Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 23, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 April 1924 — Page 6

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KLANSMEN ASSIST IN SUCCESSFUL REVIVAL

Dl'GCER, Ind., March 29. A series of union meetings were held in the First Christian church at Bugger from March 17 to March 23. The meetings -were supported by the women's and men's organizations ot the Ku Klux Klan. The attendance was made up of the members of Protestant churches of the town and township. The churches of Dusger which so faithfully co-operated were the Methodist Episcopal, the Methodist Protestant, the Baptist, the Church of Christ and the First Christian church. Excellent and even record-breaking attendance was continued through the meeting. The meetings, were conducted by the Rev. Clarence E. Davis, of New Al--bany, who preached the word of God very forcibly, plainly and convincingly. The Women's Organization of the Klan marched into the church Thursday night and presented the evangelist with an envelope containing a sum of money and a letter indorsing the meeting. The men's organization also contributed liberally to the cause.

INCOME TAX SHOWS BROAD PROSPERITY

Total Payments for March in Manhattan Are Expected to Be $100,000,000

POLICEWOMEN USED IN DRIVE ON LIQUOR

NEW YORK, March 29.-The fact that policewomen are being employed by Commissioner Enright in the newly reorganized special service division was revealed when Policewoman Helen Thomas was called on to testify at the trial of Inspector Michael J. Kelly, charged with laxity In the enforcement of the Volstead act In the Twelfth district. Queens. Policewoman Thomas told of having accompanied Detective John Meehan during a liquor raid at 421 Dill place, Clendale. on November 23. She said that they went to a former saloon at the above address and asked for whisky. Hut instead of whisky, she said, beer was served. The policewoman could not remember what price she paid for the beer or the name of the man arrested, but she testified that when the prisoner was arraigned before a United States commissioner he was discharged.

NEW YORK, March 29. Widespread prosperity and a general improvement in business conditions are clearly indicated in the income tax returns, which already exceed, in the Manhattan districts, the forecasts of the collectors of internal revenue. The figures to date, indicate that a total of nearly $100,000,000 in income taxes may be paid in Manhattan alone during the month of March. Mare than $90,000,000 already has been received. Of this, $60,000,000 has been paid to Collector Bowers in the Second or downtown district, in which the largest corporations in the country make their returns. Before the end of the month, Mr. Bowers estimates, the total will reach $r..000.000 at least, and as a large number of thirty-day extensions have been granted, the returns for April will be larger than in other years. In this district probably the largest single-individual tax in the country has been paid in part. A quarterly payment has been received on a total tax of $7,000,000, not from a corporation, but from an individual, a citizen of Manhattan. . The payment is $1,750,000, which compares favorably with total payments made by many large corporations.

TO FIGHT FOR LEAGUE PLANK CI.EVELAND, 0 March 29. Newton D. Baker, former secretary of war, intends to carry his fight for the League of Nations to the Democratic national convention. Speaking before the Women's City Club, Baker said he would go to the convention and "plead with everybody who will listen to put a straight-out declaration in the platform" for the t'nited States to enter the league. "I hope some of you go

I to the convention of the other party and make the same fight," Baker I said. He cited that many Americans were serving "unofficially" with the league on the reparations commis- , sion and other bodies seeking to rei store order in Europe.

Ready for the Fray at Elwood

Friday, April 4, 1924

LEGION JOINS FIGHT TO CL0SEU.S. DOORS Americans Out of Sympathy With Attacks on Johnson Bill, Quinn Asserts

DRY NAVY TO CHASE LIQUOR FLEET AWAY Jacobs Is Mobilizing Fleet of 65 Armed Vessels Sees Doom of Rum Row

SQUARE DEAL JEWELER

Watch, Clock and Jewelry Repairing CLOCKS CALLED FOR AND DELIVERED

Elwood Junior Klansmen were ready for the opening of the statewide basket ball tournament at Elwood today. The tournament to decide the best team in the Junior organization in Indiana is to continue over tomorrow. The winning team in the two days' play will meet the champion Junior team of Ohio to decide the championship of the two states. The tournament is being held in the Elwood armory, which has a seating capacity of 2,250, and indications are that this capacity will be taxed to the limit. Teams are present from many cities in Indiana. Games are scheduled for this afternoon and night and tomorrow play begins in the morning in the elimination contest and the last game- on the schedule will be played between the winners in the elimination and the Ohio champions tomorrow night. Special features have been arranged. Music will be provided throughout the two days and tomorrow night a speaker of note and ability will be on the program. The Elwood team, one of the best in the state, is shown in the picture.

