Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 244, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 February 1928 — Page 1

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CITY IN STORM GRIP; AIR MAIL TRIPSHALTED Street Cars Are Hard Hit by Heavy Snow During Rush Hours. WARMER WEATHER DUE Extra Forces Put on Duty to Clean Streets of White Blanket. THE STORM All airmail and other flights from Indianapolis Airport stopped. Street railway slowed during rush hour. Nine sweepers keeping tracks clear. Crew of 125 clearing switches. Steam lines slowed. One Monon train three hours late. State highway gangs out early to attack drifts. City organized to clear streets tonigt if snow continues. Wire communication uninterrupted. Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m.... 18 8 a. m..,. 18 7 a. m— 18 9 a. m.... 16 10 a. m.... 16 Transportation utilities battled drifting siow today while Indianapolis prepared for a week-end of true winter sport. The city need have no fear of being snowbound, Weatherman J. H. Armington said. Tha snowfall will stop some time during the day and Sunday will be fair, with rising temperature, Armington predicted. The temperature will rise Sunday, , after reaching a low point of about 15 degrees tonight, but the rise will not be pronounced enough to melt the snowflakes, Armington said. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature was 18, nine degrees below normal. With a crew of 150 men at work to keep the drifts off the tracks, Indianapolis Street Railway officials reported cars and busses were running with little deviation from schedule. Nine work cars were out early, salting rails, so that the morning rush cars would move on schedule. The rush hour cars were slowed somewhat. Following the rush hour, nine sweepers attacked the snow. The entire construction force of 125 men was taken from regular work to sweep away the accumulations at curves and Intersections. Intrrurban Cars on Fire Traction officials reported no trouble in maintaining the interurban service as yet, but feared if the storm continued schedules might be disrupted. Interurbans arrived and departed on schedule at the Traction Terminal. An Interstate Public Service Company train, due to leave at 7 a. m. for Louisville, was held here until 9 a. m. by motor trouble on the car. A Monon train from Chicago, due at 5:50 a. m., was three hours late because of drifts and slippery rails in the northern part of the State, but other railroads reported trains on schedule. All aviation activities were halted, however, not a plane leaving the Indianapolis airport. Air Mail Halted The Cincinnati-Chicago air mail plane was halted here Friday afternoon on telegraphic orders not to proceed to Chicago. Mail was forwarded to Chicago by train. Airport officials said attempts to fly today would be almost suicidal. “A plane could take the air, all right, but the pilot would be sure to crash in alighting, as he couldn’t see because of snow,” they said. Sixty men will be ordered on duty tonight to clear city streets if snowfall continues heavy during the day, Street Commissioner Charles A. Grossart said. Heavy traffic makes cleaning in daytime almost impossible, he said. Whether the city forces will be used to open streets depends on the amount of snow on the ground by night time. An extra force of twenty men may be employed.

Indiana Roads Blocked By United Press WARSAW, Ind., Feb. 18.—Many country roads in Kosciusko County were blocked today by a one-foot fall of snow Friday night. In some places along highways the snow had drifted to a depth of more than five feet. Driven by a northeast wind, the snow continued to fall over all northern Indiana today, forcing rural mail carriers to abandon parts 0t their routes. By Times Special PETERSBURG, Ind., Feb. 18. Edward Bee, 47, is dead of fright occasioned when he fell into a grate fire at he home of his employer, Miss Alice Long. Bee was a cripple. By Times Special ANDERSON, Ind., Feb. 18.—Robert Wiley, 8, is seriously ill with rabies which developed from the bite of a dog suffered last October. He ahd apparently recovered from what seemed to be a slight wourid When rabies suddenly developed.

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Helene Wants Divorce

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NEA Los Angeles Bureau Charging he refused to work after she had found employment for him, Helene Costello, screen actress and daughter of Maurice Costello, former picture hero, has filed for divorce against her husband of six months, John W. Reagan, formerly of New York. She also charges he drank to excess and was abusive. Here are Helene and John.

