Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 32, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 June 1924 — Page 2
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WASHINGTON, June 1. Charges that the Ku Klux Klan is responsible for an organized effort to delay consideration of the Mayfleld contested senatorial election case, have been sent out to the pres3 by counsel for George E. B. Peddy, of Texas, whom Senator Mayfleld defeated. These charges have been taken up and amplified and sent out broadcast by the National Catholic Welfare Council News Service to all of its publications.
The latter organization with headquarters here in Washington has attempted to shift the blame and the responsibility from the Peddy
shoulders to those of Senator Mayfleld and the Klan, when exactly the
opposite is the truth. Senator Mayfield through his attorneys and his friends in the Senate has been urging and pressing for a finish to this long-drawn-out fight and has done everything -he possibly could do to bring this farce of charges to the sunlight and expose them to the world. , On the other hand, Mr. Peddy and his lawyers have dilly-dallied, postponed, delayed and hindered a peedy trial in every conceivable way. They are the ones whoso witnesses have failed to appear before the committee from time to time;
they are the ones whose actions have caused the sub-committee to adjourn every day now for a week because of failure to get witnesses here to testify. The Peddy people try in every way and on every day to bring the Ku Klux Klan into this fight and in every effort they have so far made they have failed absolutely to connect up the Klan with the election contest. The Klan, on the other hand, has delayed its own business, by sending to Washington, not at government expense but at the Klan's expense, its cashier, its assistant cashier, members of its finance committee, -members of its
executive committee, grand dragon of the realm of Texas, and other officials and members and they have taken out of the Imperial Palace at Atlanta and brought to Washington alt the hooks and papers and records that would In any way tend to shed any light on the Texas case and not a scintilla of evidence has been found that would connect the Klan with Senator Mayfleld. There is not a scrap of evidence
to show that the Klan as an organization In any way ever contributed one penny to elect Senator Mayfleld. The entire charge has fallen flat as a pancake just as the counsel for Mr. Peddy has failed in everything thus far undertaken to show that Mayfleld was elected by Klan money or that he spent any sum of money in excess of that permitted by law. All of the delays thus far in the case have oome from the very fellows who make these charges. They
are as false as the N. C. W. C. News
Service Itself.
K.K.K. POLICEMEN FURNISH BOND ON
MURDER CHARGES
Four Men Are Accused of Killing Jack Skelcher, Alleged Assailant of Glenn Young
Two "Shelton Boys" Being Hunted,
With Third Man, as Taking Part in Attack on Klan Dry Balder
800 IMMIGRANTS . FACE DEPORTATION Result of . Supreme Court RulT J nig That Gottliebs Can- ' Not Enter
PUBLICITY FOR CONTRIBUTIONS The Senate tacked on a "rider" to the postal pay bill which measure provides for compulsory publicity of all political contributions at ten-day intervals throughout the 1924 political campaign, and with drastic penalties for evasions. The Senate expects to pass this bill with
the "rider" before the day is over and then it will go to the House, where its final enactment la assured by congressional leaders. The publicity provision is probably the most radical legislation passed by the Senate in the last
twenty years. The proposal itself has been before Congress for the last six years, ever since the Newberry case. Its enactment came as a complete surprise to administra
tion leaders, but they offered not a single objection. The measure was sponsored by Senator Borah, of Idaho, but bore amendments offered by both Republican and Democratic leaders. Before it was enacted by the Senate every faction gave it emphatic endorsement and a similar reception is predicted for- the measure in the House.
HERRIN, 111., May 31. Four Ku Klux Klan special policemen,
charged in warrants with murder j for the killing of Jack Skelcher, al-1 leged assailant of S. Glenn Young and Mrs. Young, in the revolver flght at the Herrin town limits, surrendered at Maxton, and furnished 110,000 bond each. Eleven business men of Herrin and Marion signed the bonds. The four accused men are Roy S. Eldridge and John Crompton, who have admitted that they fired at the
car in which Skelcher was found dead, and at Skelcher'3 companion, known as "Brown," who was wounded in the leg and captured; Max Kratsch and Marion Collard, who have admitted only that they were at the scene of the shooting,
under "special police" authority from Albert L. Jones, assistant chief of police of Herrin. The warrants
were sworn out by Albert Skelcher,
brother of Jack Skelcher.
