Fiery Cross, Volume 3, Number 44, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 August 1924 — Page 3

Friday, August 29, 1924

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ARMORED MAIL CARS REPULSET5ANDITS" Shotguns Make Little Impression in Government Test Train Crew "Safe"

TRANSIT WAR SEEN

IN NEWBUS LINES Transportation Heads Predict Competition for CityOwned Subways

TILLY FOSTER, N. Y., Aug. 25. Pseudo bandits held up a New York Central train and braved calcium flares, gunfire and motion picture cameras in a sham battle staged to demonstrate the impregnability of the government's new bandit-proof mail cars. The hold-up was repulsed without casualties to the train crew. Of the hired make-believe bandits, three were listed as "killed," two were "captured" and one was "missing." Officials of the postofflce department of Washington and New York

declared it a success. The govern

ment, they said, would now proceed to equip 3.000 mull cars with the

battlefield flares, riot guns, firingshields, shot-spreaders and other war-like devices used in repulsing

me prearranged attack. Make-Believe Hold-up

Two of the make-believe train

robbers leaped directly in the path

of the onrushing train, waving a red lantern. Two frantic blasts of the whistle, grinding brakes and the train stopped. A bandit Jumped into the engine cab. Another got at the couplings, which fastened the engine to its train. Shortly the engine puffed ahead along the rails, alone. Meanwhile, grim faces appeared

at the wire latticed windows of the first mall car. The two mall clerks therein appeared determined to guard, at all costs, the 1,200 pieces of "dead letter" mall stuffed into the bags for this hold-up. Five bandits, with five rifles, blazed away at No. 1 mail car. Instantly the noses of four riot guns appeared from portholes in the side of the car, and, rotating slowly, began belching lead in all directions. At the same time long sticks of calcium were thrust from other portholes; the right-of-way within a radius of a hundred yards became as bright as midday as they blazed forth. Shoot Through Floor of Tar The bandits cowered back for a moment. Then as their leader yelled "Ot under their guns; close up on 'em," they charged the car again. Up to the edge of the track they charged and beneath the car, but other riot guns appeared from portholes over their heads. The guns were directly downward, but their cargoes of buckshot were caught, two feet from the ground, on a conical deflector, which sent the penetrating bits of lead flying in all directions at the height of a man's knees. That was too much for the bandits. Three of their number already lay motionless beside the rails. The remaining two held up their hands in surrender. The third, who held a pistol over the engineer and fireman as the locomotive was driven ofT, never came back. The robbery had been foiled.

NEW YORK, Aug. 25. A fight against any extensive bus systems that would seriously compete with the subway lines now that the Fifth Avenue Coach Company, reorganized under Chicago financial control and Chicago management, has filed with the board of estimate and apportionment an application for franchises to carry out its prospect to operate 116 miles of new bus lines In Manhattan, the Bronx and Queens. Frank Hedley, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company, after reading the bus company's application setting forth its plan to cover the city with a network of bus lines, intimated that his company did not intend to sit idly by and permit the city to grant franchises. Plans to Rush Bus Lines John A. Ritchie, president of the Chicago Motor Coach Company, which

acquired the ifth Avenue Company, said, if the permission was granted,

me new dus line would be Installed without delay and result immediately in relieving the traffic congestion. Six hundred and, ultimately, 900 busses would be put into service, he said, and within sixty days all proposed crosstown lines would be operating, and within a year the city would be covered by bus lines. Mr. Hedley did not think that prospect desirable from the Interborough's point of view. He recalled that ten years ago when more bus lines were discussed at public hearings the attitude of the Interborough was that rather than have a comprehensive bus system granted to the Fifth Avenue Company the Interborough could afford to take whatever was in that company "and throw it out of the window rather than have the interests of the city and the Intcrborough impaired by unfair and uimecessary competition with the city-owned subway." London's experience, aside from "terrible accidents" from busses, he said, was that the bus lines ruined the transportation lines owned by the city and the underground companies "had to buy the bus lines in order to get them rerouted to avoid unfair and ruinous competition and to relieve street traffic congestion."

