Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 135, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1927 — Page 1

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PROTESTANT LEADERS RAP PLEATO HATE Bringing of Senator Heflin j to City for Meeting Is Vigorously Assailed. LONG IS ONE DISSENTER N. t Governor Jackson’s Pastor Says Duvall, If Sinner, Is 'Framed’ One. (Expressions of other pastors on page 30.) With the exception of the pastor of the North Park Christian Church, ' which Governor Ed Jackson attends, leaders of almost every Protestant denomination in Indianapolis today denounced the bringing of United States Senator Thomas E. Heflin of Alabama, under the Ku-Klux Klan claim that he is “the greatest champion of the Protestant cause in the world.” Handbills distributed by city employes and.horsethief detectives announced the meeting for Tomlinson Hall next Tuesday night. The Protestant ministers, with the exception of the Rev. J. A. Long, the Governor’s pastor, declared that the anonymous circulars and those responsible for their distribution do not, so far as they know, represent true Protestant thought. See Move to Stir Strife Expressions of the ministers:' Earl F. Conder, president of the Church Federation of Indianapolis: “I do not agree with the facts brought out in the handbill, and no one in the Church Federation had anything to do with it or sanctioned it. Evidently some person with ulterior motives, hoping to stir up religious hatred and strife in Indianapolis, circulated the bills. Citizens will give no more heed to these items than they gave to previous ones or to the recent mass meeting.” Ernest Evans, executive secretary of the Indianapolis Church Federation said: “Anyone who knows Senator Thomas E. Heflin knows ne is not ‘the greatest champion of the Protestant cause in the world’. The man who wrote the dodger may believe what he says, but .no one else believes it. The Church Federation has adopted a ‘hands off’ policy in the Indianapolis political mess.” Calls Jt Outrage x The Rev. F. A. Hayward, executive secretary of the Federated Baptist Churches of Indianapolis, declared that “the Baptist people of Indianapolis are not participants in any such propaganda.” “Personally, I think this is an outrage and I have no sympathy with it,” he said, “I am not interested in any propaganda that separates American citizens of any religion, caste or color.” The Rev. George S. Henninger, pastor of the East Tenth Street Methodist Episcopal Church, said, “I do not agree with the statements in the. handbill. That is not the way to get a crowd. They should have come out in a manly manner and presented facts and not attempted to lure persons to the meeting through presentation of lurid details on handbills. “Their policy in this respect is wrong. I left the Klan a year and a half ago, when it started mixing in politics, and have not been connected with it since. “They were sincere at the candidate’s meeting at the East Tenth Street M. E. Church Community House before the last primary where Duvall and others signed the Klan pledge.” • Long Is Dissenter The Rev. J. A. Long, pastor, North Park Christian Church (Governor Jackson’s church): "I don’t know the personnel of The Times or of the other papers in the controversy ? and know nothing of the religious convictions of their personnel. We all know, of course, what the chain of papers to which The Times belongs feeds on and what it chooses to publish. “I don’t regard the mayor as a sinner beyond others in city offices, past and present. But if.he is a sinner at all, I regard him as a framed sinner. There is no doubt in my mind and the minds of people I have talked to that the mayor is no crook, no more a villain than others in the city’s history. “Any man who is framed can be shown in a bad light. I know nothing about the participation of Protestants and Catholics as groups in this matter.” NAB LIGHTLESS DRIVERS Worley Orders Arrest Before Some Serious Accident Occurs. Action before some serious accident takes place was the order of Police Chief Claude M. Worley Thursday night when he demanded that motorists, especially truck drivers who do not have tail lights and head lights on their vehicles be arrested. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 44 10 a. nv-v--. 45 7 a. m 44 11 a. m 46 8 a. 44 12 (noon) ... 48 8 a. m. 45 1 p. m 47

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Deny Ileana Flees With Navy Officer

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Princess Ileana

Princess Seen at Palace in Company of Mother, Says Dispatch. Bu United Press _ . ~ „ BUCHAREST, Oct. 14.—Reports that *Princess Ileana of 'Rumania had eloped with a young naval lieutenant who formerly was an aide de camp to the late King Ferdinand are without foundation. The United Press correspondent here met the princess personally in the palace yesterday afternoon, and last night the princess and Queen Marie left together for the royal castle at Sinaia.

