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regarded as significant, however, that on all but two counts a majority of the I Benate stood for conviction and at time two more votes would have brought the two thirds necessary for conviction. Those who analysed the result Ueve the Ku Klux Klan was largely responsible for the judge's acquittal, some of the senators permitting their sympathy for a brother "la trouble to sutweight their judicial temperaments. At no time, however, during the hearing did the House tnanagera Inject the Ka Klux Elan element nor did the influence of the hooded order figure In the argu ments. If it wss a factor it showed on Iy in the final results. No charge was made public at any time 'that Judge Dearth was a member of the Klan, but it was reported that he hadjthe support of the secret orgsn iutkn when he was elected indr of the Delaware' circuit court and that he 41.

I had had the backing of Klansmen in (turn to Paga Thirteen, Please) (Nututier lure, Train Hits Their Ado MUNCIE, Ind April fcWV Mr. and Mrs. Frank 'M Jenkins, prominent DalevUIe residents, killed this aft ernooa when their automobile was struck on a Daleville crossing by east bound Big Four passenger train No. 12. UK Jenkins, who was 48 years 'old; was the owner of the Daleville auto body 'and top company and was one" of the most prominent of the city and county.

Witnesses to the accident told Coro' ner Kilgore that the, signal bell at the crossing, was oorratinr. The sutomob.le was drarged the disUnce' of 'ahout '250 feet before the train was stopped. Both Mr. and Mrs." Jenkins were hurled from the autonlobile which was, a closed, mod el. Their bodies, were Four sons snd two daughters survlTe.

7cichfci Yczr ilcr.t If your name appear, la the Classified coluaus, call at The Press office and aecure Free tickets to see "I ove's Greatest now playing at the Jefferson. i "'TED tv uM day and IlunJay; occasional (rain with Iced thun rjioniiS la' 'north portion. A iwh cbsns la temperature. CI Lowest. i 4 gateway volu: (Ey.tfca Associated Prcsi) UUHTINGTON, SUNDAY HORNING, APRIL 10, J927 (By the Associated Press) 1..

"vn cm iBiiiii n.i'ICLO C. IT2C l.NDIANirCLIS, Ind, Arril D. Trouble v.1! 'f a time tbrr.t?ned the reign of li ters, of Tort Wayne, Democratic state chairman, seems: to iave been bridged over, temporarily at least at a meeting of thestate commit tee this week. According to reports f. bom the meeting Tiers' assurance that the crar'ratlon old go on war time at la preparation for 1C23 camrt'i 1 bis announce that more' will be given to va a lot to placa' aonae of the t.

the cmn' who ce to Ic La: Latcheta "slarpene C. Ttea tie rre of Tloma' Tecrart with, his preJJiii.lial' boom lor. Crest Woollen, ladlasfrrl I rout "4 cadV troul'e4 waters. Tie romr l'tee lnfsraally of course, 'of the proposed TTooUca canI dacy and there was every Indication 'thai the organisation would back to a maa 'an effort to line Indiana delegates irp. solidly behind the man who ran against Senator Arthur H.

Xtobinaon la the' last campaign. rrfyj Tagiart in Game Taprart again la playing for. po litical stakes, Just as has ione for 't'ore thaa years, If to win the coyeUd place tt.e Democrats would hare reasonable Ifound to eipect that Indiana. Totera would surport their, native son, apd that be would tarry the whole state over win him. The gathering of Pemocrats brongbt to light a potential governor' ship Candidate in Charles Greathouse, "of IndianapoIU, national committeeman.

Greathouse, born In Posey county and once a "banker "In Mt. VernonT was ap pointed state superintendent of public infraction in IVOtt by Governor Mar shall and was re elected three times, holding the office longer than any nan in the state; lie was made a mem 'ber of the national committee In 1922, succeeding E. Q. Uoffmsn, of Fort Wayne, and was reelected in 1924. TUe has been secretary of the national committee since becoming a member of that body.

