Indianapolis Times, Volume 39, Number 245, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 February 1928 — Page 1

SUPER-RULE’ 3-SIDED, SAYS EX-KLANHEAD J Klux, Dry League and Horsethief Sleuths Aided, Emmons Asserts. URGED TO USE VIOLENCE Organizer Advocated ‘Tar Party' in South Bend, Witness Claims. Cooperation between the Ku-Klux Klan, Anti Saloon Leagu and Horsethief Dectectives in a super-govern-ment program in Indiana, long charged by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, was desired in a deposition made at the attorney general’s office today by Hugh “Pat” Emmons, former exalted cyclops at South Bend. The deposition is to be used by Gilliom in tire suit to oust the Klan from the State, first arguments on which are to be in Marion Circuit Court Feb. 27. Throughout the questioning objections were registered by Charles J. Orbison, Klan attorney. Emmons left the Klan in 1926, when he testified before the Reed investigation committee in Chicago. Here is how super government worked in the 1926 primaries to elect Senator Arthur R. Robinson, according to the Emmons deposition: Inquired of Machine Secretary E. S. Shumaker of the Anti-Saloon League came to the Jefferson Hotel in South Bend on a day that Robinson was scheduled to speak at 8 p. m. With him was Wilbur Ryman, Muncie attorney, for whom Emmons had made Klan speeches and who then was and again is a candidate for the Republican nomination for attorney general. He brought Emmons to Shumaker, who immediately asked: “How is your machine working?” Cyclops Emmons reported the machine in good condition and got a goodly number of Klansmen to attend the meeting at night to hear Robinson, whom he says then was a member of the Klan. Afterward, Shumaker asked him to bring Klansmen to his room “one at a time so as not to arouse suspicion,” to discuss things. Must Work Together He brought Edward Gross, and Shumaker said: “The Klan, Anti-Saloon League and Horse Thief Detectives must work together to put over their program.” In 1924, Emmons said he got Shumaker to take the*nane of Mike Hanley out of the league approved list for St. Joseph County sheriff and substitute that of Tom Goodrich. Hanley, Emmons told Shumaker, was a “wet Catholic” and Goodrich was a “dry Protestant.” He told of secret political circulars sent out by Grand Dragon Walter Bossert in 1924 with names of Klansmen designated so that they could be detected by cyclops. He recalled that Gilliom’s name was marked for non-approval. Balloonist Volunteers He said an effort was made to get advertisers to boycott the South Bend Tribune for being anti-Klan and that the organization tried to buy the South Bend Mirror. Telling of a speech at South Bend made by Bertram M. Tipple, professor of the Methodist College, Rome, Italy, he said that Tripple was brought there by Imperial Wizard Hiram Evans as the author of' a book “Alien Rome.” A man named James Stewart, whom Emmons described as “very hot,” came to him and wanted money for dynamite to blow up Notre Dame University. He said Stewart said he was a dare-devil balloonist and willing to risk his life in the great cause of curbing Roman Catholic domination of the world. Later Stewart was banished by Emmons for burning fiery crosses on the Notre Dame campus, he said. He also told of conferences with Evans, where he said the Klan eventually would control the United States Senate and make it impossible to elect a President of the United States who wasn’t a Klansman or favorable to the organization. Gave Klan Grip His first meeting with Senator Rabinson was at the Oliver Hotel in South Bend, he testified. Robinson gave him the Klan grip and said, "You know how I stand.” He testified that the St. Joseph County Klan membership had shrunk from 4,500 to 175; that the State total had been around 178,000 tu 1924 and now was less than 4,000. fee gave evidence to support GilJfem’s charges that it is a secret political organization, spending money in politics that is unrecorded. He told of W. Lee Smith, then Grand Dragon, sending a man named Sirmans to South Bend to aid the failing membership and a speech in which this man urged more “Southern spirit” and recommended tar and feathers in “this Roman Catholic community.” He said Lieutenant Governor F. Harold Van Orman made a rousing political speech at a big Klan meetlag in Cadle tabernacle in 1824.

