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WHAT’S GOING ON IN THE WORLD “The key to the whole oil scan dal.” So politicians., describe the deal by which the Standard Oil Com pany got certain naval reserve lands in California from which it’s re ported the company already has taken $30,000,000 worth of oil. The case hasn’t been much touched on yet. Details remain to be brought out, but they’re going to be, for President Coolidge says he’ll name lawyers to get the land back for the government if they can. * * » McLean’s Telegrams The oil investigators’ latest dis covery is a batch of telegrams which fnends and agents sent to E. B. McLean, the newspaper own er, at Palm Beach, keeping him posted on oil developments in Washington. McLean’s name has figured much in the oil cases. Seemingly he wanted to know if he’d be called as a witness. The queer thing is that the tele grams were written in a Justice De partment cipher. Also they indi cate that William J. Burns, the de partment’s secret service chief, was one of McLean’s informants. Burns denies this; says, too, the cipher was old—no longer used. And it’s asserted McLean, as a “dol lar a year man,” was a Justice De partment agent himself. All the same, the whole thing hints that somebody close to the de partment was helping those the in vestigators were investigating. And a lot of McLean’s messages were sent to him, over his private leased wire, by E. W. Smithers, who’s also a telegrapher at the White House. However, it’s com mon for one telegraph operator to hold down two or more jobs. * * * “Some Splash’" Angered at senators' demands for his resignation, Attorney Gen eral Daugherty says certain sena tors had better resign, too, or he’ll cause “some splash.” Inasmuch as the things Daugher ty could tell probably would crowd the present oil investigation right off the newspapers’ front pages, there may be startling revelations coming. Anyway, the Senate has “called” Daugherty, by voting for a full in vestigation of the Justice Depart ment—not only in connection with oil but lots of other things. » » Needed the Money William G. McAdoo admits he got a $150,000 fee for his law firm by appearing in a big tax case, in the very treasury he used to be secretary of, and before officials, some of whom perhaps owed their jobs to him. Washington, adding up all the big fees he’s received since he left the cabinet, recalls that when he re signed he said he was “quitting to make a little money for his fam ily.” According to jone capital news paper, “he spoke a mouthful.” »♦ * , Other Events A wet “bloc” has been formed in the House of Representatives, 50 members combining to demand 2.75 per cent drinks. Though in a mi nority, a “bloc” is strong out of proportion to its numbers, though ability to trade and “deliver the goods,” as individuals, scattered, can’t do. „ Ex-Director Forbes of the Veter ans’ Bureau finally has been in dicted in Chicago on charges of waste and graft in hospital-build ing. “It’s a hell-engendered con spiracy,” says Forces. A revolution’s on in Honduras and American marines have been landed. The fighting is hot, but won’t be on.a large scale. General Von Ludendorff and Adolf Hitler, who tried to stage a revolution in Bavaria and failed, are on trial for it, but are likely to get loss easily, on the ground, that they “meant well.” , Europe reports a communist revolution in Bulgaria, a Bulgarian war threat against Jugoslavia and Jugoslavian troop movements to meet the Bulgarians. It’s mostly rumors, but such rumors in the' Bal kans always are alarming. • • • FRANCE AND GERMANY Premier Poincare of France, whose policy has blocked every ef fort to put Germany in better busi ness shape, is so weak politically now that maybe he won’t be able to veto General Dawes’ plan. Poin care has just won a test vote in the Paris Chamber of Deputies, but it’s generall expected he’ll lose the coming national election. Some of the papers even talk of a dictator ship under President Millerand, to crowd him out sooner than that. AMERICA’S MILLION The “GermanrAmerican Mixed Claims Commission” having award ed about a million to Americans for the Lusitania sinking, Berlin cables say Geramny will pay as soon as she can borrow the money from the United States. THE TOES&ECORDER PUBLISHED Tn | FORTY-SIXTH YEAR—NO. 57 NAMES OF ACCUSED CONGRESSMEN ARE DISCLOSED 000 O OOOD 