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TOM ADAMS LINKS CARTWRIGHT AND WALB WITH KLAN

he recalled one check for $2,500 drawn by Stephenson in favor of Governor Ed Jackson. He said he photographed both the face of the check and the indorsement, purportipg to be that of Governor

Jackson.

Says He Saw Check. Christian, the attorney, declared. Wednesday that he had 'seen onp

FdHnr Calk On Roth Men To ,f Stephenson's checks made payEdiior Gtins un com men ioi lble to Jackson for $5,000, but Hull

Resign; Says Chairman Is “Master Mind.”

Indianapolis. Oct. 15.—The group of members of the Indiana Republican Editorial Association which has charged misconduct by public officials reached outside the state yesterday in an effort to interest the United States Senate campaign funds investigating committee in looking into charges of political corruption in Indiana. United States Senator Reed, of Missouri, chairman of the Senate investigating committee, was asked to call such a session. Thomas H. Adams, Vincennes publisher and chairman of the editorial probe committee, issued the invitation but early last night had not received an answer. He also asked Senator Borah, of Idpho, to use his inlluenee with Senator Reed in the

matter.

To Appeal To President. Simultaneous with those actions Mr. Adams said he would appeal t( President CoolkVge for assistance in delving into the alleged corrnp lion in Indiana politics during the time D. C. Stephenson was grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan and a power in Hoosier activities. Stephenson was returned to the Indi ana state prison Wednesday, aftei appearing before the Marion Conn ty grand jury, which is investigating the graft charges. He is undet life sentence for murder. Th veteran editor also criticized Clyde A. Walb, chairman of the Republican state committee; United Slates Senator Arthur R. Robinson; Lawrence Cartwright, chairman to the executive committee ot the state committee, and Secretary of State Frederick E, Schortemeier for their alleged connections with the Ku Klux Klan and Stephenson. In an open letter which, he said, was in reply to one sent him by the state chairman, Adams declared Walb should resign “because you are not a Republican, but you are a kluxer." He charged Walb with be lug an aid to Stephenson in the •“corrupt ripper bill conspiracy” and with helping Stephenson “in preparing a card index system of every state house employe and other state employes and polling them for klux purposes, and those who were anti-klux were slated for

dismissal.”

Accuses Senator Robinson. “The moral turpitude and klux connection stains the garments of Senator Arthur Robinson.” he declared. “He was a large contributor to the black bag filled with money that was taken to the Noblesville jail for Steve's (Stephenson's) defense. There are serious matters in connection with his appointment by Ed Jackson, who surrendered in a few hours after he had pledged the appointment to Frank €. Ball of Muncie, and. at the written demand of Stephenson, appointed

‘Robbie.’ ”

Referring to Secretary of State Schortemeier, he asserted that “nearly every employe on the state constabulary came from Stephenson’s elaborate klux suite in the Kresge Building and six or eight ■of them were employes of Stephenson.” Adams added. He charged Schortemeier with being cognizant of the card index system. Turning his guns on Cartwright, Adams maintained that he should resign from the Republican state committee ‘‘because he is in the Klux-Coftin-Dodson machine and the master mind of it.”

Christian On Stand.

Floyd Christian, Noblesville at torney, who has stated that he saw in the possession of Stephenson documentary evidence of alleged political corruption in Indiana, was the principal witness before the in vestigating body yesterday. While Christian was testifying, detectives were searching for Mildred Meade, 23, who is believed to have some knowledge where the documents are which Christian declared he saw while serving as counsel in the trial of Stephenson on the charge of murdering Madge Oberholtzer. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meade, the girl's parents, said she had been away from her home here since last Friday, and they made a public appeal to her to come home at once, “no matter who is advising

you to stay away.”

Christian, prior to appearing be fore the grand jury, declared that he had received authority from Stephenson to disclose his knowledge of the documentary evidence. What he told the grand jury is unknown, as strict secrecy surrounds the activities of that body.

To Meet In Chicago.

Adams's messages to Reed and Borah urged the Reed committee to investigate the Indiana situation. A report from‘Chicago said the Reed committee would assemble there next Monday, but that Indiana political affairs were not among the matters scheduled to be

brought before it.

