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VOL. XXVI. NO. 58
WORKABLE PLANS
FOR REPARATIONS
BELIEVED FOUND
Committee' of Experts Re
turning to Paris From Ber
lin With Definite Sugges
tions for Clearing Debt
BERLIN, Feb. 14—General Charles.
G. Dawes and his committee of in
ternational experts were on their
kway to Paris today, convinced they
■have found a plan whereby the allies
phn collect reparations and Germany
’ ctfn be rehabilitated financially.
The plan, Dawes believes, will be
satisfactory to both France and Ger
many if viewed from a strictly busi
ness viewpoint. It will enable the
allies to get reparations, presuppos
ing that Germany is allowed econom
ic control of the Ruhr and Rhine- i
land.
Under the plan outlined by the ;
Dawes committee the maximum
amount obtainable as reparations ;
will depend upon the extent to which j
the world absorbs German products.
Before his departure, General
Dawes visited Chancellor Marx and
thanked him for Germany’s co-opera
tion in providing material necessary
to the committee’s investigations.
Marx replied that he was glad the
experts had had the opportunity for
thorough study of the German fi
nancial situation.
Full Details Not Available
Full details of the plan were not
available before the committee left
Berlin, but some of the features fol
low:
They include:
1. New gold backed currency, sup
planting land mortgages now back
ed by the rentenmark, must be in
troduced in Germany.
2. A total circulation of five bil
lions of marks must be provided, al
though temporarily a smaller sum,
possibly three billion, will suffice.
3. This currency must be backed
by 50 per cent gold, or the equiva
lent.
To Balance German Budget
4. The German budget must be
balanced; according to the experts,
this should not prove difficult. Ger
many probably can manage it her
self through readjusted taxation, but
if she doesn’t, she must be helped
by outside loans. It is believed a
large part of the stock of the new
bank could be subscribed in Amer
ica.
5. Germany must be freed of re
strictions now hampering production.
The experts said it was silly to
try to name a concrete maximum
sum for reparations, but insisted it
will be possible to ’ascertain what
the minimum will be under the new
plan. The maximum will be deter
mined as Germany’s foreign trade
develops. In other words, if the
world absorbs a lot of "made in Ger
many” goods, then there will be
more reparations.
Girl Suicide Victim’s
Identity Is Puzzle to
New Orleans Police
NEW ORLEANS. Feb. 14.—Police
today were attempting to establish
the identity of a young woman who
ended her life in a Dauphnie street
rooming house yesterday, leaving a
note which stated she was enclosing
$99 for her burial expenses and <2
for the gas consumed in asphyxiat
ing herself.
The woman told the proprietress
of ; the lodging house that her name
was Lillian Leone and that her home
was in Nashville. Tenn. A railroad
ticket found in her effects showed
she left Birmingham last Thurs
jKSeraps of paper found by the po-
I IM> in her room indicated she had
purchased an automobile in San
Francisco. A torn envelope pieced
together pore the name of Mrs. Lu
cille Burke, and an address of 996
Valence street, San Francisco. An
other address. 1216 West Adams
street, Birmingham, Ala., was writ
ten on other pieces of paper.
The young woman, who apparent
ly was 20 years old, attended a thea
ter performance Tuesday night, and
it is believed immediately after re
turning to her room and penning
the note, in which she declared “life
offers me no pleasure,” she turned
on the gas. Her body was discovered
yesterday morning by the proprie
tress of the nouse when gas fumes
were detected coming from the room.
Two $1 notes, which was to “pay
for the gas,” were found enclosed in
the woman's notes, but S9O for
“burial expenses” was missing, po
lice said.
Georgia Moonshiner
Seeks Pure Food Tag
To Put on His ‘Stuff’
Competition by rivals whose prod
ucts fall below the level of purity
maintained by his brand of whisky
has become obnoxious to an un
named man residing in the vicinity
of Milieu. Ga., according to word
reaching Fred Dismuke, state prohi
bition director.
Solicitor General A. S. Anderson,
of the Ogechee circuit, told Mr.
Dismuka that a query had been sent
his office, seeking information how a
government pure food label, with a
serial number, could be attached to
the whisky which the inquirer was
manufacturing.
