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Evening star., 1927-09-27
LABOR HEADS PLAN
AID FOR MINE STRIKE
Green to Call Conference in Pitts
burgh to Discuss Bituminous
Situation.

BY the Associated Press.
MONONGAHELA, Pa, September
o1.--William Green. president of the
American Federation of Labor, will
call n conference in Pittsburgh early
in November of $50 prominent labor
leaders to formulate a program in sup
port of striking bituminous coal
miners Philip Murray, international
vice president of the United Mine
Workers, announced Sunday.
Addressing A crowd of some 10000
miners and their families, Murray
said he had been assured by President
Green that nothing would be left un-
done in fighting the union miners bat
tie.
AT the Pittsburgh meeting" said
Murray, "the miners organization will
have pledged to it the unlimited finan-
cial and moral support of the Amer-
can Federation of Labor. What is to
be done definitely will be a matter of
special consideration at the confer
ence."
Mr. Murray said the meeting would
be convened Immediately" after the
close Of the fedora tons convention
at Los Angeles, Calf, November 5.
Evening star., 1927-09-27
OvEROCEAN HOPS
Being CHARTED
Australians Back One, Chi
nese Merchants Another.
California Starting Point.
By the Associated frsss.

By the Associates NF~ss'
NEW YORK. september 27.-The
transoceanic 6ji adventure has TWO
fresh entries with California as their
starting point ard Australia and
China, respectively, as their destina'
tions.
Four Australian aviators backed by
the government OF New South Wales
are reported rushing preparations for
the 9.600.mile air Journey from OAK
land. Calf, to Melbourne to be ne
rotiated in five stages Eext month.
Chinese merchants in San Francisco
and South China are backing good
viii flight from San Francisco to China
in 1928.
Australian Journey Outlined.
The Australian flight, as tentatively
charted, would proceed from Oakland,
calf, to Hawaii, 2.439 miles: thence
TO Rabaul, New Britain, 3,S99 miles:
to Lac. New Guinea. $50 miles; $50
miles TO No,the:n Australia, and the
remaining 5000 miles overland to
Melbourne.
Tentative plans for the California
China fight, as announced in New
York bv Dr.. Tien Lai-Huang, major
in the Cantonese air force, provide for
three or tour hops. with stops at Ha-
vail. the Midway Islands and possibly
at Toxic.
A three-motored plane. to be named
Evening star., 1927-09-27

the Spirit of Canton, will be built this
Winter and its construction will he
supervised. the Cantonese officer said,
by Mai. Robert s. Miller of Minnesota.
attached to the 120th Aerial Squadron.
and Capt. Harold ]. Lynch. president
of the Chicago. Minneapolis & Sc.
attic Air Transportation Co. These
men probably will comprise the crew
Of the Olane
Evening star., 1927-09-27
Fanny Brice Drops Suit Plan.

CHICAGO. September 81 R)-
Fanny Brice's announced plan to file
suit against an unnamed New York
society woman as a sequel to her
actions against Jules "Nicky" Arm
stein has been abandoned. Her coun-
sci, Benjamin f. Ehrlich, made the
ann0unc ement,
Evening star., 1927-09-27
Tunney Fan Pays
$50 Bet, Holding
Dempsey Winner
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 27.-Dio-
genes, IL you will go to Cicero and
to the home there of George A.
Tuna. YOU will find he whom you
have sought, 10, these many CEN
turies.
Tuna bet $3.50 on Tunney to beat
Dempsey. Yesterday he paid his
wager. He said he counted 14i2
seconds wfrile Tunney was down in
the seventh round ard thinks
Dempsey entitled to a knockout
victory.
Evening star., 1927-09-27
Two Flights Postponed.

Meanwhile, inactivity charactized
other long distance flying projects.
After unsatisfactory tests, Capt. Rene
Fonck announced indefinite postpone
ment of his round trip flight from New
York to San Francisco, and Miss Ruth
Elder again set back the time of her
take-off for Paris pending more favor
able weather conditions.
Evening star., 1927-09-27
$16,O00,OO0 in Quake Losses.

