Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 43, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 August 1924 — Page 6
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A PAGE SIX THE FIERY CROSS Friday, August '22, 1924
SEES TOLL GATE AS BOOTLEGGING BLOCK
Coast Guard Captain Suggests New Methods to Aid Prohibition Officers
CORN CROP WILL BE
SHORT THIS SEASON!
Unfavorable Weather Hinders Farmers in the Middle West Corn Belt
NEW YORK, Aug. 18. Captain B
H. Camden of the United States Coast Guard suggested at the barge
office yesterday that, first, a pos
Bible new Interpretation of the in
ternational liquor treaty and, sec
ond, an Installation of toll gates on
land roads popular with rum runners, might prove substantial aids
In future dry enforcement cam
paigns.
Captain Camden raised the point that the zone of seizure described in the treaty was equal to what the smuggler could traverse In one hour. The clause, which appears as Section 3 of Article II, reads: "The right conferred by the article shall not be exercised at a "greater distance from the coast of the United States its territories or Its possessions, than can be traversed in one hour by the vessel suspected of endeavoring to commit the offense. In cases, however, In which the liquor is Intended to be conveyed
to the United States, its territories or possessions, by a vessel other
than the one boarded and searched
it shall be the speed of such other vessel, and not the speed of the vessel boarded, which shall determine the distance from the coast at which
the right under this article can be
exercised." Seizure of Airplanes
Captain Camden cited from this that a rum-runner's liability to seizure by United States authorities
varied directly with its own speed
In other words, he asked, with many airplane's now being observed at Rum Row, would not an airplane
having a speed of ninety or a hun
dred miles an hour be liable to seizure by one of the airplanes in the
dry avy ninety or a hundred miles out? A smuggler's speed boat with a speed of thirty to forty miles an hour would be equally liable to be
taken up thirty to forty miles out. Captain Can-deu said, this legal complication b?.d not actually come up so far, but it was his belief that it would certainly come up eventually. He failed to see how the section of the article in the treaty could be construed other than to give the, United States agents this latitude and to place upon rumrunners the burden of determining their own boarding limit by their speed. It was gathered from Captain Camden's discussion of the moot point that the United States Coast Guard might Invoke this equity in the war it plans to launch upon marine rum running within the next
month or six weeks. In connection with the toll gate idea, Captain Camden mentioned Florida, which, he said, was the busiest rum-running section in the country. With Biminl only thirty some miles away, the rum runners resorted to both air and sea to ferry the contraband Into the United States. When overhauled they jettison their cargo in sacks, marking the submarine cache with an underwater buoy, scarcely visible from the surtace. When pursuers
leave the runner return and recover their goods. As a result of these and other contributing conditions more liquor probably came into Miami, for example, he said, than any other port of entry.
ORDER ARMED CARS FOR MAIL SERVICE
Government, Alarmed at Raid at Chicago, Takes' Precautions to Guard Employes
CHICAGO, Aug. 18. Gloomy days
are ahead for the corn crop. Crop experts and farmers are skeptical in all sections of the corn belt from southern Minnesota to southern Missouri and western Nebraska to eastern Ohio. Corn is now in its critical stage. Few sections are over the danger line, even if the first killing frost is delayed until the
average date.
Thousands of bushels of soft, im
mature corn will go into the cribs
and silos this fall in practically every one of the corn belt states with the most favorable ripening weather.
An early frost would catch a big
percentage of the crop in an immature stage and millions of bushels of low grade corn would be har
vested.
Favorable Weather Needed Some of the states, especially in
the southern part of the corn belt, have a chance to pull through with
from 50 to 80 per cent of the crop
reaching maturity. But they must
have favorable weather, with the
killing frost delayed until the rioTH
mal time. At this time of the year corn is usually developing so rapidly that it
is common to hear farmers remark, "I can hear my corn growing when I walk along the fields at night." They have had no such growing weather this season. During the last week the weather has been cool and wet over the main part of the corn belt, and there are no signs in sight to Indieate that there will be any real warm corn growing weather the rest of the season.