00000000 000 VETERANS MAY SOON GET CASH BONUS 00000000000 0 0 O O O O o o oo o ATTORNEY GENERAL ATTENDS MEETING OF CABINET Committee Will Investigate Justice Department i Q > ’“V - ,’‘‘Z .. k l BSa wk JU ml t ■Hk. Lgi s jajfefr-' B p • ...... ..... ,y;.;. ORCHESTRA LEADER - FALLS FIFTEEN STORES NEW YORK, March 7. —Dr. Charles DeMendel, composer and orchestra leader, formerly of San Francisco, fell or jumped to his death from the roof of a fifteenth story apartment build ing in West End avenue today. PAID-UP INSURANCE ftS BONUS PAYMENT PUN NMORED House Committee Decided Prin cipal Feature Os Money Measure For Veterans NO VOCATIONAL TRAINING Farm And Home Aid, Vetoed By Harding, Also Indefinite ly Eliminated WASHINGTON, March 7.—Pam up insurance was decided upon as a provision of the soldiers bonus bill today by the house ways means committee. Provisions of the bill passed last session and vetoed by President Harding for vocational training and farm or home aid was indefinitely eliminated, but the option of cash payments is still pending. underwoodlains STRENGTHEN SOUTH ATLANTA, March 7.—Under- wood sentiment in Georgia and .other southern states is strikingly strong according to traveling men covering many sections who have discussed the political situation in Atlanta. Most of these men, to re peat their comments in that con nection, have no interest one way or the other in politics. They are af ter business, but political discus sions, as they point out, isinject ed into business conferences. The traveling men, particularly those who make their southern head quarters in Atlanta, say they have sounded the sentiment more or less deeply in Georgia, Alabama, Noith Carolina, South Carolina, Fkiida, Tennessee, Mississippi and Louisi ana, and Underwood is looming large, notwithstanding claims of supporters of other candidates, both democratic and republican. Questioned as to how the average politician sizes up Senator Under wood, the talkative drummers, if one may put it that way, show that the Alabamian is looked on possess ing the most definite qualities of leadership. He is often, they say, compared to Grover Cleveland. In deed, as has been pointed out by several southern editors. Under wood has many traits in common with Cleveland who twice led the Democratic party to victory. Georgia supporters of the Alaba ma Senator, including several _o litical leaders of state-wide reputa tion, who called at the Underwood headquarters, today expressed great confidence in the outcome so far as this state is concerned, and gratify ing reports were also received fron the sister state of Alabama. Pres idential primaries are drawing near in both states and the Alabama Senator is expected to carry both states. BO CHKRKTEH IS PUT IN EVIDENCE in JWIETTA ffIIJL Defense Starts Presentation Os Evidence In SIOO,OOO Dam age Suit BYFIELD ACCEPTED CHECK Was Given $25,000 By Can .dler Soon After Alleged At tack Occurred DECATUR, March 7.—Witnesses in defense of the character and rep utation of Walter T. Candler were introduced today at the opening of the second day’s trial of the SIOO,- 000 suit institute.l by Mrs. Sarah G. Eyfieid against the millionaire sportsman, as the result of an al leged attack while they were pas sengers on the Berengaria, en route to Europe in the summer of 1922. The plaintiff rested the case late yesterday, and the defense began the presentation of evidence today. Admission on the witness stand by Clyde K. Byfield that he had re ceived a check for $25,000 signed by Walter T. Candler, of Atlanta “about ten minutes” atfter he had charged Candler with having at tacked Mrs. Byfield was the out standing development in the trial here today of the SIOO,OOO dam-, age suit brought against Candler by Mrs. Byfield. Byfield also admitted that he signed a paper exonerating Can dler from all blame, but that his signature was secured because he “was afraid that Candler’s\,friends were about to attack him.” The suit greto out of an alleged attack upon Mrs. Byfield by Can dler, who is the eldest son ofkAsa G. Candler, Sr., Atlanta soft drink king, in Mrs. Byfield’s stateroom on board the steamship Berengaria on July 17, 1922, resulting in the defendant’s giving Byfield a cheek for $25,000 to “hush his mouth for the time being,” according to evi dence introduced. In Paris, France, Candler, after securing a signed statement from Byfield ‘exonerating’ him, substi tuted the check held <by Byfield for a cash payment of $2,000 and r, note for $20,500 on which he or dered the payment stopped. Can dler, on his return to America from France brought suL.t against By field for the recovery of the note and Mrs, Byfield followed with al suit against Candler charging the] alleged physical attack. ! COUPE STOLEN AT PELHAM IS RECOVERED PELHAM, Ga., March 7.