INDICT REMUS AS MURDERER Slayer Thanks Deputy Who Brings Him Copy. By United Press * CINCINNATI, Ohio, Oct. 14.—An indictfnent charging him with the murder of his estranged wife, Imogene, was returned today against George Remus, one-time millionaire bootlegger. ✓ The fatal shooting of Mrs. Remus took place Oct. 6, a few hours before her divorce petition was to have been heard in court here. The indictment was served on Remus in the county jail and arrangements immediately were made for his arraignment tomorrow. Judge Chester R. Shook, tentatively has set the date of trial for the first week in November, but Prosecutor Charles P. Taft planned to ask a delay of one week. When Fred Sperberg, chief deputy, reached the cell, Remus greeted him and said: “Thank - you” as he took the copy of the indictment. “Let’s see,” said Remus as he opened the paper, “this is a charge of first degree murder. I’ll be down in court tmoorrow. I am glad to have met you and hope we meet under different circumstances some other time.” 1

PROFIT FOR CAR GO. Street Railway Is Ahead on August Business. >v V. V Indianapolis Street Railway Company’s balance sheet, filed'with the public service commission today for August, shows a net profit of sll,566, an increase of $39,061 over the same month for 1926. The company in August, 1926, registered a net loss of $27,495. The difference was attributed to the cost of the strike last year by Robert I. Todd, company president. “We are not out of the red yet, although we did make a slight profit in August,” Todd declared. Gross earnings for the month tota'ed $412,301, increase of $19,800 over 1926. Operating expense amounted to $319,799, decrease of $19,446. Net earnings from operation totaled $192,501, an increase of $39,247. „ The company has a deficit of $540,752. Its profit 'for August, 1927, was $39,746 less than in August, 1923. DRY FUND TO FIGHT AL Wheeler Memory Chest to Be Raised Against Reed, Smith. * Bu United Press ST. LOUIS, Oct. 14.—A $50,000 campaign che§t, to be known as “the B. \yheeler Memorial Fund,’’..will be raised by the Missouri Anti-Saloon League to fight the candidacies of of New York, and Senator James A. Reed of Missouri, league officials here announced.

TWO INDIANA FLIERS LOST IN NICARAGUA Lieutenant Thomas and Sergeant Dowdall Disappeared Sunday. FELL FIGHTING, BELIEF U. S. Marine Corps Officers Lead Units Searching for ' Their Comrades. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—Naval men today fear for the livefr of two United States Marine fliers, missing in Nicaraguan “enemy territory” ‘ for five days, as an expedition prepared to renew search for them in wilderness regions far from usual communication channels. Posibility of another clash with the native leaders is foreseen when Marines and native guardsmen from Matagalpa reach the vicinity of Quilali, where Lieut. Earl A. Thomas, Richmond, Ind., and Sergt. Frank E. Dowdall, Carbondale, Ind., crashed last Saturday or Sunday. The fliers, believed to have been •waging battle with ground troops, were reported to have taken refuge on a high hill, and a patrol under Lieut. George O’Shea, Brooklyn, N. Y., was attacked Sunday when it reached the scene, according to Navy dispatches from Rear Admiral Sellers, United States chief of Nicaraguan operations. In the battle four of the n&tive guards, organized by the Marines, were killed, together with twentyfive to fifty of the rebels. O’Shea’s patrol withdrew after the fighting to its base at Jicaro. Thomas and Dowdall may have been captured and held for ransom, some believed. Another pitched battle occurred Wednesday at Pueblo Neuvo, Nicaragua, Sellers reported, Santos Lobos, a rebel chieftaiiju being killed jmd seven of his followers and the town being captured. Hoosier Farents Wait By United Press RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 14.—An anxious father and mothet waited here today for further word from the Navy Department of their son, Second Lieutenant Earl A. Thomas of this city and a companion, Sergeant Frank Dowdall, Carbondaie, Ind., whose airplane crashed last week in a bandit-infested region of Nicaragua. Mr. and R£rs. Clarence Thomas are the lieutenant’s parents. Their son enlisted in the Marines about three years ago, was sent to an officers’ training school* and received his commission two years later, About the time he received his commission he was given leave to visit Mr. and Mrs. Thomas here before going to Nicaragua. They have not heard from him for several weeks. He is a graduate of Morton High Schooff United Press dispatches gave Mr. and Mrs. Thomas the latest intelligence concerning their son. If, was meager, relating to the attempt of an American-commanded unit of the Nicaraguan guard to reach the spot, near Quilali, there Thomas’ airplane was last seen. No details of the crash were available. 1924 NOTRE DAME GRID STAR IS SENT TO JAIL Frank Ryzdewski Given Four Mpnths, S6OO in Booze Case. By United Press CHICAGO, Oct. 14.—Frank Ryzdewski, Jr., star on the Notre Dame football team in IS 24, today was sentenced to four months -in jail and fined S6OO on a Federal charge of violating the prohibition law. Ryzdewski, son of a prominent Chicago politician, served as “gobetween” for bootleggers and county officials, it was charged. Bert Baker, former deputy sheriff, convicted with him, was sentenced to six months and fined S4OO. COOLIDGE IS BACK HOME Special Train Reaches Washington From Pittsburgh. By United Press WASHINGTON, Oct. 14.—President Coclidge’s special train arrived here from Pittsburgh shortly before 8 a. m. today and the President went immediately to the White House for breakfast. The trip was made without incident. ✓

