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HALF-BUNDED ! ACE TO PILOT LEVINEPLANE Monoplane Columbia Taken [ to Cranwell Airdome for Atlantic Flight. I ___ PLANS TAKE-OFF SOON | Hinchliffe, CTiosen to Guide Craft to New York, For- £ mer British Flier. 2?// United Pre*s CRANWELL AIRDOME, England, Aug. 30.—The Bellanca monoplane Columbia, which is to star), from this field on a non-stop flight ! to New York arrived at 6:15 p. m. today from Croydon. Capt. Walter Hinchcliffe, pilot, J and Charles A. Levine, owner, were Aboard. The men returned to London in another plane, leaving the Columbia here. Pilot Is Selected CROYDON AIRPORT, England, Aug. 30.—Charles A. Levine’s Bellanca monoplane Columbia left here today for Cranwell, whence the Start on the proposed return flight across the Atlantic is to be made. Capt. Walter R. C. Hinchliffe, English pilot, appointed by Levine, and the plane’s owner .were in the craft. Cranwell Field is'in Lincolnshire. Levine selected a half-blinded man to pilot the Bellajlca monoplane Columbia on its return flight across the Atlantic to New York. Hinchcliffe lost an eye in an air fight during the war. He is one of Britain’s foremost filers. Levine said the plane may start tomorrow for Long Island. The date, however, is still indefinite. Hinchcliffe Is Praised An attempt will be made later to recapture the endurance record which the Columbia held until several weeks ago, Levine said. The Bblane is capable of sixty-five hours’ Vying, he said. He praised Hinchliffe, who he said has flown “probably the greatest number of.hours of any aviator in the world, I believe about 9,000 hours.” Hinchliffe is a war ace and senior pilot for Imperial Airways. Arrangements have been made by Levine to equip the Columbia with a wireless set and a British compass. “I flew from Paris without a compass,” he said, “and steered by confidence. Nine-tenths of flying is merely having confidence in yourself. % Offered $50,000 for Plane “I have been planning this transAtlantic flight for several months. I announced before I left New York that the Columbia would make a round trip and I aih determined to make it. "An woman offered me $50,000 for the Columbia. But it’s not for sale. It’s my baby. However, I offered to build the woman another one like it.” Upon his arrival here yesterday from Paris, Levine said he intended to pilot the Columbia back across the Atlantic by himself. The probability that Captain Hinchliffe would be given first choice among the applicants was first discovered by Capt. A. F. Muff In an interview. Tells of Leaving Paris After witnessing Levine’s landing on Croydon Field, a landing which might have wrecked many another Captain Muir rushed to Le■toe and said, “That’s a wonderful Tnachine you go' there. I’ll take &mu to America now. How about it?” “I couldn’t do that,” Levine replied, “because I’ve arranged with 'Captain Hinchliffe to take me mcross the Atlantic. Levine Issued a statement in (Which he gave his reasons for his /sudden and spectacular departure from Paris. “While in France every possible obstacle was put in the way of the proposed flight,” he said. "Whether or not it was because the French resented our going to Germany first I do not know, but everything I did in France was subject to confetant criticism, in the newspapers And elsewhere. Frequently I was misrepresented. "Finally I could see no other way put except to bring the airplane to England and start from here. Pay French Aviator “The reason I hopped to London,” Levine added, “was because Drouhin refused to start for New York, although the weather was o. k. “I will piy him his 100,000 francs. s#o he has no kick coming.” French Aviators Paid United Press v PARIS, Aug. 30.—Charles A. Le Vlije’s business difficulties with French aviators were amicably adjusted today, the United Press was informed by Charles C. Lockwood, of New York, who acted as spokesman for the Bellanca monoplane owner. Mrs. Levine, said Lockwood, met Maurice Drouhin and his mechanic, gMathis, and paid them 80,000 and PIO,OOO francs, respectively. Drouhin, Lockwood explained, already had received about 20,000 francs of tha 100,000 for which his contract to fly the Columbia called,

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(CopjTlgiit, 1927, NEA Service, Inc.) Two persons were killed and several more injured when the Broadway Limited, crack Pennsylvania flyer, was derailed near Altoona, Pa.,. Monday. This shows tHe zig-zag position of the cars after the crash, with details from a wrecking train working to restore order and clear the track.

