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THE TIMES INDIANA WEATHER. Fair toalKht mid probably Ti Nat mm rold in north aad rrn-tral portions Saturday's Circulation 20,675 Grow With The Times VOL. NO. 287. CALUMET CITY, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1928.

PRICE TWO CENTS 0 JV IM UWL mm I CI 9 uf fMilnlln PI "Eternal Triangle" Results In Shooting Affray In Hammond All UNKNOWN COMPANY IS NEGOTIATING PARTI LTHER KIT KLUX KLAG3 UR6 El Tffl BEHD Tivain Who Must Pay for Crime FINDING OF MURDERED OFFICERS fcFrSV Mill r'j Here are the bodies of Wallace deputy sheriffs, Just after they were found murdered, in open view of a much-traveld highway, seven miles east of Danville, 111., and near Foster, Ind. In the background are the three men who found the bodies and the bodies and the police chief of Covington, Ind. The deputies disappeared ninejlays prior to the finding of their bodies while taking two youths, John Burns and Samuel McClure and John P. Grove, Lafayette, at Pendleton. Baxter, to the Indiana reformatory let DANCE" SAYS BANGOR AYOR OF By I'acifio Atlantic) Their case apparently due to receive short shrift in courts, Julia Palmer McDonald, once wealthy Mount Vernon girl, and her husband, shown handcuffed above, must hang: for murder of Montreal taxi driver.

ST. JOHN DOES GOOD WORK 1 SNOW BATTLE AND FEfi P. EX-CYCLOPS, LAYS BARE HIS SECRETS Van Orman's Wonderful Ad- dress for Klan Mass Meeting INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE! INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 20. Pat Emmons, former cyclops of the St.

Joseph County Ku KIux Klan testified. at the deposition hearing before Attorney General Arthur L. Gilllom here today that the klan's political slate in 1924 was passed out in Sunday school classes "folded in the Sunday school golden text tracts." "We were able to do this because we controlled the church and Sunday school officials," Emmons said. BY El'CENE J. I.

N. S. Staff Correspondent. INDIANAPOLIS. Feb.

20. That the national organization of the Ku Klux Klan urged that whipping and tar and feather parties be used to revive interest in the dying St. Joseph County Klan was alleged here today by Pat Emmons of South Bend, former exalted cyclops of South Bend. Emmons made the charge during a deposition hearing held by Attorney General Arthur I Gilllom in his office at the statehouse for use in his suit to oust the klan from Indiana. "The recommendation for drastic terrorism came through a national representative whose name was Sir- man, according to the testimony of Emmons.

EED SOITHEUX SPIIUT. You need a little more Southern spirit in this klan," Sirman said, Emmons testified. "You ought to take somebody around this Roman CRtholic city of South Bend out, whip them, tar and feather them and then would see the members joining fast. It takes a demonstration to shake up the Protestant After Emmons and other, South Bend klansmen had vigorously opposed the proposal Emmons said that the national representative called him "weak-kneed and yellow." Ol'TMNES PROGRAM. Emmons said that W.

Lee Smith, former grand dragon of the Indiana klan, had outlined with him a pro gram through which the klan would control everything from local to Continued on Page Fifteen MS IS ACCUSED AS EMBEZZLER SOUTH BEND, Feb. 20 (I.N. Pat Emmons, former cyclops of the local Ku Klux Klan, who testified in a deposition hearing before Attorney General Arthur. L. Gilllom in Indianapolis today in Gilliom's move to oust the Klan from Indiana, was arrested here last week on the charge of embezzling $1,313 from the Canadian Klan.

He is now on bond on that charge. Emmons was lodged In jail here when arrested and was tried by a kangaroo court on the charge of "breaking into jail," according to police. Before a kangaroo court which included a negro as judge, a Jew as a prosecutor and a Catholic as bailiff, the former cyclops of the Klan was found guilty and fined $10.00. LANDIS MAY MAKE RUN FOR GOVERNOR INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 20.