MOSCOW. September 81 P)-.A
preliminary estimate of the losses to
property caused by the recent earth
quake in the Crimea places the amount
at 81. .OO0. 900 ruhles about SIG 900 .0OOl.
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Prosecutor william Sheaffer that
the vote would be four to two. Under
the law it takes five to indict.
The second grand jury read all the
evidence introduced before its pred
ecessor and was dismissed after
James A. Armitage had been con-
victed of attempting to bribe a
juror.
Times Stays on Trail
In all those days and since the
first day that Thomas III. Adams of
Vincennes made public the letter by
Stephenson and smuggled from his
cell declaring that he could produce
documentary evidence" The Times
has been on the trail of that
evidence.
This check is the first OF the
documents to which Stephenson un-
doubtedly referred in the letter.
OTHERS ARE IN THE POSSES
SION OF THE TIMES AND WILL
BE PUBLISHED.
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"I have no comment to make"
he said.
Later he elaborated bit more
on his noncommittal policy.
"Why, thought that all those
documents had been published a
long time ago." he asserted. From
the very beginning I have adhered
to a policy of saying nothing re-
garding these matters and I shall
continue to do So"
eff you will dictate or write out
anything about your knowledge of
this particular check, The Times
will be glad to publish it verbatim"
the reporter declared.
"That, is nice and I want to thank
your editor, but I shall make no
comments" was the final reply,
Asked whether it was his signature
on the back Of the check, he re-
peated the statement.
"If conditions warrant so doing,
I may make a statement regarding
this affair when I have returned to
Indianapolis" Governor Jackson
said later Monday.
In this home town of John Brown,
the famed abolitionist, where
beautiful park is dedicated to
Browns memory and where within
a few blocks of the park a red elec-
trio cross still burns nightly to mark
the meeting place of the remnant
K. K. K, Governor Jackson is
spending a few days vacation with
his wife and family. They are visit
ing at the home of David Beatty,
an esteemed citizen of the COM
munity and father of Mrs. Jackson.
Twice Sunday the Governor
preached sermons. In the morning
at the Christian Church and at
night at the Methodist edifice. Just
before the evening sermon, the
church choir sang "It Must Be
Told" by special request of the pas
tor. The hymn proved Intellectual,
so far as Jackson was concerned,
when he puzzled over the photostatic
checks a short time later on the
porch Of the Beatty home.
His sermon was well received and
at the close, Pastor j. B. Vernon
praised the Hoosier Governor highly.
81 wish other States had such
Governors as has Indiana" he
piously declared. I'VE don't often
get such men in public life who
really know the Lord and are ready
to deliver his message. If Governor
Jackson ever runs for President,
I'm sure every one in this congre-
CATION will vote for him." The
church was not filled, Sundays
temperature here being around 100.
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REMY DENIES
HILLS CHARGE
Prosecutor Has Personal
Theory About Check.

Lloyd Hills written statement
that I would rather denounce D. C.
Stephenson than receive some Of his
documents is false" declared Prose-
cutor william H. Remy today after
he had read the first Times extra
disclosing the Stephenson-Jackson
81, 500 check.
"If that is the situation I have
wasted lot of my time and other
peoples time.
This is the first time 1 ever had
seen this check and I did not know
anything about it except remarks
made by Floyd Christian.
Il think shall reply to Hill by
written statement later. I rave a
personal theory about this matter" >"
Remy said he had expected to re-
ceive delivery Of the documents Hill
was supposed to turn over to him
before now and was awaiting action
along this line.
Special Prosecutor Emsley W.
Johnson said:
"If that check is a reality ! don't
see how Governor jackson could
deny any knowledge OF the sit
uation."
Fred O. Cause, who was special
prosecutor during the first grand
jury investigation Of Stephenson's
charges said:
"It is q matter Of common knowl-
edge that Floyd Christian told the
grand jury he had seen such a
check, but the grand jury never was
able to get hold Of It,"
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Liberty Was Expected Within Ninety Days
by Fallen Klan Chieftain, Asser-
tion Of Lawyer.
SCENE OF DRAMA IN CELL DESCRIBED
Counsel; Attention Especially
Called to Matter.
Copyright, 1927, The indianapolis Tlmes)

II saw not only the check for $780, but another
check made out to Ed Jackson for $5000 said Floyd
Christian, an attorney of Noblesvile when asked to
confirm his previous statements concerning the
Stephenson checks.
''When saw these checks they were spread in
separate CELL 1t was during call which made upon
him after his conviction. He asked me to take them
for him. to hold them ninety days and if he were not
then free to turn them over to Prosecutor Remy of
Marion County
Certain Stephenson Had Check
'I refused to take them unless permitted to turn them
Immediately and without waiting for any developments
which lie may have expected.
81 certain that the check which you have in the
possession of Stephenson the Noblesvle JAIL noticed that
stamps of banks through which had been cleared
81 just certain that he had at that time another can
ced check made out to Ed Jackson for $4,000 could not be
mis-
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STAR The FIRST
TO Give DENIAL
Gave Assurance When
Christian Told Story.

