Evening Star Newspaper, October 14, 1926, Page 4

L THE' EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1926 - SENA]’E MAY GH {CORRUPTION CASE MAY SMASH [fmsscusmert St votors to | of ian tunds. Ho wappea sy mimg| TELLS OF KEEPING FIT. | DE MOLL %fi;‘,"n"itfl'r'g Co. Twelfth and G Sts. bring about Democratic victory. Most | suit for-damages in the Federal Court v that things are by no e e o o s fhey " have been| “The Old Man" gathered his friends | Pamphlet Boosting Athletic Trend. o inted. The State is normally Re-|in the Klan and continued still to ex- ued | Fir age.) | Christian, that Stephenson had ever Efib’;lcan el 01000 aF ore. ert great power in the State. This To assist young America to attain n was fitness, which may . o o v given him a check for $5,000, or any i the situation when the elections | §Toater PRysical RESeS, WO CT, iie Ten-Piece Dining Room Suite xram;.mr,\;.l and y:smrd;:‘y‘ nlley:il':env g;gg: :‘L;Y‘" ‘91;« 2ha§‘gedfi The gov- G. 0. P. Victory Predicted. n!f 1145‘4 took place. There is plenty | prooin Service has published a new | i R f R i At i it R ald: “D. C. Stephenson never | pregictions are made by careful ob- | of evidence that Stephenson was very D eeping. Fit," Possibility Discussed After|aiglis and taken before that body. |at any time gave me a check for [servera here that both Senator Wat. |active in the campaign for Gov. Jacic | PARENISC SRR | THECOICE crarge egular While the proceedings in the grand | $5.000 or any sum as a gift or for|gon and Senator Robinson will be re-son and others on the Republican to those asking for it. 5500 Value Jury room are secret, it is learned that ( campalgn purposes and any state- |'elected from 50,000 to 100,000 plu- ket that year. He was closely al-|™®.mpil publication says an an- ex-Klan Dragon Goes Be- | Stephenson would not talk. Later he | ment that he did s absolutely false.” | rality. Much reliance is had on the|lied with the Marion County Repubii. | ~This BUPICCOR. S0% fte . o appeared in the Superior Court at the Other Charges Revealed. Republican organization, which is de- [can organization. Gov. Jackson and ound physical develop- = fore Grand Jury Hoosler Tatlors, Inc.. receivership| oot aqiees SVEORe 1 al {0 be more complete this year | the others now declare that they did |formation on sound BEVHCR) DT TS = . hearing and again refused to testify. | o AuSHEN AR SO, HOUE B |than ever before. Many of the former [not know the real character of the |TEG. g TR Mang plotures, Other d { Stephenson was a director in this cor- & 1 glve testl- | factional differences are said to have [man or they would have had nothing | Sharts, diagrams Sot FIEICC o)l _— poration, now involved In a civil suit. | [nOTY €0 this effect. Tt is these aloip o "eliminated. Former supporters |to do with him. Fioma, “with special chapters on sex By the Associated Press When newspaper men questioned him ) A% iephenson JCOCUMCnIS, G Lot Postmaster General New and Al-| ZAs grand dragon of the Kian, |FWHG Voo S owing boy* and ENIIAN —_The | In the courtroom. he did not answer | a A bert J. Beveridge are working with| “Steve” had a gilded airplane in an, is included.” NDIANAPOLIS, October 14. and his_counsel shooed the reporters |*lready produced a letter said to| iR nd Robinson campaign | Which he flew to Klan gatherings, | YOUnS man. Marion County grand jury today|away. Under a heavy guard, he was | 1aVe been written by Stephenson in | (70 'WEEOR & His pilot, “Court” Asher, i3 one of speeded up its investigation Into| taken from the courtroom and sent | Jdil and smugkled out to a confidant, |™ig 010" ot campalgn les,” s a|those now intent upon getung Ste- charges of alleged political corruption | on his way back to jail, In which Stephenson had an agree-| .., "a3,pted by the Republican |Phenson out of jail. Asher today tells in Tndiana, with a view to complet-| The refusal of Stephenson to testify [ €Nt with a certain prominent offi- | gt ™ o hriitee. ~ Posters bearing | Vivid storles of the powers which ing the taking of testimony With-|either before the grand jury or in the | ¢lal of the State who was to pay |3t "gocan have been printed and are| “Steve” and his intimates exerted in_the