Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 195, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 December 1923 — Page 7

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I. NEWT BROWN •DENES SECRECY IN KU-KLUX DEAL Klan Rents Fairground Building From Board of Agriculture. Declaring charges that the Ku-Klux Klan controlled the Indiana board of agriculture to be false. I. Newt Brown, secretary, today denied any attempts of secrecy in renting the manufacturers’ building at the fair ground to the Klan recently. “The building is open for use of the Klan or the Knights of Columbus,” Brown said emphaticall. “They paid the price of SSOO a night, which the board requires, abided with all the requirements and we made contracts with them on two occasions. “There was no attempt at secrecy.” Klan Pays SSOO Records of the board showed the Klan paid SSOO for use of the manufacturers’ building Nov. 20. J. S. Bell appeared before the executive board when It was in session on that date and said, according to Brown, he wanted to hire the building for a yttravelers’ convention.” Bell was in the office and bothe contract was made, an official from the office of the Fiery Cross telephoned to Brown that the building would be used by the Klan. Conventions Us eßuilding On Dec. 14 C. W. Boyer hired the bhilding for the Klan, records show. Boyer paid SSOO to the board on this date. The building has been used by several conventions for periods of one week, bringing In a total revenue for 1923 of $8,200. records indicated. On March 6 the Home Complete Exposition used the building for one week, paying $1,20d. On May 15, the paper box convention obtained It for one week, paying SI,OOO. The Indianapolis Automobile Show paid $5,000 for one week commencing March 21. Steam Heat Equipment The building was equipped with steam heat on contract with the Auto Show officials, who have paid sl2 000 a. year since 1919. expiring this year, for this facility. Members of the executive commitThomas. Grant, Lowell; William J. Jones, Fairmount; G. R. Kemper, Columhus; H. M. Moberly. Shelbyville, and Brown. COOLIDGE MANAGER TO RUN FOR U. S. SENATE Will Continue Service, However, in President’s Campaign. K L'nited Pre BOSTON, Dec. 28. —William M. Butler, campaign manager for President Coolidge, will be a candidate for the Republican nomination for the United States Senate, to oppose David I. Walsh. Democratic incumbent. It was announced today. Referring to his engagement in Ooolldge's campaign. Butler Bald. “I Intend that no other political service shall interfere with this service.” GRAND JURY TO RETIRE Clerk Ordered to I>raw Names for 1924 Investigators. The Marion County grand jury for the July, 1923, term of Criminal Court will be mustered out Saturday morn ing Jay Judge James A. Collins. The bulge ordered County Clerk Albert H. Leache to draw six names from the •ry box for a 1924 grand jury and dve names for a petit jury for his court. •’'The present jury is the first Ind. jury to return an indictment • riust a Governor while he was serv- : his term. THREE BOUND TO JURY !lords of Liquor Defendants Fixed at 51,000 by Judge Yookey. men were bound over to the gVand jury under bond of SI,OOO each on blind tiger charges, by Special Judge Harry Yockey in city court today. The men are Wesley McGinnis, 1535 Bellefontaine St.; John King, 310 N. Alabama St., and Harley Waggoner, 1429 E. Vermont St. Police allege the men carried liquor on trips between Clinton and Indianapolis. They were arrested Dec. 5 in a garage In the rear of 1714 Ruckle St. The accused men denied ownership of thirty-five gallons of alcohol found In the garage.

SPIRITUALIST TO SPEAK Dr. Alex Hume Will Give Demonstration at Theater Jan. 6. Dr. Alex Hume, spiritualistic medium, will give a seance at English’s Theater, Sunday night, Jan. 6 It is said he will produce such pbenoma as floating tables and chairs, slate writing, tests of the human mind and John Cumberland’s dematerialization, and otherwise demonstrate spirit power. Suit Filed on Woman’s Bond Suit to collect $2,000 on the bond of Corabel Rippe of Fort Wawne from Llsette and Fred Rippe was filed in Federal Court by Homer Elliott. United States district attorney, today. Corabel Rippe was sentenced to six in jail and fined SSOO by Vftdge Albert B. Anderson Nov. 26, vjjen she entered a plea of guilty to violating prohibition lawws. She failed to appear by Dec. 10 to begin serving sentence. Klan Case Arguments Jan. 9 Oral arguments on the motion to dismiss the complaint filed against the Ku-Klux Klan by six residents of South Bend will be heard before Judge Albert B. Anderson in Federal Court Jan. 9. The complaint, which was- filed several months ago. asked an injunction compelling the Klan to remove the names of the plaintiffs tw, Ul a „ m.mh.r.Hn ~H-