An Open Letter to Hughes

Editor of The American Standard Asks Secretary of State to Resign for Lauding Popery and EntanglingAmerica in Europe Says That He Is Disqualified for, Office

Rev. C. Lewis Fowler, patriotic editor of The American Standard, who was recently arrested in New York for selling his paper m the vicinity of Madison Square Garden, where Al Smith and other good Roman Catholics were tryingfto sway the Democratic convention for the pope, addresses an open letter to Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, requesting his resignation. Copies of the letter have been sent to President Coolidge, to all members of the Senate, House and supreme court, to the editors of leading newspapers of America and Great Britain and to many persons in public and private life. Not because there is any likelihood that Secretary Hughes will heed Rev. Fowler's request, but because the preacher-editor has so well presented &e clashing principles of the Roman Catholic church and the American, government, parts of Rev.

j. uwici o letter are reproduced

WASHINGTON CALLS

PERSIAT0 ACCOUNT

State Department Demands Im

mediate Steps Be Taken to Redress Wrongs

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NEW LONDON, Conn., Aug. 25. The burning of fiery crosses without a permit from a fire warden is prohibited after this month by an edict of the state fire warden, A. F. Hawes, until December 1. "We will arrest anyone found starting fires without permits, whether so-called Klansmen or not," declared the state officials. "A fine of $200 will be imposed in case of arrest and conviction."

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Secretary of State Charles E. Hughes, Department of State, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir: Through an Associated Press dispatch dated August 1, 1924, it is learned that during your recent visit to Belgium you have accepted a de

gree trom the Jesuit University of Louvain, signalizing your status as an "honorarv" ermdnata nf tViio Tr

man Catholic institution, and you have publicly proclaimed

in Roman Catholicism as "the high

est moral authority " Wo mmto

j . T T U portion of the news disDatch. ns it

appeared in the New York Times:

BRUSSELS, Aug. 1 (Associated Press). Charles E. Hughes, American secretary of state, was signally honored today when two new titles were conferred upon him Doctor of Laws of the University of Brussels and Doctor of Laws of the University of Louvain. , The first was conferred by the Belgian ambassador to the United States, Baron Cartier de Marchienne, at the American Embassy, and the second by Cardinal Mercier, the Archiepiscopal palace at Malines serving as the setting for the secojnd ceremony. The chimes of the palace at Malines pealed out "The StarSpangled Banner," and an American flag, presented to Cardinal Mercier in 1919 by a group of New Yorkers, flew over the palace as Secretary Hughesraccompanied by Mrs. Hughes, William Phillips, the American ambassador, and Mrs. Phillips, and Baron Cartier de Marchienne, was conducted to the throne-room. There Cardinal Mercier, assisted by Mgr. Ladouze, rector of the University of Louvain, and Canon Dessain, the cardinal's secretary, handed the diploma to the secretary of state in a most impressive ceremony. The cardinal said he was happy to be able to confer the degree, in the name of the university, to one "whose conscience as a jurist and experience as a diplomat are so justly renowned." In reply, Mr. Hughes said: "I am deeply touched by your generous words and by the distinction from such a university and nation. It is indeed a very great honor to receive the degree through a man

who represents in the eyes of my countrymen the highest moral authority, and is the very personification of honor, justice and right. My short visit to your country will leave a very deep impression. "- In a private talk just after th; ceremony, Secretary Hughes thanked Cardinal Mercier and the university, through him, for the honor. Mr. Hughes concluded a wellfilled day by dining tonight at the palace with King Albortand Queen Elizabeth. Your statement, Secretary Hughes, that you consider Cardinal Mercier to represent "the highest moral authority" is nothing lesa than a positive declaration that you have accepted the pope of Rome as your "highest moral authority"; for Cardinal Mercier is the representative of the pope in Belgium. Home Foe of Freedom Since you have announced your acceptance of the pope, as your "highest moral mithci ity," you have lost your former status as an American citizen, for our oath of citizenship forbids an allegiance to anv foreign potentate. ti,u popes of Rome have specifically condemned the American form of government; they have denounced freedom of speech, freedom of worship and freedom of the press; they have anathematized government of the people, by popular vote of a majority, as in America, and they have execrated the American public school. Moreover, you have publicly proclaimed your friendship for a system which has specifically condemned every fundamental principle of the constitution and government of the United States, as set forth in detail below. We therefore, in our legal capacity as Sovereign citizens of the United States, of whom you are a servant, request that you resign forthwith your office as secretary of state, for the reasons aforesaid, and also upon the following grounds: 1. Under the doctrine of "papal infallibility," the utterances of the popes are unchangeable and binding upon all who accept the papal system of Roman Catholicism as supreme, which you have done, in acknowledging the pope as your "highest moral authority." The American system of government is based on the proposition set forth in the Declaration of Independence, that "all men are created equal," that governments derive "their just powers from the' consent of the governed," and that public authority is vested in the people, as Tree sovereign citizens. This American doctrine of popular rule and free opinion is opposed by Roman Catholicism, in the following words of Pope Leo XIII: Amongst these principles, the main one lays down that as all