Ralph Kane, special prosecutor who is assisting Prosecutor William H. Remy in conducting the grand jury investigation, exhibited at the close of the day’s session a thick transcript of the evidence that has been taken thus far. It contained many interesting details he saad. Attorney-General Arthur L. Gilliom, also aiding in the in qniry, expressed keen interest in the yvhereabonts of Miss Meade. Gertrud^ Meade, t)Vin sister of the missing'gitf.'was in the grand jury roorp fpr-fi-few minu^es-vOthers intepvieiwed <wfe|-e Mr. -and Mrs. 1G. M l

raid yesterday, he recalled no check’ to the governor for an imount larger than $2,500. The govrnor denied having received a :heck or gift in any sum from Ste-

phenson.

Adams was in conference with his attorneys much of the day. He would not say whether or not he jlanned to go to Chicago and talk with the Reed coMimittee. The mystery surrounding the disappearance of Miss Meade, coupled with Stephenson’s refusal to testify when he was brought into Superior Court here, Wednesday, is a witness in a civ il case, was he subject of much speculations unong Adams's associates. Adams leclared that assurance had been ?iven that if Stephenson could be >rought outside the state prison at Michigan City, where he is serving a life sentence for murdering Miss Oberholtzer, he would reveal alleged corruption that came to his attention while he was grand dragon the klan. When he was in court 1 question that would have permitted him to tell of alleged notes and other evidences of indebtedness to him of public officials, he

refused to testify.

LEGION SIDESTEPS ON WORLD COURT

Jack Sharkey, Boston Heavyweight, Spars with Monte Munn While Training for Bout witn vt in®

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Declines to Reaffirm Last Year’s Approval—Elects New Officers Today.

G. 0. P. OUTLOOK

Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 15.—The American Legion in national convention yesterday refused to reaffirm the position it took at Omaha last year, when it favored adherence to the world court. A resolution reaffirming that action was rejected by a large vote after ^peeehes had been made declaring the world court had become a political question -and that to adopt the resolution would he violating j the legion’s constitution which provides that the organization can not be used for the dissemination of partisan principles. The question of a unified air service for the army an^l navy went over for another year after the convention committee on aeronautics had adopted a recommendation that there be one department of air services with secretaries of equal importance fdr hmd, sea and air forces. The committee, after long conferences, was prevailed on to change the recommendation to an expression that it “looks with favor upon” the proposition. San Antonio In 1928. San Antonio, Tex., won the 1928 convention of the legion, after a contest with Miami, Fla., and Denver, Col. Next year’s convention will be held in Paris, France. o

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(Continued 'From Page One) woman in Delaware county entitled to vote to go to the polls and register their choice. But if the republican machine attempts to corrupt the election by its usual methods every participant will be sent to the penitentiary, from the highest to the

lowest.

A perfect organization has been formed to keep track of things. Those who supplied the liquor and illegal votes in recent campaigns are all known and all are under surveillance now Federal officers are to be elected this time and violators of the election laws will be prosecuted in both state and federal courts. Here is one election in which Billy's outlaw machine will, at its peril, attempt to steal the election from the democrats. The republican machine is now soliciting gamblers, illegal dispensers of liquor and other denizens of the underworld for money to help corrupt the election. Every crooked move is being scrutinized. There will be no prosecutor to “take care" of the gang after the first of the year. -— o :

Commuted 42 Years, Has 92d Birthday

The News

Mrs. Coolidge was at Mercersburg academy in Pennsylvania, Tuesday, where she dedicated a new $600,000 chapel. The two sons of President and Mrs. Coolidge were students at the academy several years ago.

An explosion *in the basement of the Watkins Glen National bank at Watkins Glen, N. Y., Tuesday evening. wrecked the three-story bank building, injured one man and caused property damage estimated at more than $250,000. An'official investigation will be made.

The three American missionaries, captured by bandits at Miliwan, West Hunan province, have been released atfer being.held for eighteen days. No ransom was paid for their release.