CHANCE SEEN FOHEDFERN CoQld Drift for Week at Sea, Backers Say. By United Press BRUNSWICK, Ga., Aug. 30.—1f Paul Redfern made a successful ocean landing between here and Brazil and has not since been hit by a squall, chances are that he still afloat and comparatively comfortable, members of his flight committee believed today. Redfern left here Thursday, in an attempt to fly to Rio de Janeiro. His wife assured friends she felt the eearch ordered by the Government would prove successful. . Redfern, if forced down at sea, would be able to drift on his collapsible pneumatic raft, or on the floating plane for a week at least, friends said. MRS. THORNTON DIES Wife of Assistant School Superintendent Is Taken. Mrs. Mable E. Thornton, wife of J. F. Thornton, 5011 Central Ave., assistant superintendent of Indianapolis schools died today at Methodist hospital. Death followed a long illness and was caused by an unsual disease affecting the white corpuscles of the blood, only one or two cases of which have been recorded in this country, attending physicians paid. Funeral services will be held at the home Thursday morning with the Rev. O. W. Fifer, district Methodist superintendent in charge. Mrs. Thornton was a member of the First Congregational Church. She was bom in Canada in 1863. She was married in 1892 at Bedford, Ind., where her parents had moved. She has been a resident of Indianapolis since 1901. The husband and Jfrree children, Maurice, Esther and Helen, survive. 18 KILLED IN BARRACKS 32 Italian Soldiers Injured When Building Collapses. By United Press LEGHORN, Italy, Aug. 30. Eighteen soldiers were killed and thirty-two were injured when two floors collapsed In an infantry barracks here last nighty A number of the injured may die.

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This map shows the route which Edward F. Schlee and Wiiliam Brock are following In their flight

Whitewash for Duvall Is Opposed Councilman Robert E. Springsteen today consulted attorneys as to advisability of attempting to carry on the fight for impeachment of Mayor John L. Duvall and City Controller William C. Buser. Springsteen, a Democrat, was the only member of the special council committee consideirng the impeachment resolution who voted to carry on, when the matter came up Monday night. The Democrat may submit a minority report at the hext council meeting, if he is advised such move would be practicable. Four Vote to Kill President Claude E. Negley, Dr. Austin Todd, Millard W. Ferguson and O. Ray Albertson were the committee members who voted to kill the impeachment. The quartet signed a report stating that they opposed the impeachment because the mayor and controller already are under affidavits in Criminal Court making subsstantially the same charges as contained in the impeachment papers. Springsteen set out his contention in this statement: “There has been a great deal of unfavorable talk at home, and over the country, about the affairs of the city of Indianapolis, as conducted by the present administration. (Should Probe Charges “If there is truth in what is said, and apparently aftnost universally believed, impeachment is the proper remedy for the citizens. The facts could be determined by the Investigation which has been commenced. “If the specific charges 'preferred are not true, the friends of Mr. Duvall should insist upon an investigation and welcome the opporKnot only to compel proof of targes, but also to demonstrate by proof in his behalf that he has been maligned.” EXPLAIN DROPPINGTRAIN Big Four Chiefs Confer With State Chiefs on GreensbJrg Service. Big Four officials will confer with public service commission members today in the office of Frank T. Singleton, commission chairman, on discontinuance of passenger service between Columbus and Greensburg. • The commission Had been informed that the service was dropped without application to the public service commission.

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GREETINGS FOR M’CRAY READY Friends Plan Welcome, Expecting Parole Wednesday. By United Press WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Department of Justice authorities said this afternoon they expected Attorney General Sargent to return to Washington from his vacation before night, and they anticipated' 1 he would act within twenty-four hours on the question of the McCray parole. Friends of former Governor Warren T. McCray today prepared to welcome him back to Indiana Thursday, although his parole from Federal Prison, expected Wednesday, has not been signed by Attorney General John Sargent In Washington. William P. Evans, son-in-law of McCray, departed late Monday for Atlanta to accompany him home as soon as he is released. Washington dispatches indicate that there is no opposition to the parole, for which McCray is eligible Wednesday, since he will have served one-third of Ijis ten-year term for using the mails in a scheme to defraud, and that nothing but the formality of Sargent’s signature stands in the way. Sargent is expected back in Washington from Vermont, where his wife is ill, late today or Wednesday. Sargent’s assistants have placed the McCray case upon his desk for immediate action when the attorreturns. CAL TO GIVE PARTIES Official Receptions Not to Be Banned at White House. By United Press RAPID CITY, S. D., Aug. 30.—Official receptions at the White House in Washington serve a useful purpose and will not be discontinued, President Coolidge made it known today. The President denied reports that he was considering abolition of social functions this wintei and indicated that he intended to carry out the usual social program. Patient Kills Self By United Press BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Aug. 30. —Sherman Ream, 39, Topeka, Ind., patient at a local sanitarium, committee!'suicide today by purchasing a shotgun a t aspoing goods store, stepping into a nearby alley and blowing off the top of his head. He had been here two weeks.