—News was received at Pelham yesterday that a Ford coupe belonging to J. J. Hill, which was stolen Saturday night, had been recovered in Jack sonville, Fla. A man who gave his name as T. L. Ray is being held in connection with the theft. It is said that there were two men in the coupe, but that one escaped. Ef forts to locate him are being made. OLD OFFICERS WIN IN MACON PRIMARY OGLETHORPE, March 7.—A1l of the present Macon county offi cers were re-nominated in th e dem ocratic primary held in this coun ty Thursday. W. C. tax collector, tailed the ticket, being elected over D. C- Smith, who op posed him, by only a small margin, AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MARCH 7, 1924 AAiveaugaMwiß vr officials acts of Atty. Gen. Daugherty will be gin at once by the committee shown above. Left to right, ' Senators Wheeler, Moses, Brook hart (chairman), Jones of Wash ing, and Ashurt. COOLIDGE IS 5-TO-I ‘SHOT’ ftS NOMINEE REPUBLICAN PARTY Shrewd Political Gamester Finds No Takers For Bets Even At Lond Odds SCANDAL HURTS SMOOT Wheelhorse of G. O. P. ‘Bares Breast’ During Emotional Ap peal On Senate Floor By HARRY B. HUNT WASHINGTON, March 7.—The uncertainty of Democratic presi dential prospects could not be bet ter emphasized than by clction bets placed by one of Washington’s shrewdest political gamesters. His wagers for one evening ran as follows: Five to 1 against McArUo. Cox Glass, Underwood, Smith Cummins and Ralston. Ten to 1 against .Copeland, Hud Baker and Davis. In contrast to hjg willingness to take the short end against any pro posed Democratic aspirant, this same bettor is ready to place 5 to 1 on Coolidge for renomination, but finds no takers. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah, the lank, melancholy chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, wheel horse of the G .0 P., organization machine, and first reader of the Mormon church, has been deeply grieved by criticisms of himself growing put of the Senate oil in vestigation. Democrats pounced on the dis closure that Smoot, f ' chair- * man of the investigating committee and Senator Lenroot, present c’’-’- of Interior Fall at his hotel here last December. And the insinua tions evolved from that visit were so direct and pointed that even so calloused a partisan as Smoot could not sit silent under them. Gaining the floor after one of the most caustic speeches on this sub ject, Smoot made what was proba bly the most motional appeal of nil career. Thowing open his coat, as if to ■ bare his breast to his critics, he i • dared: I “I want to say, Mr. president, 1 that I have not a thing in my heart that I want to conceal from the Sen ate or all the world. “If it were possible that my whole heart be opened and the whole world could read my thoughts, I should be perfectly willing to have it done. I have never done al thing in all my life that I am not willing for every soul that lives to know." REDD GOES TO TEXAS RAY NEW TEXAS MGR Announcement was authorized today of the transfer to Houston Tex., of S. C. Redd, who has been Americus manager for the Texas Oil Company during several years past. He will be ‘succeeded here by Lee Ray, who arrived Thursday to take up his new duties. Dan O’Connell, who has been district, manager for the Texas company) heretofore, will continue in that position, with Mr. Ray directing the ls affairs of the Americus station. DAUGHERTY, GUARDED BY SECRET AGENTS, REACHES WASHINGTON Atorney General Goes Direct To Meeting Following His Arriv al In Capital MAJCES GUARDED REPLIES Tells Newspaper Men He Can ‘Hardly Answer’ Regarding Situation In Washington WASHINGTON, March 7.