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THOUSANDS HONOR GERMAN, : IRISH FLIERS AND WIVES IN GIANT NEW YORK FESTIVAL

Triumphant Peace Parade Pays Tribute to Crew of Bremen. FOLLOW PERSHING PATH Animosities of Decade Ago Forgotten; Al Smith Sends Medals. BY EARL JOHNSON United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, April 30.—Ten years after the end of the great war between Germany and the allies, two former German soldiers and an Irish veteran of the allied air forces paraded in peaceful triumph through the streets of New York today. While hundreds of thousands theered their passing and millions more listened in on the celebration by radio, Baron Gunther von Huenefeld, Major Fitzmaurice and Captain Hermann, Koehl were carried along the route where the Eighty-Ninth Division and General John J. Pershing were feted when they returned from war. Flags of the United States, Germany and the Irish Free State were unfurled for the three men who were first to complete a westward airplane flight across the North Atlantic Ocean, a feat that won them a reception such as New York alone knows how to bestow upon her visiting heroes. Service Men Take Part Some of the 10,000 United States Soldiers and sailors who took part In the greeting may have projected their minds back to the days of 1918, but former animosities were forgotten. New York turned out en masse to honor the valiant aviators Lower Broadway from the Battery to Ninth St. was packed with people. An escort of motorcycle policemen cut a path for the official car through the dense crowd between the hotel and the North River pier, where they boarded the Macom, the city’s welcoming tug, for their trip down the river to the Statue of Liberty. Torn paper rained down from the upper stories of skyscrapers along the way. Cheering followed in the wake of the roaring motorcycles. Pages fropi Gideon Bibles and telephone directories were found among debris that had been thrown down from hotel windows. Fight Way Through Throng At the pier the police escort encountered its, first major difficulty. Between eight and ten thousand persons had gathered along the river front. Both bewildered, yet outwardly showing pleasure at their reception, they stepped ashore at Battery Park. Mrs. Fitzmaurice was accompanied by her little daughter, Patricia, 4. Her constant smile made her the center of interest on the trip from quarantine to the pier. The military parade had formed In Broadway under ■ command of Gen. Otho B. Rosenbaum as the Mason returned from the Statue of Liberty. The rumbling of drums, the clatter of musket butts on the pavement as they halted at intervals and the blaring of bands seemed to increase as the procession moved along under windows black with people. Horns, Whistles Mark Welcome All previous demonstrations of the day were surpassed when Whalen and his guests stepped off the Macom and entered the official automobiles. All kinds of horns, whistles and squawkers were employed to let the fliers konw that they were welcome. It was nearly 12:30 p. m. before the first of the troops marched through City Hall plaza in front of (the reviewing stand and between the two wide sections of stands. Shouts Greet Walker As soon as the official presentations were over Mayor Walker stepped to the front of the platform amid tumultuous cheering and began delivering his address of welcome. Major General William Haskell, commander of the New York National Guard represented Governor Al Smith. He congratulated the fliers in behalf of the Governor and the State and pinned a special commendatory medal on each of them. Baron Huenefeld Replies Baron Von Huenefeld was the first ©f the heroes to respond to the official greeting. “We are very thankful for the reception accorded us in America and New York,” the baron'said, speaking with a distinct German accent. “You have been very kkind to us and we will always remember the visit and we bring with us best greetings from our people in Germany.” Kothl spoke next. “We thank you very much for the reception,” he said. “It is very hard for me to tell you what I fell. I thank you very much with all my heart.” Koehl’s heroic effort to make himself understood in English was recoknized by the crowd with waves of cheemig and “hochs.” Fitzmaurice, the smiling Irishman, was more composed than the Germans. He spoke with a slight accent, hardly; Irish.