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VOLUME 39—NUMBER 245

Is Thirty ! Deadline ’ in Love?

This is the introductory article of a series which had its birth In the statement attributed to Will Durant, famed philosopher, that thirty is the deadltne age for love. Mr. Durant here gives his version and the first answer to him will appear in The Times tomorrow'. It wlli be written by Montague Glass, giving his views through the medium of his immortal characters. Potash and Perlmutter. Other noted Americans will follow Mr. Glass, in replying to Mr. Durant. BY WILL DURANT AND now what if I never said it at all? What If this report of my denying the possibility of love after 30 is as fictitious as the famous philosophical remark that all men should shoot themselves at 35? Slowly lam learning my lesson: I must never joke with reporters; they will quote me without the smile, and they will be certain to ignore modifications. But It would be a shame, now that this learned discussion has gone so far, to say that the commotion has a purely imaginary source. Perhaps the best thing to do in the premises is to set down what really was said (with sundry improvements that come as afterthoughts), and to indicate what basic problems lie at the root of our rather frivolous debate. The original query was intelligent and fundamental. Can we restore the old moral code? It is a good question because it suggests the possibility that the old code Is permanently gone, and that our current “immorality” is but a groping trlal-and-error transition to anew code of honor and decency. For the old code was developed with an agricultural society in view; it assumed a brief adolescence, and a rapid arrival of the male at economic self-sufficiency; it assumed that marriage would come early, and that children would come early and often. On the farm It was cheaper to marry; the wife was an asset, not an ornament; the children soon earned their keep, and became profitable investments of one’s energy; therefore marriage came young, motherhood was sacred, and birth-control was immoral. And in the complex industrial life of the city, men attain self-suffi-ciency late, and in the middle class latest of all; a wife is so expensive a luxury that only the poor can afford to marry; children are frowned upon by landlords, and can not earn money for us till they are 14 or 16. Immigration and the suction of the city upon the country replenish the population very well; the streets are so littered with children that they interfere with our eight-cylin-der juggernauts; there is no evident necessity of adding to their multitude. * H ABOVE all, the advance of medicine, Sanitation and parental care has reduced the death rate to a frabtion of what it was; the birth rate had to come down, or else Ecclesiastes and Malthus would have been right in believing that when goods are increased, they are increased that consume them, and the last condition is as bad as the first. So the commandment to breed and mutiply loses its urgency in the city; marriage comes late, and children are an oversight of love. Social necessity, which makes all sound morality, no longer requires large families; early marriage is not indispensable for the maintenance of the race, and birth control is taken up by the nicest ladles in the land. All things change. Consequently there is no necessary permanence, nor any inherent holiness, in the moral code which came down to us with our religioh and our politics. “Immorality” is mostly other people’s morals, or the morals other days. As the Industrial Revolution altered our lives, destroyed our homes, packed us into apartment boxes, replaced the family with the individual and the State, subjected religion to science, and art to industry, so it is rapidly dissolving the moral code developed in and for an agricultural age. Invention, the mother of progress, is transiently the nurse and instrument of our “immorality.” Adolescence lengthens, and maturity of mind and character, like maturity of means, comes nearer 30 than 20. A man of 30 is young now, in body and soul; woman, who in the past was old, decrepit and trustworthy at forty, now retains her beauty into the “dangerous age;” and if Balzac were alive he would write with admiration of the woman of 40. Perhaps in the end, sexual development also will be delayed; and then anew adjustment of nature and Industry may come, with later puberty, a longer period of growth and education, later marriage, later climacteric and a lengthened life. When that new adjustment comes, man will be on a higher level of j health, power and thought than ever before. The prolongation of adolescence lifted man from brutality to civilization; which of us can tell the fruits of that further prolongation of adolescence which goes on today under our very eyes? Is Bulwer’s “Coming Race” about to arrive? * a MEANWHILE, however, the interlude is chaos. Many of our I people are of South European origin, and will carry with them, for sev(Turn to Page 2) OUR OWN PIES and pastries. Try them. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, Basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m.—Advertisement, _