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men are alike by race and nature, so in like manner all are equal in the control of their life; that each one is so-far his own master as to be in no sense under the rule of any other individual; that each is free to think on every subject just as he may choose. In a society grounded upon such maxims, all government is nothing more nor less than the will of the people, and the people, being under the power of itself alone, is its own ruler. Thus, as is evident, a state becomes nothing but a multitude which is its own master and ruler. And since the populace is declared to contain within itself the spring-head of all rights and of all powers, it follows that the state does not consider itself bound by any kind of duty towards God. (Meaning, toward the pope; for Pope Leo XIII said, "We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty." P. 304, Encyclical Letters.) Moreover, the state believes it is not obliged to make public profession of any religion, or to inquire which of the very many religions is the only true one. (The Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII, New York, Benziger Bros., 1903, pp. 120, 121.)

bince you have characterized the

pope, from whose throne has come

mis denunciation of nonular irnvprn

ment and of the separation of church and state, as inrfhe United States, as "the highest moral authority, and the

veiy personincation of honor, jus tice and right," we call upon yo;

iuruiwun to resign your office

secretary of state of the Unite States. Called On to Resign

2. As secretary of state, you have sworn to uphold the Constitution of

tne united States, in the firsbamendment of which freedom of religion freedom of speech and freer!

the press are established as inalienable rights of American citizens. But you have now declared your acceptance, as the "highest moral authority," of an institution which denies these rights, in t&e following language: Pope Leo XIII: "it is quite unlawful to demand, to defend, or to grant unconditional freedom of thought, of speech, of writing, or of worship, as if these were so many rights given by nature to man." (Encyclical Letters, p. 161.) "We must now briefly consider liberty of speech, and liberty of the press. It is hardly necessary to say that there can be no such right as this." (Same, p. 151.) Pope Pius X: "The sale, and even the printing, of modernistic books must be hindered by all means. Book stores must be boycotted if they dare to print, publish, or carry books destructive of the hierarchy. There is no use for the pontiff to make laws unless they are carried out. Hence it is necessary to establish vigilance committees composed of tried, matured and doctrinally sound priests in each diocese, who must pass upon everything that is being printed and circulated, and prevent the poison settling anywhere among the faithful." (Encyclical In Motu Proprio, September 1, 1910.) On this second count, namely, that you have taken your stand with an institution that forbids freedom of thought, of speech, of worship, and of the press, as guaranteed in the American Constitution, we call unon

you forthwith to resign your office as 1

secretary of state of the United

States. Pope Opposes Schools j 3. You have assigned "the highest : moral authority" to an institution

which holds that all education should ;

be under the exclusive control of the i Roman Catholic priesthood, and j which condemns the non-sectarian i public schools, as in America. Pope ; Pius IX, in his Syllabus of 1864, set I forth eighty propositions which he j denounced as errors. In Proposition j No. 47, Pope Pius declares it to be an error that "The best theory of civil society requires that popular schools open to children of every class of the people, and generally, all public institutes intended for instruction in letters and philosophical sciences and for carrying on the education of youth, should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference, and should hn fnllv

subjected to the civil and political

power. Pope Pius further claims that the Roman Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the state, to the exclusion of all others, for he condemns as an error the contrary doctrine, which he states in Proposition No. 77, namely, that "In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the states, to the exclusion of all others." (These quotations are taken verbatim from Dogmatic Canons and Decrees, published 1912 by the DevinAdair Co., New York, under Imprimatur ot Cardinal Farley,) On this third count, jlr. gugb.es,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. The

United States Government has served notice on the Persian govern

ment through its renreseiitativeq

here that continuance of American diplomatic and consular relntinna

will depend upon action taken by

iue fersian eovernment. in aria.

quately protect Americans in that country.