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Wives Embrace Hero Mates Before Throngs and Movie Cameras. KISSES MAYOR WALKER Mrs. Koehl and Mrs. Fitzmaurice Say They Were Confident. By United Press NEW YORK, April 30.—New York laid such insistent claim on the trans-Atlantic fliers that their wives were not allowed to greet them until all the welcoming ceremonies at city hall were ended. Capt. Herrman Koehl and Maj. James E. Fitzmaurice were at the right of the welcoming stand, in a group with Mayor Jimmy Walker and Grover Whalen, while Mrs. Koehl and Mrs. Fitzmaurice, just off the liner Dresden, had to climb on chairs, like all the other spectators, to get a'glimpse of their heroes. When the speeches were completed Mrs. Fitzmaurice, leading her dimpled daughter, Patricia, 4, edged toward the smiling Irishman. Then while cameras ground away and flashlights boomed, husbands and wives kissed in warm embrace, j The camera urged them on for just another “shot.” Mrs. Koehl Kisses Mayor Mrs. Koehl was almost beside herself with joy. She had waited a long time for her husband—since March 26, in fact. After embracing him, she threw her arms around the neck of Mayor Walker and planted a healthy kiss on each cheek while the crowd roared with delight. Mrs. Fitzmaurice wore a moleskin coat with a spray of violets on the lapel and close fitting dark hat covered with gold dots. She is a brunette of abou£*zs years. • Mrs. Koehl seemed even younger than her companion. She wore gray shoes and stockings and a light gray double-breasted suit with a blue tie and light gray straw hat with a blue band. They were met at city hall by Mrs. Walker, wife of the mayor, and Mrs. Clarence Chamberlin, wife of the famous pilot. Doubts Return Flight Mrs. Koehl said she had never tried to dissuade her husband from making the trans-Atlantic hop. She added she would not try to stop him if he decided to fly back, but she said she did not think it likely that he would. “I let him do what he wants,” she said. Then the newspaper men turned to Mrs. Fitzmaurice. “Sure, I’d like to fly, back with them,” she said, in answer to a question, “but I know they would nto take me with them.” “How did you feel when you heard that your husband was safe?” Can't See Her Daddy "Very, very happy,” she replied and volunteered the information that she received the news at 2 a. m., from an officer at the Baldonnel Airdome, who arrived at her home with a box of chocolates and a bottle of champagne. At the pier, Patricia looked over the crowd and then turned to her mother; “I can’t find daddy,” she said. Mrs. Koehl speaks very little English and talked to reporters in German at the dock. “Were you at all worried when nothing was heard from the Bremen”? Mrs. Koehl was asked. “Garnicht” (not a bit), she answered promptly. She said she had done considerable flying with her husband, but had never aspired to be a pilot.

WASHINGTON FEARS FLOOD ONSLAUGHT

Bu United Press• WASHINGTON, April 30.—The Nations capital, scene of flood control legislation for the Mississippi valley, itself faced a flood today. Unseasonal snows in West Virginia and Maryland were melting and sending unwonted waters into tributaries of the Potomac River. That stream was rising rapidly and overflowing in some places. At Great Falls, nine miles above Washington, the river stage was reported twenty-five feet about normal today. Harbor police said they expected the crest of the flood here tonight or Tuesday, with probable overflow in the lower sections of the city, including both the Army and Navy flying fields. South’s Flood Declines By United Press ATLANTA, Ga., April 30.—With twelve dead, 8,000 temporarily homeless, and damage estimated at between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000, the South’s flood, wind and frost ravages appeared on the decline today. Danger remained in the fertile JTorabigbee River valley in Alabama.

Defies Death By United Press ORANGE, N. J., April 30. Six hours after his jugular vein and windpipe had been severed by flying glass in an automobile accident, William Patten was still alive today, breathing through a tube. Five specialists worked on Patten shortly after midnight when he was taken to Memorial Hospital, although medical science concedes it is almost impossible to save a person’s life after the jugular vein is cut.

SCREAM COSTS LIFE OF GIRL Bandits Slay Usher During Theater Holdup. Bu United Press CHICAGO, April 30.—The scream of a girl usher during a suburban motion picture theater hold-up here last night cost her life. Three bandits drove up to the Ritz theater. in Berwyn, and when Miss Pearl Eggleston, 17, screamed, one of them shot her. The three seized $1,400 and fled to Chicago. . The girl was chatting with the cashier when the bandits alighted in front of the theater. The robbery apparently had been planned with detailed precision, the bandits determined to shoot any one who might balk them. All three used their firearms and ran through a crowd on the sidewalk outside before any of the surprised spectators could offer resistance to their escape. No one was struck by bullets except Miss Eggleston. Most of the shots lodged in the walls of the theater lobby. UNIONS FORJOOVER Rail Brotherhoods’ Chiefs Back Secretary. CLEVELAND, Ohio, April 30.—A circular directed to Indiana labor circles, approving the * presidential candidacy of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, In Indiana, was issued here today by executives of twelve brotherhoods. The circular was drafted at a recent meeting here. Brotherhoods represented included engineers, firemen and enginemen, conductors, clerks, maintenance of way men, blacksmiths, signalmen, marine engineers, electrical workers, machinists, train dispatchers and boilermakers. RECALLHARDINGGUARD Infantrymen to Tomb Will Return to Army Posts. By United Press MARION, Ohio, April 30.—The military guard maintained for four years and nine months at the tomb of the late President and Mrs. Warren G. Harding, in Marion cemetery is to be discontinued Tuesday when members of the guard detaenment of the Tenth United States Infantry will be sent back to army posts. The war department recall will send eight of the men to Ft. Hayes at Columbus, and eighteen, including the commanding officers, Lieut. Walter Lee Sherfey, will report to Ft. Thomas, Ky. JAIL LOCKS TOO WELL Sledges Used to Release Prisoners From Cell. Bondsmen were on hand to secure the release of Russell Aubrey, 22, of 1140 S. Belmont Ave., who was lodged in city prison Sunday night charged with selling an automobile without properly registering the title transference. Papers were fixed for his release on bonds and the turnkey went to open the cell door. The lock stuck and for two hours chisels and sledges were used before the lock functioned.