Finely Shirred and Crushed Ve lvet

Nineteen men have been indicted in New York federal court as members of a rum smuggling ring said to rival that headed by William V. Dyer, now under sentence to serve a term in Atlanta penitentiary.

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Queen Marie of Roumania sailed for the United States, Tuesday , night aboard the Leviathan, the | flag of her country flying from the i port truck of the liner as it passed ! into the Atlantic.

One of the largest parades ever staged by the American Legion, was that held in Philadelphia,

GREENWICH, Conn. — Henry Dayton, “Greenwich’s grand old man’’ and the oldest commuter on the New Haven railroad, celebrated his 92nd birthday recently. Mr. Dayton is a former resident of New York and has been in the insurance business in that city sixty-one years. For the last forty-two years he has commuted from Greenwich to his office, lit) William street,

New York.

Every morning except Sunday Mr. Dayton catches the 7:58 train and returns on the one arriving

here at 5:16 p. m.

he preferred to ride alone and for years had devoted his trips to read-

ing the newspapers.

Sharkey is pictured above (at right) boxing with Monte Murtn in preparation for his battle with Harry Wills on Columbus Day at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn. Sharkey is confident of beating the negro heavyweight and if he does ha will be the logical con*

tender for ene Tunney’s crown.

Tuesday, when over the same ground that felt the tread of soldiers of the revolution, the civil war and the Spanish war, the Legion marched 30,000 strong to the sesquicentennial grounds. In the line were about 150 bands.

A memorial and greetings from the Polish people on the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the American republic, bearing the signatures of one-sixth of the 30,000,000 inhabitants of Poland, were' presented Thursday to President Coolidge.

Fifteen hundred teachers from north central Indiana will meet at South Bend Friday for their annual association meeting which will be addressed by leading educators of the United States.

Oysters On Trees Are Novel Sight

GIRLS MAKE BREAD ON KANSAS WHEAT TRAIN

Chicago’s newest skyscraper, the Jeweler’s tower, was the scene of a $15,000 diamond robbery Tuesday when three men entered the office of Rud Noel, diamond appraiser, on the fourteenth floor. They held up Noel and three associates, taking unset gems.

H. H. Topakyan. former imperial Persian consul-general, was killed Wednesday in a fall from the seventeenth floor of the Yale Club in New York City. In 1909, he had presented a silk Persian

rug, valued at dent Roosevelt.

TOPEKA. Kifs.—Bread-making girls have been the most attractive features bf the “wheat specials” sent around Kansas by the Santa ! Fe and Rock Island railroads em- | phasizing the slogan. "Not more ! wheat acreage but more money for the man who grows the wheat.” | Two Bom bon county girls won the I state competition in breadmaking. | The girls know how to make bread. | and they tell visitors to the special ! train why they do each thing a ceri tain way. Also the girls themselves are cute as a picture, and are easily the most popular feature of the train with most of the spectators.

NEW YORK—If you happen to walk on an ocean beach rx-tow tide and see a gang of men working with a scow load of shrubs, don't laugh if some one tells you the men are planting “oyster trees.” For

He said today that is exactly what they are doing.

Growing oysters on trees is an accomplished fact, though quite new. The oysters that you eat for dinner very likely spent their youth clinging to the twigs of a birch in the shallow waters of a tide flat. • This development is part of a scientific program for making sure that your grandchildren, too, will have oysters for dinner. The oyster population has a heavy death rate, and several other influences hab ■ so devastated the supply of bivalves that the' government at one time feared it would be exhausted. Oysters form the basis of the |

East Sunday night burglars in Indianapolis used a horse and wagon to carry away groceries valued at several hundred dollars from

located on

$50,000, to Pres?- the Kroger grocery-

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CHURCHES, LABOR PLEDGE HARMONY

Charitable Understanding' Is Avowed At Detroit as Echo to Week’s Controversy.

most valuable fishing industry in the United States, with an annual return of nearly $15,000,000 to fishermen. It was thought worth while to save it, and the best way to do it was to provide a suitable place for baby oysters to develop and reach maturity. Revocation of the liquor permits of the Greendale company, of Lawrenceburg, Ind., manuacturers, was announced Monday by E. C. Yellowly, federal prohibition administrator. It was charged that the concern failed to keep proper records.

