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HOOVER JOINS IN RACE FOR WHITEHOUSE Secretary Authorizes Use of Name on Ohio Ballot; See Bitter Fight. CHALLENGE TO WILLIS Cautions Against Spending Huge Fund; Backs Coolidge Policies. BY PAUL R. MALLON United Press Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The campaign for the Republican presidential nomination was brought Into the open today by announcement of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover that he will be a receptive candidate. The announcement came as a challenge to Senator Frank B. Willis, who has sought to be Ohio’s favorite son candidate, and it precaged a bitter battle for delegates of that key State. Hoover wrote a letter to Col. Thad Brown of Columbus, authorizing entry of his name in the Ohio primary, cautioning against excessive campaign expenditures and pledging continuation of Coolidge policies if he is selected party standard bearer. * Stiff Fight Is Promised Willis immediately served notice tipon Hoover that the contest for the Ohio delegates would be no child’s play. He told the United Press that as yet ho had not had time to analyze the Hoover statement, but that “Mr. Hoover will know after the primary whether he acted wisely upon the advice of the few friends he has in Ohio.” The method of Hoover’s anhouncement gave an impression of the battle that is to come. Several weeks ago Willis announced he would seek Ohio’s delegation. His friends said he hoped for a deadlock In the convention similar to that which, resulted in-1920 in the unexpected nomination of Warren G. Harding of Ohio. At that time, Hoover’s friends went to Willis and asked him to agree to naming Hoover as Ohio’s choice. Willis told them he would not countenance selection of any second choice and that his delegates must be pledged to him from Start to finish. Hoover’s Ohio supporters resisted Willis’ stand and last week organized at Columbus to request Hoover to run against Willis in their State. Brown was selected to present the letter to the secretary, and Hoover answered, formally announcing his national candidacy. Hillis Machine Strong Politicians have known for weeks that Hoover soon was to make his Announcement. Following his flood relief activities last summer a boom started for him In the South, and his friends claim jfchey have lined up most if not all jbf the Southern delegations. His (Adherents say they believe he will So into the Kansas City convention ith 471 of the 545 delegates necessary for choice. His opponents have been at work dust as long and just as hard. When b movement was started to pledge 'he big New York delegation to jHoover, Charles D. Hillis, Republican national committeeman there, succeeded in negotiating an agreeCient to keep that State’s delegates npledged. Hillis has Indicated he favors President Coolldge’s renomifriation. Similarly, some Influential Republican leaders in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Kansas jhave manifest a desire passively to Eesist the Hoover movement. Hooer’s friends say he probably will pot contest the favorite sons of Indiana and Kansas and probably will not go into Illinois, but he may enper Pennsylvania. Just how Hoover will fare In the phio light is a matter of conjecture. Willis twice has been elected Senator sincere was Governor. He has A strong political organization, Whereas Hoover has thus far only the nucleus of the opposition to Willis which he hopes to build up. Wonder About Coolidge If Hoover manages to take a third of the delegation away from Willis his friends would be happy, they say now. But they think he has a good chance to get more. There has been deep interest in the suggestion that Coolidge might follow the custom of many Presidents and name someone to carry on for him. Hoover’s friends believe he will be the man if the President chooses to select anyone. Usually the President and Hoover have been in close accord as to policies. They have had no differences except a slight misunderttanding during Hoover’s flood relief rark which was straightened out smicably. Coolidge himself never has intimated what action he would take, but he has left the impression with those close to him that he will keep (Turn to Page 12) EXCELLENT MEATS. Prepared by chefs who know how. FLETCHER CAFETERIA, Basement Fletcher Trust Bldg. 10:30 a. m. to 7:30 p. m.—Advertisement.