LINDY FLIES THE AIR MAIL AGAINTODAY Six Planes to Carry 100,000 Pieces of Mail in Tribute to ‘Slim.’ PLANS TO CHANGE SHIPS Will Give Lindbergh Touch to Each Letter; Buddies Accompany Him. BY FOSTER EATON United Press St*ft Correspondent ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 20.—A milestone in the progress of the United States air mail service was reached today with the scheduled flight of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh over his old St. Louis-Chicago route. Upward of 100,000 separate pieces of mail—a record-making consign-ment-awaited stowing aboard six planes here and at Springfield and Peoria, 111., as a tribute to “Slim” Lindbergh's temporary return to the service. The good-will ambassador will personally fly anew Travelair Whirlwind air mail plane delivered here Sunday, but during the flight to Chicago he is expected to change ships to “give the Lindbergh touch” to each piece of mail. Special Mark On Letter Every letter will bear the special cancellation mark “Lindbergh again flies the air mail.” He will be aided by Pilots Philip A. Love and Thomas Nelson, his former buddies on the same route, and by Bud Gurney. Leslie Smith and Ira Sloniger, now regularly employed on the old “Lindbergh trail.” After brief formalities featuring Lindbergh. Federal and municipal postal authorities, “Slim” Is scheduled to take off at 4:15 p. m., for Springfield, arriving at 5:10 p. m. He is due at Peoria at 6 p. m., and at Chicago at 7:15 p. m. While at Chicago, the pilots are planning a dinner “of. by, and for air mail pilots,” instead of the more formal ceremonies to which Lindbergh has become accustomed on his European and Latin-Amencan tours. Week-End Hops Interrupted The return air-mail trip is scheduled for Tuesday. Over the week-end, Lindbergh engaged in two interrupted test flights intended to take him over the St. Louis-Chicago route. Oil trouble forced him to abandon the first attempt at Springfield. After returning to St. Louis as a passenger in a regular air mail plane, he was delayed in starting out again until 6:35 p. m., when he returned after a flight of a few minutes because of landing-light trouble. Lindbergh attempted to make a trial flight Sunday in the new Travelair biplane, but was prevented by an unmanageable Sunday afternoon crowd, which swarmed about the plane and refused to clear the field, which was not policed.

HOLMES REFUSES TO APPROVE HEALTH BILL Returns Measure Providing $125,000 Loan to City Council. Ira M. Holmes, declared legal mayor by councilmanic r olution, today declined to 6ign the $125,000 health board temporary loan ordinance and returned it to City Clerk William A. Boyce, Jr. Holmes advised Boyce to submit the ordinance to council for passage over “his pocket veto.” Holmes said he feared he would “hamper the city’s credit if he signed the measure. It is considered doubtful whether the city can obtain a loan since the ordinance has not been presented to Mayor L. Ert Slack for signature. The health board needs the money to meet its pay roll and pay bills.

U. S. CARS TUNE UP , FOR SPEED MARKS

By United Press DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Feb. 20. —Two American race drivers, one with a diminutive appearing machine, today prepared to make attempts to break the record of 206.95602 miles per hour established Sunday by Capt. Malcom Campbell of England over the OrmondDaytona Beach course. The two Americans are J. M. White, of Philadelphia, in a powerful 36-cylinder special design, and Frank Lockhart, in a small twoengined Stutz. White’s machine has been barred by the American Automobile Association. But he was expected to revise it to meet classifications. Lockhart’s machine is a pygmy besides the great “Bluebird” which Campbell drove to victory Sunday and White’s big machine . He has been able to exceed 180 miles an hour in tests and believed it would be able to break the record Campbell made. The British driver made brilliant runs in establishing bis record!