—At torney General Daugherty would make no statement upon his arriva. here today from Florida. He wen directly from the station to the cab inet meeting, guarded by two sec ret agents of the Department of Justice. Upon his leaving the White House he said he could “hardly ans swer” a question as to whether the situation in Washington a& respecte him had changed since nis depar ture from Florida. , t .. • DAUGHERTY SENT RE-ASSURANC EMESSAGE WASHINGTON, March t—The oil 'committee was told today that Daugherty sent a re-assuring mes sage to McLean in Florida on the day the publisher was summoned here to testify in th_e inquiry. Ira E. Bennett, editorial writer on McLean’s Washington Post, testified that such message was conveyed in a telegram he sent Mc- Lean after a conference with the attorney general. The message includes such phras es as “all that is possible to be done will be done by us,” and “you know what to depend on.” PLANS OF PROBES DEVELOPMENTS AFFECT WASHINGTON, March 7.—The effect of Thursday’s late develop ments was to completely throw into shadow a number of other impor tant moves in the oil inquiry, in cluding an announcement by Gov ernment counsel that civil action t< annul the Sinclair and Doheny leases would begin next week and criminal proceedings would follow Injunction suits to prevent furth er removal of oil from, the Teapot Dome and Elk Hill reserves, the spe cial counsel announced, would b filled in the federal courts in Wy oming and California and a hears: on the motion given by the Wyo ing court at Cheyenne, March 13. Announcement of the leases will be asked for on grounds of “fraud am and a special federc. grand jury will be impanelled h-is about April 1 to consider crimin al features of the oil disclosures. While action on the nomination of Samuel Knight to be special coun sei in the recovery suit against the Standard 0:1 Company of Califor nia was biiog ■U’aycd in the Sri- thj V.h>te House made public correspondence thown.g that Mr. Knight had informed Washington before his selection that he neve' had been employed by an oil com pany. His confirmation will be op posed on the ground of oil connec tions. President Coolidge also informed the Senate he could not under the law grant its request that the in come tax returns of principals in the oil committee, but said he would be glad to comply if legal techni calities were removed. The Senate promptly passed an enabling resolu tion and sent it to the White Ho i BURTON DON’T WANT PLACE IN CABINET WASHINGTON,, March B.—Rev resentative Burton, of Ohio, is men tioned as a possible successor to Edwin Denby as secretary of the navy, but he informed the adminis tration officials that he prefers to continue as a member of the House rather than accept the cabinet po sition. LARAMORE CHILD DIED THURSDAY LESLIE, March 7.—News reach ed here today of the death Thurs day of the six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Laramore, at their home near Rift, in Lee coun ty. The child fiad been ill only a a short time, u. A. *— * Radio Queen ss < • figs - • ■K ■ WW" Miss Mathilda Brooks, of Cin cinnati, 0., was declared winner in the first beauty contest ever tsaged by radio. Fans through out the country picked her from a list of four contestants whose individual charms were flashed through the air. Voting was done by telegraph. FIGHT UN FIIRD BILL CONTINUES IH HUBS Flood Os Amendments Started Thursday Continued With Re- Sumption of Consideration WASHINGTON, March 7.—Thc hope for a vote late today by the House on the McKenzie bill author izing the acceptance of Henry Ford’s offer for Muscle Shoals, was virtually abandoned when con sideration of the measure was resumed at noon- The flood of amendments had not run its course Thursday, an.l further efforts were made today t 0 force drastic changes in the measure. General debates on the bill clos ed Thursday afternoon, when a va viety of proposals to make dras tic changes in the terms of tne proposed contract were submittted, with representatives indicating that many more would be oifered tomor row when consideration of the measure is resumed. None of the amendments offered were put to a vote. Probability that more than a score of amendmeAts would be of fered caused leaders to doubt whet her a final vote on the measure would be reached before Saturday. In brief those seeking to amend the bill would place the Detroit manufacturer under jurisdiction of the Federal waterpower act and limit his lease to fifty instead of .100 years, and make the lease, binding not only on the, corporation to be formed by Ford, but also-tbe manufacturer himself. Opponents also would have speci fied in the measure that Ford be compelled to generate surplus pow er for sale and that this be made available A least 200 miles from he shoals properities; that the ni trate plants be leased instead of sold, and that more binding guaran tee as to the manufacture of fer tilizer be required. THOUSANDS ATTEND WAYCROSS MEETING WAYCROSS, March 7.