ATTENTION! Secretaries of Local Klan Organizations and Chairmen of Entertainment Committees THIS MESSAGE IS FOR YOU Do you want to put over a bin Klan picnic, liomerominK event, or fair, anil make real , money for your organization? Get In tourh with the man who will put It over In a big way for you We make all arrangements and handle every thing. Strictly commission basis. Write or wire at one. . Box 2(10 co Fiery Cross Indianapolis
LANGLEY SERIOUSLY ILLRepresentative John W. Langley, of Kentucky, who was -convicted several days ago of violating the prohibition law in his own state, has notified Speaker Gillett that pending final action on his appeal of the case he would abstain from attending House sessions or participating in proceedings of the House public buildings committee, of which he
is chairman. The committee authorized to investigate the charge made by a Chicago grand jury in its report to the House said such an arrangement was satisfactory and suggested that no further action be taken with the Langley case until the case has been disposed of by the court. The com
mittee report was unanimous. Representative Langley has been indicted, tried and convicted and sentenced in th'e Federal court for the Eastern itistrict. of Kentucky. He lias appei.led his case and the House does not want to Interfere or pass judgment on the Kentuckian while his case is in the courts. Representative Langley has re
turned to Washington from Kentucky and is seriously ill here as a result of his worry over his recent
I conviction on a charge of improperly receiving money in connection I with liquor withdrawal permits. His I doctor claims he lias suffered a j slight stroke of apoplexy.
Two Suspects Hunted In the meantime, Jones and Chief of Police John Ford, with the aid of the Klan's extensive secret service, are hunting for Carl and Earl Shelton, against whom warrants were issued in Clinton county, charging them with attempted murder, in the attack on Young and
Mrs. Young, on the highway north of Okawviile. OkawviUe is in Washington county, but the scene of the shooting is 300 feet north of the Kaskaskia river, which separates Clinton and Washington counties. A third warrant, issued by Prosecuting Attorney Murray of Clinton county,' makes the same charge against "Brown," now in jail at Marion. Chief Ford said that "Brown" had been recognised at Marion as
Charles Briggs, who is under indictment in this (Williamson) county with Burnie Sheiton, a third of the "Shelton boys," on the charge of holding up a bank cashier and a young woman on the road between Herrin and Johnston City, and rob
bing them of $2,000 and jewelry Briggs and Burnie Shelton, after their indictment, failed to appear to give new bonds. Machine Was Stolen One Ford also said that the Dodge car, in which Skelcher and "Brown," or Briggs, ."ere riding when the Klan special police 'attempted to halt them and fired upon them, has bean
As a result of the decision of the United States Supreme Court handed down at Washington Monday, 800
aliens now at Ellis Island may be deported, according to Harry R. Lan-
dis, assistant commissioner of immi
gration. These immigrants, most of them Italians, have come tethis country within the past three weeks
in the hope that they might be admitted under the ruling of the federal court, and subsequently upheld by the circuit court of appeals, granting permission to Gittel Gottliebrwife of Rabbi Solomon Gottlieb,
and Israel, the son, to enter, although the Palestine quota was exhausted. - Solomon Gottlieb entered the United States fourteen months before the arrival of his wife and son. He had declared hts intention of becoming a citizen, and his wife and son were admitted on that ground, after they had appealed to the federal court After their admittance by the federal court the immigration
officials took the case to the circuit court of appeals, which upheld the
decision of the lower court The officials took the case to the United States Supreme Court, which held on Monday that the Gottliebs had been
admitted in excess of the quota and would have to be deported. Commissioner Landis said: "The practice followed prior to the Gottlieb decision being rendered in the district court would be again put into operation."
Although it is quite likely that the S00 immigrants now at Ellis Island will be deported, it was said among officials at Ellis Island that Secretary of Labor James J. Davis may see fit to deal with each case individually and to allow some of these families to enter. The Gottlieb family were reported to be In Philadelphia.
DAUGHERTJS NAME
TONNBHED WITH RE-
German Concern Changed Spelling of Name and Got Back Property Seized
Compromise Apparently . Made, as
$500,000 Was "Kept by Some One"
NEW YORK CENTRAL HAS GREATEST YEAR
Report of 1923, Compiled by A. H. Smith, Shows 120 Gain in Net Income
NEW YORK, May 31. The annual report of the New York Central Railroad completed by A. H. Smith, the company's president, a few days before he was killed by a fall from his horse in Central Park, was made
WASHINGTON, May 31. How a
German concern changed the spell
ing ot its name from German to
French and thus got Harry M
Daugherty to authorize return of
$6,000,000 out of $6,500,000 netted
from sale ot its American plants during the war, was related Wednesday before the Daugherty investigat
ing committee. What became of the $500,000 balance will be gone into later with promises from Chairman Brookhart that it now "is in this country, in the hands of Americans who had much to do with the deal." Francis P. Garvin, alien property custodian just prior to the Harding administration, was the chief wit
ness, although the story starts with
the previous administration, when A. Mitchell Palmer was attorneygeneral under Woodrow Wilson. The American Metals Company, Ltd., was seized by Palmer and investigation by both Palmer and Garvin
showed 49 per cent of its stock Ger
man-owned. Americans on Small End "About 34,000 shares belong to the Metallgeschell Shaft Company, and the Metall Bank of Germany," explained Isldor Kresel, the first witness, a New York lawyer who was employed by Palmer to investigate the firm's ownership.
