised to result in a reign of

terror.

A chain letter is being sent anony

mously to merchants advertising in

the Fiery Cross, and a copy of a let

ter actually received by a Fiery

Cross advertiser and alleged Klans-

man follows:

HOLD OPEN MEET

IN COURTHOUSE

ASSEMBLY ROOM OF DEKALB CO.

COURTHOUSE PACKED TO HEAR BLAIR

tickets for women out of town. large number of appeals, no doubt,

Rhummy and hearts have taken the but a stiff penalty by a lower court

place of "tunk," ana tne gamming greatly moulds the opinion of the

craze is mainly confined to the "big

games. In short, so far as the police department is concerned with Fort Wayne's clean-up, it has acquitted Itself well, considering what this agency is up against. It has done as good If not better than the average police departments in other cities, and very well, indeed, with the backing given It by the present administration. People Want Change Inasmuch as Moehler's police department is hedged by a long-toler

ant public conscience and the city is filled with ward politicians and "shyster" lawyers, the censure forthcoming with the community's change of heart and a demand for a cleaner city in which to bring up their boys and girls, Is not deservlngly theirs. So turn your eyes to Mayor Hosey, and Prosecutor Frank M. Hogan. As long as the mayor's brother-in-law is in the "saloon" business; as long as the prosecutor passes up 100 places against which he could file and obtain injunctions and closing orders, and as long as the county prosecutor shifts the responsibility of his office upon the police and the courts, makes no spirited fight against the choice of special judges and does not demand maximum sentences . upon flagrant violators, Fort Wayne will continue to rust. There is no proof needed to show

there is

City. Fort

snuggle their hypocrites and still

have time to send their agents Into certain of the city's saloons and gambling dens and hear the proprietors tell they are "on the inside," "are in the know" and "it's all in the game."

This docs not mean that graft ;

judge who hears the case before a jury. A defendant guilty does not mean a minimum sentence neces

sarily, and the court that reduces penalties as a habit will find himself liable to censure. Suspended sentences are jokers and not many are required to influence the electorate. The police may make arrests, bring offenders into courts, but their hands are tied when the defendants are allowed to go free by forfeiting bonds. They may raid a "booze" joint, get the evidence aplenty, but they can not dry up the marsh when

the courts listen to the soft-purring pleadings of a police court lawyer.

the birds who'll howl for a reduction

of a fine, has the money in his pock

et to pay it with, and succeeding,

sticks the remainder in his pocket

ALL FOR BENEFIT

OF AN EDITOR

RISING SUN, INDIANA, NEWS

PAPER OBJECTS TO A RECENT ARTICLE

(By Eyewitness.)

With the utmost courtesy, for we

protection in the Summit j refer to the lady editor of the Ohio ,rt Wayne's ministry can I County News at Rising Sun who , al-

Indianapolis, Ind. April 10th, 1923.

Mr. Claude Barker, 1149 E. Tenth St., City. Dear Friend: Impelled by the spirit of true, loyal friendship, which has functioned down through the years, I entreat you to heed some sincere advice which is expressed solely for the best interests and welfare of you and yours. I, as well as others, are fully conversant of your financial straits, and of your commercial struggle, as well

as your affiliation with an organization which is selfishly oppressing the

better and majority element of your

locality, and upon whose patronage your business has thrived.

By associating yourself with this

decidedly un-American organization you have betrayed the people to

whom you owe the deepest respect and gratitude for your very existence, and quite naturally they have resented It. Without their support

you can not survive, and the past

few months have surely made you re

alize this fact. Calmly thinking, do you deserve these people's patron

age? Do you even deserve their re

spect? Are you not biting the hands

that have fed you 7 can your ntue ad In your Intolerant weekly in any

way recompense you for the loss I the support of the vital factors of

your immediate neighborhood? Com

mon business sense will surely im

press you that your store la not of sufficient magnitude to draw from other localities. Your smile and assurance that business is good, fools

no one. It Is only a mask covering the real truth, the same as the regalia of the organization to which you are attached, covers their heinous crimes. I am satisfied you were tempted into this despicable band, as others have been, through absurd misrepresentation originating in distorted brains, to the effect that your coun

try was on the verge of an appalling

calamity. In the quite recent con

flict, when the country was in dan

ger, did not the Catholic, the Pro

testant, the Jew and the Negro, re

spond? Every sect and creed did

their little all. They were of one

mind, solely and unalterably for our

country. Your country and mine.