next two or three day: Superior Court was interpreted herc | Stephenson the sum of $825000 or | g 8,28 ATE EM POUAC §c0 fng | during the latter's regime, of the wild Thomas H. Adams, publisher of |as a collapse of the probe demanded [three times the amount Stephenson |{SPIayed EERErousy. orCl BIROTE | oo ities that were given at “Steve's” the Vincennes, Ind., Commercial, Who | by Adams, although Adams maintuins | ©Xpended in his behalf for election, e Same W8CRC are WEROSEH M S| hone and on his yacht, for he had originally made the charges of al-|that it was not a grand jury investi- |and that he had notes signed by the |pers, “HC CreFROin SO S 0T [acquired a handsome craft, which he leged bartering of offices by public | cation he wanted behind closed doors, | same official +for that amount and |FeRedUgrters Byl ns ROWDIE B seq'on Lake Michigan. During the officials, and D. C. Stephenson, named | hyt a hearing in the open. Further. contracts with the mayors of {com& from the publication of the | Republican national conventlon in by Adams as a sourge‘gfhc';’:fl{::a- more, it is said, that if Stephenson | three large cities to pay him on a|3qan.< charges. Cleveland in 1924 the yacht was moor- ’ lon of e charges, havt 0! “ | had ever intended to “talk” he has |ratio of three for one for all money v Sk 9 ed nearby, and “Steve” entertained , . . - fled betore the grand jurors, and ap: [ now decided it Is better policy to hold | he ndvanced in their behalf, and | ... rephensonism,” however, is the & Your choice of either Walnut or Mahogany. Every r} as el - | many politici: aboard. At the hear- parently only the gathering ub of |his tongue. He Is expected to file an | agreements with those mayors to l:f:.fghhm;:ehg‘-};"z%?f:u;efn;;é e T sk 1s e loose ends of testimony rgm«ll"e“ be- | appeal from the decision in the mur-|allow certain individuals to name all | gatements yet in regard to it. They | Superior Court a confidential state- i e e e D Lo nEhiEe oo ooy Imnnolntees, . are awaiting hoperully. They are|ment from a mercantile agency was Goes Back to Prison. MK x{mfin em wtmv: rlnu»‘_ Adams charges that “every effort|agrajq apparently, to seize upon the presonted showing that in October, With Stephenson back in the In- ev‘rl]»mmum ‘l‘hi‘tt }r‘xhuthr;\eo"l;&'é' trlr u;*] ‘x)xrt‘e}hiul:;m}:ee"rf ;figfigl (fin%‘gco)x(m‘cfl igsuef Open{;‘; ;:rml“ dmom concrete | 1924, Stephenson was worth $954,000. dlana State prison after his trib to{po knew about the last political cam- | Adamer s 8 proofs can be obtained. Avcuseaitn Assatlt Guse’ Indianapolis the grand jury session £ X te | A#dams’ probe committee. The story of Stephenson's rise to divided 'interest with the possibility B e merely & ihreat to force| Charges, on the other hand, are | power in this State is one of the most iaes Stepriondon waslclis (et e of the corruption charges becoming | gat his liberty. and that in the mean. | Mode by the Republican central com- | remarkable:in recent political history. [ I s e the subject of a hearing by the sena- |fime he has been reached” and | Tittee “of Knox County (Adams’|Even now he isa “mystery man.” He | Madge Ol piar Tl d"dm‘ s torfal campaign_funds investigating | gjjenced. county) that Adams had sought to |{s supposed to have come originally | &irl, who toak poison an led. ’1; committee. St. Louis dispatches I > ' use the party for “his personal gain|from Texas, via Oklahoma and Iowa. | der the Indiana law a man who fail night quoted a newspaper of that city Hope Rests Witk Reed. and glorification.” It was sald at|He became a “high pressure” stock | to report that poison has been mm s saying that United States Senator | The main hope of Adams and his|!Pe meeting of the committee that|and bond salesman. He was employed | may be charged mh murder.bSo = James A. Reed of Missouri, chairman | supporters demanding an investigation | Adams became angry with the Re- |to organize the first Klan in Indiana, | charge of —murder was brought of the ‘Senato committee. had called | now lies in the Reed senatorial inves. | Dublican State chalrman because h K S R and he was con- a meeting of its members in India- H1HE comthitiee. | BenatoriReeq of | \¥ould mot ial him in his can- d. . uapolis. el tman, has been peppered | didacy for governor in 1924; with Clyde A. Walb, Republican State Earl Klenck, former bodyguard of 1o bring his committee | Gov. Jackson because he would not | Klan affairs. He is reputed to have | chairman, in a letter to Senator Borah Stephenson, and who was acquitted ppoint him successor to the late | brought the Klan membership in In.