Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 222, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 January 1924 — Page 2

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STATE CONSIDERS ERECTION OF COUNTY HOME FOR INSANE

■BUSINESS HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF,’ SAYS ALVIN DODD U, S. C. of C. Manager Talks to Hardware Men In Convention Session, Rise and fall of prices as an aftermath of war were- traced today before the twenty-fifth anniversary convention of the Indiana Retail Hardware Association, at the Clay pool, by Alvin E. Dodd, manager of the domestic distribution department of the United States Chamber of Commerce. Dodd displayed a chart showing the trend cf wholesale prices tor the past 115 years, calling attention to the fact tjiat the period between the War of 1812 and the Civil War was almost exactly the same as the period between the Civil War and the World War. “This Is not a coincidence,”' said Dodd, “but is merely another evidence that history repeats itself.” On account of the illness of George A. Jones, Peru, president of the association. G. E. Daugherty. Princeton, vice president, presided. Women attending the convention will be entertained at the Lincoln on Wednesday afternoon at a theater party at Keith's on Thursday. An exhibition of 125 hardware displays is being held in the Cadle Tabernacle. HERE’S SOLON IN CONGRESS HDD’S MUM ON POLITICS

Dr, Copeland, New York, Saves Energy to Talk on Healthfulness. Washington Bureau, 1322 New York Ave. WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—A United States Senator who thinks it is a waste of time to talk politics and longs to raise his voice on a very different subject is a figure entirely unique in this town. But such a one has arrived. He is Dr. Royal S. Copeland of New York, and the message he wants to shout from the housetops every hour of the day is health. The other day he addressed an audience of 15,000 persons on political questions, and afterward he said it neemed a shame to talk politics to them when what they needed was better health. In his office they discuss flesh and food, beauty and bad colds, rather than committee assignments and the soldier bonus. And while he talks to you. Dr. Copeland will pace up and down the room practicing what he preaches by getting his daily quota of exercise. No Laughing Matter “Seriously,” he said, “flesh is no laughing matter. A man 50 years of age who is 50 pounds over weight has 50 per cent less chance of life than a fit man. “We eat too much. We don’t exercise enough. "It is a great temptation for Congressmen to neglect exercise and to eat tooo heavily. If they do. their lives will undoubtedly be shortened. “Judge for yourself whether that will be a benefit or a loss to the country. "Everything depends on health. Personality and beauty can’t be secured without It. Woman’s winsomeness, her clear skin, her sparkling eye, all must have health for their foundation. They can't be painted on. “The Government must aid the .States in educating people. The average man doesn't know how to live. He doesn’t know what is good for him and what is not. "The other day, out near my farm. I met an old man doubled over with rheumatism. I asked him what his trouble was. He told me the cold had crippled him. Flu Disastrous “I looked in his mouth and told him to go to a dentist if he wanted to get rid of his ailment. He looked at me as if he thought I was crazy. "Education is the only way to stamp out the common cold, companion of the flu, which has killed more people than all the wars in history. JOCKO VISITS GOVERNOR Trained Crow Shows McCray a Few Tricks. Jocko, super-crow appearing at Keith's Theater, paid a friendly call on Governor McCray today. Jocko strutted around, said “hello." juggled balls and did other tricks for his trainer. “We farmers hardly know whether to consider crows pests or benefactors,” McCray commented. “While they devour field mice, they destroy the nests of quail and injure crops.” Jocko had little to say, however. WATER CAUSES DAMAGE Pipe Bursts in Tank on Roof of Capitol Paper Company. Damage estimated at $l5O was caused at the Capitol Paper Company, 225 W. South St., Monday night when a down pipe from the water tank on the roof burst, reports showed today. The water rushed into the sixth floor which, according to Charles Kahn, sales manager, is vacant. The damage was done by water that ran down t othe fifth floor. The building $s of Concrete, which saved a heavy loss, according to Kahn.

Where Lincoln Buried Concrete Block Inclosing Victims ’ Heads

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The picture above shows the rubbish pile where police, at direction of Warren J. Lincoln, found block of concrete in which were encased the heads of Lincoln’s wife and her brother, Byron Shoup. Mrs. C. H. Jochum is pointing to the spot where the concrete block was found. Lincoln is charged with killing the

FUNDAMENTALIST IS WINNER IN DEBATE Dr. Potter, Modernist, Declares if There Is Personal God, He Failed to Intervene During World War.