Detroit, Mich., Oct. 13.—Spokesmen for the American Federation of Labor, the Detroit Council of Churches and the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America joined Monday in cordial expressions of good will and charitable understanding from the pulpit of the First Congregational Church

here.

The large church auditorium was 'veil filled, a number of delegates to the federation’s annual convention, now in session here, being in the audience. The meeting arranged by officers

THE COMBINATION LIVING-DINING ROOM

Restricted Space No 'Jar to Comfort and Effect of Gracious Charm.

HTtH. of AYfffersofl.'Ffulf iVa photographer, and in a recent interview he told of making photographs for Stephenson of a large number of documents and checks. Hull said

HE rapid growth of our cities, which has tended to piaffe spaefe for living quarters at a premium, has brought home to many women the problem of how to combine -the living room and the dining room. Fortunately, the furniture now in vogue for the small house or apartment makes possible a convenient and attractive arrangement, provided sufficient thought and care are devoted to the task. A gateleg table may always be used as a dining table; and Windsor chairs, since they are the acme of comfort, are as much in place in the living room as the dining room. The davenport table is also at home in either room. With this table, long narrow benches may be used instead of chairs. After the meal they can be placed at eith.er end of the fireplace. An unsuspected hiding place for silver and linen can always be found in a console or small cabinet. No article foreign to the living room need . detract from the gracious charm of the room as a whole. Plate Glass Covers It is, of course, essential to protect the surfaces of tables and other articles of furniture from possible injury by hot dishes, boiling water, or a carelessly dropped fork or spoog. The outline of a disL, or a mottled stain from a spilled liquid, will stand out like a sore thumb when guests drop in for cards or an evening chat. The possibility of such blemishes can readily be eliminated by covering exposed surfaces with sheets of plate glass cut to fit the ahape. In addition to acting as ^rotectire devices, the use of such •©▼an brings out the grain of the —~>n CvKila th* lu-Htronn n i a 1 i f v

of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, and presided over by Dr. Lynn Harold Hough, minister of the Central Methodist Episcopal Church and president of the Detroit Council of Churches, was addressed, in addition by William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, Dr. Gains Glenn Atkins, pastor of the First Congregational Church, the Rev. Reinhold Neibur of the Bethel Evangelical Church and Dr. Alva \V. Taylor, national industrial secretary for the Disciples of Christ.

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Plea To Vote Is Legion Keynote

of the glass will in itself add a ongat aaa cheerful note to the room. Covers of plate glass are now largely used for tine furniture in all the rooms of the home, for women have learned through sad experience what the carelessly placed cigarette, flying blot of ink, or corrosive lotion can do to cherished tables, cabinets, or chiffoniers. The covers, therefore, need not be removed at the end of the meal.

Wiring the Table The use of glass covers adds, also, to the practicality of the labor saving expedient of cooking many articles of food in electric AmvIr-AB An t ha dlnlxur tuiAm

Wiring the dining table will add further to the convenience of this arrangement. Such wiring can be done without marring the table. A flexible insulated cord extends down the center leg, connecting outlets morticed into the table frame Just beneath the top with an outlet In the floor. The cords of the electrical appliances can then be plugged into the table outlets, thus obviating the necessity of reaching down to the floor to connect or disconnect a cord. If the room has another electric plug near the cabinet or console there will be room here for the appliai%:es one cannot conveniently place on the table. The coffee, for instance, can be started “perking” when the family sits down, and can be transferred to the table at the proper time. Since table, console, or cabinet, will all have covers of plate glass, their polished surfaces will suffer no damage even though the percolator boils over, or any of those other mishaps occur which are more or less frequent in the preparation of a meal. The dollies and center piece, too, can be protected by placing them under the glass. At the end of the meal, or if a mishap occurs, the glass can be quickly deemed with a few wipes of a

Philadelphia,/ \Pa., ,Ocq. 12.—A plea to the millions of voters in the United States to exercise their right of franchise at elections was the dominant note struck at the opening session of the American Legion national convention yesterday. “The duties of peace are as vital as those o war,” said President Coolidge in a message o greeting to the legionnaires. “In a sense they are more so,” he added. “Shirkers in peace time are to be condemned as secerely as slackers during a war. “We can not retain our liberties under our representative form of government if we do not keep it gepyesentative^’ jhe (said. “Too much stress can not be laid on the necessity of ‘getting out the vote.”