HILL TO FACE SECOND TRIAL New Attempt to Convict Youth in Four Months. By United Press OTTAWA. 111., Feb. 18.— I The second attempt of the State to convict Harry A. Hill, 21, for the murder of his mother will be made in four months, according to an announcement today by State’s Attorney Russell O. Hanson. The first trial came to an end Friday when Judge Joe A. Davis dismissed a jury which had deliberated for almost seventy hours without reaching a verdict. The case was given to the jury at 2 p. m. Tuesday. The vote when the jury was dismissed stood 9 to 3 for conviction, after forty-three ballots had been taken. Hill’s attorneys were planning to go into court today and ask release of the youth on bail pending his second trial. Hill was accused of the murder of Mrs. Eliza A. Hill, after her body had been found in a shallow grave in the basement of her home in Streator, 111., last Aug. 22. THREE IN AUTOS MEET DEATH AT RICHMOND Mother and Son Among Victims When Switch Engine Strikes Car. By Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Feb. 18.—Three automobile accident deaths was the toll exacted here Friday. Another person was probably fatally hurt and two others less seriously injured. Clarence Wessell, 25, was killed instantly and his mother, Mrs. George Wessell, 54, fatally hurt when an automobile was struck by a Chesapeake & Ohio* railroad switch engine. Mrs. Mary Imhoff, 75, suffered internal injuries, and Mrs. Leona Jones, 34, wasjeut and bruised. Edgar Lcehr, 28, was killed and Otto Hiatt, 26, will probably die of injuries suffered when Loehr drove his automobile against an interurban freight train. WOMAN ADMITS ARSON Montpelier Resident Given Prison Term for Burning Home. By Times Special HARTFORD CITY. Ind., Feb. 18. —Mrs. Juliana Hummer, 26, Montpelier, is under sentence of two to fourteen years in the Indiana woman’s prison after pleading guilty to a first degree arson charge in Blackford Circuit Court here. Mrs. Lillie Chapman, 25, Montpelier, received the same sentence, but it was suspended on good behavior. Both women confessed to setting fire to Mrs. Hummer’s home in Montpelier Saturday night to collect insurance.

5 WOMEN IN BOX FOR HICKMAN JURY

Bp United Press LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb. 18.— Five women and seven men will occupy the jury box when trial of William Edward Hickman and Welby Hunt for the murder of Ivy Thoms is resumed Monday. However, the State still holds twenty-two peremptory challenges and the defense nine. A jury, therefore, may not be selected for at, least one more court session. The majority of the dismissed

JAIL-BREAKER GIVES SELF UP Hunger and Cold Drive Men to Surrender. Expressing hope that his break from the Indiana State Farm at Putnamville, would result in his sentence to another prison, George Reynolds, 23, of Brooklyn, N. Y., was at the city prison today, recuperating from a five-day battle with cold and hunger Reynolds, with eight other men, overpowered a guard at the farm Sunday and escaped by using his keys. Since he had been walking railroad tracks at night and remaining under cover in empty freight cars in day-time he told Lieut. Fred Drinkut, at police headquarters Friday night. He gave himself up, with the words, “I am half frozen and nearly starved to death. If they only send me to some other prison, I feel that my purpose in the break for freedom will be rewarded ’’ Reynolds had been assigned to work in the stone quarry at the prison. He was sentenced at Warsaw, Ind.. for breaking in railroad tears. Sentence for prison escape is one to five years, police said. The other men are still at large. HOG MARKET STEADY TO 5 CENTS HIGHER Best Porkers Sell at $8.55; Calves Down $1 at Stockyards. The week closed on the Indianapolis live stock exchange with hogs steady to 5 cents higher. The top was $8.55, and the week opened at $8.65. Receipts were estimated early this morning at 5,C00. Calves have been decidedly irregular all week and today fell off sl. Other live stock was steady on the local market. Early bids were strong to 10 cents higher on the Chicago market in a slow opening. The best medium weights were bid at $8.40 and best highs were held at $8.50. Receipts were about 12,000. POSTAL^MEN~TXT MEET Indiana Association Members to Convene at Evansville Tonight. By Times Special EVANSVILLE, Ind., Feb. 18.—The Joint Association of Postal Employes of Indiana will meet here tonight. Speakers will include the following Indianapolis men: A. W. Demree, association chairman; Louis A. Reynolds, railway branch president; Carl L. Stimpson, national vice president of the Federation of Postoffice Clerks and George F. Klinker, secretary, National Federation of Rural Route Letter Carriers. The address of welcome will be given by Charles C. Covert, postmaster here.

prospective veniremen announced they already had a fixed opinion of guilt. Many of the prospective talesmen said they were of the opinion that Hickman received a just verdict in the Marion Parker case. They were dismissed. District Attorney Asa Keyes said he expected the taking of evidence to start not later than Tuesday. Hickman and Hunt are charged with killing Ivy Thoms, druggist, during a hold-up.

