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AnORNEY GENERAL OPENS FIGHT IN COURT TO DRIVE KLAN ORDER FROM INDIANA y ■ Cancellation of Permit to Operate, Granted in 1921 by Ed Jackson, Is Asked in Suit Filed by Gilliom. TRUE PURPOSE HIDDEN, HE CONTENDS Appointment of Receiver to Take Over Ku-Klux Property in State, Estimated at $10,000,000, Sought. Cancellation of the permit to operate in Indiana, granted the Knights of the Ku-Klux Klan in 1921 by Ed Jackson, then Secretary of State, was asked in a suit filed in Circuit Court today by Attorney General Arthur L. Gilliom, in the name of the State of Indiana. Gilliom alleged that the Klan concealed its true purpose in application for the permit. The suit also asks for an injunction to prevent the Klan from further operation in the State .and for appointment of a receiver to take over its property in Indiana. Hiram W. Evans, imperial wizard, and Joseph M. Huffington, grand dragon of Indiana, are made defendants with the corporation.

“The asininitv of the action is just what would be expected of Arthur L. Gilliom,” was Huffington’s only comment from Indiana headquarters here. The complaint alleges that the Klan owns property roughly valued at $10,000,000 in Indiana, which never has been entered for taxation and upon which no taxes hare been paid. Gilliom asks that the receiver impound all the assets out of which the taxes may be paid. Cites Klan’s Purpose Gilliom alleges that the Klan’s purpose as set out in the permit was: "A patriotic fraternal order with insurance or beneficiary features teach and inculcate membership greater respect for the Stars and Stripes and the Constitution and to strengthen the majesty and supremacy of the regularly organized forces of law and to increase patriotism of the purest kind amongst its membership.” The attorney general alleges that the Klan and its officers have violated this permit in that: 1. Rathe* than being a non-profit organization, it has collected more than $2,000,000 in membership fees, most of which went to enrich officers. Secret, Not Patriotic "3. The objects and purposes of auch order were not intended to be patriotic in the ordinary sense of that term, but were intended to be secret, to be secretly executed against citizens of the State of Indiana, who by reason of racial or religious characteristics are ineligible to membership. “The Klan has been conducted in a manner ‘diametrically opposed to the common accepted meaning of the terms patriotic and patriotism,’ and more than 100,000 ‘good citizens of the State of Indiana’ have been misled into intolerance. ‘‘3. The representation that the Klan intended to teach ‘greater respect for the Stars and Stripes and the Constitution’ is false, because it taught its membership to disrespect the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, inculcating racial hatred. Set Up Super-Government "4. The representation that the Klan intended to strengthen the majesty and supremacy of the regularly organized forces of law,” was false, since the Klan intended to and did secretly mix in Democratic and Republican politics throughout the State, for the purpose of gaining control of the Government and setting up a supergovernment, as evidenced by numerous Horsethief Detective Associations. “The Klan bulldozed legislators Into passing the law permitting horsethief detectives to carry arms. “Klansmen ‘in many instances pre-empted portions of the public highways ... at points of their meeting places, and with force of arms have compelled free American citizens on free public highways to detour.’ “The Horsethief Detective Association conducted ‘a reign of terror against citizens.’ Circuit Judge Harry O. Chamberlin said there was no chance to get to the case before March, because the calender is filled. BANK CALL IS ISSUED Comptroller Asks for Statements as of Dec. 31. Bit 1 iittrrl Prrk* WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The Comptroller of Currency today issued a call for the condition of all national banks as of Dec. 31, 1927. State Bank Commissioner Luther F. Symons today issued a call for kconditions of all State banks as of ■Dec. 31. COFFEE IN TOWN. Seccup without charge. FLETCHER Bff’ETERIA, Basement Fletcher ■fit Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m. ■ivertisement.