Adams To Push His Own Probe

Indianapolis, Oct., ,12.—Continuance of his independent investigation of alleged irregularities on the part of Indiana public officials and politicians during the period prior to the general election of 1924 and during the 1925 session of the Indiana General Assembly was pledged yesterday by Thomas H. Adams of Vincennes, who is heading the organization which is making the charges. The investigation by Mr. Adams will proceed regardless of the placing of the matter in the hands of the Marion county grand jury, Mr. Adams declared in a statement issued last night at his headquarters in the Hotel English. o In the opinion of the American

Automobile Association, the house by the side of the road which offers food and lodging to motor tourists should be inspected and licensed by state boards of health. This opinion has been made because of the many complaints that have come to the Association of poor food and accommodations.

Governor Ed Jackson on Monday commuted the sentence of Edward H. Jenkins, sentenced in the Marion County Criminal Court, last January 16, to one to two years for transporting liquor, to nine months to one year.

French newspapers representing all shades of political, opinion in France printed broadsides against Premier Poincare, Monday, for sug gesting that the Franco-American debt accord would be ratified this fall .

The National Varnish Manufacturers’ Association and' the Paint Manufacturers’ Association of the United States, by the agreement of both, united into the American Paint and Varnish Manufacturers’ Association with Frank P. Cheesman of New York, president of the new association.

Seven “trusties” in the jail at Media, Pa., released nearly two hundred prisoners, men and y/omen, Wednesday. The prisorfers drove out the guards, wrecked the interior of the jail and attempted to set it afire. In subduing the prisoners six of them were shot but none seriously wounded. An hour after the mutiny began they had been forced back into their cells and twenty-five guards are now patrolling the corridors.

The third pas-Pacific scientific congress convention will open in Tokyo October 20. Plauge, malaria and beri-beri are among the diseases requiring the attention of all Pacific countries, but there are many economical problems of commop interest also.

The dreaded European corn borer has at last been discovered in the state of Indiana. It has been found in Fulton 'County by County Agent Harry R. Rosenburg.

It is reported that Frazier Jelke, Chicago “oleo” maker, has just paid something like $165,000 to buy the parterre box No. 6 at the Metropolitan opera house in New York from William K. and Harold S. Vanderbilt.

A new home to cost $150,000 will be built by the Wheeler City /Mission, 245 North Delaware street, Indianapolis, Ind., it has been announced by directors of the mission at the opening of the second week of a two-week celebration observing the anniversary of the mission’s founding.

Morgan Whitham, age seventy, and bis son, Dale Whitham, age twenty-two, died at their home near Canaan, in southern Indiana, within four hours’ time. The father was stricken with paralysis, with death resulting shortly after the attack and within four hours the sou died of scarlet fever and ptomaine poisoning without knowing of his father’s illness and death.

Gov. Leonard Wood of the Philippines has recovered from a recent operation and is again on the' job. His first act was to veto a bill recently approved by the legislature prohibiting the exportation

of buntal fiber from which are made the famous buntal hats so much in demand in Europe and

America.

Gov. Smith of New York, in a proclamattion Wednesday has designated October 27 as “Roosevelt Day.”

A resolution demanding the recall of Governor Roland H. Hartley of the state of Washington, was unanimously adopted at a meeting of 4,000 persons at Seattle, Washington., Wednesday night. The meeting was called by those opposed to Gov. Hartley’s educational policy and followed the recent action of the board of regents of the University of Washington in asking for the resignation of the president of that instituion.

The National Council of Catholic Women in session at Milwauasking that the United States government express the “abhorrence in which the people of that country hold the attempt being made by the Mexican government to root out principles of liberty and justice.” The resolution will be sent to Pres. Coolidge and to members of the cabinet and congress.