"The man said his whisky was
pure and of a higher grade than
that made from potash and other
poison ingredients,” Mr. Dismuke
was told.
Five Children Perish
j When Home Burns
ORANGE. Va., Feb. 14.—Five
children of Richard Poindexter,
negro, were burned to death when
his home was destroyed by fire near
here Wednesdav. Poindexter and
one of his six children escaped by
jumping from the second story win
v dow.
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
TVor Id News
| Told In
Brief
ROME. —League of Nations naval
conference opens.
MEXICO ClTY.—General Gonzalo
Escobar reports defeat of rebels at
Palo Verde.
IjONDON—Cardinal Bourne de
nies printed reports of illness, and
says he never has seen pontiff look
so well.
ST. LOUIS. —Albert Fall rests in
St. Louis on his way to El Paso
where Mrs. Fall is reported serious
ly ill.
CHICAGO. Joe Jackson, for
mer White Sox outfielder, is arrest
ed in Milwaukee court on charge ■
of perjury.
WASHINGTON. —Senate confirms
nomination of Edward N. Hurley, of
Chicago, as member of American
debt fund ng commission.
PIT TS B U RG. —Anna McDonough,
housekeeper for a Catholic priest,
is shot and killed at Pittsburg; Rev.
John J. Grady is arrested on mur
der charge.
BOSTON. —One man is missing,
six persons injured and score ct
families made homeless in fire
which causes estimated property
loss of $75,000. •
L. Herring,
lowa manager for McAdoo, denies
printed reports that Democratic
leaders in lowa have left McAdoo
ranks for W. T. Meredith.
NEW YORK.—Frank A. Vander
lip leaves for Washington to explain
to oil committee his statement at
Ossining, N. Y., relative to President
Harding and sale of Marion Star.
LONDON. Prime Minister Mac
donald declares against any policy
to increase armaments and says his
government is looking for ways to
stop growth of war conditions.
MEXICO ClTY.—President
gon does not intend to convene con
gress for passage of amnesty degree
and such a measure is unlikely, Sec
retary Colunga, of interior depart
ment says.
LONDON. —Arthur Ponsonby, un
der secretary for foreign affairs, de
nies that England has any idea of
ceding Jamaica to the United States
in connection vilh settlement of
French debt.
NEW YORK.—AII records for Bi
ble distribution were shattered in
1923, American Bible Society an
nounces, 2,395,000 copies, in 100
languages having been circulated in
this country.
The Federal
Council of Churches presents its
program for 1924 to Secretary
. Hughes calling for United States to
make fresh study of relations with
Japan and China.
BERLIN. Expert committee,
headed by Brigadier General Charles
G. Dawes, leaves for Paris after de
voting two weeks of exhaustive
study to German budgetary and cur
rency problems.
HERRIN, HL—AH troops in Wil.
Hamsun county, except on battalion,
are ordered to return to their homes.
BISMARCK. North Dakota Re
publicans, in convention, express
faith in President Coolidge. ,
WASHINGTON. Secretary
Hughes announces that immigra
tion exclusion proposals are incon
sistent and declares that Japan
should be placed on same quota
basis us other nations.
Edward B.
McLean, publisher of Washington
Post, sends wod to his newspaper
that he is leaving Palm Beach and
asserts he is ready to ansker all
questions from senate oil commit
tee.
BERLIN. —German newspapers,
commenting on failure of German
embassy at Washington to lower
flag in respect to memory of Wood
row Wilson, appear to hold Doctor
Wiedfelt, German ambassador to
the United States, responsible.
CLEVELAND?—Louis H. Brush,
one of owners of Marion Star, de
clares that newspaper’s actual pur
chase price was $380,000, and that
Mr. Harding was to be paid $13,300
a year as associate editor and au
thor of articles to be syndicated.
WASH INGTON. —Organized la
bor program io eliminate prison con
tract labor from United States, in
cluding state legislation to confine
prison-made commodities to state
use, is adopted by executive com
mittee of American Federation of
Labor.
WASHINGTON. George B.
Christian. Jr., asserts that Warren
G. Harding never received a “dis
honest dollar” and that Frank A.
Vanderlip must disavow his remarks
or stand "as an unconscionable tra
ducer of the memory of the dead."