YES (PARDON)) THEY HAD BANANAS, NOT APPLES IN EDEN

Bill United Press rr±|ASHINGTON,Oct. 14.—Cold W science struck at the _IU Garden of Eden apple theory today. \ It knocked the apple right off the -tree of knowledge of good and evil” and tentatively substituted an orange—or a banana—as the fruit that caused the downfall of Adam and Eve. Science in this case was exemplified by agriculture department horticultural experts, who declare Eden was that an apple

INDIANAPOLIS, FRIDAY, OCT. 14,1927

Ruth Elder 6n Her Way to Azores , Safe After Ordeal of Storm and Fire at Sea; Rescue Story Is Told

Aviators Battle Gale for Hours After Plane Is Crippled. SIGHT TANKER AND LAND Gas Blast Ignites Craft as It Is Being Salvaged; Destroyed in Blaze. • Bu United Press HORTA, Azores Islands, Oct. 14.—A radio message from the tanker Barendreclit today said the ship would arrive here at 10 a. m. tomorrow with Ruth Elder and George Haldeman. Bu United Press The American girl has braved the air, the sea, storm, and even fire and once more has come out victorious. This time it is Miss Ruth Elder, 23-year-old Southern beauty, who, with her pilot, George Haldeman, was saved at sea yesterday at the end of their unsuccessful yet heroic attempt to fly to Paris, who has carried the banner of present day youth to new glory. Radiograms to tfce United Press from Captain Goos, master of the Dutch oil tanker Barendrecht, which saypd Miss Elder and her companion, after they had flown eastward from Roosevelt field, New York, for more than thirty-six hours, today revealed, beneath the terse phrases of the seafaring man, the story of Miss Elder’s exploit. It told how the American Girl had flown for 36 hours and 26 minutes straight over the sea—a longer time and over a longer distance than any girl ever had flown before, and perhaps longer over water than any mortal before had flown. It revealed that for 26 of those 36 hours Miss Elder and hes companion had fought weather which ranged from fog to violent winds.

Sailors Are Amazed

For seven hours during the night they had struggled with storms which blew them from their course —and not only did 1 they remain aloft and cheat the sea, they beat their way back to their route and when found were flying straight toward Paris. Then, in the midst of all of this, a little copper tube, about the diameter of a pencil and only a few feet long—the oil feed pipebroke from the vibration of their pounding motor and struggling plane which was driving against the wind. For hours they flew, without oil pressure. They had but one course, to keep flying straight ahead until either they should sight land, or a ship—or until- the engine should heat to such Intensity that the plane might catch fire and drop them into the sea to drown- or bum. Haldeman, was believed, was at the controls. With Miss Elder beside hind, they plunged on and on. Then, at 10:30 a. m. yesterday they sighted the slow-rolling, plodding old'Dutch tanker. What thoughts were In their minds as Holdeman 'circled the ship and brought the American Girl down in safety at its side only can be imagined.

