WHAT’S GOING
ON IN THE WORLD
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Before Albert B. Fall, as secre
tary of the interior, leased (or, ac
cording to Senator Walsh, father of
the investigation, virtually soldi the
government oil lands at Teapot
dome, Wyo., to the H. F. Sinclair
interests and at Elk Hills. Calif., to
the E. L. Doheny interests, he seem
ed very hard up, Couldn't even pay
his taxes. Anyway he didn’t. After
ward, he had money enought to buy
big ranch and make improvements
costing altogether SIBO,-JOG, Cara
way estimates. Was there any con
nection between the oil losses and
Fall's improved financial status?
That’s what the pending investiga
tion is intended to find out.
’ * *
FALL”S . -
STORY
Fall first said be bought the
ranch with SIOO,OOO he borrowed
from E. B. McLean, the newspaper
owner. McLean said it was .true
he gave Fall a SIOO,OOO check but
got it back again uncashed.
*•*'* *
ARCHIE .
ROOSEVELT
The late Theodore Roosevelt’s
son, Archie, was an official of one
of the Sinclair oil companies. He
heard from G. D. Wahlberg, Sin
clair’s secretary, of a $68,000 pay
ment to the foreman of Fall’s
ranch. This made h imoshereM(N
ranch. This made him so suspic
ious that, mindful of his own repu
tation, he quit the Sinclair job and
told his story to the senators who
were investigating the Teapot
Dome and Elk Hills cases. ,
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DOHENY HEARD
FROM
Then Doheny was heard from.
Appearing before the investigators
ho related it was he who loaned
SIOO,OOO to Fall to buy the ranen.
He said he did it because he and
Fall were very old friends. He did
it some months before the Elk Hills
lease was made and denied any con
nection between the loan and the
lease. (Doheny had said, but this
was before the investigation, that
he hoped to .make $100,000,000 on
Elk Hills.)
* * *
COLONEL
J. W. ZEVELY
Next come Col. J. W. Zevely Wash
ington lawyer for Sinclair. He told
the senators of a $25,000 loan, ;n
Liberty bonds, to Fall. He said tho
loan was made by Sinclair but
through, him, Zevely. This loan
.„ -ffi.-i .made jXUw- -the Teapot Dormr
lease. Like Doheny, he denied any
connection between the loan anil
lease.
• * »
MORE TO
COME?
This seems to leave a good deal
still to be explained. Fall said he
got SIOO,OOO from McLean, but ac
cording to McLean the check wasn’t
cashed. Fall said he never got
"one cent” either from Sinclair #r
Doheny “on account of any oil lease
or upon any other account whatso
ever.” According to Zevely and Do
heny he did, maybe not on account
of any oil lease, but at any rate on
Some account. Also, what about
the $68,000 Archie Roosevelt men
tions, and the difference between'
the $125,000 Fall appears to have
received from Sinclair and Doheny
and the SIBO,OOO that .Caraway
thinks he spent?
* * * "w.
OTHERS
BLAMED
Originally Teapot Dome and Elk
Hills were the navy’s.. Secretary
Dcriby turned them over to Fall,
secretary of the interior, to maa
age. Some senators say this was!
very careless of Denby. They
blame Assistant Secretary of the
Navy Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., too.
Fault is found likewise with Attor
ney General Daugherty, on the
ground that he wasn’t alert enough
as the government’s lawyer t 0 pro
tect its interests.
$ * *
WHAT
NEXT?
President Coolidge announces
lawyers (both Republicans and
Democrats) will be hired to sue for
annulment of the Teapot Dome and
Elk Hills leases and prosecute any
body guilty of corruption.
* * *
RUSSIA'S ’*
FATE
With the death of Nicolai Lenin
(his real name was Vladimir Ily
vitch Ulianov)’ the general guess is
that the real rulership of Russia
will pass to the veteran communist
Stalin—but can he hold it long?
Much doubt is expressed. Recogn
ised as a sincere and, in some re
spects, capable man, he isn’t regard
ed as anywhere nearly Lenin’s equal |
iii read statesmanship, if he loses
his grip nobody ventures to predict
what direction Rusia may take.
Trotsky is of favor with the
Bolsheviki.
• * *
LABOR IN
POWER
Stanley Baldwin, Conservative j
leader, resigned the British pry- j
micrshlp, as expected. As was ex
pected also. Ramsay ' MacDonald, j
Labor leader, succeeded him. Un- 1
der the English system. Mac Don-j
aid has to have a majority in Par
liament to remain as premier. There
(Continued on Page Two.)