(U.P.)-Frederick Landls, Logansport news paper editor and brother of Judge J. M. Landls, held several conferences with friends here over the week-end preparatory to making a decision as to whether he will enter the race for the republican nomina tion for governor. Landls, who was formerly a rep resentatlve In Congress has been ac tive in Indiana politics for a num ber of years, has taken an aggressive attitude through his editorial columns toward exposure of poli tical scandal in EMMONS EM DESPERATE 1. A IRES SHOT AT Alleged Clandestine Love Affair Responsible for Attempted Murder Driven to desperation by what he considered as a clandestine love affair betweeh his estranged wife and a young man from Calumet City, Theodore Pope, age 41, 236 State street.

ente red his former Home at ,1300 Jefferson street fiflprtly before seven o'clock last rsjiit. engaged in a brief with William Berwanger, age 23. 160 Ingraham avenue. Calumet City, and shot him through the head, inflicting a painful though not serious wound. Berwanger will recover.

'Pop was arrested by Officer Carl McFarland of the Hammond police force, who heard the shot from his home across the street and stopped Pope as he was leaving the premises. Pope furnished bonds for 12.000 this morning and was released pending his trial, the date of which has been tentatively set for the first of March. TltlEI TO GET OFFICER Pope has a son and daughter, ages 17 and 14, and last night he had intended to take one of the children to moving picture with him. His son Is supposed to have informed htm that young Berwanger was at his wife's residence. Before eroing to the house on Jefferson street, Mr.

Pope came to the police station and asked for an officer to go with him, but inasmuch as police jurisdiction did not cover the case, he went alone. Pope walked up the front steps of his former residence, entered and found his wife and Berwanger in the breakfast room apparently finishing supper. The enraged husband drew a revolver with but few words and seeing the firearm, Ber wanger leaped to his feet to engage in a brief struggle during which the gun was discharged once. GLANCES OFF SKILL The bullet struck Berwanger near one ear and toward the rear of his head, glancing downward from his skull and lodging In his back. Ber wanger, In spite of his injury, rushed out of the house and was found by police some minutes later at 311 Standard avenue.

McFarland. who lives across the street from the scene of the shoot Ing, rushed out at the sound -of the shot and met Pope leaving the front door 'of the house. He was im mediately taken Into custody and led back through the residence where he turned over the revolver to McKarland. Meanwhile, the police station had been cfetlled and Officer Tom Mart inson, lLouis Tebodo and Remus Elmaniwent to the scene and found Berwager, whom they took to St, Margaret's hospital for treatment Foptnas taken to the police sta tion and the charges against him remain open pending the outcome of ijywanger's wounds. If the lad recoVjs It Is thought that Pope will with assault and battery with intent to kill.

POPE TELLS W'OIIY At the police station this morn-ins Pope told his story. He alleges that his wife and Berwanger met last summer and started to have engagements. In the fall the divorce proceedings were instituted by his wife, who is 37 years old and the mother of two children. Pending the disposal of the case Pope moved out of the house, paid a temporary alimony by a court order until the litigation was completely settled, and left the two children in the custody of his wife. Pope claims that since he and his wife have been separated, the relation of Mrs.

Pope and Berwanger has been continued until he could no longer stand for it in view of the fact that he was still supporting Mrs. Pope. Pope' is well known in labor circles throughout the region, being the present president of the Carpenter's District Council. Ber- wangfer is also well known over CalurViet City and Hammond. Pope has filed a cross-complaint against Mrs.

Pope's" divorce bill and the matter Is scheduled to come up for a hearing shortly. U.S. PUZZLED 9AN FRANCISCO. Feb. 20 (I.N.

Thor Myller. 17, was aboard the liner Annie Johnson, docked in San Francisco Harbor today, while immigration officials debated with each other on the question: "Is Thor a Norwegian or a Chinaman?" Though both of his parents hailed from Norway, and though his skin is fair, his hair light and his eyes blue, he was born in China and is classified as a native of China. It is kelleved. however, officials will allow the youth to enter the United States and join his uncle in Colorado, SUTOR DECLARES EX-DRAGON IS INSANE Expert So Testifies Before Jury In Noblesyille Circuit Court NOBLESVILLE, 20. D.

C. Stephenson; "old man" of the IndianaKKu Klux Klan, is' insane, according. to Samuel Mc-' GaugheyVvisitlng physician for "the Julletta hospital for. the insane in Marion Testifying before "a local Jury.ib the circuit court in this city Saturday, Dr. McGaughey declared that Stephenson's insanity is shown, by the fact that he believes he is being unjustly presecuted, that he desires revenge, and his unshakable belief that he is still a leader among his fellow men and better than they.