Warm sunshine cheered other Georgia sections, and in Florida, where wind storms took a’ heavy toll last week. Frosts did some damage to crops in the Carolinas and in south Georgia. The White River in Arkansas threatened to spread over the levee near Des Arc.

LINDY BOUND EAST TO GIVE HIS FAMED PLANE, SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS, TO NATION

ST. LOUIS, April 30.—Bound for its final resting place, the Spirit of St. Louis, with Col. Charles A. Lindbergh at the controls, left here for Washington at 9 a. m. today. Colonel Lindbergh will fly his airplane in which he made the first trans-Atlantic flight, to Washington, where the plane will be turned over to the Smithsonan Institution. Next month Lindbergh is expected to return here in his new plane—which he left in the East on his last flight .there—to participate in ceremonies 'cemmemorating the first

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, APRIL 30, 1928

OPPONENTS OF TIME CHANGE LEAD IN VOTE Ballot on Daylight Saving is 6,338 Against and 6,224 For. AVALANCHE AT FINISH Council Will Give Decision on Ordinance at Its Meeting Tonight. For daylight saving 6,224 Against daylight saving 6,338 Indianapolis citizens are almost evenly divided for and against the daylight saving ordinance, final results of the poll conducted by The Indianapolis Times last week, tabulated at noon today, show. Wheeras, the propqnents of the summer time schedule had led the poll through last week, the check of hundreds of ballots received this morning showed that those against daylight saving finally led by the slight margin of 114 out of 12,562 votes. The final result was 6,338 against to 6,224 for. The poll was one of the most extensive ever taken by a newspaper upon a public question in Indianapolis. It presents an unusually accurate cross-scetion of how the citizens feel upon the subject, since the ballots come from every section and every walk of life. Ballots Given Council The ballots, almost a mail sack full, were taken to council this afternoon, for consideration tonight, when, in a special meeting, the ordinance is to be voted upon. The welfare committee of council, headed by Councilman Earl Buchanan, will hold a public hearing on the ordinance in the council chamber at 7, to decide what action the committee will recommend. Council will meet following the public hearing to act on the daylight saving ordinance introduced by Councilman Robert E. Springsteen and sponsored 'by the Gyro Club. Council Is known to be divided j and a spirited session is certain. Councilman Herman P. Lieber and John F. White are said to be op-! posed to the measure. Others have not expressed themselves. The ordinance provides clocks be turned up one hour on the second Sunday in May and be turned back the lasv Sunday in October. The Associated Theaters of Indiana are to present petitions with several thousand signatures against the time change proposal. A delegation of the Marion County Farm Bureau will submit resolutions, adopted by the directors, Saturday, condemning “fast time.” Adoption of the ordinance will work great hardship on Marion County farmers, requiring a change of time of deliveries of milk and produce, the resolution said. “The farmer is required by the) nature of his calling to work by the j sun rather than by tamperir ~ with a clock mechanism,” the resolution also said. Bankers Favor Change The Marion County Bankers’ Association will turn in petitions favoring the time change. A total of 873 signatures had been received at noon from only eight of the forty-one banks of the association, the committee in charge said. One of the largest group of votes in The Times poll total against the last time” came from the United Garment Workers of America, Local No. 127. MaV'el Lowe, president of the organization, forwarded 673 “no” votes. Ninety-three more “no” votes of Eli Lilly Company employes were received making the total vote from that company 203 against and thirty-eight for. More favorable votes from Kingan and Company employes boosted the total from that company to 310 in favor and sixty-four opposed. Results of several other polls were reported, but their totals were not included in The Timet poll for fear of duplication. All Indianapolis postoffice employes, numbering 312, were said to have voted against the proposed time change. Forty-three Indianapolis WireBound Box Company workers were reported opposed and thirty in favor. Os fifty-five City Hall employes questioned, thirty-five were in favor, eleven against and nine undecided. Hourly Temperatures 6 a .m.... 54 10 a. m.... 61 7 a. m,... 56 11 a. m.... 62 Ba. m.... 59 12 (noon).. 64 9a. m.... 61 Ip. m.... 64