"But the number of German shares really was greater. Some 16,000 shares belonged to Merton & Co., London, a metal firm liquidated by
England during the war as a Ger
man concern. Only 18,000 shares
belonged to bona fide Americans
mostly to Julius Loeb, C. M.- Loeb, Julian Beaty, and the Berthold Hoschild family." Then Garvin told how, finding all investigations showed at least 49 per cent of the stock German-owned,
he ordered the 49 per cent sold. It netted $6,000,000 plus about $500,000 in accrued dividends. The money
was put into the United States treasury. This sale was about July, 1918. A Speedy Refund In 1922,- there suddenly appeared a claim from the Socieie Suisse Pour Valeur de Metaux, claiming to be a neutral Swiss metal concern and claiming to own the 49 per cent, of stock that had been sold as German-
Tea. Under the law such a com--plaint automatically became an injunction against sale, but none was
made."
"And the statements from officers
ot the concern said it waa German stock?"
"Yes, the statement read 'So many shares of stock, owned by so and
BO, a German citizen. ' "
Two Names, But Same Firm
"And, four years after the sale, or
when Mr. Daugherty came into of
fice, a claim of neutral ownership is
filed and approved by Alien Prop-1 erty Custodian Miller and a refund
tordered by . Daugherty?"
"So it seems. I was not in office then." To Vresel, Wheeler said: "Do your reports show that the Metallgeschell Shaft Co. and the Societe Suisse Pour Veleur de Metaux are of the same ownership?" "Yes, it is simply a case of French spelling in one case and German in the other. The same men backed these concerns and also the Merton Co. of London."
The committee did not finish the case. Adna Johnson of Ohio, who
came here with Daugherty to be an
assistant attorney-general, was on
the stand ready to tell how he approved the refund and just how it was completed in forty-eight hours
when Chairman' Brookhart ordered
adjournment for the day.
SAYS DAUGHERTY
iialted gas trial Ex-Federal Attorney Alleges Effort to Avert Indictment of High Officials
WASHINGTON, May The prosecution of the United Gas Improvement Company and certain of its officials on a conspiracy charge
involving violations of the Sherman anti-trust law was halted by Henry M. Daugherty, then attorney-general, and prior to the finding of the indictment it was suggested that certain high officials of the company might not be prosecuted, it was charged before the Senate committee investigating Daugherty's administration of the Department of Justice by R. Colton Lewis, who as a special" assistant attorney-general prepared the case against the gas company. Mr. Lewis declared that after the indictment was returned in the southern district of New York and before he could proceed with the court action he. was superseded by Harry F. West of Columbus, Ohio, who, he asserted, assumed more the attitude of counsel for the defense than for the government
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W. A. Anderson of CarbfJndale. The engine numbers shewed the car to be Anderson's,, though Enother pair of license plates, also stolen, had been substituted for Anderson's. State's Attorney Murray of Clinton county, at Carlyle, baaed the warrants obtained by him on inforr niation obtained from the wounded
Young, two-gun leader o? the Klan's
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volume of .traffic, earnings, improve
ments and acquisition of stock in subsidiaries. Net income of the company totaled J45.339.426, an increase of more than 120 per cent, compared with 1922,
when $20,635,186 was earned. After ; allowing for funded debt and the j sinking fund the earnings were ! equivalent to $16.17 a share on the
liquor rainers, in a nospuai ai issue-; common stock compared with ?7.66
vine. I uuiiK w xa iului it:wuu ui ui -j t 1099
WOMEN AT CONVENTIONS There seems to be a lively competition between Democrats and Republicans as to the part women will take intheir respective national con
ventions. Republican leaders ' have announced that 1,000 women will be at the big Republican convention at Cleveland, including 350 to 400 delegates and alternates. - At the same time Mrs. Emily Newell Blair, vice-chairman of the Democratic national committee, said there would be three times as many women at the Democratic gathering. This, of course, is because the Democratic national committee has
doubled the number of its delegates-at-large from four to eight, with the understanding that four are to be women.
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Does the Klan want to support Representative Martin Madden, of
Chicago, next time for the speaker
ship of the House of Representatives? He has already announced his candidacy for the place in view of the fact that Speaker Gillett, of Massachusetts, is not standing for re-election to the House, but is a candidate for the Senate. Whether Mr. Gillett wins or loses he is taking himself out of the House and the speakership and that will leave the place open. - '
Mr. Madden has already been indorsed unanimously for the position by the Republican members from
Illinois and they are now working on Republicans from other states for support for the Chicago man. The campaign will be waged all summer and fall. Here are a few things the
Republicans of the House should remember about Mr. Madden:
According to the Protestant 'Who's Who in Congress," and it
has not been denied, Mr. Madden is a
Roman Catholic. He Toted against the Burnett immigration bill. He
voted against prohibition. He fought and voted against the new 2 per cent selective immigration bill, which is
about to become the new law of this
country. He signed the Gallivan
Irish petition. And he was Indorsed
by the Association Against Prohibi
tion Amendment.
