Fiery Cross, Volume 2, Number 50, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 October 1923 — Page 7

Friday, October 12, 1923

T H E F I EBrT CROSSPAfiB SEVEN

COOLIDGE TO ATTEND MASONIC CEREMONY

SCOTTISH RITE TO MEET OCTOBER 15

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 President Coolldge and his entire cabinet have accepted the invitation to be present at the Masonic ceremonies attending the laying of the corner stone of the memorial to "Washington the Mason" in this city on November 1. Such is the announcement made by J. II. Price, grand master of Masons of Virginia. Chief Justice William H. Titft will deliver the principal addrrss. The trowel used bv George Wash-

Ifl ft" tOTl U'hon Via l:iirl ihw pernor ut nn o t

of the Capitol of the United States, September 18, 1795, is to be used when the corner stone of the George Washington Masonic National Memorial is laid. This trowel in now the property of Alexandria-Washington Lodge No. 22, A. F. & A. M. of Alexandria.

NEW WORKINGMAN'S CAFETERIA Is Opening nt 2225 East Washington Street. Quick Service J. W. BODY

WASHINGTON, D. C, Oct. 8. - The biennial session of the supreme council of the thirty-third degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, southern jurisdiction, will be held in this city beginning October 15, 1923. The supreme council is the governing body of the southern jurisdiction, which consists of the Masonic degrees from the fourth, to the thirty-

second, inclusive, and comprises all states south of Mascn and Dixon's line and west of the Mississippi, aid the Orient. All legislation governing the Rite is in the hands of the supreme council, the membership of which is limited to thirty-three sovereign inspectors general. The sovereign grand commander, Hon. John H. Cowles, thirty-third degree, will preside over all sessions of the council. Hon. Perry W. Weldner, thirty-third degree, of Los Angeles, Cal., Is the secretary general.

WILL PROBE STRANGE DEATHBED STATEMENT

Grand Jury to Investigate Following Reports That Odd Circumstances Prevailed

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NEW YORK, Oct. 4. The chemical analysis made by Dr. Alexander O.

Gettler, Bellevue hospital toxicologist, of the viscera of Mrs. Gertie Emily Gorman Webb, revealed 'tljat the quantity of mercury contained in the organs examined was insufficient, alone, to have caused her death. Mrs. Webb died the evening of Sept. 25, last, in the WestchesterBiltmore Country Club at Rye under circumstances that led her relatives and friends to suspect she had been murdered with slow poison. The analysis further disclosed that death was due directly to a gangrenous condition of certain organs and to acute nephritis. Mrs. Webb's mother, Mrs. Gertie A. S. Gorman, died Dec. 16, 1920, of acute interstitial nephritis. Sends Report to Coroner Dr. Gettler completed his prelim-

nary tests today and forwarded a full report to Coroner Edward F. Fitzgerald of Westchester county, who consulted with District Attorney Arthur Rowland in the courthouse at White Plains. Neither Dr.

Gettler, Coroner Fitzgerald, nor District Attorney Rowland would disclose any part of the bulky record compiled by Dr. Gettler and his assistants at the Bellevue hospital

! laboratories, but the nature of the

report was learned from experts who had been in. constant touch with the examinations. Speculation engaged in by persons who commented on the report after viewing it in its entirety exonerated a man who had been prominently mentioned as a suspect and pointed the. finger of interrogation at another man.

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Dr. Meyer Tells oi Deathbed While the Westchester authorities were engaged in studying the chemical report, Dr. William J. Meyer, who attended Mrs. Webb at the country club, and who declined to

"ign a death certificate, saying he i believed death. had come under ! suspicious circumstances warrant- ! ing an immediate autopsy, told re- : porters in an interview the details ! of the deathbed statement of Mrs. j Webb. : Dr. Meyer said she ijonfided to him, to Mrs. Margaret S. Johnstone, wife of ex-Judge of General Sessions ; Robert S. Johnstone, and to Miss ; Anna Herzog, one of her two nurses, i that a certain man whom she named : had applied on numerous occasions ! an antiseptic preparation containing

bichloride of mercury. Grand Jury to Be Told He quoted in detail what he could remember of the alleged deathbed statement and skid he would supply to the grand jury next Monday, certain facts of the incident which he

had forgotten during his' testimony

before that body last Tuesday. Meanwhile counsel for the contestants of the twenty-line will, in which Mrs. Webb left her entire $2,000,000 estate to her husband, Charles Webb, prepared for applica(ion in court today for appointment

of a temporary administrator of the estate. Relatives and friends of Mrs. Webb, with their attorneys, decided to forego their previous plan of asking Gov. Smith to appoint a special deputy attorney-general to take over the investigation into Mrs. Webb's death.