Will not common sense and reason convince you that It is utter rot to

think that the Catholic, the Jew or the Negro, are seeking to destroy

Auburn, Ind., April 24. The Rev. Dr. Blair, in a speech in the as

sembly room of the Dekalb county

courthouse, said, "The Knights of

the Ku Klux Kiaa have no secrets.

Then he took a small American flag

from his inside coat pocket, placed

it on the stand before him and placed

upon the flag a small Bible, opened

at the 12th chapter of Romans. "This

ceremony is observed at the opening

of every meeting of the organiza

tion," said the speaker.

The assembly room was crowded, every seat and every bit of available standing room was taken. At 8

o'clock two men appeared on the plat

form. One of these men represented

himself to be a representative of The

Fiery Cross, the klan paper. He then Introduced the speaker, the Rev. Dr. Blair, pastor of the third

largest church in Indiana.

The speaker said: "1 have been in your city for two days. I have visited your stores and mingled

with your citizens. I find that

Auburn is prosperous in all ways.

Above all. Auburn is possessed of a community spirit which is most rare I congratulate you." A short his

tory and purposes of the organiza

tion was given by the speaker.

Speaking of the violation of the

Volstead act, the speaker said, "We've got the names of some of the

oootieggers or Dekalb county on

our records at Indianapolis, and

don't forget that. WTe furnish the

evidence to the law enforcement of

ficers and if some of the fellows in this county keep on selling liquor we will prove that we know what we are talking about." The meeting

closed with a prayer by the speaker.

most had a "conniption fit," if lady

editors ever have such outbursts of feeling, over an article recently apnparlne in the Fierv Cross.

Calling on the editor to "separate 1 tnai wnicn eosi uiem men- oiouu iu

the dross from the pure gold of the current news of the day," with our

money exchanges hands, but it does UHUal T u . l 1. mean that a personal acquaintance w,e ar,e, delighted to advise her that and a long-standing friendship with ! llke, a,u huulan 'tors, typographical

the powers that be is Kuflicient ti '-

operate against the law, to .sell booze

to rake a poker table, to run a cheap dance hall, an assignation house, a roadhouse, or a vomit-disturbing pool ball. It takes a genuine, moral awakening, similar to that experienced by Gary ami Muncie; it takes a knock 'oin down, drag 'em out to make Fort Wayne a clean, wholesome place in which to live, a place where yawning

pitfalls for youth are abolished and a family of minor children be given the proper safeguards against lawlessness and Immorality. I'p lo New Judge Right now, the spotlight is upon Gov. McCray's new appointee, the successor to City Judge Mungovan. A new, and for Fort Wayne, an original city court program must be promulgated. Heckling by police court barristers and arguments with the defendants should be stopped and

FIGHTING PARSON

AT CAMBRIDGE

Cambridge. Ohio, April 23. The

second of a series of open meetings

was held here last evening with a very large attendance of patriotic

Americans.

The Fighting Parson was present

and delivered a very interesting talk on the subject, "Why the Ku Klux

Klan is a Great American Institution," which was sincerely com

mended by everyone present. The true value of the Klan was fully explained in the pleasing manner

known only to great orators.

Following the lecture, fifty men were invested with the sacred rights

of citizenship In the Invisible Em

pire, before the uplifted cross. After many Interesting remarks had been

made concerning the local organiza

tion, the meeting was brought to an

end with patriotic songs and pro-l

nounced benediction.

iu. aud that the J

Dugle referred to in our recent arti

cle was Louis J. Dugal, who has been I

convicted on charges preferred against him. The soft drink saloon referred to was that operated by Earnest Scranton, who was convicted at the same time. The person referred to as driving his automobile while intoxicated Is

save.