If Mr. Madden stakes the race for
the speakership on his record he
ught to be defeated. It speaks lor
itself. The speakership 'of the House
of Representatrrea is one of the highest gifts bestowed by the American people and they do It throngh their
representatives la the lower branch
of Congress. It' about time to be
thinklac on this subject lor the cam
I paiga - has already started on this
hospital by Deputy Sheriff Joe Ragan, son of Sheriff William Ragan of Clifton county. Fisherman's Statement Murray said that besides the information given by Young, he obtained
the statement of a fisherman who was near the scene of the attack on
Young, and who described the Dodge car, in which Skelcher was later killed at Herrin, and took the license number, which was the same as that on the car now held at Herrin. The information obtained by the state's attorney at Carlyle was that four men, believed to be Skelcher, the two Sheltons and "Brown." left the scene of the attack on the Youngs in the Dodge car, but that near Nashville, the county seat of Washington county, they were met by another car from Herrin, and that the Sheltons transferred to it. This car is said to have been not far behind that in which Skelcher was killed, but after the shooting of Skelcher and "Brown" it turned and
went into Herrin by another road.
Much of the success of the company was attributable to the increase in gross revenue, which totaled $365,175,188, or $48,550,030 more than in 1922. The freight revenues increased $37,671,514, passenger revenues $6,094,001 and express revenues $1,048,543. Operating expenses increased $28,-
201,551, including $10,616,283 in
transportation cost. $9,530,903 in
maintenance of equipment and $7,181,989 in maintenance of ways and structures. "
Attorney-General Daugherty," the $6,000,000 refunded, and the $509,000 kept. '.'During the three years between
the sale and the time you left office there was never any claim that this stock was Swiss, or neutral owned, or that it was other than Germanowned?" asked Senator Wheeler of
Mr. Garvin. "No." "If it had been neutral owned, the neutral owner, under the law, simply would have had to register a complaint to stop the sale?"
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PARIS, May 31. Musical warning whistles for taxicabs and automobiles to replace the honking horns and -shrill sirens now used are urged by a group of prominent Parisians who are trying to abolish harsh
noises in the French capital. Dr. M. Marage, leader of the move
ment, suggests that Paris follow the example set by M. Herriot as mayor
of Lyons, where all the municipal
service autos are equipped with a
special trumpet-like "horn which
warns the pedestrians with a series of pleasant musical notes. All the cars play the same tune, consisting
of a series of tour notes selected If musical experts after exhaustive
tests as the most pleasant for the
human ear.
If this method is not adopted, M.
Marage suggests that all Paris autos
carry two horns one with a shrill
sound for the country and suburbs,
and the other with a deep bass tone
for the city.
British Erect Memorial
to Victims of the ZR-2 HULL. England. Mar 3L The
memory of the little band, of English and American sailors who were killed when the airship R-88 (ZR2)
was destroyed at HulL will be kept
alive by a memorial erected In the western cemetery here, by the Brit iah Air Ministry. The memorial. Is
a nedestal surmounted by an eagle
and occupies a plot ot ground where
WASHINGTON, May 81. When the transcontinental air mail service begins operation July 1, the thousand-mile lighted airway for night flying will have grown to nearly sixteen hundred miles, stretching out on the east from Chicago to Cleveland and on the west from Cheyenne to Rock Springs, Wyo., it is announced by PostmasterGeneral New. Instead of the big beacons of 500,000,000 candle-power placed at the five terminal landing fields between Chicago and Cheyenne, the new lights tor the terminals will be only five million candle-power. There
will be one at Cleveland and an
other at Bryan, OhI6and one each at Rawlins and Rock Springs, Wyo.
Emergency landing fields at twen
ty-mile intervals, however, will be
equipped with illumination now
used on similar fields on the exist
ing lighted airway. These smaller beacons haye a visibility on clear
nights of abont thirty miles.
They will be located at the following points westward from Cleveland : Ridgeville. Huron, Vtckery, Woodpile, Watervllle -and Gerald. Ohio; Ashley, Wolcottville, ; Goshen, Lakeville, Laporte, McCooi, Ind.; and Harvey, I1L
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Cheyenne, they" will be located at Salt Wells, Wamsutter, Walcott, Rock River, Laramie, Bitter Creek, Cherokee, Medicine Bow. Bosler and
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