(From the Cleveland Plain Dealer) Oklahoma's turbulent experience in trying to bring its governor to the bar of public opinion to answer for his conduct calls attention to a situation which exists in practically every state, perhaps in every 'other state in the Union. In few states

f anywhere is provision made for

bringing the legislature into special

session, by any other process than

by call of the governor. If the governor happens not to want such a session his constituents are helpless.

Ohio and the ""other states .need a constitutional provision similar t that indorsed at the polls in Oklahoma on Tuesday, which provides a method for. "convening the legislature for investigating the conduct of state officials subject to impeachment and-for such action as the law and the facts may warrant" The

written request of a majority of the members of the house is sufficient to call the special session. General legislation at a session thus called is forbidden. ' State constitutions, with few if

any exceptions, have followed thei practice of the federal charter, giv-1 '-'g to the governors exclusive authority to summon a special legislative session when in his judgment such a session is desirable. Tbey make no allowance for such a sit

uation as developed m Oklahoma, where the governor declared martial law, refused to call or permit a session of the assembly and defied the state to curb or punish him. A similar situation" might develop in Ohio or in any other state. Were a governor of Ohio-suddenly to as

sume dictatorial ambitions, call out

the national guard without ample provocation or do anything else ich the people of the state believed dangerous to their-peace and

welfare assuming the legislature were not then in session there

would be no -method under Ohio law to check his career of public de

fiance. It is no argument against

the wisdom of providing apsr'nt

emergency of this kind to point out

that Ohio has never had oc

-'"i-i a provision.- Oklahoma

never had until now.

ui.p-jas. anient and trial is the rec

ognized method of bringing an of

fending executive to task. But the

;mpeachment process is dead when

the legislature is out of session and

the governor is unwilling to call it

together. The procedure might as

well never have been devised

grounded though it be in long years of popular revolt against executive

autocracy.

We need an impeachment process

that will work regardless of whether

the governor, at the moment wants it to work; a process that may be

invoked with reasonable ease in response to the public will to rebuke

any executive who uuueruiKes

Mayor Durgan, Perpetual Chief Executive, Is Growing Very Nervous, Report Says

(Special to The Fiery Cross) LAFAYETTE, Ind., Oct. 8. Although the rumor has not been verified. It has been reported that whenever Mayor Durgan, perpetual chief executive of tWs city, hears, an auto tire blowout, it makes him extremely nervous due to his tense nervousness brought about by waiting "for the Klan to parade." It is said now that the fact that the organization doesn't parade is giving him almost as much worry as a parade would give him. When it can not be learned, au

thoritatively," it is understood 'that

the city police force has been supplied with tear bombs to use in "quelling" any parade which the Klansmen might attempt to give. However, the Klan has abided by the law, which it does in all cases, and has not attempted to parade since the passing of an ordinance against such a move by the city council. The ordinance was made necessary, according to certain offi

cials, it is said, because of a "gang of roughnecks from the Plank road," might resent the procession being held by law-abiding citizens Joined together to aid ln ythe light to keep the torch of liberty burning in America. It is understood that practically every Protestant minister in Tippecanoe county Is now a member of the Klan which had grown most wonderfully through the advertisement given it by Mayor Durgan, to say nothing of the fact that the principles appeal most strongly to red blooded and true born Americans.

MUSEUMS TOE CmLBREC

Manufacture- and-, distribution of American commodities' under a plan announced by the American Association of Museums, will be taught imr museums. School children. Instead of learning from books how cotton cloth is manufactured, can see in museums actual reproductions of the various steps. Museums will set aside space for such exhibits or assist in obtaining suitable places tor their display. ADDRESS ALL) MAIL TO FIERY CROSS NOT TO INDIVIDUALS.

turn his office into a dictatorship.

Here is a measure of public safety

which merits discussion in the next Ohio campaign and favorable action in the next session of the legisla

ture.

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France and Conditions Are Deplorable, Says Spafford

NEW YORK, Oct. 6. An investigation of what he says are the de

plorable conditions of the American

Military Cemetery of Belleau Wood,

France, will be demanded of Con

gress, Edward E. Spafford, New

York state commander of the Amer

ican Legion, said recently.

Commander Spafford expressed in

dignation that a "poor box" is kept at the entrance to the cemetery for

solicitation of funds from foreign and American visitors to maintain the grounds where 2,170 American

soldiers and marines are sleeping.

The Legion commander's statement was based upon a dispatch to

an afternoon newspaper from Paris

describing the state of the cemetery

as pitiable because appropriations of

Congress were insufficient. It said

officials of the Graves Registration

Service in France Tcnew nothing of

the "poor box" and thought it might

be a device of French laborers to

extract tips. Ground Is Bare

The Paris dispatch quoted American visitors to the cemetery as saying that the ground was bare and resembles the foundation, construc

tion of a New York . skyscraper.

Expressing gratitude that-the con- i

dition had been revealed. Comman

der Spafford said the Legion would

demand punishment "of every American who has been guilty of neglect of dnty." He said the Legion had been promised that the cemetery

would be placed in perfect condi

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