Has Suffered Setback The unfavorable weather within the last few days has given the corn
a setback and forced crop experts to lower their estimates. Some had added a hundred million bushels to the government's estimate, running the total up to as high as 2,700.000,000 bushels for the year. They clipped off a million or so at the end of last week. Farmers get little encouragement from weather prophets, for they dis
agree. Some predict early frosts following seasons of this type, while others say they expect a late frost and an ideal Indian summer during the latter part of September and the first part of October. O. L. Dawson, Indianapolis, says. "It is possible for 55 per cent of all corn in Indiana to reach maturitv before the normal date of the first
killing frost Eighty per cent of the corn may ripen in the southwestern section of the state, including Daviess. Dubois, Gibson, ' " Greene, Knox, Martin, Pike, Posey, Spencer, Sullivan, Vanderburgh, and Warrick counties. Corn in the remainder of the state is very uneven 50 per cent may be saved from frost under normal conditions."
FALL ELECTION TO . BRING NEW VOTERS 7,000,000 Young Citizens Have Come of Age Could Break the "Solid South"
KLAN INJECTED IN MAINE'S CAMPAIGN
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. As a
precaution against any recurrence anywhere in the United States of a mail train- robbery such as the spec
tacular hold-up near Chicago on June 12 last, in which $2,075,000 in money and bonds was stolen, the postoffice department, it was learned yesterday, has developed a specially designed mail car, armored heavily to withstand assaults and equipped with numerous protective devices. The postoffice department has contracted for 3,000 such cars. One has
already been delivered. This car I has met with the approval of inspectors and, if a prospective test demonstrates that it meets the re
quirements, the government, it is understood. Will proceed with the contract for the full order of 3,000. Though the postoffice department had for some-time been contemplating an improved type of mail car, it was when the Chicago holdup occurred, committed in daring fashion against a crew of seventy mail employes, that the department decided to rush matters and hasten the production of the cars. Eight robbers, riding in four automobiles, on the night of June 12 held
up at Rondout,-IU-, thirty-two miles north of Chicago, a special mail train on the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad. Gas bombs were used. Forty pouches of mail were taken. Feared More Such Attacks The complete success of the robbers' daring exploit convinced the government that a new type of car must be produced immediately, lest
other gangs make similar and possibly equally successful attacks.
Instructions were given that the I new car must be amply protected against heavy rifle and pistol fire from robbers. Whether gas helmets are to be provided for employes could not be learned, as agents of the railway mail service are reticent when asked about the car. A man who undertook to act as
spokesman for the postoffice department on this subject said, however, that the government would not be found wanting if gas attacks were attempted in future. Besides being heavily armored, the car is provided with a system of specially contrived door locks that would make it impossible for anybody to gain entrance without- the knowledge and co-operation of those
inside the car. Slits have been provided for the use of employes handling rifles and pistols. The protective features' re said to be somewhat along the lines of those employed in the armored motor tanks of the world war, allowing space only for the firing slits and for the ventilating apparatus. Tests are to be made soon to determine the effectiveness of the new car. The postoffice department spokesman said this demonstration would suffice to display the complete
protective qualities of the car and its ability to withstand the most violent assault.
OLD STOVE GLEAMS AFTER LONG USAGE
Mrs. Herbert Sheets Is Still Proud of Her 61-Year-Old Housekeeping Friend
WASHINGTON, Aug. 16. More than 7,000,000 new voters, who have
attained their majority since 1920, will be eligible to cast ballots for the first time in the November election, according to a statistical report prepared by Simon Michelet, a Washington lawyer, who is forming a national organization to appeal to
Uhe "stay-at-home vote."