From indianapolis Star, Oct. II, 1928
Governor jackson hurled the lie
direct last night in reply to a state
ment from the Thomas H. Adams
camp coupling his name with the
receipt of a $1,000 check from d. G.
Stephenson.
Returning from Bloomington,
where he spoke in the morning, aft
er an address the night before at Mt.
Vernon, the Governor learned for
the first time of a statement issued
by Floyd Christian, attorney Of No
blesville, through Mr.. Adams, TO the
effect that Mr.. Christian, while act
ing in Stephenson's murder trial a
year ago, had seen a $1,000 check
payable to Ed Jackson and signed
by Stephenson.
The Governor said:
I'D. c. Stephenson never at any
time gave me a check for $1,000 or
any sum as a gift or for campaign
purposes and any statement that be
did Is absolutely false"
Christian said he was called to the
Noblesville Jail at the request of
Stephenson and that he saw Ste
phenson walking out of cell with
papers in his hand and also saw
him pin some checks TO a paper.
The statement quoted Mr.. Chris m
in part as follows;
II asked him what he was doing
and he said I am getting my ammu-
milton ready
II said, What do you meanp' and
he said. Well. look at that. for In
stance
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What The news
SAID ABOUT IT
Governor Denied He Ever
Received Gift.
From the indianapolis News,
Thursday, Oct. IA, 1926.)

From the Indianapolis News
Thursday, Oct. IA, 1926.)
A check for $4,000, alleged to have
been drawn by D. G. Stephenson and
made payable to Governor Ed Jack
son was among the papers photo
graphed for Stephenson by G. M
Hull, photographer at Anderson
Hull said Thursday, according to an
Associated Press dispatch from An
derSon.
Hull, according to the dispatch,
said he photographed both the face
and back of the $4,000 check and he
added that it contained an indorse-
ment which purported to be the sig
nature of Jackson. Hull said he did
not recall a check for $4,000 drawn
by Stephenson and made payable to
Jackson as referred to by Floyd
Christian, Noblesville lawyer.
Before leaving indianapolis
Thursday for Columbus, Ind, to at
tend community civic gathering,
Governor Jackson reiterated his pre-
vious assertion that Stephenson
never gave him "a check for $1,000,
or any sum-" as gift or for cam
paign purposes, and said that any
statement that he did "is absolutely
false"
The Governors assertion followed
the issuance Of a statement late
Wednesday through Thomas H,
Adams, Vincennes publisher, by
Christian, that he had seen in Ste
phenson,s cell at the Hamilton
County jail check which was pay
able to Ed Jackson for $5,000."
Christian said Stephenson used to
use the checks as club. Christian
was one of the attorneys for Ste
phenson in the latter's trial for muir
der in the Hamilton County court
I'D. C.. Stephenson never at any
time gave me a check for $1,000, or
any sum, as gift or for campaign
purposes, and any statement that
he did is absolutely false" the Gov
ernor said.
Governor Jackson added that his
statement was literally and actually
true.
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OBERLEAS TAKES JOB
OFFERED BY DUVALL
Leaves Position at Jeffersonville to
Be Assistant Park Engineer.

Leaves Position at Jeffersonville to
Be Assistant Park Engineer.
Chester G. Oberleas, one of the
four city engineers Of the Duvall
administration, today accepted the
position of assistant park engineer
from Mayor Duvall, who ousted him
a few months ago.
Oberleas left a position at Jeffer-
sonville to succeed Paul r. Brown,
who was named city engineer Sue
ceeding Frank G. Lingenfelter.
Lingenfelter says he was ousted a
week ago by Mayor Duvall because
he insisted a $630,000 contract
should go to the low bidder, saving
the city more than 100000.
Oberleas saw the mayor at his
home Sunday, Duvall announced.
Oberleas formerly was engineer of
Hamilton County and was gradu-
ated from Purdue University.
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REMY AND HILL
IN CONFERENCE
Steve'S Attorney Says He'll
Turn Over Document.