It will be good news to Klansmen to hear that the American Legion has joined in the fight on the immi

gration question. The legion would close the doors absolutely for the present, but, in the absence of absolute stoppage, demands the strictest possible limitation, according to an article by John R. Quinn, which will appear in the April issue of the American Federatiocist. "The joining of the American Federation of Labor and the American Legion to combat propaganda for unrestricted immigration is offered as an indication that the great majority of American people are out of sympathy with the attacks being leveled at the Johnson bill or at any proposal to restrict the inflow of

r-uropeans,- said a statement from the federation. Commander Quinn declares the melting pot has become impotent and that in order to keep America a true democracy, "we should suspend immigration for whatever period may be necessary until we provide machinery to teach immigrants how to live up to the American standards of living, to our ideals and our traditions."

Samuel Gompers, president of the

American Federation of Labor, says :

America must not be overwhelmed. Every effort to enact immigration legislation must expect to meet a number of hostile forces, and in particular, two hostile forces of considerable strength. These are composed of corporation employers who desire to employ physical strength at the lowest possible wage and the racial groups in the United States who oppose all restrictive legislation because they want the doors left open for an influx of their countrymen regardless of the menace to the people of their adopted country."

NEW YORK, March 29. Captain William V. A. Jacobs, divisional commander of the coast guard, has disclosed plans for mobilizing a dry navy of 65 armed vessels and 500 men, which, he asserts, will scatter the far-famed New York-New Jersey coast liquor fleet before the year's end. Jacobs said he would assign a destroyer, cutter or speedboat, equipped with one-pounders and machine guns, as a day and night guard over every vessel on liquor row. These craft will stand by the

liquor runners -from the time they drop anchor off the row until evea ifMt takes months the skippers ot the liquor fleet give up in disgust and sail away, he asserted. No boat of any kind will be permitted to communicate with the liquor fleet, said Captain Jacobs. Craft attempting to reach the fleet under pretense of delivering supplies will be seized for illicit trading with foreign vessels. The coast ,;uard commander declared the only source whence the liquor ships would be permitted to get food, water and fuel would be their government-manned escorts. Jacobs announced his first step

would be to obtain five destroyers from the Philadelphia navy yard, 30 36-foot motor boats, capable of doing 30 knots or more per hour, for off-shore patrol duty.

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CREAGER ON DEFENSE IN SENATE INQUIRY Another Klan Buster Is Facing Probe in Alleged Crooked Land Deals

BOND DUPLICATION

CHARGES TO BE AIRED

Why Not Find Out Also Who

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(Bureau Publication and Education) WASHINGTON, March 29. R. B. Of-ager, of Brownsville, Tex., Republican national committeeman for the Lone Star state, who proposes to fight the Ku Klux Klan in both national conventions and have inserted planks in both national platforms declaring against the Klan, now has a warm fight on hands trying to shield and protect himself and his Alamo Land and Sugar Company before a Senate subcommittee of the committee on postofflce and post roads of the Senate. Creager and his company stand charged by Senator Heflin, of Alabama, and others with having defrauded many persons during a period of years out of money throueh

the sale of lands in Cameron and Hidalgo counties, Tex., in the Rio

Grande valley. j Creager also is charged by Senator Heflin with being instrumental ! through conferences here witlr offlcials of the postofflce department jand the department of justice in hav- ! ing an investigation of the alleged j frauds dropped. Senator Heflin is i being assisted in his role of "prosecutor" by James R. Page, of Kansas ! City, an attorney who has investi- ! gated the matter and also by a numi ber-of postal officials who are to give

testimony. Voluminous correspondence between the postofflce and justice departments and their field branches and between federal officials in Washington and individuals outside who were interested in the several