The basis of the estimate is the census of 1920, which shows 7,376,255 young men and women who at
that time were, respectively, 17, (18,
19 and 0 years of age, and who today, if living, 'are 21 years of age
and over. Some of them may be foreign born and not yet naturalized, but there is an offset in something like 600,000 foreign-born naturalized since 1920. After all deductions have been made on several counts, it is believed that the total number of new voters this year will exceed rather than fall below the 7,376,000 shown by the census figures. "The 2,500,000 first-time presidential voters in the southern states, if 50 per cent, are able to qualify and vote, are sufficient in number to
change the 'solid south,' " said Mr. Michelet. 200,000 In Indiana "The Democratic plurality in the sixteen southern states was about
MUST GIVE LICENSES
TO MILLION DRIVERS
New York Motor Vehicle Bureau Has Only Until Oct. 1 to Complete Task
QUINTON, N. J., Aug. 16. Cook
ing a single meal for the family in
a gas or electrically equipped kitchen seems like a big task to
most housewives these August days, but Mrs. Herbert Sheets, who has lived in this Salem county village long enough to have cookefl 67,000 meals all on the same stove, still likes to cook. Winter and summer, morning, noon and night, for sixty-one years, Mrs. Sheets has prepared the food for her family on the same stove that her husband bought for her as
his bride when they were married on Washington's birthday, 1863. Always Liked Cooking "I have always liked to cook,"
said Mrs. Sheets, whose back is bent from so much stooping to stir a pot or to see how bread or pies were
browning in the oven. "I get a little spent and tired sometimes," she continued, and then explained half apologetically that she now buys her bread, and occasionally cakes, from the village baker. Until recently she did all her own bak
ing in addition to preparing the regular three meals a day. For sixtyone summers she and her stove have tackled with bright faces the job of almost endless canning and preserving.
Just plain, ordinary cooking is
ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 16. Licensing 1,250,000,000 experienced operators of motor vehicles before October 1, is the task to which Charles A. Harnett, state commissioner of motor vehicles, is directing the attention of his forces. These operators all live outside of New York City and have never before been licensed by "the state to operate motor vehicles. "How a license can be issued to
every one of these 1,250,000 before
that date is probably the most pressing problem confronting the motor vehicle bureau today," said the commissioner. "I believe we have and will put into effect the only possible solution of the problem." His statement is in part as follows: "One important change is a coupon attached to that portion of the application which becomes a license when detached after being fully executed. This coupon must be pro
duced when application is made for
540,000 in 1920 and 950,000 in 1916. what I do." she went on. when asked
An average plurality for these states L what she likes to cook the most.
might be said to be around 700.000
or less than one-third of the sonth's army of presidential first voters this year." The power of the new voters in pivotal states is a live subject among political leaders. Indiana has nearly
20,000 hrst-time voters this year. In normal campaign years, such as 1916 and 190S, the plurality of the successful candidates was only 6,942 and 10.700, respectively. In New York the margin between the successful and the defeated candidate averages around 150,000, al
though Cleveland carried the state over Blaine by only 1,000. In New York 660,000 young people can cast votes for the first time this year. Ohio has 374,000 new voters, about four times the average Ohio plurality; in fact, five times that of Pres
ident Taft and President McKinley. Massachusetts has 239,000 new voters, Pennsylvania 571,000, and Illinois 423,000.
a new license far the year beginning July 1, 1925. We will distribute th applications to the various county clerks and other issuing agencies in time-for them to beginwork not later than Monday, August 25.
"To persons living in Albany, UUca, Syracuse, Rochester or Buffalo, the application blanks and licenses will be issued from branch offices of the state tax department in those cities. Provided the requirements laid down by the department are met, automobile clubs at these points may also issue licenses. In all counties outside New York City the office of the county clerk will be an issuing agency. "A license will be issued to experienced drivers without a road test. The application requires a
sworn statement as to experience, length of time the person has operated a car, approximate number of miles, the applicant's physical condition, whether or not there ia an addiction to drugs or intoxicants and many other questions- pertinent
to the applicant's fitness to operate a motor vehicle on the highways of the state. If the application shows, after a careful ' examination, the slightest discrepancy in any statements made thereon, the issuance of the license will be deferred and the applicant subjected to a severe road test. Any license issued can be revoked, especially if the applicant has made a false statement in the sworn application and in any case where incompetence, reckless driving, or other causes may come to light."
REST WHILE
KLANSMEND0W0RK HAMILTON, la., Aug. 19. The feature of a Marion and Monroe
county Klan picnic was that the male members of the organization played with the children, did guard duty and minor tasks while the women enjoyed themselves. Over 300 women attended and a class was initiated in the afternoon, a picnic supper enioyed and an Invitational meeting held in the evening.
