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ALL GOVERNMENT
CIRCLES MAY FEEL
OIL QUIZ EFFECTS
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(Copyright, 1924.)
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—The In
tegrity of government—a theme
which only rarely In American his
tory has been projected Into the
realm of controversy—stands today
as the issue overshadowing all else
in the national capitol.
The calm that has been enforced
by the adjournment of all activities
out of respect to the memory of
Woodrow Wilson is but the stillness
that precedes the storm. The lime
light will play fiercely in the next
few weeks on of public
men and their influence in govern
mental action in and out of office.
Reputations are at stake, political
advantages and disadvantages are
bound to accrue, innocent acts will
be subject to misconstruction —all
part of the confusion that has de
lelopedI eloped out of one of the worst
of the present generation.
Krue enough, a presidential cam
is on, but there are disinter*
L»d men in congress who deplore
le whole oil mess as a possible re
nection on the competency of public
officials and as encouragement for
those’who would do away with both
the old political parties and start
afresh a third party today as in
1912.
Drama of Selfishness
The lobbyists of the past, the
highly-paid lawyers who were hired
because of their "influence” with
the administrations in power, the
making of contracts for government
property without public bids, the
removal of resources from govern
ment control without regard to the
needs of the government itself, the
whole discloses a drama of selfish
ness and materialism which will
have a profound effect in the con
duct of affairs here.
The passing of bribes to get fa
vorable governmental action long
since has become obsolete. The ex
tension of “loans” to public officials
is but one of a number of devices
whereby an individual conscience is
assuaged but which nevertheless
has accomplished the purpose for
which it was given. Again and
again it has been apparent that
promises of positions in commercial
life to men who would resign after
handling favorably a case between
the government and a private con
cern are numerous. The govern
ment itself has paid its high-grade
men relatively low salaries compared
with the incomes given for the same
class of work in commercial life.
The temptations of position and in
come outside the government have
been dangled before officials.
Indeed, not a few men have actu
ally gone into the government serv
ice with the ultimate purpose of
meeting business people who in later
years would helj> them make a fa
vorable connection. The turn-over
in personnel in recent years in cer
tain departments of the government
hgs been amazing.
Even Congress Invaded
Even members of congress whose
salaries are insufficient for their
needs have maintained connections
with law firms that have engaged
in practice before government de
partments. Many former members
of congress have settled- down to
practice here. Most of them are do
ing a legitimate business asking for
no more than any other lawyers or
agents would ask and simply using
their intimate knowledge of the con
duct of public business and red-tape
in particulars to aid their clients.
"Some have become simply legisla
tive lobbyists endeavoring constant
ly to influence the course of legis
lation for the interests they repre
sent and which pay them for their
efforts.
How long after an official has held
power shall he b-> prohibited from
practicing before government de
partments? What business connec
tions should be retained by men in
office? These are questions of ethics,
largely, but the congress no doubt
vzill revive proposals hitherto made
that a sharp line of demarcation be
made so that men in position of re
sponsibility shall not be subject to
the Influences and temptations
Which constantly surround them.
The Teapot Dome scandal is of
no recent origin. Murmurs were ut
tered about it when Secretary Fall
ipa-sAthe leases. Whispers were
then that something was
wrong but so deep-seated was the
faith In President Harding’s sin
cerity that what he approved was
regarded at the time as necessarily
all right.
Harding Probably Sincere
The chances are he never knew
the details of the oil controversy. He
always rallied on the memoranda
given him by his cabinet officers and
he never have questioned Sec
retary Fall’s judgment. Indeed Mr.
Fall himself probably believes to this
day that the leases were In the in
terest of the government and that
the private loan made to him bj
E. I. Doheny was not a factor in
his conclusions. The investigating
committee has only begun its pene
trating quiz. Mr. Fall will be asked
to testify again, William Gibbs Mc-
Adoo, who was counsel for Doheny
on Mexican matters, has requested
an opportunity to be heard, as has
former Secretary Daniels, who wants
to answei criticisms about his pol
icy.
Thus far the controversy turns
on Mr. Fall's acts and Secretary
Denby’s approval of the contracts.
All the other testimony will be given
largely to prevent improper infer
ences from being drawn with respect
to those who wish to defend them
selves and also to develop the whole
truth about the extension of oil re
serves (to private interests in re
cent years.
Father and Two Children
Die in Train-Wagon Crash
OPELOUSAS. 1,a., Feb. s.—Courto
Godeau. his four-year-old son and
two-year-old daughter were instantly
killed whep a wagon in which they
were returning to their home in
the counfly from Opelousas was
struck by a passenger train of the
Gulf Coast lines.