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Two Men Seen in Chicago Resemble Murderers of Hoosiers. P.y United Prut y CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—Search for two convicts who murdered two Indiana deputy sheriffs, from whom they escaped while en route to the Indiana reformatory, centered here tcf’av. Belief that the fugitives. Sam B? c- and John Bums, were here was revived when police learned that automobile tires shipped from Benton Harbor. Mich., to Chicago, were claimed at an American Railway Express office by two men answering the descriptions and giving the names of the fugitives. The deputies. John P. Grove and Wallace McClure, were found dead Thursday near Covington. Ind.. after their bullet-riddled car had been found in Decatur, 111. Seek Weapon Identity P>ir United Tress LAFAYETTE. Ind.. Feb. 18.—An investigation was started here today to determine who gave to John Burns and Samuel Baxter, the revolver which is believed to have been used in the murder of Deputy Sheriffs John Grove and Wallace McClure. Authorities here are almost certain that the .38 caliber bullets which ended the livqs of the officers were fired from a weapon carried by the criminals themselves inasmuch as the deputies' guns were of different caliber. With the finding of the bodies of the deputies, efforts now are being concentrated on a search for the murderers. Sheriff C. F. Jonston and his staff are busy mailing photographs and fingerprints.

How the Market Opened

NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—Selling carried over into the stock market today from Friday's sharp break, the year's most severe. Trading continued at a rapid pace with fairly large blocks changing hands. After the opening however, some evidence of steadiness came temporarily, but hammering of pool issues went ahead and this unsettled the whole market. Stop loss orders placed well under the market of a week or so ago were encountered in the early Transactions and prices fell. Freeport Texas again furnished the favorite target of bears. Their shooting brought it down 3 points to 68 in heavy turnover. Radio broke IV* to 86 Y, and United States Steel sold off % to 140 General Motors opened 3,000 shares at 133 and 500 shares at 133' i, off % to Vs, and held around the 133 level with support coming from strong interests. Montgomery Ward, Postum, Chrysler, Vanadium, International Nickel, Sears Roebuck, Phillips, Pullman, Mack and Studebaker were weak. Missouri Pacific and Green Cananea advanced. Describing the market, the Wall Street Journal's financial review today said: "Further liquidation came into the market at the start of the session and resulted In lower prices for the majority of the issues. The tone of steady, with most of the issues holdthe market, however, was fairly ing in the early trading around their opening levels. “Reports on trade conditions were somewhat discouraging. Bradstreet's reported the general trade conditions spot :y with notable exception of the steel industry, where operations have been stepped up and prices are stiffening.’’ New York Curb Opening —Feb. 18— Cities Service 55 86 V* Coht Oil 16q 16^ Durant B'4 9’/ 8 Ford Canada 522 525 Humble Oil 59 s i 60 Imp Oil Canada 58V 58'/i Ind Pipe 75 78 Int Pete 35 35'i Marmon 40 40 >/ 2 Ohio Oil 59'/j 69 5 / Prairie Pipe 207 Vi 210 Prairie O & Gas 48‘/a 49 Stutz J5 Vi 16 Stand Oil Ind 71 71 Vi Stand Oil Kansas 15 15V 8 Stand Oil Ky 122 Vi 123 Vaccum OH 138 138V4 VANDERUPFOR HOOVER Famed Banker Sees Secretary as Financial Genius. By United Press PARIS, Feb. 18.—Herbert Hoover, because of his masterful mind in economics and his great foresight, is favored by Frank former president of the National City Bank, as the next President of the United States. Vanderlip told the United Press, however, that "big business” might oppose Hoover, because of his directness. He said that Governor Smith of New York was able and competent, but that he favored Hoover, because he was a financial fenius. INSPECTION~AT~CULVER CULVER, Ind., Feb. 18.—Culver Military Academy was inspected Friday by a party of twenty-five, heads of military schools, who are members of the Association of Military Academies and Colleges. Col. G. A. Lynch, general staff officer of the United States Army, a member of the party, announced while here that the Reserve Officers Training Corps has no more openings and there will be none unless more money is appropriated by Congress to to War bt ipartoato