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THE TlitfßklroßDEß
PUBUSHED IN HEART OF' $
FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 27
JAPANESE DIET DISSOLVED MID RIOTOUS SCENES 1
D O O O O O O O O O O O * o J O O O O O O ’
SEC’Y DAVIS|IS|JEERED BY MINERS
D O O X> O O O™Q O O O' 0-0 O O O O O O
ESCAPED SUMTER CQNVICT IS |C AUGHT IN MACON
Where Thirty Pennsylvania Miners Died
I /((hove —ivisne rescue crew, j
equipped wit hoxygen teaks, ent- !
ering mine to continue search for
survivors and corpses, following
blast at Lancashire coal mine,
Shankton, Pa. And below —Toll
of Uiast. Bodies of victims
brought to the surface in mine
cars, followin gthc big gas ex
cars, following the big gas ex
mine at Shankton, Pa.
ilEHlffß
mi HIT II CM
IB I* LET CBM
A white man named Monroe was
perhaps fatally injured and an un
known negro badly hurt in an au
tomobile collision near Smithville
in Lee county early this afternoon,
according to a long distance tele
phone message received in Ameri
jcus at lo’clock. Both victims of tho
accident were' brought into Smith
ville from the scene of the vrteck,
in a banana wagon operated by Jon
j Yesliik, of Albany, and emergency
[treatment given them there. The rc
' cident occurred three miles South
! of Smithville on the Dixie highway,
j Monroe’s ear, a heavy machine and
j headed north colliding with a light-
J er car driven by J. C. Jones , en
route from Smithville to Albany,
i both ears being badly damaged.
| Monrof, who sustained several broK
| en ribs and serious head and eye in
jury is a prominent resident of
Quiucey, Fla., it is.reported. Jones
escaped unhurt.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JANUARY 31. 1924*
PREMIER KIYOURI
’ REFUSES TO REPLY
TOKIO, Januray 31. — (By the Associated Press.) —The Imperial
| Japanese Diet was dissolved here today, following scenes of greatest
| dborder, during which water flasks were thrown and fists used by the
assembled deputies.
The disturbance which resulted in dissolution of th e Diet resulted
from an effort on the part of the opposition to interpolate the gov
ernment regarding the attempted wrecking of a train at Nagoya which
was carrying oppesit'on leaders to Tokio. Turbulent scenes which oc
curred in the lower house pft a result of the attempted interpolations
made the transaction of business there impossible.
None es the opposition leaders upon the wrecked train were in
! jured, although the locomotive hauling their train was derailed. The
1 foes of Premier Kiyoura and his newly installed cabinet demanded that
the premier, in person to the interpolations, and Premier Kiyoura
j refused to comply v/ith their demand. Great disorder immediately en
sued, resulting in the final dissolution of the Diet after many most un
i usual scenes.
Minister of Communications Kenjiro Komatsu attempted to repl,
j during the disorder. An agitator, not "a member of the Diet, rushed
to the platform, thrusting Komatsu aside. A riot followed this out
) burst, legislators engaged in the qombat.
The speaker of the house hastily declared a temporary atfjourn-
I ment which was followed by dissolution of the Diet. W
SERVICES AT HEBRON
Preaching services will be held
jat Hebron church Sunday after
noon, February 3 by Rev. J. E.
(Hall, pastor. Sunday school at 2:30.
i ratnebors are urged to be there as
! matters of business are to be dis
| cussed. Every one is cordially in
j vlted to attend.
Mr. and Mrs. F. K. Broadhur-f,
j of Smithville, N. C., and Dr. I.f.lrj
S Winkerman, of Oldsboro, NY
i returned to their home Thursday as
ter a visit to their brother, R: Si
Broad hurst;
PLAINS P.-T. ASSN.
ENDORSE THRASHER
PLAINS, Jan. 31.—Plains Par
ent-Teacher association at its last
meeting adopted a resolution en
dorsing the candidacy of B. E.
Thrasher for county tax collector,
and asking that other P.‘ T. A’s
throughout the county take like ac
tion. The resolution further asks
that all voters interested in the wel
fare of the schools of the county to
vote in the primary on March 19.