Ku-Klux Klan Distributes 812 Christmas Baskets

Here are some of the Ku-Klux Klansmen who delivered baskets to 812 poor families Christmas. In addition to the baskets sixty tons

BODY OF VETERAN HERERIR BURIAL German Gas Attack Fatal to Earl T. Dimick, The tody of Earl Francis Dimick, 40, of 52 S. State Ave., veteran of the world war, who died Thursday at * the Marion San- * ltarium, arrived %■'in Indianapolis luM; fp today. J*. M Mr - Dimick. who wa * a mem two years " over,.s. He was a | hospital only two • Mr. Dimick, E. T. DIMICK was bom in Marion, Ind. He had lived in Indianapolis about twelve years. * Before his Illness, he was a driver for the Fame laundry. Two years ago, he was married to Miss Mamie Ryan, Indianapolis. Funeral services will be held at the home Saturday at 2 p. m. Burial at Crown Hill. Eagles will have part in the services. Surviving are the widow; his father, George Dimick, and brother, Occar Dimick of Buffalo, Mo. Mr. Dimick was a member of the Methodist church.

Selling Out EVERYTHING MUST GO! COMPLETE STOCK OF NEW STANDARD FURNISHING GOODS AND ALL-WOOL SUITINGS AT PRACTICALLY V 2 PRICE This is positively NOT A BANKRUPT STOCK of cheap and inferior goods, but a BONAFIDE sale of high-grade, fresh, clean merchandise. WELL-KNOWN AND STANDARD MAKES UNDERWEAR, SHIRTS, HOSIERY, COLLARS. NECKWEAR, ETC. Men! Such an opportunity may never come again— Grab it now!

THE TWO LITTLE TAILORS Famous Tailored-to-Measured SUITS SOO-50 SOQ-50 “to “ REDUCED Reduced From $45.00 to $28.50 " notice Reduced From $65.00 to $38.50 I the Suiting as you I Our well-known Blue Serges are included in this sale. '"* nt " nd have 11 Your chance to secure a tailored to measure Suit for y ou°Hke. W * r * about one-half price. '

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of coal were delivered, Klan officials said. No color or religious lines were drawn, the officials said. Many

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Marie and Ernest Vetter, convicted of slaying Alonzo Storey, former sweetheart of the woman, were sentenced from eight to ten years in prison today. Annual session of the mid-west Zionist religion will open at Chicago next Wednesday. Financial campaign will be launched. The Polish government, through Its minister at Washington, ha* protested against interference of Washington police with private liquor supply of a Polish diplomatic attache at Washington. Mrs. Essie Simmons, wife of Long Island City manufacturer, beat off five thugs who attempted to rob her of SIO,OOO In jewelry In New York. The I thugs were routed after securing a $1,500 diamond, bitten from a setting. Radio programs broadcast from ; Scotland and England were heard on Thursday by A. P. Combs, Enid, Okla., I and Eureka Center, Wls. The men used three-tube receiving sets. Fire starting in a theater dressing room at Lansing, Mich., destroyed a six-story office building today with a I loss of $250,000. Commissioner H. C. Hall of Colorado Springs, Colo., has been unanimously elected chairman of the interstate commerce commission to serve during 1924. Mrs. Ro3e Simizo. who shot her son, Desco, .19, last August, "to save his soul,” learned today her experiment had failed. Desco is under arrest on an alleged attempt to kill Patrolman Monaghan in New York. He was apprehended while trying to hold up a storekeeper. William Walsh, 85, Kansas City,

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automobiles were commandeered to deliver the baskets. Money to purchase the supplies was obtained through two collections from local members.