development companies in the RioJ

Grande valley were read into the Record. These dealt mostly with efforts made in 1921 and 1922 to obtain a "continuance" of cases pending in Kansas City against the W. E. Stewart Company and with the successful move of R. B. Creager, Republican national committeeman for Texas, to have the investigation into the Alamo Land and Sugar Company by a postal inspector from the Kansas City district transferred to the jurisdiction of some other agent. Creager charged that J, M. Donaldson, the inspector who started the

inquiry, was prejudiced, and Crea

ger used his influence to have the case taken away from him and given to a Philadelphia man. Beginning in October, 1921, soon after Creager and other land company officials had called at the postofflce department to ask, according to testimony, that no action be taken until the new inspector had completed his investigation, the correspondence covered a period of some four months.

RABBI IS OPPOSED TO PROHIBITION LAW

Philipson, in Congenial Company of Knights of Columbus, Spills Venom Freely

(Bureau Publication and Education)

WASHINGTON, March 29. The House of Representatives has or

dered an investigation by a special

committee of the Brewer charges regarding duplication of bonds and other negotiable government paper

at tne bureau of engraving and print

ing. This Isto say" nothing of the printing of the pope's head on United States paper money, all done by the

same clique.

The House passed the Snell resolution, a substitute for the King resolution, ordering that this investiga

tion shall be made by a special committee of five members to be appointed by the speaker. Chairman Snell told the House

that he had consulted with Secretary Mellon, who advised him that the government had not lost any money by duplication of bonds, but that he favored the investigation in order that the entire controversy which had developed into a scandal might be cleaned up. Representative Watkins (Dem., Ore.) questioned whether this special committee would go into the summary dismissal of officials at the bureau of engraving and printing by order of President Harding. Chairman Snell replied that an inquiry into the dismissals was not necessarily contemplated in the resolution. Representative Garrett, of Tennessee, minority leader, explained that if in the investigating the duplication of bonds the trail led across that of the dismissals from the bureau so that the subject became interwoven, the investigating committee had authority to inquire into the question of dismissals. Chairman Snell agreed with this interpretation and others argued for a real investigation that would clarify the matter. The investigation ought also to go on and disclose the purpose and the guilt of those responsible for putting the pope's head on American paper money. Let the investigation be thorough and the guilty punished. No whitewash whatever should be used.

MARION, O., March 29. Lax enforcement of the Volstead act is responsible for discontent in America, Rabbi David Philipson declared Tuesday night in an address before the Northside Council of the Knights of Columbus. Rabbi Phiiinson said that th

with which th Volstead law could be

vioiaiea lea people to believe that other laws could be violated also He asserted that he did not favor the prohibition law, but thought that it should be enforced so long as it remained on the statute books

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RECKLESSLY INDEPENDENT MARSHALLTOWN, la., March 29. The Times-Republican, the recklessly independent paper of this community, does not desire the business of Americans. It refused to print an advertisement telling of a public Klan lecture, after it had accepted the money and given a receipt to a Klan agent for the advertisement. Klansmen of this community could sue tbe paper for damages, since it is incorporated under

the laws of Iowa to do business, but being an American institution, it does not Tesort to such tactics. Klansmen here realize full well that the time is not far distant when the Times-Republican will print American advertisements and American news it it liopes to keep going.

ATTICA KLANSMEN

IN A SOCIAL SESSION

ATTICA, Ind., March 29. Attica

unit, fountain Klan No. 71, hem a

social session following the business meeting Monday night. The Rev. G. Stanley West, of Brazil, was the

speaker and gave a splendid and encouraging talk. The Klan chorus

gave seven special musical selec

tions, after which the Klan orches

tra entertained while a luncheon of

cakes, coffee and "Fiery Cross' brick ice cream was served. The klavern was filled to over

flowing and the audience including

several visitors from other nnits

Every one voted the occasion a big

success and all are in favor of an other affair next month.

JUNIOR KLAN BURNS CROSS AURORA, Ind., March 29. A large cross was burned here Monday evening, March 17, by the Junior Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. The Junior order is growing rapidly.

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