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THE ATLANTA TRT-WEEKLY JOURNAL
SIX LIVES FOR ONE CLAIMED
IN LOUISIANA MURDER CASE
Italian Poet-Inventor and
Five Pals Must Hang for
Killing of Restaurateur.
Supreme Court Deaf- to
Appeal
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 2.—A life
for a life.
So the law has held from time
Immemorial.
But here six men soon will go to
their deaths On the gallows in ex
piation for a life they’re accused of
taking.
Twice the courts decreed they
must die. But still there was a raj'
of hope left—intervention by the na
tion’s highest tribunal.
But now even it —the United
States supreme court—has ruled
they must die. (
So Joe Bocchioa Italian poet and
inventor, and five fellow country
men will be hanged for the murder
of Dallas Calmes, restaurant pro
prietor at Independence, La.
AU were convicted on circumstan
tial evidence. All maintain:
They were not in Independence
on the night Calmes was slain while
attempting to rout bandits looting
a bank near his lunchroom.
That there is a conspiracy on the
part of the real murderers and their
friends to shift the blame upon
others’ shoulders.
The case has aroused great inter
est throughout the south. Feeling
here against the Italians dating
back to the riots of 1889, when 11
sons of Italy were lynched in a New
Orleans park, has run unusually
high.
There have been charges and
counter-charges of atempted brib
ery, fear of jaik delivery, talk of
violence, of militiamen be
ing sent.
And there is an Internationa. 1
angle, too. Bocchlo and three of his
companions still are Italian sub
jects. ,
Bocchio, just twenty-four, has
been working on an invention which
he believes will be a blessing to hu
man'ity in this mechanical age.
But now that invention —a new
type of electrical motor —must be
finished by another.
He has given instructions to his
counsel to turn over the drawings
and data—upon which he has had to
rely solely owing to prison rules
forbidding him any tools—to his
brother in Italy. The brother, he
says, is chief electrician in the sub
marine division of the Italian navy.
Sentenced to die with Bocchio are
Andrea Lamantia, Natale Dreamore,
Roy Leona, Joseph Rinl and Joseph
Giglio.
AH, realizing a presidential pardon
Is all that can save them now, have
accepted their fate philosophically.
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EXECUTION OF FIVE
INAUGURATES GUM
IN LONESTAR SEW
HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Feb. B.
Electrocution became the legal meth
od of execution In Texas early this
morning, when five negroes were
put to death In the electrio chair
at the state penitentiary here.
A dramatic last-minute effort
Kvas made to save the life of one
of the negroes, Melvin Johnson.
An hour’s stay of execution was
granted by Prison Commissioner
Walter Sayles, in order to allow E.
W. Love, his attorney, to get in
telephone communication with act
ing Governor T. W. Davidson, in
an attempt to obtain a reprieve. It
failed.
The other negroes executed were
Charles Reynolds, Elwell Morris,
George Washington and Mack Ma
thews.
Reynolds wag brought from his
cell in the death block at nine min
utes after midnight, strapped into
th© chair, and a moment later War
den Walter Monroe Miller threw
the switch which sent 2,500 volts
and 13 amperes of electricity hurt
ling into his body.
Morris, Washington and Mathews
followed Reynolds to th e chair in
the order named. The last of the
four was pronounced dead at 1:07.
At this juncture, Commissioner
Sayles announced an hour’s stay of
execution for Johnson, but the at
torney for Johnson was told that
the acting governor could not inter
fere In the execution.
Three charges of electricity of the
full voltage ware given to each of
the prisoners except Morris, who
was pronounced dead after the first
charge.
e Tv. Irwin, representative
las ffunty end author of
e bdl substituting electrocution
a lian * flr d Commissioner
sajles expressed satisfaction over
the success of the executions.
mo , re humane.” Irwin com-
i l Xnir nn(l Sayles agreed.
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LE,) FOR FRIDAY
NEVADA STATE PRISON. Ca
son City, Nev., Feb. B.—(Bv the As
sociated Press.)— Gee Jon" Chinese
tong slayer, faced death this morn
rio 5 V l6 f rSt ®* ecutJ °n bv lethal
gas in American history.
I ntil last night two men had
been doomed to die i n this execu-
I a special meeting of the
state board of patdons. however it
was decided by the vote of Gover
nor Scrughflm to commute to life
! imprisonment the sentence of the
other condemned man. Thomas R ;ia .