Deartk ArtiM Surprise. The acquittal of Judge Clarence 17. Dearth, of Muncie, by the Indiana state senate came as a surprise to those who had. followed the evidence Introduced in the impeachment hearing' and who be lieved the House managers had disclosed 1 ampie ground zor conviction. It was WVSilll.T I 1 i f.

(:: w.f if 1 i A cl TTIIuatington Vtess, rv Indiana. J' vf Yea can count en ray befny bj, April 16r In Memorial Par tpy'jad hide a3 thecffssyou N4H10( i Dear Bre'r Rabbit: "lou'll be' surprised to get this letter, but when I went swimming this morning I crawled up the' back steps of one of the stores down town and there I saw a copy of the Huntington. Press. I "It waa all folded up neat and lay quite close to the door. I waa looking for something to eat, and right where the paper folded there was a basket of eggs.

Oh My I How my heart Jumped. Well whea I got closed it was only a picture. Then I read what you' were doing for all the boys and girls. "I'm coming up to see you Sunday, and If there isanything Johnny Muskrat can do to help your party count me in. Ill help hide the eggs and no ttTatterTiow a Subscript Legionaires to France Come From All Sections s.r'f.

"They are coning from the east, The, are emilng from the west, They are coming from all sections. I'. Foctbey IUo the Legion best." That tells the story. From all corners of Huntington city and county subscriptions poured Into The Press office Legtonaires came is with thea; car rKmr Knva ram Irr with them rural folk swelled the totals, and then there wera a 1 ij UOSl OX Cliy I01K WHO, rwireiuucrru lueir And tliat wasn't the "allof it There were a large number of new subscribers added to the rolL "Like fire In dry grass the spirit of "On To OliJfEMUS VSECOND Paris" is taking with, the people. It; getting under way Just a great chummy move of all the folks to help these" boys to make the trip to the land so filled with memories for' them.

the spirit ofietory, and Saturday the tide of battle turned turned In favor of the legionaires who plan to. make their return to France on the official Legion ship and with their "Buddies" of the great The passive spirit was succeeded by an aggressive more forward that gives promise of the coming of a great and successful drive To for every working candidate in theJluntington Press An erican Legion drive. rrivOege to Hein "And it's a. privilege to count yourself a volunteer in this ef "fort to help the. Legion boys.To enjoy a vacation on the' soli where they endured anything but a.vscation's'few short'yenrs All fluntington and Huntington county is helping them to go." And every citizen can give to this cause amJ stllh receive full value" In return for the.

Press hss not raised it's rate, It still 4.00 a year in the country and a year in the city 15c a week. In Saturday's drive' every corner of Huntington county was represented. were votes rrom warren, votes xrom Markle, votes from Andrews and Bippus, and rural Noy 1, liberally remembered Charles Herrberg. 1 Starts' Second The drive starts on its second week today, and without a doubt this drive will exceed by far the results of ahe week just closing. Hundreds of people la Huntington county are planning to give their support to one or the other of the The.

Important thing now is for every one who can to lift their share in helping one of the Legion 'men "On To Paria." and above all remember the Legion drive has. first claim upon you Vltogetber this week, lot's send the boyi Joins at youj party Saturday jncrnr at IIuntinglon. Bo ytji Jut 4 4 tj AfiCt 'f a hungry I may be I'll never eat a single one: of Tours for a big time, nny. Muskrat anud all the little Thu'is the letter that Bre'r Babbit handed to the Press reporter, Saturday morning, an dtheo he 'ducked down in his home on the banks of the Wabash, and soon came forth with a long list of names the list he promised Friday that he would have In th epaper Sunday. ZtVl rBa'aOui of Ink haven't finished yet," Bre'r Babbit explained.

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.14 15 Picture .7.18 Classified .19 Help DIST. UOODMEIl fJAt'ES OFFICERS ATvSO. IVIIlf LEY Ilea Recetts pIHccrii 193 Attend SOUTH WHrTLET, Ihd, April 9 With an election, parade and initiation, fourteen camps of the Modern Wood men of America met here tonight for a meeting of the Fifteenth district. M. T.