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RUTH ELDER HIT IN SCANDAL SUIT

Four-Year-Old Charge Is Faced by Girl Flier; Posts SSOO Bond. Pielvre and Detailed Denial of Mis* Elder on fare Three. Bw United Press ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 4. —Ruth Elder, who gained world-wide attention by her dramatic attempt to fly with George Haldeman across the Atlantic Ocean is continuing her theatrical tour under a SSOO bail bond, posted with Georgia courts, it became known today. When Miss Elder arrived here Dec. 20, she was served with a 4-year-old warrant issued against Mrs. Claude Moody, charging misconduct with the Rev. Hubert Jenkins, said to be an evaneglist at one time active in Clayton, Ga. The warrant was served by Sheriff L. M. Rickman of Clayton, as Miss Elder left the train on arrival in Atlanta. Richman said that the warrant never was served before because he never had found Miss Elder after its issuance. Miss Elder and Rickman went from the train to a hotel, where Miss Elder gave Hickman SSOO, which he accepted as bail and which was posted with the clerk of the court at Clayton. The case has been set for hearing late in February. Miss Elder, who in 1924 was the wife of Claude Moody, a school teacher, has made complete denial of the charges. Her friends here stoutly defend her. Miss Elder is in Canton, Ohio, continuing her theatrical tour. Vigorously Denies Charge Bjl United Press CANTON, Ohio, Jan. 4.—Speaking through F. G. Latham, her manager, Ruth Elder, trans-Atlantic flier, here on a vaudeville tour, emphatically denied today that she had been guilty of misconduct with a minister at Clayton, Ga. “It Is the worst hold-up I ever heard of and is nothing short of blackmail,” Latham declared, talking for Miss Elder. “There is absolutely no truth in the charges.” Miss Elder refused to answer the telephone, Latham later explaining she was under orders of a physician “to sleep until 10 a. m. daily during her strenuous vaudeville tour.” “This is just a brazen attempt to get money from Miss Elder,” Latham asserted, adding that the girl flier’s salary “is SI,OOO a week.” Postmaster Nominations B WAsMnC?TON, Jan. 4.—President Coolidge today sent to the Senate the following postmaster nominations: Job C. Burn worth, Columbia City, and Erasmus R. Bartley, Greencastle.

LONGING FOR NATIVE KENTUCKY HILLS TOLD IN LIFE STORY OF MISSING GIRL

BY BEN MAKAROFF “AyTY life must have been like -*■*■■■ that of the little herb of the field and forest. I was kin to the grass, I was near to the trees. “I was never called away from these ’till my mother was called away from this world of ours. Then I could no longer be free. I was busy no more soaking in the space, light, color and soft bright stillness. Lois Dean Faulkner, 17, and pretty, who lived at 4330 Carrollton Ave. and worked as stenographer for a collection agency in the Continental Bank Bldg., wrote these words, an excerpt from a manuscript entitled "Autobiographical” received by her father,

Asks 'Fox' Ears I!j/ United Press DALLAS, Texas, Jan. 4. Dr. Charles Hatcher, Dallas surgeon, today offered SI,OOO for the ears of William Edward Hickman, confessed slayer and kidnaper of Marion Parker in Los Angeles, to be used to graft upon the head of a Texas plowboy, who lost his ears in an accident.

CONGRESS IRE ROUSEDBY WAR Nicaragua Policy Bitterly Scored in House, Senate. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.— The Administration’s Nicaraguan policy came under fire in both houses of Congress today. Resolutions designed to remove United States marines from Nicaragua, where six recently have been killed in ambush by followers of General Sandino, were introduced in the Senate to the accompaniment of bitter words. Meantime, on the House side, came an outburst, reminsicent of last spring’s attacks on the first movement of troops to Nicaragua. A resolution asking immediate withdrawal of troops was introduced by Senator Heflin (Dem.), Alabama. It was referred to the Commmittee on Foreign Relations.