The note to the Persi

tatives deals only with the murder by a mob of Vice Consul Robert W. Imbrie. It was sent before word was received of the subsequent attacks by a Persian mob on the widow, Mrs. Katherine G. Imbrie.

in outlining steps which it believes the Persian government should take in connection with the murder Of Consul Tmlwio tha ototo

department notes that the Teheran

auinorraes on their own initiative have already declared their purpose of making redress to the widow of the slain official. That roHrooo

should extend, the note declares, to the payment of costs for the sending

of an American warshin to hrinp-

home, the body and also to the estab

lishment or a military .guard of honor over the casket containing the body and the "rendering of appropriate honors at the time of leaving Persian soil." In addition the Teheran authorities are notified that should the American legation request it, military guards should be furnished by the Persian government for both the legation and the consulate in Teheran, to be maintained until the Persian government has been notified by the American minister that the guards no longer are necessary.

MAMMOTH DIRIGIBLE

TO CROSS ATLANTIC United States' New Airship to Make Trip in From Fifty to Hundred Hours

LAW DEFIED BY AID

OF CATHOLIC UNION

MONTREAL, Aug. 25. The Fed

eration Of National (Rnmanl Path

olic Trades Unions obligingly helped

ine ponce rorce of Three Rivers

Quebec, to defy constituted authority as represented by the city authorities and enable the police force

oi mat town to dictate terms to the

city council.

Some weeks ago the policemen of Three Rivers formed a union. The city authorities ordered them to quit

uie union or resign. Thev did

neither. Instead, the police sought and obtained afflllati nn with tho

Federation of- National Catholic Trade Unions, which enforced the police demands by causing the city council to reseind its former order in regard to a police union.

FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, Germany.

Aug. 25. The ZR-3. giant dirieihle

which is being constructed here for

the United States, will start her long

night to Lakehurst, N. J., the middle of September, it was announced at

the first public inspection of the dirigible. Inflation with hydrogen gas of the fourteen compartments of the ZR-3 is progressing favorablv. Its first trial flight will last several hours. There will be several other trial flights of from twelve to thirty hours each prior to the departure on the transatlantic journey. About 200 persons, chiefly technical experts, foreign newspaper correspondents and German editors had their first view of the dirigible in the hangar where it was built and where it will rest until the day for the technical flight over Lake Constance. Has Special Apparatus For the flight to the United States the ZR-3 has apparatus not con

tained in any other dirigible. Among

a- moiner- gyro compass, which the Germans used on their submarines and which is not affected by altitude.

own paracnutes for use in event of accident are beneath the floor of

me gondola, which contains the control room and the officers' quarters. The parachutes are attached to ropes brought into the gondola from the outside through the windows. There is one parachute for each officer

ana passenger.

Dr. Hugh Eckener, director of the

epyenn company, said that the

transatlantic trip of the airship would take from fifty to one hundred

uuurs, depending upon weather con ditions.

MEMPHIS KLANSMEN

BANISH OFFICIALS v rrMEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug.. 25. At

the Klonklave of Shelby County Klan

No. 50, Realm of Tennessee, held at Kigy Field, a representative of the

Imperial Palace, Knights of the Ku

Klux Klan, published the sentence of banishment against W. A. Blankenship, usurper of the Exalted rv.

clop's office, and against Manley Fol-

som, nis active lieutenant. At the same time it was announced that Dr. Otis L. Spurgeon", who was recently discharged as lecturer of the Klan, is connected with the same conspiracy charged ae-ainst Ri

ship and Folsom, and that Spurgeon

wm De Danisned within a few days, the necessary documents in his case

Deing m process of handling now. With this banishment goes absolute prohibition of the attendance of these men at any Klan meetings throughout the entire Invisible Em-

Rumors Of an imnenrHnff hnnso.

cleaning have been rife within the Klan for some time. Blankenship had anticipated this action and had

planned to resign in advance of his banishment but failed to do so.

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that you have accepted as the "highest moral authority" an institution which condemns the public school of America, would put all education under Roman Catholic priests, and would exclude all religions from the state except Roman Catholicism, we c.'l upon you forthwith to resign your office as secretary of state of the Untud States. Plot of Yatican We declare to you, Mr. Hughes, that the entire movement to focus the attention of the American people upon Europe, and to devote America's resources for the benefit of Europe, is part of a deliberate propaganda and policy on the part of Ro'man Catholicism, to rehabilitate "Roman Catholic Europe at the expense of Protestant America, in defiance of America's interests, in defiance of America's political precedents, in defiance of the utterances and" warnings of her greatest statesmen, in defiance of our Congress and of the mandate of our people, expressed at the polls. Inasmuch as you have made yourself a party to this European meddling, we cite this count also as one upon which we call upon you to resign forthwith your office as secretary of state of the United States. THE AMERICAN STANDARD.

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