—Thous ands of people continue to attend each of the revival meetings at the Haggard tent on the corner of Lee avenue and Hicks street. Approxi mately 2,500 were in attendance at the meeting Moandy night and la most that number were present at this afternoon’s meeting. Rev. A. A. Haggard, the noted j evangelist who is conducting the revival, holds his audiences through out every moment of each meeting and is considered one of the best speakers of the kind who has ever appeared on an evangelical plat form in Waycross, • New York Future. F’C Open High Low Close Mar „28.74|28.90[28.90|27.85|27.85 May ..28.99128.20i28.20!28.14|28.14 July ..28.46|28.50j28.50|27.60,28.60 Oct. ..25.80|25.80|25.88|25.75(25.75 Dec. -25.58|25.50j25.50|24.80|24.80 Americus strict middling 27 l-4c PRICE FIVE CENTS LANGLEY ■ ZIPLffIAN REPUBLICANS NAMED B BOUSE GRAFTERS Both Deny Using (Official Influ ence Improperly In Order To Obtain Money BOTH NAMES PUBLISHED Accused Men Admit Having Discussed Case With Newspa per Men Previously WASHINGTON March 7. Representative Langley, repub lican of on th c floor of the house, today demanded the investigation of published charg'd es that he had received money for exerting his official influ ence. In an earnest five.. minute speech, he emphaticaly denied guilt of any wrong-doing. He was cheered by the house when he concluded an appeal for a “square deal." WASHINGTON, March 7.—Rep resentatives Langley, of Kentucky; and Ziplman, of Maryland, both Republicans, denied today that han ever improperly exercised their of ficial influence and received money 1 for doing so. The denials followed publication of the names of the two* congress men in connection with recent charges made by a Chicago grand jury that two members of Congress had so misused their offices. Both congressmen said that they had heard rumors that they were implicated in the charges and that they had discussed the matter with newspaper men, but both declared they were involved in the case in any manner Immediate disclosure of the names of the two representatives charged in a Chicago grand report with accepting bribe was de manded Thursday by the House. A resolution directing the Attor ney General to transmit the names to the House was adopted unan imously after Representative Long worth, the Depublican leader, had announced the accused men would have an opportunity to defend them selves on the floor. Mr. Longworth said he had been informed the evidence against the two House members had been pre sented to' the Chicago grand jury by “crooks and criminals” and came up incidentally during the investi gation of alleged Veterans Bureau frauds. The Republican leader disclosed that he had discussed the situati >n with acting Attorney General Sey mour and John W. H. Crim, special Government counsel in charge of the Chicago grand jury’s inquiry, and had gained the impresison that no action could be expected by a grand jury here with regard to the charges within a month. Publication of the grand jury's report referring to tw 0 House mem bers without naming them, in the opinion of Mr. Longworth, put the entire membership of the House un der suspicion and made prompt ac tion to establish the identity of the accused imperative. This view was shared" by others, among them Representative Garrett the Democratic leader, started the move to have the names disclosed. The resolution adopted Thursday was a modification adoptedetaoins proposal offered Tuesday for an in vestigation to determine not only the identity of the House members involved but the basis of the charges again them. Report by the rules commit tee without a dissenting vote after a two-hour session, the resolution was brought up within a half hour by Chairman nell. After forty minutes discussion, tt was adopted after a phrase which called for transmission of the names, “if not incompatible with public intern had been eliminated at the sugges tion of Representative Steagai!, Democrat, Alabama. WEATHER For Georgia—Fair tonight and Saturday; colder tonight and frost in interior, A