| of Idaho, has charged that “interna- last year when he was a co-defendant nator Ralston, and with Senator |dlana up to the 400,000 mark, and to | sional bankers" are back of the attack with Stephenson on the charge of | Adams gave out a statement in W Watson because he would not con- | have recetved more than a million dol- [ o1 the Republican ticket in Indiana— murdering Madge Oberhoitzer, of [ he quoted Floyd Christlan, a lawyer | sider Adams' claims to dictate ap-|lars during the precess of organiza-| both Senator Watson and Senator which the latter was convicted and | o Noblesville, and an attorney for|pointment of a successcr to Federai |tion. He berame known as “The Old | Robinson voted against the World is now serving a life sentence in the | the defense in the Stephenson Judge A. B, Anderson. The county | Man.” He wanted to become Imperial | Court. Perhaps this charge may Indiana State prison, was expected | ger trial, as saying that he aad visit- | committee undertook te read Adams | Wizard in Simmons’ place, but Hiram | bring the —senatorial investigating to complete today the testimony he|eq Stephenson in jail before he was|out of the Republican party. W. Evans was chosen instead. A Gom."'“m’d'-" 1“‘”8-"“{- ‘Walb d‘dm started to give yesterday before the | convicted and that Stephenson had | So the situation stands. It may [break came and “Steve” was succeed | ho 1s ready to testily Py grand jury. ’ shown him checks and an alleged |change at any moment, with consid- | €1 as grand dragon of Indiana by a 2 np“'h:ln;‘;: ‘J:;Sn:';“l“;‘t;":;:‘zfif )}:‘: agreement for support by Stephenson | erable political effect. AN e ned SBOS It teve = w & 4L ayor of Indian- ~ = terday by Floyd Christian, Nobles. | 1aene Srimmn vas meored o saying G. 0. P. Discredits Charges. Newest K. of C. piece of the finest construction KOHLER & CAMPBELL BABY GRAND PIANO The reputation of these wonderful instruments $ is firmly established. Over 200,000 of 650 these instruments are in fine homes, schools, musical colleges, etc. Other Grands Priced from $495.00 to $1,500 Individuality in Furniture at De Moll's Take the Chill Off the Room With a MAJESTIC Electric Heater Priced Now at $5.50 &$7.50 % MUDDIMAN ¢ ville attorney, appeared unlikely. | that Stephenson had told him he also | So far the Republi | B 3 E L g E can State lead- Christian made public a statement In | hag' spent something over $200,000 1n | ers tast. the raoncy? oate dead I Rings and Pins B which he said that he had seen, while | the campaign for the election of Ed- [ Adams have had no real effect on G. B. COLGAN 709 13th, Main 140 visiting Stephenson in the Hamilton | \arq Jackson, present Republican |[the voters. They insist that the & County Jail, before the Oberholtzer | governor. “While I was at the jail,”” | grand jury probe will allay any feel- e I s trial, a check which he said, “was | (hristian said. according to the state-|ing of suspicion and resentmen i 6le F St. NW i Jewelers and Opticians payable to Ed Jackson (governor of | ment, “I asked Stephenson what he |thoroughly discredited is Stephenson, |} RS i 907 G Street N.W. Indiana) for $5,000" and signed by [ way going to do with these papers|they say, that the people would not ||| Styles of Distinction | Stephenson, It e O eh | &nd he said: I have u notion to turm | believe him even if he broke his|[lin tailor-made and afternoon R would probably not concern | them over to you,’ and said ‘If you |silence and himself made charges. ‘\‘ itself with this statement, inasmuch |do T will turn them over to Remy| The Democrats, on the other hand, |P| as Christlan indicated that he did not | (the prosecuting attorney) for as a law- | are taking heart from the mess. They Dresses now have possession of such a check. | yer that is all I can do.’ And Stephen- | believe that it cannot fail to aid their il Governor Denies Charge. son said, ‘Well, I want to use them as | ticket. Their hopes of electing both For Misses and Women. The “Siren’ a club, and won't turn them over to | their candidates for United tes H 2 Gov, J:\r‘ksl(\n denied vigorhom;:yftha: you.’ 1o | §enator have mounted and they pre- Sizes 14%to 48. he had received such a check from He also sald,” according to Chris-|dict that victory will be with them. 3 5 3 5 : % Stephenson. ‘ain, “that if he had to stay in "‘fi Here and there are Republican: 9.7 to 29.7 Overlookmx Th"m C‘rcl‘ “D. C. Stephenson never at any |penitentiary over six months, ‘I will'| who are thoroughly disgusted with . time mave mo o check for $5,000 or | Tuke so many of those fellows up|the entire state of affairs in Indlana, Smart Selection of at 14th Street v 7) i any sum as a gift or for campalgn | there with me they will have to build [ who insist that the Republican Idad. || Sport Coats A new an very 18- s and anw statement that he [an addition to the prison to accom-|ership in the State is corrupt and ||| P absolutely false,” the gover- | modate them.” And then he laughed | entirely discredite I talked with ||| § Specially priced at nor said. and said, ‘You know if 1 one Republican of years’ standing who g The impression prevalled here that | stay, I want to be among friends,’ | sald that the only thing to do was $39 75 . . . Stephenson volunteered little If any | I expostulated and told him that I|to “elect the Democratic ticket and ||| ; o o private bath, furnished and wltb Il.; information to the grand jury. It |didn’t want to taint my hands with {turn all the Republicans out of office ur values are the tal [} H H appeared to be based on the one hour [a dirty political mess like that. I|until the party can be cleaned up. e lions hotel service, at attractive rates by the duration of his session with the |wish 1 had taken possession of the| It is doubtful, however, that this dov- wreetiob month jurors, which was considered too brief | Jocuments then. I don’t know Where | — Y ' 3 to permit the Intricate revelations |they are now, but Stephenson will which Adams some time ago said | tell later and I do not think he can would he forthcoming if Stephenson [be bullled. He has openly declared were called to testify. that he wants to talk to an open After his appearance before the [forum of Senators and your probe grand jury, Stephenson was taken to [ committee."” pabe the Superior Court in connection Gov. Jackson denied flatly, v«h;r:' with a clvil suit, but refused to|shown the statement made by testify. BORAH SENDS REPLY. tinctive creation from one of Rich’s foremost de- signers. Developedinbeautiful moire satin; has high arch and spike heel. Priced at $11. | Beautiful silk hosiery at $1.95 and $3. 7 )N One, two or three room suites with 22 22222, \ 2. A hotel home within a few minutes’ distance of various Federal depart- ments. Convenient to shopping or en- tertainment. Car and bus transporta- tation to all section of the city almost at your door. PORTLAND HOTEL Carefully conducted and not expensive Telephone Main 8676 EDMONSTON & CO., Inc. New Address—612 13th St. Bet. F and G Sts. (West Side) Says Proof of Adams’ Corruption Charges Not Legal. Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho, telegraphed Attorney General Gilllom of Indiana vesterday that the ma- terial sent here by Thomas H. Adams of Vincennes was not in the nature of legal proof of Adams’ charges of cor- ruption in the State government. The Idaho enator’s message was in reply to one from the attorney gen- eral saying the material should be returned for submission to the grand jury, and warning the Senator that Indiana could set her own house in order. 1 beg to assure vou,” Senator Rorah telegraphed, “T have not made any statement to the effect that I thought Adams had the proof to sus tain his charges. I was not in a position, from anything that has been furnished me, to form an opinion, and had 1 had an opinion I. in all prob- ability would not have express at this time. The material s was not in the nature of legal proof. 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