Dear Claude, use a little common

horse sense. Give the matter a little

calm analysis, unaffected by the dis

torted propaganda of the sheet in

which you advertise. The biggest, best and most influential Protestant men of the country, as you know, are

bitterly opposed to this absurd, unAmerican organization, originated solely for personal gain. It Is not uncommon for men to make mistakes, and it Is truly a virtue to acknowledge one, and surely your loss of patronage and respect,

will convince you of your mistake

SHYSTER ATTORNEY

GIVEN JAIL SENTENCE

ATTY. HANS MELAND, CHARGED

WITH FALSE PRETENSE, APPEALS

Tha on If vftn noroint a nhhrpvl.

Joseph A. Will, and the time referred ated but' you are offered an alternato was when he ran into a street car v nrt. nfroro a rhnp fnr

at Cincinnati, Ohio. He is the same individual who is now under arrest and out on bond, for criminal libel against the Ohio Circuit Court judge, Chas. A. Lowe, and Crawford A. Peters, prosecuting attorney. He is the same "J. A." Will who recentlypled guilty to an indictment charging him with intoxication, and the "Ohio County News" is the newspaper that ran a libelous article against the judge and prosecuting attorney.

Hie chanrre of venue game be spoiled. Mr Dugal his prefix "Louis," and we

oiiiiui mis, me juuse buuuiu ibuu regret that we failed to point out

iue siaiuio iur eucu oiieu.se ana meie

out Jail sentences with some idea of what the maximums are. A stiff sentence may mean an appeal, perhaps, but it means a better respect for the law.

quite clearly that Joseph A. Will was the husband of Mrs. Joseph A. Will, or Mrs. J. A. Will, or Mrs. J. Will, or Mrs. A. Will, or anyway she may de

cide or choose, or prefer to write it, but the fact remains that Mrs. Joseph

a cuy couri juuge snouia Know Alifn- f th nhin rn,.i.tv

that forfeiting bonds docs not mltl- v'pwa t' th wifn-nf T A Will nr

gate the offense or decrease their , pPrhaps it would be better t0 8ay that

suomu , Tosenh A Will la Mra Will's hiia-

repctition. Bench warrants

come back into style. Suspended sentences should be revoked on sec-

band. At any odds the Knights of

the Ku Klux Klan are certainly en-

ond oti'ehse. The new judge might , j0ymg the controversy, in aaaround happily make an alphabetical index j R)slng Sut and we hoi,e tlley get a

.,i uukimk-is uuu.-i uajcuui;u ten-1 iot 0 pleasure 0ut of it.

e, Au TV, if McElrnv wnnlri icav- "inj

tenccs the past two years end h

the compunction to refer to it. Fort Wayne Is in distressing need of a God fearing, hard-fisted police judge, or.e of mind and strength of character to rim some of the city's obnoxious "shyster" attorneys who practice in this court. On Changes of Tenne It's a simple, but much needed

that's that, till next Sunday."

ADVERTISERS AND KLANS3IEN ATTENTION!

Two arrests have been made and it is known that there are certain other individuals fraudulently repre

senting themselves as advertising

program, that the appointee might i representatives of the Fiery Cross

properly lay down the first day he

takes office, May 1. It's a practice that police judges the state over may subscribe to and, doing so, are not forever reminded of their oaths. This program lsTheir judgments depend upon the seriousness of the offenses, mindful of the statute covering the particular crime This places a ban upon suspended sentences, except on rare occasions. That ('Ituugeg of venue 1m frowned upon. Nominations of trial judge hrUld iiid'Hlii only those attojripvs

throughout Indiana and Ohio

These men are agents of the American Unity League and are using this ruse as the means of getting in

touch with Kiansmen throughout

this territory. These men are spies and- dangerous. .

Insist upon identification, or call,

or wire the Fiery Cross at our ex pense.

All regular representatives, both

advertising and circulation department, are being forwarded new Mleutifx-at ton cards aa this paper Eoes to press

the restoration of your former thrift;

an opportunity to regain the respect, the patronage and the prestige of

those responsible for your progress.