Spoils Record Bu Times Special FT. WAYNE, Ind., Jan. 4. A fire here the day before 1927 ended spoiled this city’s chance for having the smallest annualfire loss since 1924. Instead the city’s 1927 loss was the heaviest in the last ten years excepting 1924. The blaze that spoiled the record chance was that which destroyed the Grand Leader department store Friday evening with a loss of $300,000.

SEEK COUNTY HOME Condemn Detention Quarters as Fire Hazard. County commissioners today directed Juvenile Judge Frank J. Lahr to find a suitable detention home before Feb. 1 to replace that at 225 E. Michigan St. This followed a recommendation of the grand jury Saturday that the present building be vacated because it is a fire hazard. The matter was brought up by Commissioner George Snider, who has fought for a better detention home for more than a year. Judge Lahr was authorized to rent a building for not more than $325 a month. John MacGregor, bridge inspector, was appointed to take charge of the janitor force at the courthouse. The retiring grand jury severely criticised dirt in the building. FIRE DAMAGE $2,000 Methodist Internes’ Home Hit by Blaze. Flames started by an overheated furnace caused $2,000 damage today to a dpuble house at 1613-1615 N. Capitol Ave., where Sixteen Methodist Hospital internes were quartered. The structure was across the street from the hospital. SINCLAIR FILES MOTION Oil King Asks Jury Presentment Be Taken Off Records. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Attorneys for Harry F. Sinclair, oil multimillionaire, filed with Chief Justice Walter I. McCoy here today a motion to expunge from court records the recent grand jury presentment charging Sinclair and six associates with conspiracy to obstruct justice by shadowing jurors in the Fall-Sinclair oil trial.

John M. Faulkner, 619 Holly St., when the girl disappeared last week. “Too much imagination” was the explanation of the girl’s mysterious leave taking by the prosaic word of policemen and employes. # n m Gathering up all her portraits, pen and crayon sketches of friends and relatives, made by herself, she left her little world here without a word. A day later her father received the manuscripts, including several poems and a letter saying she was bound for San Francisco. Her relatives believe she has returned to Kentucky. The father, a gentleman of the old school, looks the part of the

INDIANAPOLIS, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 4, 1928

U. S. MARINES ADVANCE ON NICARAGUANS American Bomber Planes Attack Sandino’s Dugouts in Wilderness. RUSH REINFORCEMENTS Yankee Patrol, Ambushed by Liberal General, Sends Call for Help. Bu United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—American troops from thousands of miles away were drawn today, as if by a magnet, toward the mountain fastness a El Chipote, in northern Nicaragua, where the Liberal general. Sandino, holds forth defiantly. A battle was imminent, with United States planes bombing Sandino's dugouts in preparation for a mass attack by Marines, who had suffered the loss of six dead and twenty-eight wounded at the hands of the stocky insurgent leader in the last week. A column of 150 Marines was believed on the way from Managua, the Nicaraguan capital, to reinforce the El Paneca marine patrol, ambushed by a Sandino band Sunday. Perhaps 200 or more Marines were being rushed to Corinto, on the Nicaraguan west coast, on three United States warships, in answer to a call for reinforcements by the Marine command at Managua. Warships on Way The warships, the Rochester. Galveston and Tulsa, were expected to reach Corinto from the Panama Canal Zone today In charge of Rear Admiral Sellers, commander of the special service squadron. Sellers reported to the Navy Department that bluejackets from the squadron would be landed to relieve marines now on guard duty in Nicaragua, so that these Marines could join the attack on Sandino. The American-officered Nicaraguan constabulary likewise would augment the attacking force. While these preparations were made near the scene of fighting, activity went on apace at Marine stations in the United States. One battalion was being organized at Quantico, Va. and Paris Island, S. C., to proceed to Nicaragua “as soon as possible” from Charleston, S. C., and perhaps Hampton Roads. Va. Other Battalion Ready A second battalion was under orders to proceed to Nicaragua from San Diego, Cal. Still another detachment, of 150 Marines and five officers, will leave from New York Jan. 12 aboard the army transport Chateau Thierry, the Navy Department said. These troops, joined with those already facing Sandino, would bring the Marine strength to between 2,500 and 3,000, without counting the native constabulary, it was stated. Sandino’s strt .gth is believed far below this. The Marines arriving at Corinto today on the warships will be sent into the interior immediately, It is said. They will proceed first to relief of the besieged Elpaneca patrol and then join the main body of attacking Marines at Quilali, fifteen miles from the Sandino stronghold at El Chipote. Dunlap in Command The two new battalions from the United States will be commanded by Col. Robert H. Dunlap, now attached to the marine base at Quantico. Brig. Gen. Logan Feland, former marine commandant in Nicaragua, probably will be named commander of the entire marine force there. Brig. Gen. Frank L. McCoy, United States Army, designated by President Coolige to supervise the forthcoming Nicaraguan election, will leave New York for his post within a few days. Brig. Gen. Rufus H. Lane, Marine Corps, left for Nicaragua today on what officials described as an “inspection trip.” Hourly Temperatures 6 a. m 8 10 a. m 16 7 a. m 8 11 a. m 19 8 a. m > 12 (noon) ... 21 9 a. m 12 1 p. m 23