Prosecutor william H. Reny and
his aids conducting the Indiana po-
ntical corruption investigation this
morning conferred for half an hour
with Lloyd o. Hill, D. O. Stephen
sons attorney.
"I have one document to turn
over to them," Hill said before he
went into the conference.
With Remy this morning were
Deputy Prosecutor William H.
Sheaffer and Special Prosecutors
John w. Holtzman and Emsley w.
Johnson.
After the conference Hill refused
to state whether he had turned over
the document, or to disclose the na-
ture of the document.
'It is their move" he said.
Stephenson turned over to the
prosecutors when they interviewed
him at Michigan City last week a
paper directing Hill to give over to
Remy his documents to prove his
statement that he could reveal wide
spread political corruption in the
days when he was political boss Of
the State, it is understood.
Asked if he would make public
evidence Hill might turn over to
him, inasmuch as The Times today
made public the jackson check.
Remy said:
"This hasn't anything to do with
the stuff I am after" and pointed
to the photostatic reproduction OF
the check in The Times.
"I am not going to educate the
public until am ready to act. Pub
licity may be all right in newspaper
Offices, but does not go in attorneys
Offices"
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NO COMMENTS ALL
JACKSON WILL SAY
Governor, in Kansas, breaches on Text What Doth It
Profit; Choir Sings, 1t Must Be Told.
BY DAN M. KIDNEY

osAwAToMIE Kan, July 1shory after Governor Ed Jackson
pulpit of the Methodist church here
the What Doth
with of the $4,000
Times reporter
either affirm the
authenticity documents" the Governor told.
ineny moments Jackson then offered
all inquiry directed at him during the
n+iro-i oStinatio Of Stenhnr snnrn in ne
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Stephenson called my at
tention to it and forced it to
my notice in a manner that |
could not forget.
"At the time of my visit
Stephenson was engaged in
sorting out checks and other
documents and was attaching
to each of them note show
ing the purpose for which they
were drawn.
Mostly for Politics
"As he would write these notes
he repeated what he said was their
purpose. He said that those checks
represented some huge amount,
about 100000, if remember cor
rectly, and that most of 1t had gone
into politics"
The scene described by Christian
was one of the dramatic ones OF
the Stephenson history.
His client had been convicted OF
murder and was ready to receive a
sentence of life Imprisonment. He
had gone to call upon him.
He found him with mass OF
papers, mostly checks. He was ar
ranging his affairs for the next
move and the sense of power which
he still had can be estimated by
his request that documents be
turned over to the Marion County
prosecutor If he was not released
within ninety days.
Made Adventure" Record
AS he sorted them, he wrote on
small sheets of paper and attached
his notes. The persons who hao
received his money were being list
ed. He was making a record OF
his political adventures.
He was not then the beaten,
desperate man who was tired Of
being "double-crossed," and who
saw himself on the way to an asy-
lum. He was still the dictator In
his own mind and those papers
meant power.
But that he expected treachery
was also apparent, for he sent then
for one of his trusted men, one on
whom he had relied and sent those
documents and papers to a pho
tographer. He saw into the future
and the fiery cross" had become
double cross" to his imagination.
Guarded Against Sale
When Attorney Christian saw him
in his cell he was preparing to
guard against the sale Of his docu-
nents, their destruction, the bribery
of those to whom he might intrust
them.
But he took ole more precaution
and that is revealed by Mr.. Chris
tian. He showed those papers to
others.
II gave the names Of four othe'
persons who saw these same papers
to the Marion County grand jury"
says Floyd Christian.
The grand jury before which he
appeared was the one which had
special advisers whose fees were
paid from the contingent fund Of
lthe Governor.
1t was the grand jury which at
its conclusions exonerated all State
officials and refused all indictments.
1t was the grand jury with whosc
working Stephenson was familiar
and Of which he predicted weeks in
advance that no indictments would
be returned and that the vote
would be four to two for indict-
ments.
The $4,000 check which Christian
saw in the Noblesville jail is printed
today. 1t is In the custody Of The
Times.
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LoNGW0RTH GOES WEST
Speaker Of House to Make Speeches
on Pacific Coast.

Bp United Press
WASHINGTON. July l1.-Speak-
er Of the House Nicholas Longworth,
mentioned as Republican presi-
dental possibility. today was on his
way across the continent to visit
friends and to make speeches On the
Pacific Coast. He left Chicago last
week with a party of friends In a
special car intending to take the
trip by easy stages. o.
Ills Office here believed Rapid
City, the Presidents vacation spot.
was not on the itinerary.
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PLANES CRASH IN AIR
One Pilot KilIed--Greencastle Man
Lands Safely.
BH United Press

BH United Press
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, July IL
An airplane collision 1000 feet over
Duncan Field today killed Second
Lieutenant William L. Howarth, rs,
of Kelly Field. Lieutenant Frank
G. Irwin, plotting the plane that
collided with Howarth's made a safe
landing with part of Howarth's
ship caught in the wing.
Howarth's plane hurtled down.
ward with the throttle wide open.
Howarth's address is 1920 Cen
ter Ave-, Harvey ILL.,, and Twins is
924 S. Indiana ST., Greencastle, Ind.
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Hozg 1t Came to Times
Mr. Boyd Gurley,
Editor Indianapolis Times,
City
July 8, 1927.