By Vnited Pre** NEW YORK, Jan. 29.—Dr. John H. Suatton, fundamentalist, won the second of a series of debates with Dr. Charles F. Potter, modernist, last night. The debates are on the subject of faundamentalism versus modernism. Dr. Potter won the first of the series. Dr. Stratton took the negative in last night's debate—“ Did the earth and man come by evolution or from a living God?” The judges were Frank P. Walsh, former justice; F. S. Jenks and Justice Philip J. McCook. Dr. Potter's opening was a statement of the scientific theory of the universe. “The best answer to William Jennings Bryan's argument against evolution,” he said, “would be an X-ray picture of the lower end of his spine. It would show a few bones forming a rudimentary tail and four muscles for wagging it” CAR COMPANY IS SUED I inching Trolley Threw Man to His l>eath. Administrator Charges. A lurching Garfield street car threw Clifford Selig through an open rear door to his death, it is charged in a suit for SIO,OOO against the Inidanapolis Street Railway Company, filed in Superior Court, room 5, by his administrator, George Hagelskamp, Jr. The accident occurred May 25, 1923. Hagelskamp says the car was so crowded about 6 p. m. that the conductor couldn’t close the doors. The accident happened on S. East St., he charges, between Minnesota and Lincoln Sts. FEDERALS TAKE CITY Report Says .Mexican Rebels Suffer 2,500 Casualties. By United Pres* MEXICO CITY, Jan. 29.—“ General Serrano reports Experanza and Orien tal have been taken by federal forces,' the war office announced today. “Our troops are continuing their advance on Orizaba w'hich is expected to fall within two days. “The rebels have suffered 2,600 casualties. “We have captured much war material and several trains." Thousands of “pillboxes” and concrete dugouts built by the Germans during the war still are a problem In France. For Colds, Grip and at a Preventive for Influenza, take Laxat.se BROMO QUININE Tablets. The blx bears the signature of E. W. Grove. I 30c.—Advertisement.

pair, burning their dismembered bodies In his greenhouse furnace and disposing of the heads in this manner. Below is shown portions of the concrete block. In the fragment at the right Is the Impression of one of the victim's ears. Jailer Pete Fatten of Aurora, 111., is pointing to imprint of a face.

In his rebuttal, he said: “If there la a personal God, able to interpose in human affairs, that God has failed at an opportune moment.” He cited the recent war as an example. Dr. Stratton surprised his audience when he said he once was an evolutionist. Study convinced him it was a colossal error. He characterized It as “a lie out of hell.” “Nothing ethically false can be Intellectually true.” Stratton said. chief mm MORE FIREMEN Additional Equipment Necessarys, O'Brien Says. Twenty-flvo additional firemen and considerable new equipment were asked by Chief John J. O’Brien before the board of safety today. The chief requested anew pumper iff 1,000 to 1,400 gallon capacity, a new water tower, and a squad wagon. Enlargement of the repair department was asked, with request that the master mechanic be promoted to rank of battalion chief. The department responded to 4,162 alarms during the year, of which 3.011 were “stills” and 1,151 bell alarms. Fire loss in 1923 was $1,452,955 compared to $878,215 In 1922. Insurance loss was $1,284,559 compared to SBOO,648 In 1922. There were 120 more alarms answered in 1923 than 1922.

Forty Years Ago Doheny Was Penniless Prospector

By l’nlt(d New* r~IL PASO. Jan. 29 —Forty years | jt I ago Ed Doheny, intimate pal | lof A1 Fall, could not have loaned him the price of a bag of flour—6B cents In those days—much less SIOO,OOO. But Ed could, and did, tangle with a tin oven and bake A1 the finest pan of biscuits in New Mexico, for Ed Doheny, the cook, was as faraetus in the silver country as Ed Doheny, unluckiest of prospectors. Doheny’s bad luck faded, and he is now Edward L. Doheny, multimillionaire oil magnate, who told a group of Senators he .uld give away SIOO,OOO as easily as an avar-

THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PROTEST AGAINST STREET WIDENING PROPOSAL FILEO Resident Objects to Leaving Filling Station in Altering Delaware St, Jog, County commissioners today received a letter from J. S. Ferris, 22U9 N. Delaware St., who lives across the street from the site of the proposed straightening of the jog at TwentySecond and Delaware Sts., commending the board on its stand In the matter of leaving a filling station in the middle of the street. Commissioners said they would not sign a contract for the Fall Creek bridge at Delaware St., unless the city, in straightening the jog. orders the filling station, owned by the Sinclair Oil Company, removed. The station is on the northwest corner of the jog, and City Engineer John I. Elliott said it would remain standing, the street to run on both sides. The street is to be widened and straightened by the city In an agreement with the county concerning the county’s construction of the bridge. “It is Useless to go to city rsTicials on a proposition of this kind,” wrote Ferris, “Because they will not even listen to an ordinary taxpayer when a large corporation like the oil com pany is Interested.” “Elliott says the company paid $28,000 tor the one lot on the coiner and will give the city the hack end of It If Delaware St. is relocated in the rear of their station. He doesn't state that to take advantage of this offer the city will have to buy four more lots at a cost of SIOO,OOO. “Why Is It necessary to make an improvement at Twenty-Second St., that will cost ten times as much as what it cost at Sixteenth?” The city cut the corner off a dangerous “jog" at the corner of Six teeritii and Delaware Sts., to reduce accidents. CATHOLICS TO ASK ANTI-KLAN PLANKS

Men's Council Appoints Committee to Call on Party Heads, James H. Deery, newly elected prest I dent of the first diocese of the national Catholic Men's Council, today ap pointed John J. Nolan, ex-postmaster of Evansville, chairman of a commit tee of twenty to request the resolu tlons committees of the Democratic and Republican State conventions era body anti-Ku-Klux Klan planks in their platforms for 1924. A resolution providing for this action was adopted unanimously at a oonven tlon Monday. Camille C. Baines of Terre Haute i was elected secretary, and Joseph ; Bruns of New Albany treasurer. Vice presidents are: Thomas D. McGee, In dlan&polls deanery; John N. Fltzger | aid, Terre Haute, Vincennes deanery j John J Nolan, Evansville deanery Joseph H. Ntirre, Bloomington, Wash jtngton deanery; Albert A. Sondermann, Jasper deanery; Charles J. Willis, ! Jeffersonville, New Albany deanery, jand the Rev. August J. Sprigler, I North Vernon. Madison deanery. POLICEMEN FACE LIQUOR CHARGES Trial for Two Officers Set for Tuesday by Board, Liquor again proved the cause for j charges against two policemen before the board of safety today. Chief lilkhoff filed the charges. Traffilcman Howard Martin was charged with conduct unbecoming to I an officer when it Is alleged liquor was j found in his home. Patrolman Thomas Sullivan was charged with lntoxlcaj tion. Trials were set next Tuesday. Traffic. Captain Michael J. Glenn | was promoted to the rank of Inspector lot traffic at a salary of $3,100 a year. I The council has already appropriated I the money for the Increase. Trafficman Lester Jones was pro- | moted to sergeant. Charles Gregory, j battalion chief's aid in the fire force, I was promoted to lieutenant and Joseph j O’Connor was promoted to chauffeur on recommendation of Chief John J. O’Brien. Shakespeare’s income, toward the i end of his life, was equivalent to I £5,000 in modern money.

age man might a ten-spot. But A1 Fall’s fabulous misfortune persisted. William H. Moffltt, a pal of both Fall and Doheny from 1884 to 1890, and who owns mining property around Kingston, xvhere they prospected in those days, told about Doheny’s beginnings. “All three of us often lived together In a shack ten feet square with an earthen floor,” said Moffltt. "We roamed the hills, following our hunches, hurrying to every spot where rumor said the earth contained wealth. "Every time Ed or A1 found a property that looked rich on top, and spent their time and money

Secretary of Charities Board Confers With Head of State Institution on Care of 1,000 Patients Now in Crowded Quarters, Advisability of erecting a separate State hospital near Indianapolis to take care of the insane in Marion County was considered today by State charity officials, J. A. Brown, secretary of the State Board of Charities, declared.