Dr. McGaughey, who was testifying in an insanity case Involving Mrs. Pearl Snider and others against Christina King in which several daughters are attempting to show that their mother is of unsound mind, declared that Stephenson was a perfect example of the disease from which Mrs. King is alleged to be suffering namely paranoia dementia praecox and grandoise hallucinations. INQUEST INTO FATAL WRECK IS CONTINUED Pending the recovery of E.

W. Moran, Michigan City druggist, who was seriously injured when the ill-fated South Sh.re electric train took the lives of B. Faulknor, Michigan City editor, and Dr. C. H.

Seymour, in an auto-train crash at Sheffield avenue crossing in Hammond, February 7, the inquest into the wreck begun Saturday afternoon, was continued, by Deputy Coroner Oliver M. Daugherty indefinitely. H. E. Wlllard, 6035 Harper avenue, Chicago, motorman said: "As my train neared the Sheffield avenue crossing I noticed the gates going down.

Tho whistle was blown two times and the bell kept ringing. We were going about 15 miles an hour. Just as we passed the crossing I saw an auto crash through the gates. The brakes were applied, but it was too late to avoid a crash." J. M.

Ritchie, Michigan City, conductor on the train, and the following witnesses: Helen Morltz, 73 Hohman street; E. J. Duckett, 94 Brunswick street; Gilbert and Christ Opperrnan, 243 Logan street and John Brouns, 242 Sheffield avenue, also testified at the inquest. PREFERRED DOG TO WIFE'S BABY A husband who would rather have a dog than a little baby in the house, is not the man for Mrs. Mildred Elmore, now a waitress in the O'Keefe restaurant at Whiting.

Today, through her attorneys. Fetterhoff, Ahlgren Kelley of Whiting, she filed suit for divorce in Hammond Superior court and asks for $3,000 in alimony. Mrs. Elmore, who is pretty, also alleges that her hubby's parents interfered with the domestic happi ness she sought with her spouse. Her husband also interfered with her social life and remarked about the year-old babe, by a former marriage, that he "hated the baby and would rather have a dog in the house than her." The husband is now a resident of Petersburg, Ind.

On one occasion, following their separation August 13, 1925, he came to Whiting seeking a reconciliation with the aid of a pair of brass knuckles and pistol. But he failed even with his armament. The couple were married in 1925. WABASH WINS IN ORATORY LAFAYETTE, Feb. 20.

(U.P.) W. Ray Ehrensperger, of Wabash college, won the Indiana Intercollegiate Oratorical contest at Purdue university here Saturday night. James Roy, of the University of Notre Dame, won second place and Ezra Sensibar, of Purdue, and Ben Stoner, of Man Chester college, tied for third place. Ehrensperger will represent Indiana in the divisional contest to be held April 13 at Wabash college, at Crawfoidsville, the winner of will compete for national honors. TEMPERATURE FOR REGION Teniprralare tod a nn rejclaterrrt ly thermometer on First Trust find Savtnita Hank huilrtlne, Hammond, was 1.1 degree Fahrenheit at 7i.K a.

m. 1 drtrrm Fahrenheit at noon. Weather cloudy at noon. THAT SETTLES IT INDIANAPOLIS. Feb.

20. (U.P.) Among the many tele-prams of congratulation sent to Governor Ed following his acquittal' on a charge of at- tempted bribery, one from prominent Indianapolis minister which was received today is most, prized by the governor. The telegram read: "Dear -Governor. Congratulations; Psalm 27:2." The 27th psalm second verse reads: "When evil doers came upon thee, to eat np thy flesh, even mine' adversaries and my, they stumbled and fell." STEELMAM GOES TO DECATUR Popular Hammond Man Associates Himself With Wagner Malleable Co. Bert Steelman who recently re signed from the Wanner Malleable Castings and was considering an offer from a Kalamazoo, Mien, steel concern, was gratified to get a message from A.

W. Wagner with whom he started in the business years ago In Terre' Haute. Mr. Wagner is president of the Wagner Malleable Iron Co. of Decatur, Illinois.