Washington” — Pre>id«nt
Coolidge withdraws name of Silas
H. Strawn as one of government
counsel in oil cases; Mr. Coolidge
withholds action in the case of
Atlee Pomerene and declares that
he has no conclusive proof of Pom
erene’s ineligibility.
Monkey Actor’s Brain
Will Be Examined
At Johns Hopkins
BALTIMORE. Md„ Feb. 13.—The
brain of Sqeezems. famous monkey
is to be studied at Johns Hopkins
medical school in an effort to learn
what made it such an intelligent
. moving picture actor. Sqeezems died
two weeks ago in Hollywood, a
I martyr to his profession. He fell
; while doing a stunt.
His body was turned over to the
Cooper ornlthlgical society, which
| decided to send it to the famous
i Baltimore Medical school. Dr. A. H.
Sultz, who will direct analysis of
‘ the monkeys brain, said no effort
will be made to prove the theory of
• evolution. The body was due here
today.
MARION STAR SOLO
AWLOWPRICE,
LAWRENCE ASSERTS
I
Charges of Oil Money in
Transaction Macle by
Harding, Called Absurd.
Spikes Other Rumors
BY DAVID LAWRENCE
(Leased Wire Service to The Journal.)
(•Copyright, 1924.)
WASHINGTON. Feb. 16.—Rumor,
unverified and unspQnsored, has
broken through the restraints of cau
tion and the name of the late Pres
ident Harding - has been dragged Into
the implications of the Teapot Dome
oil controversy.
For weeks there has been gossip
which knew no bounds. But Wash-,
ington is accustomed to gossip. The
amazing thing is that anyone felt
prompted to make a public speech
repeating the gossip. Even senators
and members of the house who had
heard 'he gossip did not think
enough of it to make a public state
ment and the reason was simple—
they had no proof.
The writer happens to be in a po
sition to state some of the circum
stances surrounding the appraisal in
President Harding’s mind of the
worth of his newspaper property, the
Marion Star. It was during the lat
ter part of January of last year that
the writer spent an evening in the
White House talking with Mr. Hard
ing on the prohibition question, ob
taining material for a series of ar
ticles on that subject. When the
discussion was concluded, the con
versation fell naturally to newspa
pers and their development. Mr.
Harding was feeling quite happy
over the progress the Marion Star
had made. He said he had received
inquiries as to whether he would sell
it and he remarked that he might
accept "one of these days.”
“Why, the Marion Star made
$60,000 last year,” said Mr. Harding,
with pride. “Pretty good, isn’t it for
a little newspaper?”
Was Worth §600,000
The writer agreed with Mr. Hard
ing, that the Marion Star was pro
gressing and then the president
asked what the witer thought the
property was worth. On the basis
of earnings of $60,000 a year the re
ply given was that the property was
certainly worth in the neighborhood
of $600,000, inasmuch as 10 per cent
was considered an average earning.
When six months later the Marion
Star was sold and rumor had it that
the price was $500,000 the writer was
not surprised. But it turns out that
the purchase price was $380,000.
An/ business man can figure out.
for himself whethei' an exaggerated
price was paid for the property on
the basis of its previous earnings.
The inferences that have been
drawn from the rumors about the
supposedly high price paid for the
newspaper are unwarranted. The
charges that somehow oil money
found its way into the transactions
are absurd. Mr. Harding knew the
prospective purchasers—they were
not in the oil business but in the
newspaper business. That was their
chief preoccupation. He wanted to
make sure the paper would remain
in Republican hands and the sale
to hi.s friends made that a cer
tainty.
Frank Vanderlip’s speech repeat
ing gossip he had heard in Wash
ington naturally has stirred the na
tional capital but what few people
can understand is why Mr. Vander
lip, who admits he had no proof,
went ahead and made a speech
about gossip.
Spikes Other Rumors
The incident will have this effect
—it will make everyone who has i
hearsay accusation in his system
keep it there. Other high officials
besides Mr. Harding have been men
tioned in the gossip. The main line
of rumor is that these officials knew
about the cil leases in advance and
speculated in oil stocks. Another
line of rumor is that some of the I
men who made the leases purposely
made the conditions so beneficial to
the government and disadvan
tageous to themselves that no qthci
concerns would bid and then when
the leases were made they are al
leged to have represented to the
prospective purchasers of stock that
the leases were worth more than
they really were. If that is true, the
leases may turn out to nave been
advantageous to the government
after all and the irregularity mav
lie in the manipulation of the leases
after the contracts were made.