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COL. CHAS. A. LINDBERGH’S OWN LIFE STOHY.SS;

Foreword BY MYRON T. HERRICK. United States Ambassador to France WHEN Joan of Arc crowned her king at Rheims, she became immortal. When Lafayette risked his all to help the struggling Amer-

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they ever for an instant thought of themselves or their place in history. So it was with Lindbergh, and all the praise awarded him, judged by the rigid standards of history and precedent, he has merited. He was the instrument of a great ideal, and one need not be fantically religious to see in his success the guiding hand of Providence. For he was needed and he came, came at a moment which seemed exactly preordained. He was needed by France and needed by America, and had his arrival been merely the triumph of a great adventure the influence of his act would have gone no further than have other great sporting and commercial achievements. Just before the Battle of the Marne I was standing on the river embankment. A great harvest moon was rising over the city near Notre Dame. It seemed to rest on the comer of a building. The French flag was blowing steadily across its face. In the fleeting moments while this spectacle lasted, people knelt on the quay in prayer. I inquired the meaning of these prayers. The answer was that there is a prophecy centuries old that the fate of France will finally be settled upon the fields where Attila’s hordes were halted and driven back, and where many battles in defense of France have been won. And pointing up the Seine to the French flag outlined across the moon, people cried: “See! the sign in Heaven! It means victory for France.” Now when this boy of ours dropped unheralded from the sky and circling the Eiffel Tower came to rest as gently as a bird on the field of Leßourget, I was seized with the same premonition as those French people on the quay that August night. I felt, without knowing why, that his arrival was far more than a fine deed well accomplished, and there glowed within me the prescience of a splendor yet to come. Lo! It did come and has gone on spreading its beneficence upon two sister nations which a now conquered ocean joins. For I feel in every fibre of my being that Lindbergh’s landing here marks one of the supreme moments in the history of America and France. The spirit of St. Louis was to the French people another sign come out of the sky—-a sign which bore the promise that all would be well between them and us. France took Charles Lindbergh to her heart because of what he was and because of what she knew he represented. His little ship became the meeting place of the greatest conference that has ever gathered between two nations, for under the shadow of its wings a hundred and fifty million Frenchmen and Americans have come together in generous accord. No diplomatic bag ever carried such a stupendous document as this all-unaccredited messenger bore. Lindbergh was not commissioned by his Government any more than Lafayette was by his. But who shall say but what they were God-sent messengers of help, smiling the defiance of their faith at an all-too skeptical world? What the one accomplished has already changed history through a century; what the other has just done the people of America and France will take good care shall not be wasted. The way Lindbergh bore himself after getting here was but a continuation of his flight. He started with no purpose but to arrive, he remained with no desire but to serve, he sought nothing, he was offered all. No flaw marked any act or word, and he stood forth amidst the clamor and the crowds the very embodiment of a fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth—unspoiled, unspoilable. A nation which breeds such boys need never fear for its future. When a contract for a million dollars was sent him he cabled back: “You must remember that this expedition was not organized to make money, but to advance aviation.” There is the measure of his spirit, the key to his intentions. His first step in that direction is the publishing of this book, and no one can doubt that its influence will be of enormous value in pushing on man’s conquest of the air. United States Embassy, Paris. June Sixteenth, 1927. Copyright, 1923, by Charles A. Lindbergh

I WAS born in Detroit, Mich., on Feb. 4, 1902. My father was practicing law in Little Falls, Minn., at the time. When I was less than two months old my parents took me to their farm, on the western bank of the Mississippi River, two miles south of Little Falls. My father, Charles A. Lindbergh, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, Jan. 20, 1860, the son of Ola and Louisa Manson. His father (who changed his name to Lindbergh after reaching America) was a member of the Swedish Parliament and had at one time been secretary to the king. About 1860 my grandfather with his family embarked on a ship bound for America, and settled near Sauk Centre, Minn., where he took up a homestead and built his first home in America—a log cabin. It was here that my father spent his early life. The Rev. C. S. Harrison, writing for the Minnesota Historical Society, gives an account of the activities of my grandfather during the early days in Minnesota. There were very few schools in Minnesota at that time, and my father’s boyhood days were spent mostly in hunting and fishing. His education consisted largely of home study, with an occasional short term at countrv schools.