Brown confeired with Max Bahr, superintendent of the Central State Hospital for insane, and discussed the condition in the county. Marion County has approximately 1,000 insane patients dependent upon State and county care, it was pointed out by Bahr. That the Julietta hospital is little more than an lnstituion providing facilities for poor farm inmates is the belief of the State authorities. The State of Illinois-has adopted a policy similar to the one now under consideration. A hospital, located at Chicago, was built by the State to taka care of urgent condition developing In that city. If the Indianapolis institution is finally recommended by the board, a special appropriation from the 1925 General Assembly will be necessary. “The Julietta institution could be easily converted into a poorhouse,” Brown suggested, intimating that the county hospital would then be abandoned in event of the new State project. “It was founded originally to take care of senile cases, feeble-minded and defective persons. Since then, however, chronic insane patients have been admitted.” Brown further advocated the building in the near future of a State psychopathic hospital in which all cases would be sent for examination and study. Placing of the senile harmless cases in home was also favored in order to provide additional room In State hospitals.

Highlights in Naval Reserve Lease Scandal Hy Unite'/ Pretl nra\SIIINGTON, Jan. 29.—Here \X/ is the story In skeleton of the Teapot and other naval reserve leases. ON MAY 31. 1921. President Harding, urged by Secretary of the Navy Denby and Secretary of the Interior Fall, transferred the navy oil reserves from the navy to Interior Department. JULY 21, Fall and Denby signed contracts with E. L. Doheny for exploitation of reserves One and Two in California. APRIL 7, 1922. Fall and Denby signed leases with Harry F. Sinclair for Teapot Dome in Natrona County. Wyoming, containing 22,000.000 barrels of oil. APRIL 15, the Senate, having heard of the Teapot Dome lease, which was not officially announced, asked for copies of all lenses. APRIL 21, Senator !,a Follette, in a resolution, called for a complete Investigation. APRIL 29, Senate ordered investigation. JAN. 30, 1923. Senate Public Lands Committee hired experts to see whether it true oil was draining out of Teapot Dome. MARCH 4, Fall resigned from Cabl n et OCT. 22, Senate committee began hearings following report of experts. OCT. 23, Fall, before committee, said he was proud of leases. OCT. 25, Denby told committee leasing was "a routing detail." He know little about It. DEC. 27. Fall wrote committee he borrowed SIOO,OOO from E. It. McLean. Washington publisher, to buy ranch and said he never got a cent from Sinclair or Doheny. JAN. 11. 1924. McLean at Palm Beach testified Fall got checks for SIOO,OOO, but returned them uncashed. saying he had arranged to get money elsewhere. JAN. 21, Archie Roosevelt and G. D. Wahlberg, Sinclair’s personal secretary, told of suspicions Teapot Dome lease was obtained by corruption and said Sinclair had gone to Europe secretly. JAN 22. Fall subpoenaed. JAN. 24, Doheny said he loaned Fall SIOO,OOO on unsecured note. JAN. 25. J. W. Zevely, Sinclair's man, said he loaned Fall $25,000 and advanced SIO,OOO, expenses of trip to Russia. JAN. 26, President Coolldge announced he would appoint special counsel to Investigate and to prosecute civilly and criminally any wrong doing. Doheny offered to cancel leases on California reserves. JAN. 28, Senate prepared to demand immediate cancellation of leases. HOLD-UP IS REPORTED William Johnson, 1134 Kentucky Ave., is in city prison today charged with assault and battery with intent to rob Angelo Barns, colored, 546 N. Senate Ave. According to police, Barns said he was held up by Johnson, Sam Burge, 1134 Kentucky Ave., and Charles Larrison, 842 S. Tremont St., at Senate Ave. and Market St. Monday night. The trio got nothing, he said. Burge and Larrison are held on vagrancy charges.

developing it, it always petered out a little ways down. “Whenever they decided a vein looked poor. It usually ran Into millions after they got rid of It. "When a mining man called Charlie Canfield persuaded Doheny to go to the Los Angeles district after oil was found, they bought tickets and Ed had exactly 10 cents left. “He bought grapes with it, because that was what he could get most of for his money.” Owing money to scores of people, Doheny went to his bankers and creditors, und demanded money to buy oil leases. They gave it to him. “He finally got a contract with the Santa Fe whereby they obligated