-’f’li- an Amerlcan-bnrn Mexican
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These men must hang for same
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PALS ARE KILLED
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 6.
“Diamond Joe” Sullivan, only sur
viving member of the trio of con
demned murderers who escaped the
death house at the state peniten
tiary last Friday, was fighting a
grim battle with death in a local
hospital today, following the defeat
of his companions, Emory Connell
and Eulos Sullivan, at the hands of
posses near Redfield, late yesterday.
Connell and Eulos Sullivan were
slain in a gun battle with possemen,
who discovered the fugitives hidden
in a brush heap. More than 100
shjots were exchanged. The force
of man hunters, numbering close to
150 men, suffered only one casualty
—a newspaper man who was shot
in the foot.
Joe Sullivan was captured at Red
field several hours before his com
panions were killed. He made lit
tle effort at resistance. Sullivan is
suffering from exposure and a pistol
wbund in the arm, the result of be
ing shot accidentally by Connell.
Lack of medical attention resulted
in heavy loss of blood and Sullivan’s
recovery is doubtful.
After submitting to arrest, Joe
Sullivan gave th a officers the infor
mation which a few' hours later led
to the locating of his companions.
He also said the trio had robbed, a
store Monday night and stolen an
automobile in which they tried to
make away -with the loot. The au
tomobile broke down, he said, and
was abandoned, Connell and Eulos
Sullivan returning to the woods aft
er advising him to remain in Red
field for the night.
Several posses were notified and
.the chase was directed to the woods
near Redfield. Concealed in the
brush of a fallen tree top, the des
peradoes opened fire on their pur
suers as the latted passed them. Dis
persing quickly, the possemen took
; refuge behind trees and from these
I points of vantage poured, volley aft
!er volley into the brush. The bat
tle lasted about ten minutes. When
the firing of the fugitives ceased,
the possemen advanced and found
Connell and Sullivan dead.
The thre men escaped from the
. death cells after overpowering the
warden, a guard and two visitors.
After locking the guard and the
visitors in cells, they forced the
warden to accompany them to the
prison yard, where they picked up
two revolvers and a rifle and a sup
ply of arpmunition that had been
dropped inside the wall by an ac
complice. The warden then was
forced to drive the trio through the
prison gates in his automobile.
The warden. Hamp Martin, and
one of the guards at the peniten
tiary were dismissed by the peniten
tiary commission late Saturday.
Coroner to Probe Death
C-f Former Screen Actress
CHICAGO, Feb. 7.—A coroner's in
vestigation ig to be made of the
death of Lillian Drew, forty-one
years old, one time Essanay film
star and stage actress, who died
Monday after taking an overdose of
sleeping potion, according to her
rr.oThe:, M-o. Marguerite Flannery.
She was the wife of E. H. Valvert,
also formerly a screen actor, who is
said to be living in New York.
IEFFORTTOHIDE
IM PM" HID
TO N. 0. BANKERS
WILMINGTON, N. C., Feb. 7.
(By the Associated Press.) —Sharp
tilts between attorneys hitherto no
ticeably absent, marked today’s ses
sion of the trial of Lieutenant Gov
ernor W. B. Cooper and Thomas E.
Cooper in United States district court
here on charges of conspiracy in con
nection with the failure of the Com
mercial National Bank of Wilming
ton. Objections were made to vir
tually every point of testimony, and
the defense was successful in pre
venting the reading of certain cor
respondence which the district attor
ney sought to get into evidence.
District Judge Henry G. Connor,
who is presiding, nermitted the let
ters to be made part of the record of
the case, however, and said he would
rule later as to whether they should
be read before the jury.
"Bad Paper” Charge
A charge that the Coopers had
used alleged uncollectible notes as
collateral for loans obtained from
other banks for the purpose of con
cealing this alleged “bad paper” from
bank examiners was made by the
district attorney in connection with
the testimony of James R. Worsley,
assistant cashier of the First Nation
al Bank of Rocky Mount, N. C. Mr.
Worsley testified that the Cooper
bank had borrowed $25,000 from the
Rocky Mount bank in December,
1922, giving as collateral a number
of notes, many of which had proved
uncollectible.
False Records Charged
The district attorney also charged
in outlining his reason for offering
this testimony that records of the
Cooper bank had been falsified .and
this transaction Lad been entered as
a deposit of $25,000 by the Rocky
Mount bank with the Commercial
national. The defense sought to
prove that part of the collateral in
question had been good, and that
$15,000 had been made on one of the
notes. \
G. H. Dillard, of Mullins, S. C., tes
tified that he signed an accommoda
tion note for $8,500 for T. E. Cooper
when he was a "cropper” on a farm
owned by the bank, and said Mr.