Kentucky Colonel. He told police that he came from the ‘Blue Grass State’ and that he was the father of twenty-one children. He thinks his daughter grew tired of her job and the city pavements. A sister, Ruby, employed at the Indianapolis Power and Light Company office, told of working nights there when Lois would come in and spend long hours with her manuscripts and art, writing and rewriting for full expression. n * m T OVE for her native environment, Holland, Ky., is expressed in the girl’s ‘autobiographical” manuscript in sincere words resembling Gene Stratton Porter’s writing of the Limberlost. At times

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Jack Frost collaborated with the Demon Fire to leave a thing of beauty in the path of destruction at the Brookside Lumber Company fire, 1415 Commerce Ave., Tuesday night. The upper picture shows the magnificent effect of myriad icicles hanging from the blackened ceilings of the ruined plant. Lower, exterior view.

MAC NIDER TO QUIT WAR DEPARTMENT

Picture on Page Two B,u United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Hanford MacNider resigned as assistant secretary oi war today and President Coolidge sent the nomination of another lowan, Charles Burton STARKS QUITS DRY JOB Agent Transferred After Muncie Probe Resigns. Sanford Starks, prohibition agent, transferred to Chicago after starting investigation of alleged official corruption at Muncie, is understood to have tendered his resignation to Administrator E. C. Yellowly at Chicago. Starks, who went to Chicago last Friday after his transfer, was back in Indianapolis today. His resignation is understood to have been based on the orders withdrawing him from the Muncie investigation. Resignation of Starks is reported to have followed suggestion that he might be transferred to the Ohio district. George L. Winkler, deputy dry administrator for Indiana, working under Yellowly, refused to comment. NEW SENATOR SEATED Cutting of New Mexico Takes Place on Republican Side. Ru United Press WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Bronson Sutting, 39, publisher of the Santa Fe New Mexican, was sworn in today as the junior Senator from New Mexico, He took his seat on the Republican side of the Senate, after his credentials had been presented.

the prose passages resemble work of the Great Gray poet, Whitman. The texture is woven of childhood scenes, often contrasted with city life—life here. Following are passages, lifted at random: "I’m standing alone ... a little blue-eyed herb of the wilds of Kentucky . . . always will be her little wild rose. Could I only say ‘Tuck Me to Sleep in My Old Kentucky Home’ . . . with those I love all around me, I’d be willing to sleep and never wake again . . . “One familiar place at home is a plot of grass, a clump of sage bushes covered with pale-lavender flowers ... a great mass of wild ro <!o s. We grew wild with these roses . *