NEW PROGRAM OF WAR VETERAN RELIEF PROPOSED Committee on Investigation Files Preliminary Report With Senate. By r nilrd Prt** WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Complete new program of war veterans' relief was proposed to the Senate today in a preliminary report of the committee on investigation of the Veterans’ Bureau. Among changes proposed are: “Full authority for the director to put in force a complete administrative reorganization. Rate of compensation to veterans having several children, or widows with several children, slightly increased. Lost use of limbs is made the equivalent of lost limbs. Helpless veterans are all allowed SSO tier month for an attendant. Compensation to Insane veterans, who have neither wife, children nor dependent parent and who are maintained free of charge in a Veterans Bureau hospital, is reduced to S2O per month. A veteran in hospitals will be required to allot no more than \ of his monthly compensation to his dependents. Partial reinstatement of lapsed war risk insurance Is permitted. Vocational training is limited to those who suffeied a disability In line of duly and not the result of their own misconduct, between April 6, 1917, and July 2. 1921. Pap of the director Is increased from SIO,OOO to $12,00'1.

SHORTRIDGE HIGH SPACE DECREASES (Continued From Page 1) it is necessary to have pupils study in rooms In which recitations are also going on. This, high school officials say, is particularly undesirable, as it Is almost impossible for a pupil to concentrate wholly upon a study and not have his attention districted by reci tations which are under way at the same time. Due to this overcrowding it Is not possible for pupils In many instances to have access to the library during study periods. Fully 50 per cent of the students are forced to go outside the building for lunch, so cramped is the lunch room space. The lunchroom, with the kitchen in one corner, is crowded far beyond capacity every noon hour and the overflow pours out to drug stores and cafeterias. In cold and rainy weather this occasions endless Inconvenience, to say nothing of the economic loss to the. students as the school lunchrooms in all high schools are operated on a very narrow margin of profit for the benefit of students. Plans Are Blocked In December the school board employer! architects to prepare plans for anew and modern Shortridge at Pennsylvania and Thirty-Fourth St. The actions was taken over the vote of Charles L. Barry, a former Short graduate, who in the past when other high school projects were being pushed always pleaded- for adequate facilities for Shortridge. He also voted against the employment of architects and purchase of ground tor new west side and colored high schools. On Jan. 1, two new board members Charles R. Yoke and Fred Bates Johnson, succeeded Bert S. Gadd and W. D. Allison. They joined with Barry at the last board meeting and ordered all high school extension work stepped. Since then civic league and the Shortridge Parent-Teacher Association have held meetings and appointed committees to demand that the high school program go through. The Shortridge committee expects to call upon the board at its meeting Tues day night and demand an explanation of the last delay in relieving con ditions which fast are becoming In tolerable at the north side school. Brooms are a part of the Pittsburgh (Pa.) fire department's standard equip j ment. They’re utilized in extlnguishng brush blazes.

themselves to buy all their oil from him at $1 a barrel. They had been paying $1.50, but now all the other producers were forced to sell to Ed at less than $1 and he resold It, for the Santa Fe were the only purchasers.” Later Doheny sold his oil properties and rights to the Santa Fe for $1,400,000; according to Moffltt, that was the first real stake he made for his present tremendous fortune. But long before Doheny and Fall had parted company Fall became Senator and Secretary of the Interior a comparatively poor man, while Doheny dealt In colossal enterprises In Mexico that nette# him millions.

Cathedral May Be Bought by Chamber

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SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL The Scottish Rite cathedral, 39 S. Pennsylvania St., may be purchased by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce. This became known today, following a meeting of the Scottish Rite Monday night, at which the board of trustees was authorized to sell the building. The Chamber of Commerce has been looking for new quarters and has considered the Scottish Rite site, among others, John Reynolds, secretary, said today. “Charles F. Coffin, chairman of the committee in charge of this matter, is out of the city,” Reynolds said “However. I do not bejleve a definite offer has been made.” John Saulter, chairman of the Scottish Rite trustees, said that, as the meeting Monday night was a lodge affair, he was not at liberty to give out information.