Beat Way Back to Trail

He and Miss Elder were carried aboard the tanker by sailors who must have been amazed at first to see an airplane alight by their side, and even more amazed to See the pretty face of a girl peer from Its cabin. Miss Elder and Haldeman were brought aboard, both suffering from extreme fatigue. Then Captain Goos of the Barendrecht turned his men to the work

could not have grown within 1,000 miles of it. A' bulletin issued by the department’s Hawaii station advances the banana version. It says this fruit is one-of the oldest known and quotes a legend that the serpent hid in a bunch of bananas and tempted Eve. * * • >UT the experts are not'' exR actly sure what the snake 1 told Eve to eat. Dr. H. T. Gould, assistant horticulture chief,

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of salvaging the plane. It brought near to the tanker—and then came the final tragedy. * As it was being salvaged in the tossing seas, a tank of gasoline explodfd. In a moment the plane which had carried the two so far was burning, and before their eyes it was destroyed. The rugged fare of a “tramp” oil tanker was shared with Mjss Elder and Haldeman and they were given rest. The plane lost, there was noth-, ing to do but go on and the Barendrecht headed toward Horta, chief port of the Azores Islands. There it should arrive tomorrow. That is the story told by the radiograms which came to the United Press from aboard the Barendrecht during the night. There was fear at the time of the start that the American Girl might be unable to fly through the storm. But it did, and apparently was flying in clear weather when the accident to the oil line forced Haldeman to bring down the plane.

Accident Good Fortune

The breaking of the oil line may have been fortunate. Impossible flying conditions existed over France yesterday. The weather’was so bad that even regular passenger service was interrupted. Haldeman, flying through rain and fog over strange country, might have experienced the difficulties of Byrd and his companions—and the American Girl might not have been as fortunate as the America. This dramatic ending of the flight of Miss Elder and Haldeman meant that they failed to reach their goal, Paris, but perhaps they have accomplished feats even more remarkable. They were In the air thirty-six hours, 26 minutes—only about fifteen hours less than the longest sustained flight ever made. And that record was set not in storm and over sea, but under ideal conditions, circling at slow speed over a flying field. They, are estimated to have flown 3,500 miles or more—a distance which would have enabled then) to land on the French mainland, had they not been blown from their course. They blazed anew trail, for their route led straight out to sea from New York for 1,200 miles and then picked up a “Great Circle” .course, sweeping in an arc toward France. They were the first to try any route but the Lindbergh trail, which leads in an arc through Nova Scotia. Newfoundland and to Ireland. The point where the plane alighted is computed to be about 500 miles northeast of the Azore Islands, exactly on the circle course Miss Elder.

has an idea an orange was the “forbidden fruit,” the eating of , which, according to the book of Genesis, banished Adam and Eve from the Garden and caused everybody since to toil and perspire. Genesis does not specify the nature of the fruit. Dr. Gould asserts oranges were v plentiful in the region of the Three Rivers of Asia where Eden supposedly was, and that the

Ruth Elder “in action”

was to have followed. In that fact is proof of the skill used in navigation, for before the plane came down they had been driven off their route by storm, and with c&mpiete accuracy had beaten back in the eight hours’ flying after the storm subsided, to their proper route.

Great Skill Is Shown

They had accomplished dieir re--markjble feat of aerial navigation aidftd only by a magnetic and an earth inductor compass. Sidereal and solar observations, such as are used by mariners on the surface of the ocean, instead of in the air above it, were Impossible. Probably the full story of Miss Elder's experience cannot be known until the Barendrecht reaches the Azores. The Barendreclft is a small vessel and its radio has short range. The message of Captain Goos to the United Press had to be sent by him to the.Bayaono, a small steamer near by; thence relayed to the Devizes radio station, and then was forwarded by cable to the United Press, New York. Other messages had to follow a similar route. But the news which did get through was sufficien to thrill two continents. x

Rejoicing in Europe

In England and France people chered the word that the American girl flier had escaped the death which met the only other women who have attempted overseas aviation—Miss Mildred Doran, who was lost en route to Honolulu, and the Princess Lowenstein-Wertheim, lost flying to New York from England in the airplane St. Raphael. But it was in the United States that it brought the greatest joy. In Anniston, Ala., where Miss Elder’s mother was in collapse from nervousness over her daughter’s venture, Miss Elder’s father suddenly walked to his wife’s bedside and announced: “Mother, Ruth is saved.” There was a scene of great rejoicing. In New York Mrs. George Haldeman, wife of the pilot, wept with, happiness. In Balboa, Canal Zone, Lyle Womack, husband of Miss Elder, heard with joy the news given him by the United Press and asked the correspondent to radio “worlds of love to the bravest girl in the world.”