Cooper had requested him to do this.
He said Mr. Cooper told him he was
to buy the farm from the bank. He
also testified that Mr. Cooper made
a number of improvements on the
property. This note and property
are involved in one of the charg-es
in the indictment charging conver
sion and mls-application of funds.
Notes
The testimony of E. E. Smith, of
Mullins, S. C.. which followed, re
lated to the origin of a note for $13,-
000 signed by him. and alleged by
the government to be one of the pa
pers by which the Coopers effected
their alleged conspiracy. Mr. Smith
testified that he had signed the note
in July, 1922, at the request of T. E.
Cooper and received none of the
money.
"The farm on the sound.” which
figured in the Dillard testimony and
8,300 acres of Georgia farm land list
ed as collateral for the note, were
not owned by him, and he made ino
pretense of owning them, Mr. Smith
stated.
C. D. Weeks, of Wilmington, tes
tified concerning a note for $7,603
given by him to the banks and ex
hibited an agreement signed by T. E.
Cooper that the note had been given
during negotiations for purchase by
Mr. Weeks of “the farm on the
sound.” and would be returned to
him if the land was not purchased.
He said he had given no one author
ity to hypothecate this note, but be
said he had since received notice
from the war finance corporation
that the note was in its hands and
payment of the full value was de
manded.
Reserve Bank Refused Credit
From testimony „pf state and na
tional bank examiners Tuesday, it
was revealed that in December, 1921,
closing of the bank was recommend
ed unless losses exceeding $200,000
from alleged uncollected loans were
made up by stockholders or direc
tors; that before the bank was given
a national charter the Coopers were
required to take up SIOO,OOO in “bad
notes’’ previously carried on the
books; that when the bank, as the
Commercial National, became a
member of the federal reserve sys
tem. the Richmond Federal Reserve
bank at first refused it credit and
later allowed only limited credit, and
that in August, 1922, the comptroller
of the currency notified the directors
that uncollectible loans had impaired
the bank’s capital to the extent of
$85,000 and that they must replace
the amount.
The witnesses at the opening ses
sion included A. E. Bing. Raleigh,
former national bank examiner; Vir
gil D. Wall, St. Louis, Mo., former
examiner for the Richmond Federal
Reserve bank, and Thurman Wil
liams. Greensboro, N. C„ state bank
examiner. Reports made by the of
ficial examinations were introduced
as evidence.
Alleged excessive loans made to
the Cooper family and their rela
tives; “kiting” of checks between {he
Commercial National and the Mer
chants’ National Bank of Raleigh,
when T. E. Cooper was vice presi
dent of the institution; failure
to maintain legal reserves and use
of the names of two banks at Way
cross, Ga., as recipients of loans
long after the banks were alleged to
have passed out of existence, were
among charges of mismanagement
made in the reports of the three ex
aminers.
President Coolidge
Orders Federal Probe
Os Gasoline Price
WASHINGTON, Feb. Pres
ident Coolidge today directed the
federal trade commission and the
department of justice to make a thor
ough investigation immediately of
charges that the Standard Oil com
pany has raised the price of gaso
line at the refineries 130 per cent.
The charges were made in a tele
gram sent the president bv Gover
nor McMasters, Sout]| Dakota.
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COOLIDGE ASSERT?
WASHINGTON, Feb. B.—A hope
that “every encouragement” will be
given the co-operative marketing
movement was expressed today by
President Coolidge in a message to
the national council of Farmers’ Co-
Operative Marketing association at
the opening session of a three-day
meeting here. "
The president added that there also
was a need for organization of urban
consumers “to give like benefits”
and declared a close working ar
rangement between these two groups
is the Ideal toward which present
economic efforts should be directed.
The message from Mr. Coolidge
was read as a part of a program
which included addresses by Senator
Capper, of Kansas, head of the sen
ate farm bloc, and former Governor
Frank Lowden, of Illinois. Robert
W. Bingham, of Louisville, presided
and opened the conference. The
president’s letter was addressed to
Walton Peteet, secretry of the coun
cil, and said:
Slow to Adopt Plan
"I have many times declared my
conviction that the development of
a powerful co-operative movement
in this country is one of the needs
of this period of economic readjust
ment. Much has been accomplished
alorig this line in many American
communities, but it cannot be said
that the co-operative idea has found
a very firm lodgment in the actual
practice of the great majority of
the American people.