anniversary of his trans-Atlantic flight. Lindbergh announced his plan to fly the plane to Washington on its last flight after his return to St. Louis from Washington in a Curtis cabin monoplane Sunday night. “I plan to be at Bolling field before night,” Lindbergh told the United Press. “The Spirit of St. Louis is to be turned over to the Smithsonian Institute, although not necessarily today.”

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BOWERS NAMED AS ‘KEYNOTER’ Greathouse Secretary of Democrat Convention. Bu United Press WASHINGTON. Opril 30.—Claude Bowers, former Indiana man, and editorial writer of the New York Evening World, was chosen to deliver the keynote address an dto be temporary chairman of the Democratic national convention at Houston, Texas, June 26, at a meeting of the arrangements committee of the Democratic national committee here today. The committee also selected ChaAs Greathouse of Indianapolis, as secretary of the convention. Congressman Cannon of Missouri, was chosen parliamentarian. CITY LAWYERS TO PAY TRIBUTE TO SHIRLEY Kites Will Re Held Tuesday in Federal Court. Tribute to Cassius C. Shirley, 68. former Indiana Bar Association president, who died Saturday, will be paid Tuesday at 11 a. m. in Federal Court. Martin M. Hugg, chairman of the memorial committee of the Indianapolis Bar Association, will preside. Death resulted from an auto accident at Kokomo, March 25. Howard County Bar Association and the Indianapolis asssociation will hold joint memorial services. Speakers have not been announced. Funeral services were held at the residence, at 2029 N. Meridian St., this morning, with burial at Kokomo, his former home. BROTHERS SENTENCED Three at Mt. Vernon Convicted of Stealing Chickens. By Times Special MT. VERNON, Ind., April 30. Four young men, three of them brothers, are under sentence here for chicken thefts covering the last six months. Earl Story, 25, and Herbert Story, 24, were each given six months on the penal. farm and $5 fines, and their brother, Robert Story, 16, six months and a $1 fine. Frank Stratton, 31, convicted of operating with the brothers, was given six months and a $5 fine. AERIAL SHOW PLAN NED Tentative Date for Exposition Set by C. of C. Group. May 26 to 29 has been selected tentatively as the date for an aerial exposition being planned by the Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce aviation committee. The exposition would be similar to that recently held in Detroit, and would include exhibits of aircraft and accessories manufactured by various companies. Manufacturer Kills Self * By Times Special MUNCIE, Ind., April 30.—Arthur Meeks, 72, president of the J. A. Meek & Son Company, manufacturers, is dead of a bullet wound he inflicted upon himself in the undertaking establishment of his brother, M. L. Meeks. He died early today. The shooting occurred Saturday. He had been In poor health.

He was asked If he planned to participate in the national reception to the German-Irish crew of the Bremen. “I am looking forward very much to meeting them,” he replied. “I have no definite plans, however.” Lindbergh was not sure that he would make a nonstop flight today. “I’ll wait and see about that,” he said. The plane which crossed the United States in two hops spanned the Atlantic, and the successfully , 5