From Far and Near

A Bucharest court sentenced a Roumanian youth to pay 22,000 francs for kissing a girl in a railway train. The girl agreed to give the sum, about SIOO to a charity fund. Twenty-five fishermen are reported to have been drowned in a tempest raging off the Norway Coast. Three bandits Monday held up and robbed the Citizens National Bank at Lydonville, near Niagara Falls, N. Y., of approximately $25,000. A steel harness buckle, two pieces of coal, a piece of leather and three matches were removed from the esophagus of Adam Eiler, Peoria, 111. Eiler is recovering. The Magnolia, Pierce and Service Oil Companies, Houston, Texas, today boosted wholesale and retail gasoline prices 2 cents a gallon. The House Ways and Means Committee late Monday adopted a provision granting a 25 per cent reduction tor incomes under $20,000. President A. A. Murphee of the University of Florida, William Jennings Bryan’s choice for President, has stated he does not agree with the Commoner principles of evolution should not be taught in schools. Shouting "Viva De La Huerta” as they died, five rebel leaders Sunday were taken to the Juarez, Mexico, cemetery, lined up against an adobe wall and shot. Senora Alvaredo Obrcgon, wife of Mexico’s president, is at the bedside of her father, Col Francisco Tappa, seriously 111 at Hermoslllo, Sonora. Chairman Charles G. Dawe'a committee of reparation experts conducted Its last session in Paris Monday before proceeding to Paris for further grappling with the problem of German finances. Eleven special police were arrested in a raid on the offices of the Municipal Police and Detective Bureau at Cleveland. Officers stated the men were waiting assignments and passing the time playing poker. , .. -- ~ o v-.fijor> has v>-oken out in Chita, Siberia. An official report ...iaiis ovei vile TiansSlberian railway have not arrived.

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TUESDAY, JAN. 29, 1924

MOTION TO OUST SANITATION BOARD employ™ John Elliott, President, Loses in Attack on Truly Nolen. Efforts of the sanitary board to remove Truly Nolen, superintendent of santation, failed today when a motion of John Elliott, president, was tabled. 2 to 1. Elliott’s motion asked Nolen’s resignation, effective Feb. 10. Russell T. McFa’l seconded the motion to get It before the board, and then moved to table it. Jay A. Craven voted with McFall. Nolen has been the target of Elliott for some time, but the move today came as a surprise to the board. McFall explained that he had not been a member long enough to judge Nolen’s ability. Eiliott proposed Tom Bowser, now employed in the controller’s office, to succeed Nolen. He said that he wanted cooperation in the department as long as he was head of the sanitary board and that Nolen's presence made that impossible. Craven declined to make a statement after the meeting. BOAIEMCTED TO RESUME WORK ON BUILDING PLAN Protests May Force Majority Faction to Reverse Attitude. The majority faction of the school board probably will reverse Itself and authorize resumption of the high school building program tonight. It was indicated today. At the last board meeting, this faction. composed of Charles L. Barry, Charles R. Yoke, and Fred Bates Johnson, over the protests of the other members, Dr. Marie Hasiep and Adolph Emhardt, ordered all activity toward carrying out plans for erection of anew Shortridge, a west side and a colored high school stopped. Since then, public opinion has made itself felt and resolutions have been adopted by civic organizations protesting against the board's action. Resumption of the program, 60 far as Shortridge and the west side high school are concerned, will be autho*ized tonight, according to stories in circulation In school circles. It Is believed plans for a colored high school will be held up further, possibly abandoned. It is understood strenuous effort* will be made to change architects for Shortridge and the west side build ings. Kopf and Wooling were selected for Shortridge and Vonnegut, Bohn and Mueller, for the west side school, last month. These architects will be supplanted, It is said

REAM REINSTATED. AS CITY FIREMAN Board of Safety Clears Name of Riot Charge, George Ream was found not guilty of conduct unbecoming a fireman and ordered reinstated on the fire force by r the board of safety' today. It was alleged he incited a riot at the George V. Durgan nolitical meeting in Tomlin son Hall Jan. 16. Scenes similar to those at the trial of Lieut. Arthur McGee and Patrolman Harvey W. Bedford were enacted when the Klan Issue was injected Into the hearing. Councilman Otto Ray and police officers testified that disturbances were caused by men sitting in a body, who left when requested by James E Deery. The men followed a fiery crows out the door. It was said. Ream produced witnesses who said the meeting was “as quiet as some religious gatherings.” He was defended by Charles J. Orbison. Following Ream s acquittal, a score of spectators rushed forward to thank the board and Fire Chief John S. O’Brien.