ican, he wrote his memory forever across a mighty continent. The shepherd boy David in five minutes achieved with his sling a place in history -for all time. These three shining names represent the triumph of youth and idealism, and we would not speak of them with such reverence today had their motives been less pure or had

He was educated at Grove Lake Academy, Minnesota, and graduated from the law school at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with an LL. B. degree. He began his law practice in Little Falls, where he served as county attorney. He later became interested in politics, and was elected to the Sixtieth Congress in 1906 to represent the Sixth district of Minnesota at Washington, a capacity in which he served for ten years. Irregular Education My mother was born in Detroit, Mich., daughter of Charles and Evangeline Land. She is of English, Irish and French extraction. Asa graduate of the University of Michigan, she holds a B S. degree from that institution, also an A. M. degree from Columbia University, New York City. Her father. Dr. Charles H. Land, a Detroit dentist, was bom in Simcoe, Norfolk County, Canada, and his father, Col. John Scott Land, came from England, and was one of the founders of the present city of Hamilton. My grandfather was constantly experimenting in his laboratory. He held a number of patents on incandescent grates and furnaces, in addition to several on gold and enamel inlays and other dental processes. He was one of the first to foresee the possibilities of porcelain in dentistry, and later became known as “the father of porcelain dental art.” During the first four years of my life I lived in our Minnesota home, with the exception of a few trips to Detroit. Then my father was elected to Congress and therafter I seldom spent more than a few months in the same place. Our winters were passed in Washington and our summers in Minnesota, with intermediate visits to Detroit. When I was 8 years of age I entered the Force School in Washington. My schooling was very irregular, due to our constant moving from place to place. Up to the time I entered the University of Wisconsin I had never attended for one full school year, and I received instruction from over a dozen institutions, both public and private, from Wa.' .ington to California. Through these years I crossed and recrossed the United States, made on trip to Panama, and had thoroughly developed a desire for travel, which has never been overcome. Aviation Grips Him My chief interest in school lay along mechanical and scientific lines. Consequently, after graduating from the Little Falls High School, I decided to take a course in mechanical engineering, and two years later entered the College <*f Engineering of the University of Wisconsin at Madison. While I was attending the university I became intensely interested in aviation. Since I saw my first airplane near Washington, D. C., in 1912 I had been fascinated with flying, although up to the time I enrolled in a flying school In 1922 I had never been near enough to a plane to touch it. The long hours of study at college were very trying for me. I had spent most of my life outdoors and had never before found it necessary to spend more than a part of my time in study. At Wisconsin my chief recreation consisted of shooting matches with the rifle and pistol terms of rival universities, and in running around onmy motorcycle, which I had ridden down from Minnesota when I entered the university. Off on His Motorcycle I had been raised with a gun on our Minnesota home, and found a place on the R. O. T. C. teams at the beginning of my freshman year (Turn to Page 2)