The fifth annual state conference of high school principals will be held at Indiana university Friday and Saturday, Nov. 12 and 13, according to an announcement by Dean H. L. Smith of the Indiana university school of education.

Along one of the streets in Highland Park, Detroit, Mich., a man about thirty-five years old was found on the sidewalk unconscious and dying, with a baby boy about two and one-half years old by his side. There wet;e no marks of identification to reveal the identity of the man or the baby.

Bandits armed with sawed-off shotguns held up a mail truck under police escort in the business district of Elizabeth, N. J., Thursday. One man was killed and two others wounded. The bandits looted the truck and made their escape.

Early trial of Albert B. Fall, former interior secretary, and Edward L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, oil operators, will be sought by government counsel in the District of Columbia Supreme Court, on indictments charging a conspiracy to defraud the United States in connection with the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills, Cal., naval oil reserve leases.

Here is something decidedly different which adds an air of chic all its own to the season’s already most popular material, Velvet. This spiderweb shirring is an ingenuity of

! MME. AGNES and adds distinction in fashion’s movement towards elaboration in millinery. Another effective point is the two-tone color scheme; the brim is wine color, introduced again in tbe quarterings of the crown which alternate with .vieux rose.

More than sixty witnesses have been summoned on behalf of the house in the impeachment case of Federal Judge George W. English of the eastern Illinois district, whose trial is to start in the senate Nov. 10 on charges of usurpation of power and other “high misdemeanors.”

The problem of box-car theives in the railroad yards at Chicago has reached a serious stage according td Sergt. John Leyendecker of the detective bureau. Recent investigations show there are three gangs of these criminals operating in Chicago, which cause an annual loss of more than $100,000 to the railroads.

General Von Heeringen, age sev-enty-six, former minister of war in Germany, is dead. In the World war he was commander-in-chief of the Eighth army corps and in Aug., 1918, was placed in supreme command of the German coastal defense.

No foreigner will be allowed to enter Mexico after Nov. 1 unless he is provided with a personal identification card. Ths _ order was transmitted by the minister of the interior to all of the Mexiuan ports and the immigration control offices along the frontiers.

Rutherford B. Hayes, of Clearwater, Florida, and son of the former president, has announced his candidacy for a seat in the lower house of the Florida legislature.

Mr. and Mrs. Harley Wooley of Nashville, Ind., believe they established a good record last Friday when they picked 141 bushels of apples at the Bessire orchards in nine and one-half hours.

An eminent Paris physician makes a report to the Academy of Medicine in which he states that alcoholism in France is growing among women and decreasing as rapidly among men.

Twenty-five million dollars, $10,000,000 more than the goal originally set, will be sought by the United Jewish Campaign for relief of members of that race in Europe, it was decided at a national conference just held at Chicago.

Eighteen lives are known to have been lost in a hurricane which raged over Denmark and Holland over the week-end. Heavy damage was done, especially to shipping, and many vessels were in difficulty.

An effort will be made at the coming session of Congress to pass a resolution asking President Coolidge to propose on behalf of the United 'States the calling of a third Hague conference for the codification of international law.

Three 150,000 gallon capacity tanks of the Standard Oil Company in the southeast Baltimore tank farm burned Saturday night. The fire was in the center of hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil and gasoline.

The Tuxpan Petroleum Company has brought in one of the biggest oil wells ever tapped in Mexico. Its initial daily yield is about 75,000 barrels. It is located in the state of Vera Cruz and is considered especially important by the government because it is located on territory where oil has never been found before.

Gen. John J. Pershing in speaking before the Military Order of the World War at Philadelphia, warned against a further cut in the army. He said that the army had been reduced to a point “below which we cannot go without most serious results.”

Byron Wade Large, 20, Kendalville, Ind., was instantly killed at Kendalville Sunday morning, when a motorcycle belonging to a friend and which Large was riding, left the road and crashed into a telephone pole.

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BALL GYMNASIUM WEDNESDAY EVENING October 20th 2,000 Bleacher Seats Reserved, $1.10

1,000 Chairs Reserved $1.65, $2.20

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