“Yet the example of its advan
tages which have been set before
us in this and other countries are
so numerous and impressive that
one cannot but wish that every en
couragement may be extended to
such organizations as your own,
which are seeking to establish a na
tional co-operative purpose and
spirit.
“Especially in regard to agricul
tural statements, when we consider
how high a price the consumer pays
in proportion to the price the pro
ducer receives, we can not but feel
that here is a great opportunity for
service to both the consuming and
producing groups of the public.
“We are all included in one or the
other of these groups, and most of
us in both of' them. In the long
run we will all be bettered if we
can lessen the burdensome costs of
conveying our necessaries from the
producer to the consumer.
Full Co-operation Vital
“There is need for co-operative or
ganizations among agricultural pro
ducers to help them both in selling
their products for a better price and
buying their requirements more
cheaply. There is likewise need for
organization of the urban consumers
to give like benefits. The establish
ment of a close working relation
ship between these two groups ought
to be the ideal to which the larger
co-operative movement of the coun
try should aim.”
Robert W. Bingham, Louisville,
Ky., publisher, who is chairman of
the council, opened the conference,
which is being attended by delegates
from twenty-eight states represent
ing interests in twenty-four agricul
tural commodities. g
The opening day’s program was
marked by a discussion of the co
operative marketing policy of the
American Bankers’ association,
transportation problems, and ques
tions of crop mortgages, farm ten
ancy and interstate co-operation
among co-operative associations. The
speakers\included James S. Stone,
president of the Burley Tobacco
Growers’ association: Carl Williams,
president of the American Cotton
Growers’ exchange, and Thomas E.
Wright, general manager of the New
York Canning Crops association.
Born on Same Day
As Woodrow Wilson,
And Dies Same Hour
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—S. J.
j Tinsley, a farmer of King George
county, Virginia, whose birthday was
the tame as Woodrow Wilson’s, and
who became ill at the same time the
former (resident was last stricken,
died two .ninutls after Mr. Wilson,
it was learned here today. Death
was due to pneumonia. Burial was
lat Petersburg, Va. Three daughters
i and a son, all of Washington, sur
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MEMPHIS WILL GET
COMBINED OFFICES
OF COTTON CO-OPS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Decision
to transfer the executive offices of
tha American Cotton Growers’ ex
change from Dallas to Memphis
within a few months was an
nounced after a meeting here of
trustees of the exchange. At the
tima of tha removal, the general
rales offices of the organization, now
located at Atlanta, will b# consoli
dated with the executive offices at
Memphis.
A statement issued after the meet
ing said the decision to move the
executive offices “followed consid
eration of the increased benefits
possible through establishment of a
more central location to serve the
twelve southern co-operative mar
keting associations affiliated with
the exchange.”
,'ATohn T. Orr, president of the
Texas Farm Bureau association,
who was elected vice president of
the exchange, in voting for the re
moval, said that while he regretted
to see the transfer, he recognized
that the best interests of all mem
bers in the various associations as
well as the principles of co-opera
tive marketing can best be served
by the consolidations of these of
fices at a more central location for
service to all the twelve states in
volved.”
It was announced at the
that during the present season the
various associations affiliated with
the exchange had done an aggregate
business of $125,000,000 for tfie
235,000 cotton-growing members. '
Dr. W. B. Kilgore, of Raleign,
N. C., was elected president of the
exchange, and Carl Williams, of
Oklahoma City, retiring president,
was made honorary president.
Attending the conference here as
representatives of the Georgia Cot
con Growers Co-Operative association
are: J. E. Conwell, Atlanta, pres
ident of the Georgia Marketing as
sociation; C. B. Howard, vice pres
ident; W. A. Reeves, LaGrange; E.
B. Conwell and A. J. Fleming.
The Peanut Growers’ Co-Operative
association of Georgia is represented
by Col. R. E. L. Spence, of Al
bany.
Sick Woman, on Cot,
Is Carried for Miles
On Men’s Shoulders
PARKERSBURG, W. Va., Feb. 7.
Twenty-eight men, working in re
lays, were required to carry Mrs.
Ray Prunty on a cot from Oxford
a remote section of Ritchie county,
to the railroad station at Toll Gate,
in order that she might be brought
to a hospital here.
Impassable roads over mountains
and through valleys, made the jour
ney difficult, after the village doc
tor had decided she needed hospital
treatment. Mrs. Prunty suffered
from exposure, but hospital physi
cians said today she would recover.
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