INDIANAPOLIS, MONDAY, FEB. 13, 1928

MOTOR SHOW DOORS TO BE OPEN TONIGHT Thousands Will See New Models of Many Auto Makers Here. With new models elaborately displayed to show their charms, the seventeenth annual automobile show of the Indianapolis Auto Trade Association will open at the State fairground tonight at 7. Unusually large crowds are expected at the show this year because of the wide public, interest in recent new models, Manager John Orman said. Beginning Tuesday the show will be open the rest of the week from 10:30 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. Automobile dealers and “prospects” from over the State u r ill join thousands of Indianapolis residents who will attend, to compare merits of their favorite makes. Three Conferences Slated The Trianon Girls’ Orchestra will provide the music this year. Three State conferences of dealers will be held in connection with the show. The Oakland Motor Car Company entertained its Indiana dealers today. * The Losey-Nash Motor Company opened a Nash service school for 250 dealers and their mechanics. Overland dealers will meet under auspices of the Capitol Motors Company Tuesday. Both of the Indianapolis-made machines will have impressive displays—Marmon featuring its new “small” car and Stutz its custom built models. Ford on Display The new Ford four-door sedan will be on display for the first time in this city. Through inability to get proper space at the auto show the Locomobile is being displayed at a special salon showing at 1231 N. Meridian St. The Locomobile Company of America has sent three of its latest models, under the personal supervision of O. H. Yarnell, factory district manager. Many Companies Exhibit These companies have exhibits at the show. Passengers cars: Armacost Automobile Cos., Baxter Cos., T. A. Bell Cos., Buick Motor Cos., Burke Cadillac Cos., Capitol Motors Cos., Chevrolet Dealers’ Association, Chlllson Sales Cos., Citizens’ Motor Car Cos., Elcar Sales Cos., Ford Motor Cos., Franzen-Billeter Motor Car Cos., Grhaam-Paige of Indiana, Inc.; Hutchison Automobile Cos., LathropMcFarland Cos., R. V. Law Motor Cos., Losey-Nash Motor Cos., Marlon County Star Cos., Marmon Motor Car Cos., Murphy Motors, Inc.; PetersonKeyes Auto Cos., Reo-Ehrich-Ma-larky Cos., Robinson-Thompson, Inc.; Charles G. Sanders Cos., C. L. Scott Auto Cos., Stutz of Indiana, Updyke Auto Cos., Carl H. Wallerich, Inc.; Wangelin-Sharp Cos., Moon Motor Car Cos. Commercial Cars—Capitol Motors Cos., Chevrolet Dealers’ Association, Ford Motor Cos., Martin Truck Cos., Reo-Ehrich-Malarky Cos., Stutz of Indiana. Accessories—B & B Sales Cos., Alemite Lubricator Cos., Cler Site Cos., Eagle Machine Cos., F. & A. AirJack Manufacturing Cos., HarleyDavid&m Store, W. J. Holliday & Cos., The Gibson Cos., Guarantee Tire and Rubber Cos., International Metal Polish Cos., Roxana Petroleum Corp., Specialty Accessory Cos., Standard Oil Cos. (Indiana), State Auto Insurance Association, Van Camp Hardware and Iron Cos. SHOT: HELD AS DRUNK Wife Says Man Injured Himself; He Blames it on Intruder. George Barr, 38, of 720 Ketcham St., was held at city hospital today on an intoxication charge. He shot himself near the right temple Sunday night, his wife told police. Barr insisted some man opened the door of his home and shot him. He was not wounded seriously, city hospital attaches said.