This is but an example of the
tangle in which the whole thing is
enveloped and indicates more than
ever the necessity for a suspension
of judgment till facts —not gossip—
arc disclosed.
The Weather
• -
.FORECAST FOR SATURDAY
Virginia: Increasing cloudiness,
i probably becoming unsettled in west
I portion.
! North Carolina. South Caroline
‘ and Georgia: Increasing- cloudiness.
Florida: Fair, little change in tern
: perature.
Extreme Northwest Florida flni
: Alabama: Increasing cloudiness,
probably followed by showers.
Mississippi: Unsettled: probably
showers.
Tennessee and Kentucky: UiTSet-
I tied.
Louisiana: Partly cloudy.
Arkansas: Unsettled. probably
rain; somewhat colder in north por
; tion.
( Oklahoma: Unsettled, probably
‘ rain; colder.
East Texas; Unsettled, probably
i showers: colder in northwest por
i tion.
West Texas: Unsettled, colder in
; north portion.
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CONGRESS IS ASKED
TO PROBE ALLEGED
MONOPOLYINBREAD.
Baking Industry and Retail
ers in Giant Combine to
' Control Price and Output of
Loaves, Is Charge
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—A re
port charging nation-wide profiteer
ing in bread and that creation of a
"colossal bread trust” is impending,
was ’submitted today by Basil M.
Manly, director of the Peoples’ legis
lative service, to Senator LaFollette,
of Wisconsin -its chairman, and
“other progressive senators and rep
resentatives,” The report, which
I was outlined in an announcement by
the organization, recommended con
gressional action to “deflate bread
prices and check the growth of the
bread trust.”
An investigation of wheat and
bread prices, made at the request of
the senators and representatives to
whom the report was submitted,
showed, it was said, that the Amer
ican people are paying "a million
dollars a day” too much for their
bread. The average retail price of
bread in the United States is 9 cents
a pound, whereas, on the basis of
present wheat prices, It should be 5
cents, the report said, adding that
bread made with American flour is
now selling in England at an aver
age price of 4 cents a pound.
Asserting millers, bakers and re
tailers were all making "enormous
profits, the report cited as an exam
ple the General Baking company,
described as one of the two largest
wholesale baking corporations In the
country. As a result of the profits
made by this company, it was said,
“one dollar invested tn its common
stock in 1916 is now worth $309.”
Alleged “retailers’ rings,” said to
be supported by the wholesale bak
ers either voluntarily or under
threat of boycott, were declared to
have suspended the law of supply
and demand, resulting in artificial
bread prices in many cities.
Housekeeper Shot Dead,
Catholic Pastor Held;
Conflicting Stories Told
PITTSBURG, Pa., Feb. 14.—Ef
forts of police to get a satisfactory
story of the killing of Anna McDo
nough, forty, housekeeper for Rev.
J. J. Grady, sixty, of St. Francis
Xavier’s Catholic church here last
night have yielded meager results.
Rev. Grady, police say, declares the
shot came from a pistol lying on his
desk that was accidentally dis
charged while he was clearing a desk
drawer.
Robert Shields, janitor of the par
ish, who ran to the priest’s study
when he heard Miss McDonough fall
to the floor, told police Rev. Grady
was standing in the doorway with
pistol in hand when he came on the
scene and fired at him, the shot go
ing wild. A struggle for the weapon
followed, Shields is declared to have
said. Margaret McDonough, sister
of the dead woman, who with Shields
is being held as a material witness,
told officers she, too, engaged in a
tussle for the gun.
Rev. Grady, who is said to have
recently suffered a nervous break
down, will be turned over to the
coroner today, following which a
murder charge will be formally
lodged against him.
Leesburg Police Chief
Killed From Ambush;
Three Suspects Held
LEESBURG, Fla., Feb. 14.—Three
men were being held in jail here to
day on suspicion of being connected
with the ambushing of J. L. Hux,
chief of police of this town. Mr.