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“'T'HE hardest job in my lortyx five years of service is to quit,” declared D. C. Porter, 2332 N. Gale St., Big Four route conductor, as he stepped from the rear platform of the Missourian, at the conclusion of his last run today. That last run was a birthday celebration and a farewell tour all in one, for Porter completed his seventieth year during the run from Cleveland. “I feel just as good now as I did ten years ago, but It’s a rule of the road, and after forty-five years of obeying those rules to the best of my ability, I’m not going to kick up the traces now. “And it’s a mighty good rule for most fellows of my age—they aren’t all as active as I am,” he added. “The thing that has made the deepest impression on me during my service on this road, is the fine treatment that I’ve received from the road and its officials. They make it easy for a man to do his best.” Porter was born near Union City, Ohio. April 29. 1858, and worked on his father's farm near there until he started with the Big Four, in 1883. He has worked for the railroad ever since, becoming conductor of one of its finest trains two years ago. “He made friends for the road everywhere, among his passengers and others he came in contact with,” said C. H. McElroy, Bellefontaine, Oh o, trainmaster. “He was modest and faithful, and pleasant always. “His fellow-workers esteefned his highly, and we hate to see him retire. He’s promised, though, that he'll drop around to see us all regularly. \ But I know he’s not any more sorjy to leave than we are to see him go.” The Missourian was stopped outside Union Station for a few minutes, too permit relatives and fellow employes to congratulate Porter. This afternoon friends and relatives gathered at the Porter residence. INDORSES F. C DAILEY Mrs. John W. Kern Praises Record of Gubernatorial Candidate. Mrs. John W. Kern, widow of the former United States Senatdr, today added her indorsement to the candidacy of Frank C. Dailey, candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor. “It gives me great pleasure not only as a personal friend of Frank C. Dailey, but as a citizen of Indiana, to indorse, enthusiastically and sincerely, his candidacy for Governor of this great State,” Mrs. Kern said In a statement. FOUND " HURT - BY ~ROAD Man With Broken Back Taken to Hospital; Police Investigate. Harley Umbarger, 62, of 1044 St Peter St., was in city hospital this afternoon with a broken back, while authorities Investigated how he received It. Hospital attaches said he was brought in from his home this morning upon information that two men had taken him home after midnight, saying they found him by the road near Stilesville, thirty miles west of the city. Relatives said he had been seen at Riverside park earlier in the evening. Student Wins Egg Prize REMINGTON, Ind., April 30. Grand sweepstakes honors in the second annual egg show here were won by Miss Verna May, high school student.

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SHUMAKER VIOLATION OF CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT IS CHARGED BY GILLIOM Attorney General Takes Court Action in South Bend, Because He Was Designated as Wet. WITNESSES TO SAY THAT HE’S DRY Record Shows He Has Worked for Enforcement of Liquor Law, State Official Declares in His Affidavit. Bu United Press SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 30.—Edward S. Shumaker, Indiana Anti-Saloon League superintendent, was charged with violation of the corrupt practices act, in an affidavit filed today in St. Joseph Circuit Court by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, candidate for Republican nomination for United States Senator. The action was the outgrowth of Shumaker’s designation of Gilliom as “wet of record” in the Indiono edition of “The American .Issue,” broadcast throughout the State last week to express the league’s approval or disapproval of primary candidates for their stand on the prohibition laws.

Gilfim, in his affidavit for causing publication of false statement concerning candidate,” contended he is “dry” and not “wet of record,” is opposed to the sale of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes, and not opposed to prohibition laws or their enforcement. In filing the affidavit Gilliom undertakes the obligation of proving that the record shows his actions favorable to the prohibiton law. Files Witness List Gilliom filed a list of witnesses he will call to testify that he is in fact “dry” and to prove his contention that as attorney general he has supported and enforced the Eighteenth Amendment and Volstead act and the Indiana prohibition laws. Included in the list are William H. Remy, Marion County prosecutor; Byron K. Elliott, Marion County Superior Court judge; Joe Rand Beckett, Republican candidate for joint State Senator from Marion and Johnson Counties; John K. Ruckelshaus, former Indianapolis city attorney; Ralph Spaan, Indianapolis attorney; Walter Carpenter, a court reporter; Louis Kunkel, La Porte County prosecutor; Harry Taylor, Glenn Sawyer and two ministers, the Rev. C. H. Winders and the Revfl W. B. Farmer, who comprised the Anti-Saloon League’s subcommittee which recommended, according to Shumaker, the “wet” classification against Gilliom. Attorneys Are Named Elliott, Beckett, Ruckelshaus and Spaan were among Indianapolis attorneys appointed by the attorney general some time ago to assist Prosecutor Remy In prosecuting liquor law violations in Marion County. “Edward S. Shumaker did then and there falsely, knowingly, unlawfully and feloniously cause the said false statement to be published as aforesaid,” said the affidavit; “for the purpose of unlawfully influencing by means thereof all persons resident in said county and State and who were then and there eligible t> vote at said primary election and who were then and there ‘dry’ and opposed to the sale of intoxicating liquor for beverage purposes, to refrain from voting for him, the said Arthur L. Gilliom, canddate at said primary election, contrary to the form of statute in such case made and provided, and against the peace and dignity of the State of Indiana." Conviction for violation of the corrupt practices act carries a fine of not less than S3OO nor more than SI,OOO, or imprisonment of not more than one year or both. That part of the act under which Gilliom’s action is taken includes as those guilty of corrupt practices: “Every person who falsely shall compose, dictate, print, write, or transmit by any means whatever to any publisher of any newspaper, book or serial, any matter, the publication of which in such newspaper, book or serial, would expose any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule or obloquy, or which would cause or tend to cause any person to be shunned, or avoided, or which would have a tendency to injure any person in his business, for the purpose of intimidating, influencing, inducing or procuring any person to vote or refrain from voting for or against any person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any election or primary election, or political convention or session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana, or either house thereof. Wide Range Covered “Every proprietor or editor of a book, newspaper or serial, and every partner, or member of a partnership, or manager of any incorporated association by which a book, newspaper or serial is issued or published or circulated, who falsely shall publish, or cause to be published any writing, typewriting, printing, picture, effigy, symbol, sign cartoon or which exposes any person to hatred, contempt, ridicule,