Wright of Indianapolis was "elected venerable counsel D. Smith, Huntington, advisor George Mankin, Huntington, Herbert Lenfesty, Marion, escort; Harrison Long, North Manchester, watchman 'Theodore Philips, Wabash, sentry Fay.heely, Huntington, chairman, of (ways and means com mitttee with to select committeemen. Th next be held in' tun at Marion. 1 Twenty nine candidates took the work, and there were 19S members present The ritualistic work was given by the degree team from Kendalhrille. A street parade was held and thejeam from' Columbia.

City, gave an exhibition drilL 0rahaaa Makes Address. vV, CM. Graham of South Whitley delivered the address of welcome, and W. F. Wright of Indianapolis, district dep uty, maoe tne response, supper waa served by the Royal Neighbors of America, the women's order, at the Baptist ehurch.

The camps represented were Huntington, Marion, Markle. North Manchester. Wabash, South Whitley, Jfee, KendaUvUle, Columbia City, Union Yvi "sneioyvuie and Akron. COUPLE REMARRY iVH 37 YEARS EigHt Children and Twenty Five Grandchildren joyed at Reunion DES MOINES, Iowa, April d.iM Eighteen years after her marriage to Alexander Huges, 55 years ago, at Victor, Iowa, Mrs. Hughes gathered together her ten children and went borne to mother, leaving Alexander in charge of the family' home at Elm Creek, Neb.

That was, thirty seven years ago. Today the couple wss married again by Judge L. L. Thompson. The separation occurred in 1890.

Alexanders then 40, refused to cajole and coax. He also left Elm Creek. He wandered here and and waa married twice in the interim, outlived both of 'bis later wives, snd grew wealthly on oil lands near Tulsa, Okla. V. Mrs.

Hughes, free to marry when she received a divorce from Alexander, has outlived her second husband by five years. Neither knew the wheretabouts of the first mate until a Tulsa attorney wrote to George Hughes, a son here, a month ago, saying! "A man named Alexander Hughes seeks information regarding his wife, Marian, who left him in 1890." The son boarded the next train for Tulsa. Three days later Alexander and Ma rian wrapped their arms about each other for the. first time In more than a third of a century. Eight chldren were overjoyed and twent? flv6 grandchildren gathered around the man they thought dead.

MAN, DAUGHTERS DROWN III CREEK Try to Cross on Narrow Walk and Are Swept Away By Current ELDORADO, Aria, April 0. P) A lather and his three daughters, ages 6 to 10, lost their lives in the swirling waters of Smackorer creek, swollen by re rent rains, "in attecpting to cross the stream on a narrow board walk late to day, fifteen miles north of this place. A fourth child, the 7 yesr old daughter of a neighbor, barely escaped. The bodies bad pot been recovered late to night. A fourth daughter, 12, who bad gone to the water's edge with the others, stood by powerless to aid the drowning persons.

She gsve the alarm. Hundreds Join In Rescue. Tonight several hundred persons were on the scene and the weter was being dynamited to raise (he bodies. The man's boots and a dress of one of the children were found down the stream. The oil field district around Smack over snd Griffin is flooded by the recent heavy' rains and the creek is swift at the ixtliit wbre the four were drowned.

TjiSoiiiBflfi? fn ti nn Tra tii ira nn ri rvn pS" i a rf Hm, it fTiv rrsV ira rvn 7 irt miwiGmriot Marines, L509 in Number, to Sail for China April 12, Plan WASHINGTON, April fV WV The third group of 1,500 marbes to reinforce American forces la China will sail from San Diego oa April 12 or as soon thereafter as possible aboard he Dollar line steamer President Grant. The marines are now enrouta tVtttWt Announcement of 's arrangements for their departure came today while Americans in northers China began concentrating at Peking and Tien tain and as Minister MacMurfay and tber Peking dJplomata cotlnued coaslJeratlon of their course In demanding reparations for mlatreatnent of foreigners by Cantonese nationalist Th Preelden Great, employed becauM neither the jfctvy' nor army has trans ports available vrtU take the entire Is 500 marines and their equipment. Under the urging of Mr. MaeM array, Americana all over north China are mav Ing toward Peking lest they be caught ta a fJnne of anti foreignlam like that which raged Nanking. Ga.ta.Tlenstln.