FEAR UNDY IN PERIL; FLYING IN DENSE FOG Radio Calls Sent Ships in Gulf of Mexico to Watch for Ace. NO REPORTS ON ROUTE Engine Condition Arouses Uneasiness: Clouds Obscure Course. BY ALFRED P. RECK United Press Staff Correspondent HAVANA, Feb. 13.—The Cuban government radio station was ordered this afternoon to broadcast inquiries to boat si nthe Gulf of Mexico asking whether they had sighted Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Although the famous American good-will flier left here for St. Louis at 2:25 a. m. today, no reports of his progress had been received since he passed over Tortugas, near Key West, about an hour later. The engine of the apparently infallible Spirit of St. Louis was not regarded as working perfectly when Lindebrgh left. It was recallled, however, that he flew from Haiti to Cuba, ignoring a leaky valve, and said he would repair it at Columbia flying field here. Fog Shrouds Skies By fiiited Pratt ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 13.—Cloudy skies and heavy fog hid the route of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh across the old South this morning as he speeded home to St. Louis from Havana. Lindbergh should have been well into the United States by midmorning. but so far as could be learned he had not been heard or sighted at 10 o’clock. If Lindbergh averaged ninety miles an hour, he should have been over northern Georgia or Alabama—depending on his route—by noon. Rain and fog was reported from all along his route, however, and it was possible he might fly unseen all day. Little fear was felt for Lindbergh. Weather conditions were such as to make it much safer for him to fly high above the clouds and storms than to try to stay near earth. Nevertheless, tbe day was such as to tax the flying ability of even the man who has crossed the Atlantic and flown across difficult territory in Latin-Anierica. Wind varying from a slight breeze to a thirty-six-mile-an-hour speed was reported at various places over the regions he was expected to traverse. Rain and fog seemed to cover all the territory. Heads Plane to Home By United Press COLUMBIA FIELD, HAVANA, Feb. 13.—8 y the light of a tropic moon, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh early today bade farewell to the land of his good will conquest and headed his plane toward St. Louis and home. Lindbergh took off from Columbia Field at 2:25 a. m. for a non-stop flight of 1,300 miles to St. Louis. He expected to bring his Spirit of St. Louis to rest on Lambert Field, St. Louis, by dusk. WILBUR JOE TODAY Secretary of Navy to Talk at Credit Men’s Dinner. Curtis D. Wilbur, secretary of Navy, Is scheduled to arrive in Indianapolis at 4:50 p. m. today to address the local Association of Credit Members at its annual dinner meeting tonight at the Columbia Club. Four hundred reservations are made. The dinner will be held at 6:30. J. Edward Stiltz, association president, will preside. Local navy attaches will attend and it is expected that a navy luncheon will be held in the secretary’s honor. G. O. P. Names Chairman By Times Special MARION. Ind., Feb. 13.—Oren Dickey Is the new Grant County Republican chairman, chosen by precinct committeemen to succeed O. D. Clawson, who resigned on announcing his candidacy for circuit court judge.

Marye and Mom MARYE AND MOM, by Ruth Dewey Groves, starts today on The Times home page. Perhaps you don’t know MARYE AND MOM, but when you read their letters today in The Times you will realize that you know them both well. TJiey are vividly typical of those modem married daughters of “old fashioned” mothers whom you know yourself. Their present-day problems are aired with true motherdaughter candor and intimacy in their daily correspondence. Turn to the home page and read the first letters.

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OIL PROBE IS GIVEN OVER TO GIFT OF BONDS Senator Walsh Orders Trail of Prominent Oil Men Pursued. By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Senate Teapot Dome committee set its investigators working today on a confidential tip that a prominent oil man distributed bonds in SIO,OOO lots to State political organizations over the country several years ago. Senator Walsh, of Mi ntana, ordered this trial pursued as a followup to evidence given the committee that Harry Sinclair, indicted oil man, gave s7s,ooo—part of it at least in Liberty bonds of the mysterous Continental Trading Company, of Canada,—to pay off part of the 1920 campaign deficit of the Republican national committee. Subpoenas to check on this evidence have been issued by the committee and will be made public as soon as they are served. Hays Ready to Appear Chairman Nye of the committee has received a communication from Will Hays, former chairman of the Republican national committee, stating he will appear any time the committee desires and adding he knew nothing of the existence of the Continental Company or of the strange deal by which American oil men secreted in it an unexplained Liberty bond fund of $3,080,000. Col. Robert W. Stewart, chairman of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana, submitted a brief today supporting his habeas corpus proceedings arising from his arrest by the Senate after he refused to answer committee questions. Argues Against Senate Power The brief, filed with Justice Jennings Bailey by Stewart’s attorney, Jesse C. Adkins, argued the Senate lacked power t arrest the oil man when he was under the committee’s subpoena. A grand jury was also considering Stewart’s case today, with a possibility it will return an indictment against him, independent of the Senate’s procedure. The Government expected to complete presentation of its case to the grand jury before nightfall. Butler ‘Knows Nothing’ By United Press BOSTON, Feb. 13.—Informed of charges that profits of the Continental Trading Cos. were used to help pay off the 1920 campaign deficit of the Republican national committee, William M. Butler, chairman, said: “I know nothing of any such transaction and I have read nothing concerning the charges you refer to.” LEVINE AFTER RECORD Plans Endurance Flight to Columbia Tuesday. By United Press CURTISS FIELD, L. 1., Feb. 13. An attempt to establish a record for an endurance flight may be made Tuesday by Charles A. Levine in his airplane Columbia. The airplane was damaged Saturday in a take-off on what had been planned as an endurance flight. Repairs were made today and Levine and his pilot, Wilmer Stultz, said the plane would be in condition for a flight Tuesday. KLINCK JUDGE ACCEPTS Garvin Is Willing to Hear Trial of Steve’s Aid. Municipal Judge Thomas E. Garvin today tentatively accepted appointment as special judge for the trial of Earl Klinck, former aid of b. C. Stephenson, who is charged with forging a false affidavit. Garvin said he would act If a date for trial can be arranged which will not interfere with his municipal court duties. Honrly Temperatures 6 a. m— 35 10 a. m 39 7a. m— 36 11 a. m.... 40 8 a. m— 37 12 (noon).. 42 .9 a. m 38 1 p. m,... 41