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEB. 20,1928

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Here Are Descriptions of Two Missing Children School children, neighbors and police this afternoon aided the frantic parents in a search for these children, who disappeared about 4 p. m. Sunday on their way to their home. 1725 Arrow Ave., from their grandmother’s, two blocks away: Thelma Poynter, 8, weight, 46 pounds; height, 4 feet 6 inches; dark brown hair, with fair complexion and blue eyes; wore dark brown coat with fur collar, red tam-o’sham, dark blue dress, tan shoes and light tan stockings. Elmer Poynter, 4; weight, 35 pounds: height, 3 feet; rather chunky for hfs age; light complexion with blue eyes; wore dark blue sailor suit, gray overcoat, brown cap, black stockings and tan shoes. Usually grinning mischievously. Made friends with strangers easily, and unusually spoke to people on street, who returned! his smiles.

NEW CHARGES RAP SLACK AND WORLEY

Accused of Malfeasance in Office in Petition to Council. Republican city councilmen. who ineffectually have declared Mayor L. Ert Slack out of office, today were given an opening for anew attack upon Slack and his administration. Charles Koehring, hardware merchant, 802 Virginia Ave., filed charges of malfeasance In office against Slack, Police Chief Claude M. Worley and board of safety members, with City Clark William A. Boyce Jr., for presentation to council tonight. Koehring several weeks ago protested against the wholesale gambling raids conducted by police with Slack’s approval. His charges today are based upon "unlawful Imprisonment of innocent persons in city prison on charges of vagrancy,

which broke that of a fellow Englishman, H. O. D. Seagrave. The beach was slightly rolling and there was a strong northeast wind blowing. With a four-mile start, and the wind at his back, Campbell sent his machine over the course at 215.70713 miles an hour for a half mile. He turned about and went against the wind for the half mile at a speed of 199.66722 miles per hour. At one time the tachometer of Campbell’s machine registered 220 miles an hour, the British racer said. Campbell’s machine Is equipped with motors similar to the newly designed airplane engines which took English fliers to speed success in the Schneider Cup races last summer. He said he would attempt to break his own record when conditions were more suited. Several times Campbell was shaken from his position in the driver’s seat as his machine hit rough stretches of the beach. Once his foot came from the accelerator and brakes, but he quickly regained Control Os t.ly ma^hln*,

without cause or any evidence for conviction of such persons. If the council takes cognizance of the charges a committee will be appointed to investigate and report whether impeachment should be undertaken. N 15,000 Not Guilty. Koehring sent a letter to council with the charges declaring that within the last year police have made more than 15,000 ’not guilty’ arrests and during Mayor Slack’s term of office the porportion of these arrests has been increased. Koehring said that arrests where the police obtain no convictions outnumber those upon which perso:is are found guilty “two to one,” and added “It is safe to say that in no other place in the civilized world is such brutaility and lawlessness practiced by the police and if these facts were properly reported to our citizens they would not permit this state of affairs.” Slack Refuses Comment Koehring said the charges were prepared by Attorney Edward C. Eikman, 408 Fidelity Trust Bldg. He admitted he had talked with Councilman Boynton J. Moore about the charges. Mayor Slack refused to comment upon the charges. Police Chief Worley said: "Koehring Is having his annual outbreak.” ADMITS TWO TO BOND Supreme Court Fixes Bail for Men Held in Dance Hall Death. The Indiana Supreme Court under a special ruling has admitted Clarence Jackson and William iMehrhoff of Lawrenceburg, Ind., to bail after it had been refused by Judge James A. Cox, special judge In the Ripley Circuit Court. The two men are held on charges of second degree murder In connection with the death at Cincinnati of Leonard Eads, employe of the Cedar Creek dance hall, near Versailles. Eads Is said to have died as a result of injuries received in a fist fight. Community Chest Leaders Confer. B.i/ United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Three hundred delegates of the Association of Community Chests and Councils met here today for a twoday conference. They will be received by President Coolidge at 5 fi. to- „ . . : : .