JESTER. RE-JAILED;
REFUSES 10 PROMISE
GOOO CONDUCT
Will, Quit Stealing Automobiles,
But Wants Special Privileges
While on Gang
TELLS HOW HE ESCAPED
Lay in Abandoned House All
Night, Then Caught Freight
and Went to Columbus
Dick Jester, escaped Fulton coun
ty convict, was returned to his place
in the Sumter county chaitigang
here this morning, apparently still
defiant, but admittedly debating in
his mind tre advisability of giving
up his chosen career as a "bad man.’
“Meanwhile County Warden
John B. Ansley is debating in Win
mind the question of having Jester
indicted, when the grand jury meets
next May, which course would mean
two years of added servitude tfor
the convict, Jester tellog of his es
cape today said that Thursday night
when he escaped he went through
the woods to an abandoned negro
house where he hid til Friday night
when he came out and walked into
Americus. Here he caught a freight
train and went to Columbus.
At a point where the Seaboard
and Central tracks intersect there,
Jester says he was accosted by a,
Columbus policeman, but managed
to escape when a bulldog belonging
to Warden Schneider htie,
and which Jester took with him
when he left the prison camp, at<
tacked the oficer. ,
From Columbus Jester went to j
Macon, riding with the dog in a !
box car on a freight train, and,
soon after reaching that city he was
arrested. He told Warder. Ansley to
day that the saws with which |
effected an escape procured in
an old shop near Thompson school
house, where they had been secret
ed by a party of convicts working
there months previously, and that
he carried them concealed upon
his person during some time before
being able to use them.
After sawing hi* way out of the
cage* Jester said today, he returned
to the cage and with a pick ai>i
tempted to break open the lock so
as to free the other convicts con
fined therein, but failing in this ef
fort he was compelled to bid his
friends adieu and make his break
for freedom alone. “I wasn’t to
blame,” said Jester, "because they
were all too big to squeeze through
the hole in the cage, and I couldn’t
wait there until morning trying to
break off the locks on the door for 1
them to escape.” ’
Jester declares his escape was j
I prompted by a desire for freedom
t and that this desire within his heart
- was so strong he would give no
promise not to attempt further es
! capes, except that special treatment
. now denied, be accorded him in, fu
( ture.
He has failed thus far to explain
how he managed to secure a now
suit of overalls he wore when cap
tured, but said he had decided to
quit automobile stealing as a pro
! session, asserting that he could
1 have stolen several cars during his
i brief period of freedom, but that
. was at no time inclined to break
. his resolution to steal mor au
tomobiles. .
COLQUITT NOT TO~
COMBINE PRIMARIES
MOULTRIE, January 31.—8 y a
unanimous vote members of the
local Democratic executive commit
tee decided against th e proposal to
conso4diat e the county primary with
the state presdiential preferential
l primary set for March IS). This
means the county officers of Col
quitt will be 1 nominated on Feb.
t 27, the date originally set . Mem
bers of the committee declared an
that the chief object of holding an
. early primary was to get politics
out of the way of business and
5 that it would not be consistent for
-(them to postpone the date of the
x election for a little more than three
- weeks in order to make their action
o conform with that of the state com
i, mittee.
WEATHER
For Georgia Partly
cloudy tonight and Friday; no
change in temperature.
LABOR SECRETARY !S
HOWLED DOWN BEFORE
UNITED 11 WORKERS
President of Miners Hurls State
ment Upon Floor Before Or
der is Finally Restored
ON TRIAL’
Member of President’s Cabinet
Greeted With Howls and
Boos at Indianapolis
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 31.
Howls and boos greeted James) J.
Davis, secretary of Labor, when he
was introduced by President John
L. Lewis to the biennial convention
of the United Mine Workers of
America here today. Lewis had ask
ed for a respectful hearing for a
“member of the President’s cabi
net.” ,
While the tumult proceeded
Lewis too, the floor and shouted:
“Your honor and your organization
are at stake. You are on trial be
fore your country. Exercise self-re
straint that our organization be not
publicly ashamed.'’
Order was restored after some
had left and the secretary began to
speak.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 31. - The
turmoil which late yesterday ruled
j in the convention of the United
I Mine Workers of America for a
1 solid hour, was in prospect agam
today when International President
John L. Lewis called the convention
to order. ,
Delegates of both! the administra
tion and the insurgents brought a
chip on their shoulders, justifying
the conduct of the leaders in yester
day’s disturbance.
Trouble began Wednesday after
noon when the union’s committee
on constitutional amendments rec
ommended non-concurrence in an
amendment which would give each
local union one vote in the conven
tion for every hundred members.