The message read, "Come back homeland hang up your coat." Mr. Steelman accepted the berth and is no-- actively engaged with the 1111 no company. As soon as he can dispose of his property here he will move his family there and Hammond will lose one of its big gest boosters and most popular citizens. SPEAKING OF FROGS EASTLAND, Feb. 80 (U.P.).

Tho horned frog of Eastland hopped in glee ovef his freedom today, a jumping proof to scientific skeptics that at least one Texas tradition has a basis of truth. The horned frog of Eastland lived 31 years sealed in the courthouse cornerstone, verifying a third of the old Texas saying that a horned frog can live 100 years without food. The cornerstone was unsealed yes terday 1,000 anxious citizens, many of whom had been present when the frog was sealed in, watched. The frog was lifted out, inert and apparently lifeless. The throng was silent.

The frog winked an eye. The throng gasped. The frog jumped. The throng cheered. Examination showed the frog was in perfect health except that its mouth was sealed shut.

Judge Ed Prichard took charge of the frog which risked its life for science and tradition, and promised to give it every care for the rest of its life. BURGLAR GETS $150 LOOT Hammond police are conducting: search for a burglar who last night broke into the home of Wal ter Klan, 414 Cedar street and made his escape with $150. I The burglary took place between one o'clock in the afternoon and ten clock at night, when Klan returned home to find the house ran sacked. The thief evidently had gained entrance through the front door, had searched the house and removed the money from one of the bedrooms and has escaped through a rear door. In the course of the robbery, the thief overlooked an amount of jew elry which was in the same rooms, Ben Bauer bakery, at 12 Douglas street, was entered early this morning and equipment valued at $123 taken from the place.

Includ ed In the loot was a doughnut ma chine worth $85, twenty trays and i largo kettle. Bauer suspects a former partner of his. who, at present, lives in Adrian, Michigan. Police have fur nlshed surrounding stations with the circumstances of the burglary and he arrest of the thief is ex pected soon. SAYSOFFICIALI Secretary of Corporation Verifies Reports of Big Deal Reports that the Consumers com pany is negotiating for the sale of 2,000 acres of dunes land east of Gary was verified this morning by J.

Solarie of Chicago, secretary. The property is bounded on the west by the Inland Steel company tract and on the east by the Indiana State park and is considered one of the most valuable, strips of land in the dunes region owing to its prom-imity to the state park and therefore its desirability as a residential Mr. Solarl declared today that th tract may be sold soon and that It will then be used for the develop ment of an unannounced enterprise. He added that negotiations are being conducted by Stuyvesant Peabody, president of Consumers company, under authorization given officers and directors by TRACT ON TH It KET The tract has been on the market for sometime, but at a which, all buyers have refused to meet. Present negotiations, it is said, are being conducted on the basis of a lower price, but still high enough to make the land relatively valuable.

Some reports have it that the Inland Steel company is one of the negotiating corporations, others declare that a large real estate concern of Chicago is striving to effect the purchase. Nothing definite, however has been made public at this time. Mr. Solarl declared he was In no position-to make public either the price for which the land Is proposed to be sold, or the purchasers with whom negotiations -are being', conducted. He also refused to comment upon rumors that Calumet region realtors were bidding against other realty companies for UNABLE TO 'i FINDPLANE Pennsy Engineer Reports He Saw Airplane Drop Near Liverpool Mystery still surrounds the report made by a Pennsylvania ail-road engineer shortly after 1 o'clock In Gary Saturday afternoon, that while his train was headed west, an airplane with a lone pilot swooped down from the sky and plunged into some trees, a half mile west' of Liverpool and approximately four miles southeast of Gary.

Putting on boots to plough through snowdrifts a squad of Gary police jumped into a high powered police car and sped to the location to conduct a search for the plane and pilot. For several hours police officers assisted by citizens of Liverpool thoroughly covered the region for a distance of several miles, but was unable to find any trace of the plane or pilot. Airports and landing field of the region was also checked by police but were unable to gather an information of a lost plane or pilot. The missing plane was first called to the attention of police in a report made by Homer B. Southerland, roadmaster for the Pennsylvania Railroad company, who stated that the engineer of the Pennsylvania train No.