Wires World of Love

Then he proudly displayed the cablegram which Miss Elder had sent him the day of her departure. She had written it at Roosevelt

biblical first man and woman probably never saw an apple. The dispute has aspects fully as dpep as the question “is there a Santa Claus?” William Atherton Depuy, writer of children’s school books, says he thinks It Is wrong to “mislead” young minds with the apple story if the banana or orange was more correct. He is going to change the story in the next series of books he writes.

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Fliers in Air More Than 36 Hours, Travel Over 3,500 Miles. RELATIVES VOICE JOY Husband of Aviatrix Radioes '.Worlds of Love to the Bravest Gir-I.’ Field and tantalized newspaper men with it—showing them the address, but refusing to reveal the contents. It read: “So long, sweetheart. See you soon. Please help me make it. Have faith and I will return to you. I love you. Ruth.” Then, later in the day, he showed another radiogram. It had come from Miss Elder, sent at the moment of her rescue. | “Both safe. Love,” it said. “I feel as if she were in a casket there, a corpse, and then got up and threw her arms around tne,” Womack said, protesting he couldn’t express feelings. “If she did that, I wouldn’t feel a bit different than I do now.” And he added that the Womack family home, now that Ruth has gained glory, is going to be in the Canal Zone.

Future Plans in Doubt

Exactly what Miss Elder’s immediate plans may be remained indefinite. Presumably she hardly knows herself. Her first task is to get ashore. Then, when she lands in the Azores, she either can return to the United States or go on to Paris. Vaudeville and motion picture contracts, said to be worth a fortune, are reported awaiting her. All the glories which can fail to a girl through daring and cqyrage-*.par-ticularly when that girl has simplicity aid beauty and personality as added assets—can be hers. Ruth Elder may have ended her amazing venture on the poop deck of the wallowing, poky Dutch tramp tanker in mid-ocean. But its grimy deck has become for her a throne, on which she rests glorified—with untold tributes at her feet.

Canal Zone to Be Home r

Bu United Press > BALBOA, Canal Zones. Oct. 14. Ruth Elder plans to live in the Canal Zone with her husband, Lyle Womaek, electrical supplies salesman, he said today. Through the United Press Womack cabled the following message to his wife aboard the Dutch Tanker Barendrecht: “Your wire received. Worlds of love to the bravest girl in the world. Anxiously awaiting your return. Lyle.” At 3:25 p. m. yesterday Womack received a cablegram from his wife telling him of her safety. ‘Both safe. Love,” It read. “I am sorry she didn’t reach Paris, so long as that was where she started for, but I am glad she was picked up and I wouldn’t have cared if she had been picked up at Sandy Hook.” Askd if he would try to dissuade his wife from future flights, Womack said: “That depends on her. She’s a real flier. But I’ve been through seventeen hells on account of this flight. I did everything possible to dissuade her from it.” Womack said he had flown often with his wife, including an hour and 45 minutes in the American Girl. “Haldeman is a wonderful pilot,” Womack added, “and a fine man—as good as they make them.”

Home Town *Overjoyed

Bu United Press _ , ~ , ANNISTON, Ala., Oct. 14.—Calm after ifc almost hysterical outburst when Ruth Elder was reported saved yseterday, Anniston today made plans for a great civic reception for its daughter when she returns from abroad. Citizens held a demonstration of joy last night, but the Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Rider declined -to participate. They were too overwhelmed with relief to join, they said. “She was so eager to get to Paris,” said Elder today. “I am glad to see she probably will get there, even If she has to go the rest of the way by boat instead of by air. “When she was here In August, she said she wanted to spend three or four weeks In Europe* visiting places of interest‘‘Ot course, she wanted to make it by air, but she's safe, and that's enough to satisfy us.” Woman Robbed of sllß Shortly after Mrs. Mary Rainbolt, 539 N. Oxford St., drew sllß from the bank at Jefferson Ave. and E. Tenth St., Thursday, the money disappeared. She thinks a pickpocket robbed her.