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Woman Refuses to Give Up Presents From McCallister. A diamond ring, furniture, automobile and other personal property given by the late Municipal Judge Fred McCallister to his secretary, Janice Martin, and her mother, Mrs. Lavonichia Burke, 6156 Ashland Ave., may be nought through court action, it was indicated today. Judge McCallister committed suicide at his home, 3834 Byram Ave., early this year. Miss Martin and Mrs. Burke admitted from the Probate Court witness stand Saturday that Judge McCallister had given them the presents. They refused to give them up, claiming they were gifts from Judge McCallister. Concealment Alleged The secretary and her mother were in court to show cause why they had not turned over to Ralph McCallister, son of the late judge, and administrator of his estate, certain personal property. Ira M. Holmes, attorney for the family, had them cited for concealing the property. Items mentioned In court pnd alleged to have been presented by Judge McCallister were a S4OO diamond ring, SBOO worth of furniture, half of which was paid for, and automobile and currency and an interest in a real estate contract. May File Civil Suit Checks aggregating $4,000, drawn on McCallister’s account were shown to the court. Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Burke claimed they were “gifts” and that they would not be surrendered. If they persist, cavil suits for recovery may be filed, Holmes said today. The woman admitted from the stand they knew Judge McCallister was married at the time the gifts were made. Mrs. Martin was his secretary throughout the time Judge McCallister occupied the Municipal Court bench, two years. Checks Even for Furniture Many of the checks were made out to furniture companies and other firms from which the gifts were purchasedThe value ol the estate, exclusive of the gifts to the secretary and her mother, is negligible, Holmes said. Judge McCallister was said to have inherited a snail fortune a few months ago. Probating of the will awaits disposition of the argument over the gifts.

BARE CONSPIRACY IN SALE OF STOCKS

A conspiracy of certain Indiana and Chicago investment houses to sell unregistered stocks in this State was revealed today by State Securities Commissioner Wallace Weatherholt, who, with the aid of Chief Examiner Earle Coble and the Marlon County grand jury and prosecutor’s office, Is warring on “bucket shops.” Weatherholt reported three firms have left the State, all being under investigation. Two were being represented today by Attorney J. Glenn Harris, Gary Republican leader in the Indiana Legislature, who conferred with Weatherholt and also with Prosecutor William H. Remy. Both of these firms have “closed shop," Weatherholt said.

FEAR 2 CHILDREN KIDNAPED; GIRL, 8, AND BROTHER, 4, MISSING LAST 24 HOURS Vanish After Leaving Grandmother's House for Own Home Two Blocks Away; Police Search Fruitless. PLAYMATES ARE ENLISTED IN HUNT Father Leads Party Which Seeks Missing Tots in Every Section of Neighborhood Without Result. Fear that Thelma Poynter, 8, and her brother, Elmer, 4, missing from their home at 1725 Arrow Ave., for nearly twentyfour hours, have been kidnaped or met a more horrible fate grew this afternoon. Police, neighbors, school children and the frantic father, Everett Poynter, had searched a twelve-block square area without finding any.trace of the missing boy and girl who disappeared Sunday after they left their grandmother’s residence to walk to their home, two blocks away. Children of School 55 were dismissed from classes to aid in the search. The entire city detective staff was given descriptions of the children this afternoon and ordered to co-operate with the men specifically assigned to the case. The disappearance of the pair was not discovered until thi* morning. Little Elmer and his sister attended Sunday school at the Hillside Christian Church Sunday morning and returned home about noon.