Many of them are, passing through Peking, continuing on Tientsin, selected as the concentration center in anticipa tion of arrival of the southern army with Its advance guard of propagandist! and agitators, Confliotinf reioorts from Paris and London, concenjing the 'status of the ai" lied demands resulting from the Nanking and other outbreaks failed to produce an exptaination of the course the Washing. ton" government wUl take. It however! that the burden of the American negotiations appear to have shifted almost completely to the hands of Minister MscMurray. Through correspondence Jie understands the de sires of the Washington administration and la said to be about ready to act. Lose Battle Meager reports today of the military situstion along the Yangtze river indi cated that the southerners have lost to the northerners in a battle in the Chin klang sector.

The destroyers Paul Jones advised the navy that hrge numbers of Cantonese troops were retiring to the south bank of the Yang tee from the north shore and from Silver Island. Complete evacuation by Americans at Changsha on the Yangtse was reported by the gun boat Palos which siy'd it bad sailed for Hankow with the American consul aboard. It added that the man ager of xoung brothers bank at lenang had been dragged through the streets of the city and beaten because he refused demands by lobor leaders and strikers. Transfer of approximately 285 Americans from Anhwei and Kiiangsu to Tientsin and Tslntar was reported by Consul Alexander G. Swaney at who added that about 70 Americans remained In his district but most of them were en route to the seacoaat.

FAIL TO AGREE ON MINE WAGE Miners and Operators Hope Later to Overcome Differences TERRE HAUTE, April 9. (ff) The scale committee of thirteen sp uolnted by the Terre Haute conference of Indiana strip 'miners and operstors adjourned its meeting todsy without iaireement but with a vote to continue deliberations next Tuesdsy. Delegates to the main conference returnd to their horns, subject to call when the scale committee reaches an agreement. When the smaller committee has agreed upon terms Of th new contract the delegates to the wsge eonferenc will called into session for final sp'proial. Without definite announcement on progress made the prevailing opinion was that an agreement will be reached be fore final adjournment.

District officials of the United Mine Workers announced, that two more pit mines had signed temporary agreements to continue work under the old contract, pending final settlement. There was a refusal to divulge names of companies algnlng. The situation la the deep vein field remained unchanged with no Action on the part of the operators toward the miners' move for a district conference. Cantonese 1 BURIES 3 MEN Thousands of Crash Down on Workmen at Site for Dam WENATCHEE, Wash 'April Three workmen were buried under tons of clay today at a dam for a water company being built near Chelan. With little hope they would be alive, ISO workmen dug furiously at the slide.

First reports were that thlrtv men had been buried but a check of the workmen disclosed that only three were missing. Others who were working in a pit leaped to safety when the slide be gan. THREE CIIILDjlEfJ BURIED IN GAVE Roof, Weighted and Softened by Rain, Sinks in Playmates COLUMBUS, April 9. (ff) Three children of 4 to 8 years, were killed when their cave play house at Franklin school here collapsed late today. The victims were Otis Gsvin 4, Edwin Gavin, his brother, 6, snd W.

Kemp, 8. The roof of the cave apparently weak ened by the heavy rains of recent days, gave way, burying tbe children under five tons of dirt and sand. John Perkins, negro, who was hauling sand from the lot, dlscoreid the trsg edy when he saw the foot of Otis Gavin protruding from the debris. The little playmates had bten dead more than an hour when their bodies were recovered. local Ministers to Speak at Van Bitten Conference At the 8th annuel Sunday school and United Brethren Christian Endeavor conference which is to be held at Van Buren, April 12 to 14 the Rev.