' the two men are determined to circle the globe and come tack to Harbor Grace in fifteen days,

NOEL TELLS HIS STORY TO GRAND JURY Attorney for M’Crsy When He Was in Financial Tangle Is Called. ROBINSON TO APPEAR Former Purchasing Agent of . State Will Be Summoned as Witness. James W. Noel, attorney for former Governor Warren T. McCray in his financial difficulties which led to his sentence to Federal Prison, and Boyd Gurley, editor of The Indianapolis Times, were the only witnesses before the Marion County grand Jury, in a brief session today. Appearance of NOel led to belief that the jury continued its investigation of The Times’ charge that Ed Jackson, when secretary of State, offered McCray SIO,OOO for attorney fees and a guarantee that no jury would convict him, if he would name as prosecutor of Marion County a man whom the Republican organization recommended. Quizzed Briefly Noel was in the jury room seventeen minutes and the editor of The Times only a few minutes. The Jury conferred for a time, Special Prosecutor Emsley W. Johnson went to the law library and took some books to the jury room, and soon thererafter the jury adjourned until Wednesday. Deputy prosecutor William H. Sheaffer announced that Prosecutor William H. Remy will return from Lake Wawasee, where he has been recuperating all this month, Wednesday or Thursday. It was expected that Fred Robinson, State purchasing agent under McCray, would be called before the jury when it resumes work Wednesday. Second Offer Bared Noel, according to another copyrighted story which The Times prints today, was approached b* D. C. StophenSOn, accompanied by Robert I. Marsh, Jackson’s law partner. with the same proposition, to be submit‘ad to McCray, after McCray emphatically had refused the Jackson offer. The jury planned vigorously to push the inquiry into alleged political corruption. A partial report may be made within a few days, it is expected, but it was indicated that the jury is far from through with its investigation. At a late session, which began at 4 p. m. Monday, the jury interviewed L. G. Julian, former business associate of Stephenson, and Miss Mildred Meade, former confidante of Stephenson, both of whom have been before former grand juries several times. Julian and Miss Meade are understood to have been questioned about other phases of “Stephensonfsm” than the McCray-Jackson incident. PRESS PARLEY ENDS Delegates From 38 Nations Leaving Geneva. | (Detailed Story on Page 7) By United Press GENEVA, Aug. 30.—Delegates to the First International Press Conference, convened under auspices of the League of Nations, weie scattering today, after a session at which the assembled journalists discussed theft’ problems. Lord Bumht m, conference president, in his closing address, said that it had been the most important press conference in world history, bringing together sixty-three delegates and thirty-five experts from thirty-eight countries. More important resolutions adopted by the. conference included asking lower press rate communication, coding of press dispatches, priority for news dispatches, eqtlality of treatment for all newspapers, agencies, and journalists in distribution and transmission of official news, abolition of governmental news censorship, If possible; measures for suppressing publication of exaggerated news calculated to peril world peace, and a number of others asking protection and other privileges for journalists.

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Lions! Four Born at La Porte With Naughty Names Fed by Church Booth.