Candidate for Governor Led Fight AgainstK. K. K. at New York Confab
KLANSMEN HARVEST OATS FOR WIDOW
NEW PRESS PURCHASED FOR IOWA KLAN PAPER
DES MOINES, la., Aug. 19. The next issue of the Iowa Klan Kourier will be printed on a modern web-perfecting Duplex press. The Installation of this new press Is an Indication of the way in which a newspaper that tells the truth about Protestant Americans has "gone over" in the Hawkeye state.
AUGUSTA, Me, August 19. The Democrats of Maine view with alarm the party split because of the leadership of their candidate for governor, William R. Pattangall, of Augusta, who, it will be remembered, was one of the leaders of the fight against the Ku Klux Klan at the Democratic national convention. Mr. Pattangall was one of the
most vitriolic speakers against the I Kin In the convention which refused to condemn the organization
by name. The burden of Mr. Pattangall's pfea was to do the thing which the convention did not do. As Pattangall is opposed by Ralph O. Brewster, of Portland, Republican, the Klan support, which Is said to be at least 25,000 In Maine, will go to the Republican candidate. The fight this year will be as warmly contested as any in the history of the state. Maine, with its biennial state election in September, is the earliest weathervane of the Presidential election ; hence - both parties are looking forward to it with extraordinary interest.
Klanswomen Cook for Men Who Assist Lone Woman Near Columbia City
COLUMBIA CITY, Ind;, Aug. IS. That there are things other than aliens which Klansmen are shocking
is seen in the work done on the farm of Mrs. Carl Cusick near this
city. Klansmen have just finished shocking thirty-eight acres of oats besides doing other numerous jobs about the farm. Early last spring Mr.. Cusick passed on and one week later a daughter passed away. Mrs. Cusick was" left in her sorrow with her crops only partly planted. Klansmen quickly went to the aid of the widow and finished planting the crops, Klanswomen did the cooking for the Klansmen at work on the farm. Among other things the Klansmen made twenty-two acres of hay. The
thirty-eight acres of oats which have just been harvested were cut and
shocked In one day by the Klansmen. Klanswomen also assisted Mrs. Cusick.
LaFollette Seeks Young Totes In the states of the middle west.
such as Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, the Dakotas, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, the number of new voters is large, ranging from 46,000 in each of the Dakotas to 235,000 in Michigan. It is in these
states that LaFollette and Wheeler will wage an intensive campaign to attract the support of the young men and women. The nine northeastern states of New England and the middle Atlantic group have nearly 1,900,000 new voters, and the .twelve north central states, or the middle west, have 2,300,000. California has 200:000 new voters,
Washington, 85,000, and Oregon, 50,000. In Tennessee the 181.000 new voters represent about five times the presidential margin in recent elections. In Kentucky nearly 180,000
new voters are about six times the usual plurality. West Virginia's 109,000 new voters represent five to ten times the average margin, and Maryland's contingent of 104,000 more than quadruples the state's usual narrow plurality.
I have never bothered much with
fancy dishes just those substantial
things for my husband and our boys
And girls.
.No, I never counted up to see
how many meals I've cooked on this stove. It's the only stove we've ever had, and I don't have to tell you it's a good one when I say that we've used it every day since we were married. It has a good oven. I dry all of my wood in there, and it's still fine for baking. Once, some years ago, we had a new top put on
the stove. That's about the only thing about the stove that has ever needed fixing since we got it." Burns Coal and Wood The stove which has cooked the food and provided much of the heat in winter for Mr. and Mrs. Sheets
during their long married life was cast in a Philadelphia foundry by a firm now extinct. It is of the oldfashioned design of the '60s, with ample firebox, large oven, and four lids. It burns either coal or wood.
As wood has been most abundant in the communities -where the family has lived, that has been the principal fuel; so, in addition to the cooking, the kindling of fires has been no small part of Mrs. Sheets' kitchen tasks. So brightly polished does Mrs. Sheets keep her stove that it does not look old even now. Its surface
reflected her face as she stooped to
take from the oven, to show to vis
itors the other day, a bread pan which was also one of her wedding gifts. This pan, too, has lasted
through all the years.
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OAK HILL, W. Va., Aug. 18.