TRACK DOWN 2 BANDITS BY TRAIUNSNOW Confess Plans for Robbing Street Cars; Conductor Gives ‘Tip.’ POOLROOM IS LOOTED Intruder Fires Shot to Warn Players; Numerous City Holdups. Snow aided police in capturing two alleged bandits about midnight | Friday. They have confessed, aci cording to the officers, that they were planning street car hold-ups. Ira Cook, Central car conductor, called police and told them that two bandits who had held him up at : Fifty-Second and Pennsylvania Sts., again were on hand. Lieut. Victor Houston and squad went to the spot and found a deserted automobile with tracks of the two men leading away from the machine. Following the snow trail the officers arrested Artie Moulton of 2905 Chester Ave., and Eugene Whitfield of Decatur, 111., at Forty-Third and Meridian Sts. Poolroom Is Robbed They are said to have admitted that they intended to rob Cook, but lost their nerve. They then planned to walk towards the city and board an outbound car and hold-up the conductor, they are said to have confessed. Cook identified Whitfield as the man who held him up Sunday. Whitfield has been staying at the Chester Ave. address. James Honnold, 618 N. Alabama St., was racking balls for two players in the Century Billiard Parlor, 35 E. Pearl St., with his back to the cash register. He heard the cash register bell ring and looking around faced a bandit with a gun. The desperado fired one shot as a warning for Honnold and the pool players to keep still, took the money from the cash register and left, Honnold told police. Groceries Are Looted The Kroger grocery, Blake and Michigan Sts., was held up by a Negro bandit Friday, who escaped with S3O. Manager Arthur Dallman, of the Y. M. C. A., and two men customers were held at bay with a gun, while the Negro rifled the cash register. Vernie King, Franklin, Ind., appealed to local police through Deputy Sheriff Carl Losey of Franklin, to be on the lookout for a bandit in a small automobile, who beat King and robbed him of a gun, knife and diamond ring. A money sack containing S3O was taken from the Standard grocery, 548 S. West St., by burglars Friday night. Manager T. R. Nelson reported. The Rev. W. D. Shannon, Negro, pastor of Allen Chapel, 637 E. Eleventh St., reported his home entered by burglars twice recently. He suspects they are after the collections, he said. Steal Convict’s Furniture Miss Rose Holmes, employed at the State Automobile Insurance Company, reported a diamond ring valued at $l5O taken from the office. While Clarence Mooris of 15 8. West St. is serving sentence at the Indiana State farm, furniture valued at S3OO has been taken from his home, a stepson, Charles Thorn, of 34 E. Raymond St., told police. In the Stock Market (By Thomson & McKinnon) NEW YORK, Feb. 18.—A variety of comment in the press on Friday’s stock market. The item that held my attention was the statement that fear of Congressional investigation of brokers loans caused the trouble. Isn’t it peculiar how we will all go out of our way to And excuses and ignore that which Is most plausible and which is common sense? What difference does it make to a market today that at some future day there is to be a Congressional investigation? There is certainly nothing illegal about brokers loans, so what is there to fear? A Congressional committee going to say that loans are too big? Why we don’t have to wait for a committee to tell us that. We know it. Everybody has been talking about it for a long time. The trouble is we have been living on a lot of phrases, such as “it will be good for us to lose gold,” "It will be good for us to lower our tariff to help Europe,” that we are in anew era, no more depressions in business, everything going to run smoothly. Loans are not too big because so many more stocks listed, and a lot of other phrases like that. We will have to stop singing the song of humbuggery with the Fouth of July spread-eagle chorus and get down to earth. We ought to get some rally today, but don't forget to sell them on the bulges. Chicago Grain Opening B,y United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—WheatMarch, unchanged; May, unchanged; July, off Vs. Corn—March, off 14; May, unchanged; July, off %. Oats—May, off 14; July, up 14. PfV Vtfj C\ft§

Don’t Don’t Constant Use of Word Is Detriment to Child, Parents Told.