Their mother was preparing dinner, but the meal was not quite ready. Thelma suggested that she visit, her grandmother. Mrs. Ellen Gregory. 1533 Steele St., two blocks away, to wait until dinner was prepared. Boy Insists on Trip. Elmer asked his sister to be taken along, and when the sister objected at first, he began to cry. The mother settled the dispute by directing the sister to take brother along. The children often visited their grandmother overnight and the parents,felt no alarm when they did not return Sunday night. At 8:30 this merning the grandmother came to the Poynter home and inquired about the children. Then the mother learned that Thelma and Elmer had left the grandmother’s home shortly after 4 p. m., Sunday. She called her husband, at work at the Stutz Motor Car Company, where he is a grinder. The father returned home at once and organized a search of the neighborhood. Every spot within six blocks of the Arrow Ave. home, where the children or their bodies might be hidden was searched, according to the father, without trace being found. The homes of all friends where the children might have stopped were visited. Aid of Thelma’s companions at School 55. 1675 Sheldon Ave., was directed by Principal Homer Knight. Classes were dismissed half an hour early at noon and the children directed to enlist their parents and search the block in which they live. Four Officers on Job Police Chief Claude M. Worley detailed two detectives and two policewomen to carry on the search. School children and neighbors said no strange men had been seen loitering in the neighborhood recently, but the theory that the children were attacked and dragged away by a moron, or morons, was advanced. The theory also was suggested that the children might have been enticed into a Big Four Railroad box car. They would have crossed the Big Four tracks east of Massachusetts Ave. on their return from the grandmother’s. Go Across Tracks. The grandmother lives in an apartment building at Massachusetts Ave. and Steel St. just across from the tracks. The children ordinarily crossed the tracks at an alley

Weatherholt says that the examiners have unearthed eighteen cases where one firm took commissions both for selling and buying certain unregistered stocks. This has been turned over to the grand jury. It was understood the jury also was to probe statements supposed to have been made by a local attorney that he “could stop prosecution attempts for $200.” Prosecutor William H. Remy would not comment on the situation. It is known that a local business man has complained of the operations of an alleged “bucket shop” outfit, asserting he lost $9,000 in fake stock transactions, ii

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just south of Hamilton Ave. Tho alley led to the side of their home. Possibility that they might have been pulled In a box car of a freight train standing on the tracks there by tramps and carried away was suggested by the grandmother. The mother was near collapse aa the search went on. “Why don’t they come home? Why don’t they come home?” she sobbed. "They’re such good children, I don’t see why anybody would want to keep them. Father Fears Death “This might be something like the Hickman case, but I don’t see how anybody would think they could get money from us.” The father doubted that the children had been kidnaped, but feared they might have been struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver and the bodies carried off or hidden. Ha searched every culvert and place where the bodies might have been hidden within six blocks of the home, he said. The Poynters have- been married eleven years. Poynter served in the engineers’ unit during the World War. The couple has lived here most of the time since they were married. They have two other children, Ehel 7. and Ruby 3. “There Is no one I know who could have wanted to steal my children,” the father said. "I have no enemies and there has not been any family trouble which would have made anybody do this." Thelma Is in the 3-A grade, at School 55. She never has complained that any men had followed her or bothered her on the way to and from school, the teacher, Mist Teresa Glocking, said. Elmer, according to the father, was always friendly. He was habitually grinning at strangers and would speak to those who returned his smiles. COLD WILL CONTINUE Mercury Rise Tuesday Will Be Slight, Says Weather Man. The temperature will continue lent tonight and although it will be somewhat warmer Tuesday the rise will not be pronounced, according to Weather Man J. H. Armlngton. Today’s 7 a. m. temperature of 19 was 8 degrees below normal. The low mark for the week-end was II at 1 a. m. Sunday. The low temperatures over the week-end prevented the 1.8 inches of snow which fell Friday night and Saturday from melting. Temperatures tonight will be about the same as those of last night, reaching a low mark of from 15 to 20, he said. Hourly Temperature* 6a. m.... 19 10 a. m.... 20 7 a. ra~.. 19 11 a. m.... 22 Ba. m.... 19 12 (noon). 24 9 a. m.... 19 1 p. m.... 25

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