That it is not the novelty of mysti
cism of the Ku Klux JClan that accounts for its stupendous success,
but the good it does.. that brings in the membership, is evidenced here where good farmer folk ride many weary miles over rough mountain trails to unite with the movement. Scores of these mountaineer-members are taken in at every meeting held at the local Klan Klavern.
There is nothing sensational or
spectacular about the initiation.
There are no fireworks displays, red fire or speeches just the plain Klan
initiation ceremony. These staid,
sedate mountain folk from the for
est fastness care nothing whatsoever for the novel and sensatipnal. They
are patriotic, citizens ana are inter
ested most in the solid institutions that will put Americanism on a
firmer foundation.
Although not conversant with
many ways of the world, they are.
adequately informed on the vital
topics of the day. They know the markets, politics and the general
I trend of news. From childhood they I have been reared in a life of i quietude. They prefer the quiet to
; the noisy and the sensational.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. The
fourth Pan-American labor congress under the auspices of the PanAmerican Federation of Labor is to be held in Mexico City on December 3, coincident with the inauguration of Gen. Phitarco Elias Galles, successful labor candidate for the presidency of Mexico. The call for the convention was Issued today by the executive committee, headed by Samuel Gompers, chairman; Chester M. Wright, English language secretary; and Canuto Avargas,
Spanish language secretary. The convention was to have been held in Guatemala but conditions in that country made it desirable to go elsewhere. Praise Gen. Calles In the call it is stated that It is
especially appropriate that representatives of all "Latin-American labor
should have an opportunity to re
joice with the . workers of Mexico
upon the inauguration of Gen. Calles.
Mr. Gompers recently" conferred with
Gen. Calles at Atlantic City.
"The Mexican people have cause
to rejoice and it is most appropriate:
that the representatives of the or
ganized labor movements of the western hemisphere should convene
in Mexico City, at a time when tue
working people of Mexico will re
joice over the inauguration as pres
ident of a man of their choice, a man in whom they have the utmost
confidence, a man whose administra
tion promises so much for the future
wellbeing of the Mexican people and their great country," says the call. Five From Each Nation "Therefore, the executive committee of the Pan-American Federation of Labor invites the organized workj ers of all the American republics to send their representatives to the fourth Pan-American labor congress. The basis for representation will not be more than five delegates from each republic."
KINGWOOD, W. Va., August 19. One of the biggest crowds that has ever assembled in the pine grove at Terra Alta and which , has been estimated at 5.000 persons gathered there recently to hear two lectures given by. Klan speakers. Rev. E. B. Thornton and his daughter, Miss Elsie Thornton. Miss Elsie is only 12 years old. She held the crowd spellbound
through her lecture. An all-Klan day is to be celebrated at Kingwood August 18, when more
than 100 Klansmen from Grafton will be here besides the K. K. K. band from that place. The celebra
tion will be held in Brown park,
West Kingwood. In the evening a
display of fireworks will be presented.
TENNESSEE "KLANSMEN
HOLD STATE KLORERO
NASHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 17.
Klan leaders of the state of Tennessee held a stated meeting here re
cently under the supervision of the Imperial representative of Tennes
see. Among the subjects handled at this meeting were "American Citizenship," by the Exalted Cyclops of Robert E. Lee Klan No. 1, Birmingham, Ala.; "Americanism," by the Exalted Cyclops of Nashville No. 47 ; "The Service Department of the
Realm of Tennessee," by a Klansman of that department, and an address on "Operative Klankraft," by W. EarHHotalen, Imperial Lecturer.
Several resolutions were introduced and adopted by the Klorero. Support was pledged to the organizers of the Women of the Ku Klux Klan. A resolution adopted pledged the Imperial Representative the lull co-operation and support of those in attendance.
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FLAMING CIRCLE HAS
USE FOR OLD TIRES
GREENFIELD, la., Aug. 18. A use for old automobile tires has finally been discovered. With rags wrapped
around them and soaked in oil, they make excellent symbols for the Flaming Circle, the un-American anti-Klan organization that is prominent in eastern states. Four such tires were burned, one on each corner of the public square here last night. They attracted little attention and the only excited people were the "Flamers" themselves. . " .
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