JACKSON JURY COMPLETE; STEPHENSON IS FIRST ON STAND AGAINST GOVERNOR Former Friend, Brought Here From Michigan City Prison, Will Appear as Accuser of Defendant. PROGRESS OF TRIAL SPEEDS UP Opening Statement Made for Prosecution by Emsley Johnson, After WhichRecess Is Taken. Pictures of Jurors On Page 3. David C. Stephenson, former backer of Ed Jackson, tvas to go on the witness stand in Criminal Court this afternoon to tell what he knew about the Governor’s alleged participation in a conspiracy to bribe former Governor Warren T. McCray in December, 1923. Stephenson was the first witness for the State in the trial of Jackson. He was brought to Indianapolis from Indiana State prison at Michigan City, where he is serving a life term for the murder of an Indianapolis girl two years ago. The trial moved rapidly today. The jury was completed at 10:10 a. m., after an hour of questioning of talesmen to fill the twelfth chair. Eleven men practically had been agreed upon when court recessed Friday afternoon. The trial had been in progress since Wednesday morning.

Special Prosecutor Emsley W. Johnson made the opening statement for the prosecution and then, by agreement of counsel, court was recessed until 2 this afternoon, because the State desired to use Stephenson to open its testimony and he then had not arrived. Arrangements were made to house Stephenson at the county jail in case he was kept here overnight. Stephenson, in charge of Deputy Warden Walter Craig and three husky guards, arrived at the courthouse at 1:35 p. m. and, practically unnoticed, was taken to the grand jury room on the third floor. While the guards sat in the anteroom, Prosecutor William H. Remy, Johnson and Deputy Prosecutor William H. Sheaffer conferred with Stephenson in the inner room for an hour. Jackson, arm hooked ver the back of his chair and eyes on Johnon, with an unchanging expression, heard a recital of the alleged bribe offer as tl - State promised its evidence would show it. Statutes Explained Jackson was the only prospective v 'tness in the room when the court dnseted that witnesses be sworn. Separation of witnesses was ordered, but no others were in the courtroom. Johnson read and explained the statutes covering the alleged crime and the penalty upon conviction. Conspiracy to commit a felony carries a penalty of two to fourteetn years’ imprisonment and a fine of from $25 to $5,000. He read the statutes regarding the period in which prosecution must be brought for various offences. Murder, arson, treason, and kidnaping are crimes against which the statute of lim ts ms does not operate. He further explained how concealment of an offense acts to toll the statute so that prosecution may be brought outside the usual twoyear period. “No attempt will be made to toll the statute on the grounds that McCray was out of the State,” he said. “The State will rely on the fact that the defendants concealed the offense and that the period of concealment, therefore is not to be considered in computing the time which elapsed after commission of the alleged offense.” Johnson Tells Details Johnson then read the Indictment by the grand jury Sept. 30, 1927, charging Jackson, with Robert I. Marsh and Coffin, with conspiracy to commit a felony, offering a bribe. Laying aside the indictment, Johnson related in detail the story of the alleged bribery offer. Jackson did not change his expression during the thirty-minute recital. Three prison guards accompanied Stephenson on the motor trip from Michigan City. This is Stephenson’s fourth trip to Indianapolis for testimony in various phases of the Indiana political corruption inquiry. Named in Indictment Stephenson is regarded as an important witness because he is mentioned in the Jackson indictment as one of the men who attempted to bribe McCray. The State charges that the alleged conspirators used Stephenson’s boast that he, with his power in the Ku-Klux Klan, could control courts throughout Indiana, to convince McCray that they could make or break him if he did not do as they demanded. Stephenson is said to have gone with Robert I. Marsh, co-defendant, to James W. Noel, attorney for McCray at the time McCray was in financial difficulties, and attempted to get Noel to carry the message of Stephenson’s power to McCray. This was after McCray twice had