R)i Times Special 0A PORTE, Ind., Aug. 30. Sin, Satan, Hell and Damit ’ are the names bestowed on quadruplets born to a lioness with a show company at the La Porte county fair here. Despite their profane names, the first food the cubs had was milk supplied by'the Methodist Ladies Aid Society booth. Overwhelmed by her large family, the lioness is being aided jy Lady Pamela, registered Boston bulldog, who is taking care of Sin and Satan just as she would pups of her own. One of the cubs would have died had Indiana’s dry law been closely observed. It was given a few drops of whisky and tightened its hold on life immediately. GLOBE FLIERS DOWN ON WAY TO NEAR EAST Brock and Schlee Land at Belgrade on Journey to Constantinople. t By United PYess BELGRADE, Aug. 30. The round-the-world monoplane. Pride of Detroit, en route from Munich to Constantinople, alighted here at 11:55 a. m., local time (4:55 Indianapolis time). By United Press MUNICH, Germany, Aug. 30. The self-styled vagabonds of the air, William 8. Brock and Edward F. Schlee, resumed their 100-mile-an-hour jog around the world at 6:36 a. m. today, when they left in their monoplane. Pride of Detroit, for Constantinople. They left Munich with the intention of flying to the Turkish city without a stop, and hoped to cover the 1,100 miles in 13 hours. Before starting. Brock and Schlee inquired about the landing fields at Belgrade, Bucharest, Sofia, and Aarianople. However, they were determined to follow the Danube from Vienna to Budapest, and reach Constantinople within twelve hours at (he mast. Weather feports indicated ideal flying conditions all the way, with northwest winds favoring the flight. Today’s journey is the third leg of their flight around-the-world. Brock and Schlee started from Grace Harbor, Newfoundland. Saturday morning, arrived at Croydon, England, Sunday morning, left there yesterday morning and arrived at Munich yesterday at 4 p. m. The distance from Grace Harbor to Croydon was 2.350 miles, to Munich 580 miles and to Constantinople 1,100, making a total distance to date of 4,030 miles. The total estimated distance of their flight around the world Is 22,067 miles. JAPAN QUITS SHANTUNG Troops’ Presence No Linger Needed in Chine, Says Tokio. By United Press TOKIO, Aug. 30.—Evacuation of the Chinese province of Shantung by Japanese troops has begun, the government announced todajK Necessity for presence of Japanese troops in Shantung has ended, the announcement said, but Japan would be ready to take appropriate measures in any part of China if future trouble should affect Japanese residents. SEEK GIRL’S ATTACKER Fights Off Assailant After Being Dragged Into Auto Police today had no clew to the assailant who seized Miss Christine Gillon, 16„f 3409 Roosevelt Ave., at Twenty-Fifth and Olney Sts., Monday night and dragged her into his auto. A prisoner for several minutes, Miss Gillon fought until she gained freedom and leaped from the auto. In the fall she fractured her left arm and received head and body injuries. Police rent her to the city hospital.

tians-Atlantic hop to London and the London-Munich Jump—were made on schedule.

SECOND BID TO M’CRAY MADE BY MARSH AND STEPHENSON AFTER JACftSON HAD FAILED Law Partner of Present Governor Introduced Klan Chieftain to Defense Lawyer to Repeat SIO,OOO Offer. BARE NEW DEAL ATTEMPT CHAPTER Attorney, G 4 of Kluxers, Went Through With His Act; ‘Czar’ Infuriated When His Tender of Aid Is Scorned. Copyright, 1927, The Indianapolis Times When Ed Jackson, on Dec. 8, 1923, had failed to convince Governor Warren T. McCray that SIO,OOO for attorney fees and a guarantee of immunity from conviction was worth the surrender of his conscience, his former law partner, Robert I. Marsh, took D. C. Stephenson, then in control of the Ku Klux Klan, to the office of James W. Noel, attorney for McCray, to repeat the offer. The Times, on July 25, printed the story of this dramatic event of Indiana politics as it flourished in the days of Stephenson. Governor Jackson has as yet made no comment on that story, either to deny or confirm. The second chapter now may be written and it concerns | the efforts to induce McCray to name James P. McDonald, favored by George V. Coffin, to the pt osecutorship, then being vacated by William P. Evans, son-in-’cw of McCray.