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STATEJARRED BY NEW FINDS IN DEATH QUIZ Chicken Man and Widow of Slain Jersey Doctor Gain . by Evidence. BULLETS FAIL TO FIT Witness Further Helps Pair by Declaring He Saw Negroes Near Lane. % Hit United Pretts MAYS LANDING, N. J., Oct. 14. —Two significant upsets in the State’s case against the two Lilliendahl murder defendants today gave new hope to the defense counsel and to the prisoners in the county jail. Mrs. Margaret Lilliendahl, middleaged widow of Dr. William Lilliendhal, and Willis Beach, neighboring poultryman, were cheered visibly when the mysterious “white cloth” evidence turned out to be of no relation to the crime. The presence of the rag on a weed | in Great Swamp Lane, which was i interpreted as being k signal for the j murderers, admittedly was placed there by Dr. Charles Cunningham, 1 mayor of Hammonton, N. J. He tied |it njerely as an “impulse” he said today. Guns Fall to Give Clew In addition, State ballistic experts announced that none of the weapons seized in Beach’s home could have been the death Instrument. A careful comparison of bullets fired from the pistols, shotguns and rifles In the Beach residence failed to show resemblance to those found In the body of the aged specialist In narcotics. Another interesting piece of defense evidence was contributed today by John J. Gregory Jr., a private detective, who aided the defendants in the Hall-Mills case. He said he had found a man who had been near the murder scene shortly before the doctor was killed and had been pursued by two Negroes in a blue sedan. * This man is John W. Reading of Trenton, N. J. Mrs. Lilliendahl said her husband’s murderers rode in a blue J sedan. Probe Pawning of Ring Dr. Lilliendahl was shot Sept. 15, I while riding with his wife. She conj tends two Negroes killed him during a hold-up. Both she and Beach were indicted for murder and held for j trial Nov. 28. Beach was accused of being | friendly with Mrs. Lilliendahl. writing her letters under a fictitious r name and keeping secret trysts. Mrs. Lilliendahl’s $1,200 diamond ring, found pawned in Philadelphia, has been of considerable interest to county authorities since it developed that Beach might have been the one who obtained the loan. Accompanied by Louis Ludovico, Chief Frank J. Harrols of the Atlantic County detectives, left, presumably for that city, today to question further the owner of the pawnshop. BADGLEY GIVEN LIFE New State Law Used on Rank Bandit. Bu United Press PERU. Ind.. Oct. 14.—For the first time in the history of the State, a bank bandit was sentenced to life imprisonment today when Frank Badgley. 30, Indianapolis, pleaded builty before Judge Hurd Hurst in Miami Circuit Court. Badgley was captured last Saturday when he held up the Amboy State Bank. Cashier Paul Norris and a kokomo detective were wounded and Badgley- was grazed by a bullet. SPEECH LASTS 7 DAYS Turkish Presiden Flares Te4t of Endurance in Parliament. Bu United Press , , ANGORA, Turkey, Oct. 14.—President Mustapha Kemal tomorrow will enter for the long distance talking championship. Before a congress of the majority parties in parliament, Kemal will begin a seven-day speech, totaling 1,400 pages, reviewing his work in the past and his program for the future. Declares 100 Per Cent Dividend Bu United Press BOSTON, Oct. 14.—The UnKed States Trust Company today declared a 100 per cent stock dividend, payable Nov. 1, to stock of record Oct. 24.

Impossible! Bu United Press BATTLE CREEK. Mich., Oct. 14.—The theory that a Scotchman could not conceivably hand around free drinks of good bonded liquor will be advanced by the attorney defending AlaikGibbs, when the latter appears before Circuit Court next month, charged with violating the liquor law. Gibbs is accused of this “offense,” but his attorney believes, he said, that no sane Jury will credit It.