By United Press CHICAGO, Feb. 18—The word “don’t” is one of the most harmful in the language to say to a child. The less he hears “don’t” the better will his character develop. A parent who continually thunders the word at his young son may expect to find him, at the long trouser stage, a weak, spineless youth facing life with little more than a big collection of inhibitions, according to Dr. William Kilpatrick of the teachers’ College, Columbia University. Speaking today before the MidWest Conference on "Character Development,” Dr. KUpathrick urged parents to let their children begin facing thfc battles of life at an earlier age. “It won’t do the growing boy any good to tell him not to fight with other boys in the street,” he explained. "Let him scrap; let him get licked—and he will exercise more caution in choosing his next adversary- " Each time you say ‘don’t,’ you are pushing him a step nearer to namby-pambyism.” DR. GEORGE “a. DOREY, noted psychologist and author, told two parents and childtraining experts that many children grow up with characters distorted because they are not allowed to take responsibility at an early age. “The small boy or girl who does not learn to take responsibility for misdeeds becomes spoiled and begins to tell lies and evade being punished,” he said. Today session ended the threeday conference, which drew more than 2,000 parents and educators from all over the United States. bombhomeTf CHICAGO JUDGE Friends of ‘Big Bill’ Targets of Blasts. Pp United Press CHICAGO. Feb. 18.—Another attack was delivered by gangsters last night at the Thompson administration. The apartment home of Municipal Judge John A. Sbarbaro w’as partially wrecked by a bomb explosion. Judge Sbarbaro and his wife were hurled from their beds by the explosion, but neither was injured. Only a short time after Judge Sbarbaro’s home was bombed, a cigar store owned by a friend of his was wrecked by another bomb. The rear end of the place, Louis Barsotti’s smoke shop on the north side, was tom away by the explosion. A garage in another part of the city was wrecked at about the same hour by a bomb. Police declared the garage was a hangout to bootleggers. w Judge Sbarbaro declared he was puzzled by the explosion, but said he had been very vigorous in aiding Mayor William Hale Thompson’s efforts to rid the city of gangsters. TIME HOnTbEGUN Endurance Record Sought Second Time. IMPERIAL COUNTY AIRPORT, Cal., Feb. 18.—Alvin K. Peterson and Charles F. Rocheville took off in their Albatross plane at 6:54 a. m. here today, on their second attempt to break the world’s endurance flight record. Jack Reed, radio operator also was aboard the craft. TWO ARRESTED IN RAID Negroes taken by Federal Agents as Booze Violators. Federal agents charged they purchased liquor from Clifford Harris, Negro, 29, of 510 W. Twenty-Ninth St., arristed Friday by a squad of Government and police. When the officers raided the house they found John N. Crosby, 22, of 1546 N. Senate Ave., whom they charge was delivering liquor. Beer, gin, apricot brandy and liquor accessories were confiscated. Both were held on Federal charges. WEBER IS IMPROVED Pastor Reported Better After Heart Attack. The Rev. Joseph F. Weber, pastor of the Church of the Asumption, 1121 Blaine Ave., is improving at St. Vinecnt’s Hospital today from an attack of heart trouble, suffered early this week. Attaches at the hospital reported that he was resting easily and that he will be able to go home in a few days. Father Weber was taken to the hospital Tuesday when attending physicians decided that rest and quiet were essential. Father Weber has been active in West Indianapolis civic affairs for

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LEGISLATORS' MOVES FOR IMPEACHMENT OF lACKSON MEET VIGOROUS OPPOSITION Organization Believed Ready for CounterAttack to Prevent Action in Governor’s Case. DEMOCRATS CONTENT TO LAY LOW / Storm of Protest Rises Over State Against Retention of Office by Executive; Editorials Blast Him. V liile a half dozen Republican legislators were reported working today for a special legislative session t oimpeack Governor Ed Jackson, freed by a technicality from conspiracy charges in Criminal Court Thursday, the chief executive's hold on State governmental reins appeared in little danger from the move. Scattered Republican effoi’ts for the special session met the vigorous squelching counter-attack of the State Republican organization. Democratic legislators, whose chance it might seem to raise hue and cry for the special session, were passive; content, it was understood, t obe able to say “the Republicans have not cleaned house.” Editorial criticism of the Governor's stubborn intent to ignore resignation demands, however, was not divided on party lines.