picked up on a sidewalk sick from exposure, was taken to a charity hospital. A SI,OOO bill was found rewed in a pocket of his red flannel undershirt. An ambulance was called to a Fort Worth, Texas theater Thursday night, when a man laughed himself F.ick at the picture. The man was taken to a hospital. Silaa Morrison, Inmate of Leavenworth, Kansas, soldiers’ home, and hi3 son W. H. Morrison, of Hagor City, Wls., were re united Thursday after a forty-year separation. MOUNT LASSEN ‘BLOW OFF’ CEASES ABRUPTLY Snow Blanketed Crest Dirty With Ashes and Smoke. I By Vnitrd Pre REDDING, Cal., Dec. 28— Mt. Lassen, only volcano in the United j States .which “boiled over" with an : ash-laden eruption of smoke for three hours Thursday, showed only a white feather of smoke today. “The blow off” was the most violent j in eight years. From 1 o’clock until 4 in the afterI noon billow after billow rolled from the crater, drifting southward and eastward. • Then the eruption ceased abruptly, | leaving the mountain leaden and ; gloomy, its snow blanketed with dirty | ashes. Kontnky Home-Coming June 16-29 Mayor Shank was m-V I to invite former Kentuckians living in Indian apolis to return for the Kentucky i home coming June 16 29. According ito figures. 28.127 former Kentucky citizens live In Indianapolis.

CHAMBERS SAYS REPUBLICANS TRY TO HIDE FAULTS Legislature and Party Leaders Must Take Part of Blame, Democratic View, Blame for the present difficulties of the Republican party in Indiana dees not rest entirely on the shoulders of Governor McCray, Senator Walter S. Chambers, Democratic State chairman, said in a statement today. “The Governor of cannot spend a dollar of the State’s money that the Legislature does not give him,” Chambers said. “Moreover, it takes a majority of each branch of the Legislature to make an appropriation. The Republican party has had that majority ever since McCray has been in office. The Legislature of 1921 appropriated almost $4,000,000 more than the State’s income for the next two years.” Chambers also attacked the 1923 Legislature, listing numerous appropriations. “Now the whole bunch is trying to hide behind the skirts of McCray,” Chambers said. “We know those skirts cover a multitude of political and legislative sins, but are not big enough to hide all the sins and shortcomings and responsibility of the Republican majority in the House and Senate and the Republican organization of Indiana that stood so solidly behind the Governor and the Legis-

Now Comes the Season’s Greatest Sale RUBENS Mid-Winter Sale No Clothing Clearance Event in Years Has Offered Such Wonderful Chances for MoneySaving, and You Positively Can’t Afford to Miss This Sale. Sale Starts Tomorrow, Saturday, Morning—Be Here Early SUITS and OVERCOATS For Men and Young Men Every Garment in Our Stock Has Been Relentlessly Reduced

Group No. 1 sl/1-85 SALE PRICE, Group No. 2 $17.35 SALE PRICE II = Group No. 3 $10.65 SALE PRICE - - - - - Group No. 4 $90.65 SALE PRICE £ With many of the Suits we can furnish extra Trousers at small additional cost. Wonderfully Large Assortments Styles Are All the Newest No Charge for Alterations PRICES ON CHILDREN’S CLOTHING RADICALLY REDUCED! RUBENS 39.5, Open Saturday Nights Till Nine o’Clock

Jury Commissioners Named Second Term

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Edwin A. Hendrickson, 2029 N. Pennsylvania St., secretary of the Indianapolis Saddlery Company, and Alex R. Holliday, 1235 N. New Jersey St., secretary of the Belt Railroad and Stockyards Company, were reappointed Marion County jury commissioners for 1924 by Circuit Judge H. O. Chamberlain. It will be their duty to draw names from the jury box to provide jurors for the nine county courts. County Clerk Albert H. Losche Is the third member by virtue of office. lature when they were forcing those iniquitous dollar grabs on the people and over the protests of the Democrats.” IJquor and Neglect Charge Filed Martin Koss, owner of a saloon. 2937 W Tenth St., Is under arrest today on charges of operating a blind tiger and of child neglect. Police said they found Mrs. Koss pouring liquor into the sink while two children looked on.

SANTA FINALLY ARRIVES Circle Manager Gives Christmas Party for Theater Staff. Santa Claus made a belated visit about midnight Thursday at the Cir-

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