Under the present rule, no union
can now cast more than five votes.
Demand for a roll-call followed a
standing vote showing 785 in favor
of the committee’s report and 632
against, but the vote for the roll-call
was a few short >f the necessary
number.
Lewis was addressing insurgent
delegates, who were shouting and
i stamping their feet in violent pro
; test against what they called “ma
j chine” methods and a demand for
justice” when the convention broke
up in wild disorder.
BE SOTO K MEET
EHBKEMBITES
DE SOTO, Jan . 'it.—At a mass I
meeting of citizens held kpre the
candidacy of '.V. T. Anderson for
county commisior.n? ,vns heartily
endorsed by citizens i resent, and
the record of Neal A. Ray as a
member of that body approved, E.
L. Wilson, chair, un of the meeting
being instructed to write Mr. Ray
informing him of the action take#
by the meeting. These instructions
were carried into effect today, be
ing embodied in the following let
ter written to Mr. Ray by the chair
man :
Dear Sir: —At a meeting of the
representative citizens of the 15th
Dist. held at De Soto today. W.
Anderson was unanimously chos
en to make the race for county
commissioner in the coming pri
i mara and a resolution was unani
; mously adopted endorsing you n»
j County Commissioner and your
: splendid record the post four year,
and that we earnestly request that
you announce yourself as a candi
date to .succeed yourself in the
coming r.rimniy assuring you of our
hearty support by the; voters of the
15th Dist.”
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OILLEMiLIIT
EFFOPTS STILL TIEI
UP 11UFFICIIL 1M
Tangled Net of Senate Discus
sion Prevents Action Being
Taken by Authorities
DOCTORS EXAMINE FALL
Report of Physicians of Fali’i
Condition to Be Presented
Committee Friday
WASHINGTON, January 31.
A move to attack the Robinson
rcsloution calling for the resig
natio nos Secretary Denby to
the Walsh oil lease annulment
measure was made today, spon
sored by Senator Trammell,
Democrat, of Florida.
Protest was made by Senator
Lodge, of Massachustetts, Re
publican leader.
WALSH RESOLUTION
ADOPTED IN SENATE
WASHINGTON, January 31.
The Walsh resolution directing the
presidont to proceed with suits to
annul the Doheny and Sinclair oil
leases was adopted today by the
senate in final action taken after
all efforts to modify the language
of the resolution so as to eliauiMto
the direct charge;, that the leases
were entered into without authori
ty and in vilotaion ,of the law had
been voted 4won.
The vote was unanimous. Eighty
eight senators cast their ballots.
LEADERS MEET WITH
“CHIP ON SHOULDERS”
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. With
the Walsh resolution directing the
President all moves for annulment
of the naval oil lease is still tangled
in the net of the senate discussion.
Three physicians today examin
ed Former Secretary Fall to de
termine independently for the in
vestigating committee when his con
dition will permit him to appear for
questoning.
The senate committee held no se. -
sion despite the request of Edwar l
Doheny for a further hearing, but
will meet tomorrow to receive the
report of the physicians on Fall's
condition, and is expected to re
ceive the oil magnate then.
Republican senate leaders again
went over the oil lease situation
with the President before today’s
session of the senate and before tha
regular Friday cabinet meeting.
JACKSON OH STAND
IN DAMAGE SUIT
Air.ericus Man Tells of Offers
Made Him hollowing White
Sox Scandal at Chicago
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 31.
Joe Jackson, who is suing the Chi
cago club of the American League
for $18,500 alleged to he due him
because of breach of contract by
that organization, occupied the
stand dating the session of the
trial here late Wednesday. Jack
son detailed the signing' of the
contract which was for three years,
and which he said he signed be
cause advised by liarry Grdbiner,
secretary of the Chicago American
League, that he would be run out
of organized baseball if he did not.
Jackson also testified that he wa •
told by the secretary that there
would be no ten day clause in the
contract.
Jackson related that being bar
red from organized baseball had
cut his earning powers. In 1920,
he testified, h e received SB,OOO
while in 1921, his earning power
in baseball amounted to about
i s2oo.’* In 1922, he said, h e had
i played "one or two games of base
! hall under an assumed name."
During the fall of 1919, Miller
Huggins, manager of th® New York i
club of the American League, he
said, told him if he coutd induce rj
! the Chicago club to trade him Hu ;- 3
gins would pay him $2,000 a year
j and give him a five-year conti net,