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or obloquy, or which causes or tends to cause any person to be shunned or avoided, or which has a tendency to injure any person or company in his or its business, for the purpose of intimidating, influencing or inducing or procuring any person to vote or refrain from voting for or against any person, or for or against any measure or proposition at any election, or primary election, or political convention or session of the General Assembly of the State of Indiana or either house thereof.” Denounced as Deceit “Deceit and misrepresentation” was the denunciation Ralph D. Kane, Gilliom’s campaign manager, voiced of Shumaker’s “wet” appraisal of Gilliom, in an open letter which Kane sent Shumaker Sunday. Kane charged that Shumaker designated Gilliom as “wet” in the American Issue because Shumaker had been cited for contempt of the Indiana Supreme Court of a citation prepared by Gilliom . “Your resentment on account of this episode is the animus which prompts your attack of Mr. Giliiom,” Kane wrote Shumaker, “and you are willing to resort to deceit and misrepresentation to accomplish your purpose. “The Anti-Saloon League is an organization composed of good, sincere persons dedicated to a great, moral cause and your attempt to use it as a weapon in a private quarrel, should be condemned by al’ decent persons.” Klan Links Cited Kane said that "it is more ths. i a conincidence that the same attack should appear in the ‘Fellowship Forum,’ official publication of the Ku-Klux Klan, and issued under auspices of Wizard Evans, and the Indiana edition of the American Issue, edited by E. S. Shumaker, each representing the class of political demagogue, who, by attempting to play upon the credulity of honest and sincere persons, have produced the evils from which Indiana has suffered and which we say must be stopped.” “There is no place in this country for reformers for revenue only,” Kane wrote, “and when they violate the law, as you have done in this case, it is time to stop their activities.” At Marion Sunday, Shumaker said the wet classification placed upon Gilliom was not his personal expression, but the Judgment of a special subcommittee of the headquarters committee of the league. Pastors Are Named He named as members of the special committee the Rev. W. B. Farmer, secretary of tne Preachers’ Aid Society, and the Rev. Charles H. Winders, pastor of the Northwood Christian Church, who are named as witnesses in Gilliom’s action. Shumaker also denied there was any prearrangement about the attack in the columns of the Fellowship Forum, Klan organ. “Indiana Anti-Saloon League,” he said, “has nothing to do with the Klan. It is just as free from the Klan as is the Red Cross Society. It never was connected with the Klan in any of its work.” Shumaker said Gilliom sought and received Klan support in 1926 and said he was ’’able to prove it, if Mr. Gilliom challenges me to do so.” “Mr. Shumaker collected practically all the Information and we had to trust him in the conclusions to which we came,” said the Rev. Mr. Winders. “Mr. Shumaker said Mr. Gilliom was wet.” Believes He Is Wet “I also had a general Impression,” he continued, “from what I have read, especially in regard to Mr. Gilliom's attitude toward medicinal whisky and also toward tho AntiSaloon League, that he was wet." Shumaker was out of the city today. Anti-Saloon League headquarters said he was scheduled to address the students at Taylor University, Upland, Ind., this morning.