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The Jury Members of the jury sworn today for the trial of Governor Ed Jackson: David Porterfield, 3616 Salem St., salesman, Patterson Engraving Company. Ferd L. Hollweg, 4171 Washington Blvd., president Mutual China Company. Elmer Geiger, Greenwood, farmer. Everett S. Penn, 801 Drexel Ave., salesman. The Rev. H. B. Hostetter, Leslie Ave., State secretary of Presbyterian Church. Persey L. Allen, Edge wood, machinist. Samuel H. Colbert, Negro, R. R. F., laborer and subcontractor. Hubert Adams, R. R. 8., Box 204, carpenter. Ira M. Minnick, 3828 Carrollton Ave., president National Dry Kiln Company. Ivan Fowler, R. R. D, Box 233, farmer. Everett McClain, Wanamaker, William H. Howard, 3420 Guilford Ave., secretary, Indianapolis Board of Trade. turned down the alleged bribe offer, it is said. State attorneys decided to bring Stephenson here after it became impossible for Robert W. Lyons, former financial agent of the Klan, to testify. Lyons is in the Miami Valley hospital at Dayton, Ohio, following an operation Saturday for appendicitis. Steve First Witness Following swearing of the jury, Remy informed the court that Stephenson was to be the State's first witness. McCabe called Kivett to the bench and informed him that Stephenson would not arrive until afternoon, so it was agreed that the State make Its opening statement and then court would adjourn until the afternoon session. Final selection of the jury came after the State and defense completed a short but thorough examination of Howard. The State passed the jury to the defense: the defense to the State and then this was repeated another time before the Jury was announced as accepted by both sides. Before the panel was sworn, Kivett asked t —nission to put a few general to the mem- 1 bers. “Is there anything politically,' socially, religiously or otherwise that will prevent any of you men from • carefully examining the cstimony , of witnesses and evident, presented in this case, or that will prev at 1 you from examining the law and returning a fair and impar ! ai * finding in this cause? was the s\ stance of his questions. Ira A. Minnick said th.e only thin? that would prevent his proper service was illness of his wife, of which he told the court when Arcs drawn for service. He said if the' trial lasts only a week or ten day* that this situation will not hamper his service. Allows Ten Days “I think that a week or ten days will be ample time for presentation of evidence in this case,” Kivett said. As the trial progressed, Remy announced no effort will be made to take a deposition from Robert W. Lyons, important State witness and former financial agent of the KuKlux Klan, confined in the Miami Valley hospital at Dayton, Ohio, following an appendicitis operation Saturday. Remy first announced he might ask the court’s permission to take the deposition. Following a midmorning conference with his staff, however, he decided against it. Jackson is charged with having conspired with George V. Coffin, Republican County and city chairman, and Robert I. Marsh, former attorney for the Ku-Klux Klan and Jackson’s law partner, to bribe former Governor Warren T. McCray.