6986, which passes through. Gary at 1:25 p. m. had dropped a note at the station in Gary stating that he had seen an airplane drop Into some trees a half a mile west of Liverpool and about a quarter of a mile from the railroad tracks. Police are searching for an unidentified colored man who Saturday night held up the clothing store of E.

Oppman at 3522 Main st. and shot Mr. Oppman, wounding him severely. The colored man entered the tor and pretended to make a purchase of some clothing. After he had selected a shirt and it was handed to him he suddenly pulled a revolver from, his pocket and ordered Mr, Oppman to throw up his hands.

Mr. Oppman grappled with th bandit and in the mix up the gun was exploded. Luckily the bullet struck a glancing blow and inflicted a nasty scalp wound on the merchant's head. The bandit ran from the store after the hold up and so far police have been unable to find trace of him. CLOTHIER IS SHOT BY HERBERT CARYL INTERNATIONAL'" NEWS SERVICE1 BANGOR, Feb.

20. "For heaven's sake, let them' dance and better still, dance them. Up and down the Penobscot, from the rim of the grea north woods to the sea, today re-echoed these words of advice from ohn Wilson, known as "the mayor of way down East." Grangers of eastern Maine had been talking of larring dancing in grange halls and ot grange meet lngs. The "Lindbergh "Glide," the "Varsity drag" nnd the other modern rhythmic and daring movements had "hit" the counti towns and "Ma" and "Pa" had been frowning. Like those wise city mothers and fathers who make home so attractive for their boys ind girls that the young folks do not think of going to questionable resorts.

Mayor Wilson would have the "old folks" of the county "Join In." 30 "MIKERP' GO OUT i INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE CHICAGO, Feb. 20. Did you hear your favorite dance orchestra over the Chicago radio last night? You did maybe. More than 'hirty radio microphones In as many places of amusement were out today following an ultimatum from James C. Petrillo, head of the union musicians, who ruled that unless large radio stations here employ an orchestra of ten men, and smaller stations one of five men, the "mikes" should go out.

And they did. The radio broadcasters claim the demands of the union will increase their expenses exhorbi-tantiy and refused to employ the number of union musicians asked. SHIVERING, BUT IS LITTLE HURT JACKSONVILLE, Feb. 20. (A.P.).

Florida joined the rest of the Southland today in shivering as freezing temperatures swept down on the state last night on tho wings of a high wind, but, from available reports, truck and-cuit crops suffered minor if any damage. Freezing temperatures were recorded from the northern part of the state well down into the Everglades, Jacksonville recording a minimum of 25. Miami felt a 38 for a low. LA PORTE HAS BIG FIRE LA PORTE, Feb. 20.

(U.P.) The Northwest section of the Metal Door and Trim company plant was destroyed by fire here last night with an estimated loss of $125,000. LaPorte and Michigan City fire departments fought for seven hours In a near blizzard to extinguish the flames which started when a tarpaulin used to shut out the cold flapped into a salamander. Modern youth, weary of being condemned and wishing a little confidence, understanding and trusting in thee--day of changed social conditions, has a valiant champion in "the wise mayor of Bangor." Youth today is wise, sees that conditions in the social life Just as they have joined in the industrial life, thinks the mayor. Yet the 6lder generation, like the ostrich, he believes, seeks to. avoid the dangers by burying heads in the sand.

Incidentally, the "honorable" wise man of the East" is convinced from observation that the only way to solve the "greatest problem of the farmer" to keep young people on the farms is to social life for them. The youngsters will go away from the farms unless the lure of good times in the cities is met with good times in the country, he said. CHICAGO BIDS TO BE LET CROWN POINT. Feb. 20 Contracts on bids for the paving of Chicago avenue in East Chicago from Parrish avenue to Cllnc avenue will be let this afternoon by the county commissioners, William E.

Whitaker, county auditor, announced this morning. This will complete the second portion of the Chicago avenue project. The first section in Hammond, from White Oak avenue to Hohman street and then north on Hohman street to the intersection of Sheffield avenue, is already under contract to the Public Construction company of. Hammond. The remaining section, located in Gary from Cline avenue to Industrial highway, is now being advertised for paving bids.