J. E. Harwood and the Rev. J.JV? Burton will present addresses. The Rev.

Burton will give a talk on tbe "Vacation Bible School" and tbe Rev. Harwood on "Knocking 'on Closed Doors" snd "Three Ressons for Intensified Bible Prof. Allen Bowman of Ubee will also give a talk on "One Hundred Per Cent Christian Oozy Mad Makes Soft Landing for 2 Flyers 3IG CLAY SLIDE MILWAUKEE. April 9. (Jf) Oosy mud is believed to have the lives of two men when an airplane crashed near here late today, Stanley la Parle, aviation instructor, and John Harris, student flyer, came to earth when the machine crashed from 800, feet, to a swsmpy spot.

la Parle landed bead first and was burled to the Harris landed on his feet. At a hospital it was said no serious injuries had been found. i Troops Astc ed by Resistance. A Forced Back From District Which They Occupied Less Than a Week Ago; Fcr eign Ministers Prepare Demands for Reparations for Outrages 'j Nanking. 6HANGHAI, April The Cits tonese northward advance toward Tler sin and Peking baa met with an an: Ipected reverse.

Reorganised, nertl. forces under General Sun Chuan Ft whose army crumpled under the tonese advanco on Shanghai In Febnr are reported to have repulsed the tonese on two fronts along the Tli eln Pukow rafllway and on the gttti canal to the east The Cantonese the railway, dispatches say. wera tiflttl back toward Fenyang, northwest of Nun2 hig and 25 miles southeast of Panpu which they occupied only a week atx Newa of the operations along the grand canal mesger, but the Cantonese are pictured retiring steadily th Yangtse, Another Cantonese reverse fa reported on the north bank of tho YangUe opposite Klangyln and some distance east of the grand canal. TMs may open the way for a flank attack by the north erners, threatening Pukow, acroea from Nanking in the rear of the Cantonese Column operating up the TientsJn Pukow line. The Cantonese flag la reported to have been hauled down at CbJnklanf midway between Nanking and Klantfia on the Yangtse.

Hundreds of Cantonese wounded have been brought southward across tbe river. Prepare Demands Meanwhile the American, Brinish, ItaW ian and Japanese ministers, in Peking met todsy to consider It is believed, tho demands to be made on the Cantonese in consequence of the Nanking outbreaks of a fortnight ago hi which a number of foreigners were killed or' Injured and foreign property destroyed and looted. "London dispatches say the deaunda will be presented early next week and will call for reparations, apologies and) punishment of those responsible for outrages. Measures are continuing for defease) of Shameen, tho foreign quarter of Can ton, against possible Chinese aggreesJoe, Trouble Is fesred next Tuesday when a' Chinese protest demon strttloa.W planned. One hundred French troops hare arrived to reinforce tbe 200 British troop already there.

Place Barricade Shameen has been Inclosed by barbed wire barricades on three aides with only the bund open and the protected by two American, five British, one Japanese and three French warships, The troops in the British concession are equipped with artillery. Shameen la the msin spot of refuge for foreigners in the south and Missionaries and ethers are arriving there from the interior. The latest incident in the intermittent warfare between foreign warships snd Chinese along the Yangtse Involved the British destroyer Veteran, which waa fired on with shrapnel and rifles yesterday near Chekiang. The veteran replied with her main armament, consisting ef four 4.7 Inch guns and report the destruction of gua em pra cement awl Chinese barracks. It is not stated which Chinese faction was responsible for th effelr.

Word was received from Peking todsy of tbe release of Mrs. Mildred Mitchell snd WUbor Burton, whose JournaUetlo activities allegedly 4a behalf of th Ou toneee movement, brought their detention by agents of Marshal Chang' Tso Iifl, the northern commander. They were not arrested and were released arter a heer'ng conducted by an American consular official Headed Hcseward This apparel carrier took Its same too seriously. Of course, it was a travelling; bag, but it travelled too fr and got lost. The owner, Byron Richards, knew, however, there waa a way to bead it off and prevent it from getting forever beyond hie reach.

Tbe war was to insert an ad ia tbe Lost and Found columns ef Tbe lress. To think waa to set and In a dry after this ad appeared, the tag wm eg sin travellingbut this time beaded homeward. Great little retrievers, these clarified ads. When TOU lose something try cie. Call our ad Mkret 4k.

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