The first effort was made after a conference held in the office of Jackson, then secretary of State and a candidate for Governor. At that conference were Jackson, Coffin, and one other, who was asked for the SIO,OOO. At the time, McCray was under indictment. Kis money was gone. He was known to be in need of funds for his defense. When Jackson made the offer of money and the broad promise that no jury would Convict McCray, the answer was “I have lost my money. I may lose my liberty. I will lose my office. But I still have my selfrespect.” Turn to Stephenson So intent were those in this conference on the selection of a Coffin man for the prosecutorship that they did not stop. They turned to D. C. Stephenson, then a dictator in the piaking, the former dragon of the Klan. He was asked to furnish the same amount and make the same offer, hut the difficulty was that Stephenson was not known to James P. Noel, then chief attorney for McCray. He did not hesistate to make the offer. He wanted at least an introduction and the answer was easy. "Bob Marsh knows Noel,” was the response, and Marsh appeared in the picture. Marsh had been named by Stephenson as the G 4 of the Ku Klux Klan, in charge of its legal affairs. He was assigned as general counsel of the extension department. His salary from the Klan was SIO,OOO a year. Marsh at Celebration When the Klan celebrated the chartering of the hooded order in this State, Marsh was at Melfalfa park in Kokomo. That celebration was held on July 4, 1923. Upon the platform was Dr. Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard of the order; D. C. Stephenson was there as the grand dragon. So was Walter F. Bossert, who was to succeed him and denounce him later. Programs were printed for the occasion, rather elaborate affairs, and upon that program was announced, with other events: “Speech by G 4 of Indiana,” Robert I. Marsh. “One of State’s Greatest” And beneath it was printed this description of this speaker: “One of Indiana’s Greatest/Lawyers.” So it was to Marsh,fhis attorney in the Klan, that Stephenson turned for an introduction to the lawyer to whom he was to offer money and immunity for a client. The G 4 delivered. He went to the office of Noel with Stephenson and made the introductions. He remained to listen to the offer by Stephenson, to receive the answer of Noel that it would be submitted to McCray, then in such desperate nearness to the cell. It was one of Stephenson’s dramatic moments. He dilated at length upc.i his power not only in Indiana, but in other States. His arms swept out in inclusive gestures as he declared, with an emphasis that made it clear that his words were not idle and that he had the power, that he could write the verdicts of juries not only In Marlon County, but anywhere in this country. Tells of His Power He told of his power in other States, the vastness of his organization, the fidelity of his followers, his ability to deliver politicians, and courts-* and all government. And while he talked Robert I. Marsh, law partner of the present Governor, sat and listened. His presence was, if anything, a guarantee of the ability of Stephenson to make good. That offer of Stephenson **ver

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j reached McCray in its full details !or in its implicaitons. A wave of | a hand stopped the suggestion. He | had heard it before, although Ste- ■ phenson never knew that he had ; been sent to the front line's after ; .Jackson and others not then in his confidence had failed. Steve Is Enraged Stephenson returned later and j Ills anger at the refusal of the offer | was Napoleonic. He raged and | fumed and swore that McCray did < ! not dare to refuse, that his power : was such that no Governor would ; dare to refuse to take the aid he j offered and accept prison rather J than give what he demanded. That one Governor had taken that stand and had looked through windows that shortly would be shadowed with bars rather than surrender even one job to the hands jof politicians evidently jarred his sense of power. For the moment he saw a challenge to his dictatorship. It was not in his dictionary to fail or let those with whom he dealt know that he was not omnipotent. That is the picture of the second chapter of this effort to induce McCray to accept a packed jury and money in return for a prosecutorship. x In. it stands Robert I. Marsh, Klan lawyer, partner of the Governor, as | the man who took the former dra- ! gon, now life term prisoner, to make his offer. Admits Seeing Noel Attorney Robert I. Marsh, at his | liome, 28 Downey Ave., today adj mitted having talked with Attorney James W. Noel about the appointI ment of James P. McDonald as I nrosecutor to succeed William P. Evans in 1923, but denied he had I been to Noel’s office with Stephen- | son. Marsh also admitted that he was G 4 of the Indiana Klan. Marsh said he had been to Noel's office many times. He said he discussed McDonald with Noel, because Noel was a “close friend and adviser of McCray,” but It was “merely a suggestion and no offer was made.” The lawyer said he favored McDonald for prosecutor at that time, because he believed “he would handle the office more like a lawyer would handle it.” Marsh declared he did not agree with Governor Jackson’s policy of remaining silent in the face of the recent charges, but he believed the Governor pursued it because "he would be kept too busy denying all the charges.” D. C. Stephenson and others In prison are better than “a lot of these people who are criticising and holding the State up to ridicule,” said Marsh. RELEASE U. S. AIRMEN Men, Seized by Mexicans, Will Be Sent Home. By United Press SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Alig. 30. Reports to officers at Kelly Field here today said Capt. C. H. Reynolds and Sergt. Gus Newland, 2d Division, United States Air Serivce, had been released by authorities at Presidio de Vado de Pielras, Mexico. The airmen were seized when they were forced to land on the Mexican side of the border while they were searching in their plane for a war veteran lost in the desert. / Hourly Temperatures 0 a. m 83 10 a. m. 74 7 a. m 64 li a. m. 77 8 a. m 07 12 (noon) $0 9 a. 72 t p. to*