Contract on the work is expected to be let March 19. Paving operations on all three sections are to be started simultaneously, according to present plans, in order to open the road from Hammond to Gary on the same date. Another important matter expected to be, settled by the county commissioners this afternoon involves the sale of a $40,000 bond issue with which to equip the two new wings of the county court house. According to Auditor Whitaker, bids for the issue will be opened this afternoon and the issue sold to the firm offering the highest premium. $550,000 FIRE NEW YORK, Feb.

20. New York firemen were kept on the run last night and early today by two spectacular blazes. One fire destroyed a $550,000 apartcient house under construction on the Bronx, and the other swept through a tenement house on the upper East side. In the latter blaze, twenty-one persons in their night clothing were led to safety down ladders and orver roofs by firemen. Several firemen were injured.

AVE DIES ONE WEEK AFTER RETURN FROM EUROPE Immediately after returning to Hammond last week from an ex- ensive tour of Europe, Charles Masko, age 45, owner of the Masko Mill and Cabinet company, at 200 Calumet avenue, Hammond, developed a serious case of lobar pneumonia which resulted in his death yesterday morning at 2:30 o'clock. The decedent had lived in Ham mond for 26 years and was widely known throughout the city. He left for Europe early last fall with his wife to regain his health and apparently was in excellent condition when he returned last week. The sudden attack of pneumonia and his death yesterday morning came as a distinct shock to his many friends and acquainances here. Surviving are the widow, Susie, and three children, Mike Charles and Mary.

The funeral will be held at 1 o'clock tomorrow afternoon from the home, at 200 Calumet avenue and burial will be made in Concordia cemetery. RELIEF FROM COLD EXPECTED CHICAGO, Feb. 20 (U.P.) Chi cago today expected relief from the cold wave and blizzard winds which caused seven deaths over the week-end. Slight moderation came yester day and government weather fore casters predicted rises in tempera ture for Chicago and the Great Lakes district today. More than eight inches of snow fell Friday night and Saturday, crippling transportation and caus ing considerable suffering.

New York Gets Relief NEW YORK, 20 (U.P.) Rain with moderating temperature today was expected to break the week-end cold wave which caused the death of two persons. A light snow which accompanied the cold wave quickly froze on the sidewalks and streets and slowed traffic. Scores of persona were reported injured by falls on the ice. $59,000 FIRE AT LOGANSPORT LOOANSPORT, Feb. 20.

(U. Fire of undetermined origin did $50,000 damage to three business building's here rarly today. The Wiler "and Wise depariment setore, the Red Cross drug store and the Basley meat market were gutted. Following the storm which swept the vicinity last week-end, and which has been declared to have been the heaviest in several years, George St. John, Hammond street commissioner, has been complimented- in the manner in which the streets were Reared of snow and drifts.

Starting at 10 o'clock Saturday night, the city's two snow plows, 36 wagons and a crevsr of 86 men worked continuously until Sunday afternoon clearing up the main thoroughfares of the city. Last night a check-up revealed that the department had cleared all but about a dozen of the paved streets in the city. For the first time in years, the activity of the department was extended to Robertsdale and the residents there were agreeably surprised to find the streets rapidly being made passable. The street department, according to St. John, is under-equipped to cope with emergencies of this nature and considerably handicapped.

However, the men on the force extended their efforts and had all of the streets in the city open within a day after the end of the storm. Reports from Gary this morning indicated that the street force there was still at work clearing up the drifts. Residents of Hammond are urged to clear off the snow from the sidewalks on their property, and not make it necessary for the police to invoke'an ordinance making it compulsory to have the sidewalks open within 24 hours after a storm." Bulletin By W. E. HALLDEItR United Press S1aff Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS.

Feb. (U.P.) Firearms were concealed in the sleeves of their robes by Ku KIux Klansmen from Chicago who paraded through the streets of South Bend on November 18, 1924, Hugh "Pat" Emmons, of South Bend, declared this afternoon in giving a deposition to Attorney Gen eral Arthur L. Guhom. INDIANAPOLIS. Feb.

20 Two children of Mr. and Mrs. Ever ett Poynter, a machinist at the Stutz Motor plant, were reported missing today since Sunday evening and police believed the youngsters were kidnapped. lne missing children were Thelma. 8 years old, and her brother Elmer, 4.

The children disappeared while going from the Poynter home at 1725 Arrow street to the home ol their grandmother, Mrs. Ellen Gregory at 1533 Steele street..