Mr. Boyd Gurey
Editor Indianapolis Times
City
Sir:
Stephenson certain
acting in accordance with that request In asking that
thing Stephensons desire show the people
not altogether ar and forush and that he
prove many his statements by documentary evidence
Mention the columns of your that
Prosecutor received order Of Mr.
friends deliver the prosecutor two
happen be the to whom that order directed Un
fortunately Stephenson of the opinion that had both OF
these instead have of them The other
however, is in existence
of the opinion that Mr. Remy would much rather make
public denouncng Stephenson than to receive
documents anticipate that
receiving only the papers designated he will make such
statement.
With the publishing these and those that follow
My Stephenson will be content to let the people judge
very truly
(Sgned) Lloyd 0. HILL
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FORD SHIPS TO MOLINE
Reliability Tour Planes Hop on
From Omaha.

Bn United Press
OMAHA, Neb., July 1.-THE thir-
teen planes of the Ford reliability
tour hoped Off for Moline, Ill,
shortly after a. m. today.
Eddie Stinson. plotting a StinsoIA
monoplane, enjoyed a lead of al
most 1000 points over other pilots
In the reliability tour. Stinson hadV
piled up 8.227 points. H. G. Num-
inert in a Mercury plane. his near
est rival, had but 6,493 points.
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There is every reason to be-
lieve that this was written in
the Noblesville Jail by Stephen
son, between the time he was
convicted and the day he was
removed to Michigan City.
Early in October, Floyd Christian,
one of the attorneys who defended
Stephenson In his trial, stated that
he had seen a check for $1,000 in
Stephenson's cell and also another
check for $1,000, made payable to
jackson.
On Oct. II, 1926, both the Indian
apolis News and Star carried a de-
rial from Governor Jackson.
Denies Receiving Check
In his statement, Identical in both
papers, he said:
ID. G. Stephenson never 1T any
time gave me a check for $1,000 or
any sum as gift or for campaign
purposes, and any statement that
he did is absolutely false"
The fact that the wording and
punctuation Is identical in both
papers suggests that it was most
carefully prepared.
1t was at that time that the grand
jury and the prosecutors became in
terested In the 'little black box''
which was believed to contain the
political sercets of Indiana, as far
as they had been written into
checks and contracts by =. G.
Stephenson.
That it existed was shown Safety
deposit boxes were searched 1t
eluded discovery. Repositories we're
found empty, always just ahead of
the prosecutors.
Witnesses Produced
The Times produced witnesses be-
fore the grand jury, who testified
that at one time Stephenson had
documents in his possession.
The Times found Mr.. and Mrs.
Hull, photographers, at Anderson.
They remembered photograpljing q
check to Jackson. 1t was for $500.
It is probable that this is the check,
now produced for the first time not
through the device of safety
adopted by Stephenson Of making
photographs Of his important
document, but in the original itself.
Witnesses who might have had
some knowledge OF the documents
disappeared. There were midnight
plottings, hurried flights, unexplain-
able obstacles in the way Of the law.
Two grand juries spent many
weeks questioning witnesses and
seeking evidence.
The first grand jury started its
deliberations IN October and worked
until Christmas time, 1926. At the
conclusion of it's deliberations it pre-
sented divided report to the
Marion Criminal Court.
Before the grand jury was dis
missed Stephenson told Deputy
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War Relics Burned

Bv Times Special
TERRE HAUTE. Ind. July IL
A large collection of World War
relics we're destroyed when the
summer home Of Robert Irwin, for
mer city, court judge here. was
burned.
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More Information con-
cerning this news event
and its history aOiu be
found on Page 8.
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STORE IS RANsAcKED
Three Young Negroes Break Into
Standard Grocery.

Standard Grocery.
Three young Negroes broke into
the Standard grocery store, 1419 E.
Twenty Fifth ST., early Sunday
morning and ransacked the store.
Henry Dawson, Negro, 2068 Co.
lumbia ST., hear the thieves break
ing in and notified police. The in
truders pried the cash register open
with crowbar, but the owner was
unable to ascertain then whether
anything was missing.