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Robbins, to the Senate as his successor. Informig the President that he wished to return to private business. MacNider asked to be relieved of his duties on Jan. 12. Fulfilment of the major portion of his work as outlined by the law under which he took office was assigned as the reason for MacNider’s resignation. MacNider told friends he planned to return to his home at Mason City, lowa, within a few weeks to help his father in their farm and banking business. He said he would eschew politics. His successor, Robbins, Is a lawyer of Cedar Rapids, lowa. He served in the Spanish-American war, in the Philipppine campaign and the World War and cited for gallantry in action. HILL TRIAL RESUMED Only Two Prospective Jurors Are in Box In Death Trial. Bu United Press OTTAWA, 111., Jan. 4.—With only two jurors tentatively agreed upon, attorneys resumed their efforts today to obtain a Jury to try Harry Hill, 21, on a charge of murdering his wealthy mother, Mrs. Eliza Hill, in Steator, last August. Four jurors had been selected tetatively when court recessed Saturday over the holidays. Tuesday one was dismissed for cause and another because of illness. Pioneer of Press Dies Bu Times Special RICHMOND, Ind., Jan. 4.—Frederick Maag, 94, publisher of the Independent, Richmond’s first dally newspaper, is dead. He came here from Cincinnati, Ohio, sixty-three years ago.

“T REMEMBER ... the bees A humming among the blossoms, the wild roses swinging and bowing to each other as if the wind that moved them was cotillion music . . I’ve heard my mother sing so sweetly among them. “ (When she died my school days were ended, but not my education.) . . . Kentucky . . . probably the only one in the world that wears a rainbow fringe of wild flowers on her edges in the springtime. . . . My place of dreams, with clear blue sky on darkest days. I’m lonesome for the Kentucky hills. ... In Indiana I’m a stepchild. “Some day I’ll return ... to grow old and die and mingle my dust with Kentucky’s natal earth. . . •

LOSS IN MILL FIRES7S,OO(! Planing Plant of Brookside Firm Is Destroyed. Fire of undetermined origin Tuesday night destroyed the Brookside Lumber Company planing mill, 1415 Commerce Ave. Loss was estimated at $75,000 by company officials. The frame building, a half block long and a quarter of a block wide, recently had been re-equipped with new machinery. The machinery was destroyed. The building was erected five years ago. The fire was discovered by W. B. Bennett. 1551 Massachusetts A r e., an employe. Mrs. Amelia Galloway, 666 East Dr., Woodruff Place, president of the company, said that the entire loss is covered by insurance. Plans for reconstruction are being made, she said. Her son, Herbert Galloway, 630 East Dr., Woodruff Place, is secretary. The firm has leased the old building of the William F. Johnson Lumber Company, Nineteenth St. and Mcnon railroad, and will :,-esume operations there Thursday morning, W. F. Goodwin, vice president and general manager, announced. The fire communicated to the home of Joseph O’Dell, 1422 Commerce Ave.. but the blaze was put out with li le damage. Horses were led to safety from an adjoining barn by Clarence Butler, 1221 Sterling St. Brakes of Pumper No. 8 jarred loose, pemitting the heavy apparatus to slide down Commerce Ave. This broken the connection with a hydrant from which three hose lines were being supplied. COUNTY MUST BORROW Loan of $350,000 Needed Until Next Tax Collection. County Councilmen will be asked Friday to authorize a $350,000 temporary loan to pay county debts until the next tax collection, County Auditor Harry Dunn said today. In addition to this the council will be asked to make the following appropriations: Four thousand dollars for salaries and supplies for compiling horizontal tax refund requests; $125 for county garage repairs: S6OO for courtroom electrical fixtures and $1,400 for linoleum for new municipal courtrooms. COOK PLEA TO COOLIDGE Explorer’s Friends to Ask Cot in Sentence to Ten Years. B.y United Press FT. WORTH, Texas, Jan. 4.—An appeal to President Coolidge was planned today by friends of Dr. Frederick A. Cook following Tuesday’s United States Supreme Court ruling that the erstwhile arctic explorer was not eligible for parole. President Coolidge will be asked to reduce Cook’s sentence for using the mails to defraud from fourteen years and nine months to ten years. He would then be eligible for parole next August.