With practical unanimity, editorial comment throughout the State observed that the Governor, though acquitted before the law, was convicted in public opinion. Some of the editorials follows: RICHMOND PALLADIUM (Independent)—lndiana’s Governor today is a besmirched and bedraggled chief executive, who has lost the confidence of the people and forfeited the respect which should be his by right of the office he holds. A technicality has freed him, but public opinion has convicted him of the crime. In view of the reluctance of the Governor’s attorneys to introduce testimony to disprove the bribery charges, which the public naturally interprets as fear of the outcome. Governor Jackson should resign. He stands guilty before the people. Recalling the associations of Governor Jackson with certain influences in the State and his disinclination to assist in cleaning up political corruption, the public need not expect him to resign from office. The Legislature should be called in special session to impeach him. MUNCIE PRESS (Republican)— The least Governor Jackson can do is to call a special session of the Legislature and demand that he be impeached, so all the evidence that would have been given in his court trial may be submitted. Demands Impeachment VINCENNES COMMERCIAL (Re-publican)—-Is it not a fact that Indiana's disgrace is so paramount that the Legislature must be called to vindicate the State honor? The people generally demand legislative action. The Indiana Senate can conclude this thing and save Indiana’s honor. Will the Senate do it? This newspaper demands that Governor Jackson be placed on trial for impeachment for his grave offense at once. GARY POST-TRIBUNE (Independent)—Governor Ed Jackson has been freed by the court of any legal responsibility for trying to bribe exGovernor McCray when he was in office, but he has not been freed of the moral responsibility for the crime. Indiana has been more than fair with the Governor, and it now is time for him to recognize his error and get out. He is through in politics and he can gain nothing for himself or his friends by holding to an office he has disgraced. We should think the Governor would prefer to resign as the situation he is in must be far from pleasant and it will become less pleasant from now on. Calls for Resignation SOUTH BEND NEWS - TIMES (Independent) How this precious Governor of ours can face the people of Indiana and retain his office after these disclosures, we do not know. How he can live as "Governor” when the world knows his history, we do not know. Resignation, if there were a spark of honor left, would be the only course for him. Yet, if we know Jackson, he will not resign. LAKE COUNTY TIMES, Hammond (Independent) The verdict does not alter the fact that the great State of Indiana stands disgraced before the eyes of her sister States. The moral responsibility rests with the people who voted for the malodorous organization which put Jackson in office. The majority of the people in Indiana have their own private opinion of the guilt or Innocence of the Governor. WABASH PLAIN DEALER (Independent)—lf Jackson wants to retain a ahred of self-respect and a little esteem from his fellowmen, he should resign at once. It’s too bad Walb no longer is State chairman, because, with all his faults, he had the courage to ask resignations for the party's good. InKRANQM JBEPQRTER Unde-

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pendent) Governor Ed Jackson may be innocent, and before the law is so. but at the court of public opinion he stands convicted. On every hand citizens are suggesting an immediate resignation. While special editions and streamers are announcing the acfnittal, an exactly opposite decision is being handed down by the court of public opinion. KOKOMO DISPATCH (Democratic) —The State of Indiana now stands in the shameful position of having for a Governor a man who by the testimony of five witnesses, three of them creditable and all testifying to the same story, offered a bribe; a man whose ideals of public office are so low that he regards them as legitimate property to be bartered for money; a man who is revealed as a cheap political huckster; a man who cannot be trusted to refrain from tempting other public officials into corrupt deeds, not to speak of the questionable trust that may be placed in him when it comes to yielding to temptation himself; a man who is utterly unfit to be Governor. Ed Jackson should resign! And if he does not resign, the legislature should take it upon itself to meet and oegin impeachment proceedings. One Friend Here NEWCASTLE COURIER (Republican)—Governor Jackson doubtlessly will face a lot of talk about being guilty, but not proven. His enemies are not likely to be satisfied, but his friends will take the position he has been punished sufficiently. Yet through it all, who can say that Jackson has not given a good administration? Henry County friends of Ed Jackson—and they are legion—are glad he has been acquitted. (Newcastle formerly was Jackson’s home.) MT. VERNON DEMOCRAT (Democratic)—Governor Jackson’s victory in the court is a hollow one. He was acquitted purely on a technicality. Governor Ed Jackson may, technically speaking, be not guilty, but it will take more than the court decision to convince the average faii'-minded Hoosier that he was .not a party to the plot to bribe McCray. EVANSVILLE PRESS (Independent)—The decision does not absolve Governor Jackson from his known dependence upon and his years of convenience with the KuKlux Klan and its leaders. Governor Jackson can be of little further use to Indiana as an executive to be trusted and respected. He cannot escape realizing, as many thousands of Indiana citizens do, that to his delving in the slime of Ku-Klux Klan politics much of the dishonor now resting on the State is due. The least Governor Jackson might do to make amends to the people of Indiana is to resign immediately. He should resign. Usefulness at End FT. WAYNE NEWS-SENTINEL (Republican)—We congratulate the Governor's legal counsel, but we have no congratulations for the Governor. His usefulness as chief executive of this State definitely is at an end. He, therefore, owes it to himself, to his constituents, and the good name of this soverlgn commonwealth to resign without delay. Seymour Tribune (Independent)— The result of the trial is a legal victory for the Governor, but certainly it is unfortunate. As the matter now stands, the Governor Is acquitted in the eyes of the law, but he is not acquitted in the eyes of the public. If the defense could have cleared up this charge by the Introduction of testimony, a serious mistake was made by not doing so. Calls for Truce MARION CHRONICLE (Republican)—The ruling of Judge Charles M. McCabe for an instructed verdict of not guilty in the trial of Governor Ed Jackson ought to bs a