The path is open to be free from

financial stress, and only too well do you know, as do all the members

of that dastardly organization, which

is attempting to throttle the very vl

tals of American democracy, how well and how faithfully the people

you oppress, stand in unswerving allegiance to their friends. Your opportunity is this. Immediately and publicly, renounce your affiliation with this cowardly, un

American organization, and aid as

best you can in having others do so

Your reward will be an immediate restoration of patronage, together

with the nresthze of that patronage

which will redound many fold.Such renunciation does not, in any sense, mean that you may not worship ac

cording to the dictates of your own conscience, which is the privilege of

American liberty.

Refusal can only mean your com

mercial, social and personal annihi

lation. In the trne, sincere and lasting friendship which the years have fostered and matured, I entreat you to

weigh this with your most earnest

consideration, and I believe you will act wisely, well and sensibly, and I,

you best of friends, shall be the first

to clasp your hand and start you

back toward prosperity, progress

and happiness. I am truly, YOUR SINCERE? FRIEND. Action Only Delayed. Should the practice of circulating

these chain letters threatening boycott continue, it will be necessary for the Fiery Cross to take such action as is necessary to meet this anonymous and dastardly practice. The situation will be watched with interest and developments alone will govern our policy as to whether or not Protestant people should be in

formed through the columns of the Fiery Cross as to just who the different merchants are who are condoning, sympathizing, aiding and abetting in this practice,

Ft, Wayne. Ind., April 21. Attor

ney Hans Meland, found guilty of obtaining a signature to a note under

false pretenses last week, and who

was given a six months' county jail

sentence and fined $50, has served

notice of appeal.

Meland was Indicted by the Allen

county grand jury, charged with se

curing a note of $300 from Mrs.

Josephine Knapp on the pretense

that he would file an appeal bond in her divorce proceedings, which she

wished to earry to the supreme court, and that he sold the note and spent the money. Meland claimed

that the money was applied to at

torney fees, owing him.

while on the stand, Meland ad

mitted the paternity of a child of Miss Edith Helbig, of this city. Miss

Helbig took the stand In the attor

ney's behalf and admitted Meland was the father of her baby, six

months old. She explained to the

court she was engaged to marry the attorney but said the marriage was

postponed after he was indicted by

the grand jury. She insisted that the accused and herself were still

on friendly terms.

ROSSVILLE HAS FIRST OUTDOOR

INITIATION

Rossville. Ind., April 23. Recent

ly on a hill just outside of the city,

at the head or Mam street, was held the first outdoor initiation of the

Knights of the Ku Klux Klan of

Muskegon and Perry counties.

Several hundred Kiansmen from Zanesville, Crooksville, and other

vicinities came via automobiles and

the Southern Ohio railway to RosS

ville for the initiation. Candidates

from Crooksville, New Concordia,

Norwich and Rossville were the sub

jects for naturalization, and they listened to a remarkable address on Americanization by a speaker from

the national bureau. ' Not only was the meeting an inspiring one, In which enthusiasm was at a high pitch, bnt It was also anxiously and interestedly watched from nearby hills by natives and resident of the community. It i understood that a large body of Kiansmen from this and nearby communities will attend a large naturalization meeting at Newark, Ohio, Saturday.

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If you were selecting an ideal salesman, you would select one who has the confidence of the people. One who is conscientious, one who is honest, sincere and able to arouse the inspiration to buy. One who calls on more people able and willing to buy your product than any other salesman. One who has the dignity to reflect the integrity of the merchandise he sells. One who sells for you at a profit, because his costs are consistent

with the results.

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The Fiery Cross is the only salesman whose weekly arrival is waited and looked for in the homes of over 150,000 Kiansmen. It is the password to the heart of the people of Klandom. Effective May 4th the advertising rates of the Fiery Cross will be increased that we may continue to give each of you the same high-class service as heretofore; therefore, all advertisers not under contract will be charged at the new rate for their advertisement appearing in The Fiery Cross on May 4th and thereafter. We will be pleased to furnish new rates upon request.

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