"MiTY idea of writing is one that will teach the beauty and majesty of words. How to love them and how to choose them like flowers. ... to feel them like winds from the forest. Or the sounds waves make ... Or how words can be turned like bright horizons on a fair day, or made to tell the inside truth of life . . . A sort of old Mother Nature words, and not a mere dictionary or book of rules to keep nouns with their hats on, your verbs properly adjusted to the coat tails of their adverbs. Throuhgout the manuscript, which is typewritten, the spelling is often far from right and abbreviations are often used.

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AL SMITH’S VIEWS BARED FORNATION Governor of Empire State Clearly Pictures His Entire Creed. ‘LET THE PEOPLE RULE’ Fewer and Better Laws, His Plea; Deals Fully With Liquor Question. BY PERCY SCOTT, United Press Staff Correspondent ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 4.Alfred E. Smith, who rose from New York’s East Side to the governorship of the State, enunciated his political faith today in a message to the Legislature. In a 40,000-word statement, the man who may be the Democratic candidate for President ; in November revealed for the first time his entire creed of ; government. The message was directed at the i law makers of this State, but its discussion of every important phase 'of Government made it clearly a disclosure of Smith’s views, to be read by the voter in California as well as the citizen of New York . The basic theme of his doctrine was: “Make the people the Government.” He expressed It this way: "The Old World concept of Government was that the people existed for the government. The underlying theory | of American democracy is that the Government exists for the people and the Government which is closest to them and most responsive to the demands upon it, economically and efficiently managed, is the best form of Government.” Commission Would Sentence His message included among other ! things, a revolutionary proposal to take the power of sentencing criminals from judges and placing it in the hands of an examining commission. He advocated fewer laws, suggested restrictions on the use of temporary injunctions In labor disputes: referred to “the sacred duty” of maintaining the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act; and called for equality of the sexes, except where laws are necessary to protect women from oppression: Further he urged a minimum wage law and “one day’s rest in ; seven” and advocated the direct j primary in place of the party conI vention system. After referring to New York’s j futile effort to be allowed to make its own definition by law of what j constitutes an Intoxicant, Smith said I such power is focused in the national legislature at Washington.

Voices His Beliefs Governor Smith, his message showed, believes among other things in the following: Government ownership of power resources; municipal ownership of public utilities; more pay for teachers; State aid (not a subsidy), and cooperative marketing for farm re* lief; abolition of grade crossings; State development of aviation; an all American waterway connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic ocean; the initiative and especially the referendum; extensive labor laws; rigid protection of women and children in industry; extensive health and welfare work by the Btate and aid to mothers; no censorship of movies: publication of campaign expenditures before election, not after. Smith devoted a large portion of his message to labor and made some of his most emphatic announcements therein. Pleads for Labor “In the field of industrial relations generally,” he asserted, "I renew my recommendations for enactment into law the declaration that the labor of a human being shall not be treated as a commodity or article of commerce and that legislation be enacted that would prohibit the granting of a temporary injunction in industrial disputes without a preliminary hearing to ascertain the facts. “The use of the big stick in the fie'dl of industrial relations is a thing of the past. The employment of mediation and conciliation is productive of better results. With regard to women’s rights, he said: “I renew my recommendation that we remove from the statute books of the State all laws that unjustly discriminate against women. “The new places occupied by women in business as well as in public life makes this necessary. I am, however, entirely unwilling that such enactment interfere in the slightest degree with the policy of the State, set up by statute for the protection of the health and well being of women in the home and in industry.” His proposal for dealing with criminals was: “Because of my belief that justice sometimes miscarries because