Hux was shot to death Wednesday
while he was seeking a moonshine
still in a swamp near here. He re
ceived two shotgun wounds in the
head from some one hidden in a
i thicket near the road. None of the
I suspects has made any statement,
| according to J. R. Hulbert, assistant
I chief of police.
Don’t Disappoint
Yourself
TWO hundred and seventeen subscribers let their time
run out in January and wrote in, after we had been
forced to stop the paper, asking for issues that they
had missed.
Some of these requests we filled. Most of them
we were unable to fill. We cannot print and keep, any
considerable excess of papers. Further, it is unfair to
ask us to bear the expense—which is heavy in the course
of a month—of sending- back numbers to those who
were careless about renewing.
We must stop the paper this month to 10,000
subscribers if they do not renew.
Examine the label and see if you are in arrears
or if your time expires “16FE824.” If so, send in
your remittance and order NOW, so as to avoid miss
ing an issue.
Why not send us a money order for $1.25 and
get The Tri-Weekly Journal for eighteen months—
-234 issues?
Then you won't have to bother with it until Sep
tember of next year.
M’LEAN IS CALLED IN PROBE
OF sl , 000, 000 SL USH FUND
LIEUT. GOV. COOPER I
BJNWT. HE SAYS
ON STAND HI TRIAL
Lost Fortune Trying to Save
the Bank, According to
Testimony—The Defense
Rests Its Case
WILMINGTON, N. C., Feb. I*4.
(By the Associated Press.) —Lieuten-
ant Governor W. B. Cooper is bank
rupt, and has been living off money
borrowed from a relative, he testi
fied at. the trial here today of him
self and his brother, T. E. Cooper,
| on charges of conspiracy in connec
tion with the failure of the Com
mercial National bank, of Wilming
ton. He declared that in May, 1921,
he was worth $200,000.
The defense rested after less than
an hour of cross-examination of the
lieutenant governor, who resisted ef
forts of the prosecution to shake his
statement that he had acted, for the
best interests of the bank at all
times.
The lieutenant governor took the
witness stand at the opening of court
today, his brother having concluded
his testimony at yesterday’s session.
It was expected that after the lieu
tenant governor concluded a number
of character witnesses would be in
troduced and the defense would rest.
The lieutenant governor appeared
nervous when he took the stand,
but soon regained his composure.
He reviewed his business career
up to May, 1921, when he succeeded
his- youngest brother as president of
the bank here He said he bought
$50,000 worth of stock of the bank
from his brother and paid for it.
Proceeding with his story, he
said that at the time he purchased
the bank stock he was worth about
$200,000, but that now he is bank
rupt and has rented out his home.
He said he had been forced to bor
row $3,000 from a relative for living
expenses.
He said that his heaviest personal
loss resulted from bonds signed by
him to protect deposits in the bank
jby government agencies. These, he
i said, amounted to $200,000 and judg
i merit had been given against him in
I several suits brought in this con
, nection.
He said the majority of his obli
gations were contracted in his ef
forts to help the bank here as rep
resented by bonds to protect deposits
and $13,500 borrowed in August,
1922, to aid the hank in making up
for impairment of §85.000 of its capi
tal stock.
Mrs. Deßouchel’s Sale
Os Household Effects
Draws Keen Interest
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 14.—The
household effects of Mrs. Onezirna
De Bouchel, who lost her half-mil
lion-dollar suit against Asa G. Can
filer, of Atlanta, recently, were as
sorted and ready for the auctioneer
who was expected to begin shouting
his wares about noon today. Part
of the furniture has been given a
fresh coat of varnish and already
hundreds of prospective purchasers
have been allowed to gaze upon the
forty crates which were shipped to
the Candler mansion only to be re
turned.
Outside of a broken bouillon cup,-
regarding which Mr. Candler wrote
his then prospective bride, and a
missing tea pot, the collection is
complete as originally packed, it is
said.
Auctioneers were uncertain as to
the length of time it would require
to dispose of the goods, but agreed
that if visitors and prospective buv
ers mean anything, the whole col
lection should go in record time and
at “good prices.”
Kentucky Republican
Vote Goes to Coolidge
LOUISVILLE. Ky., Feb. 13.—Ken
tucky’s delegation to the Republic
an national convention was instruct
ed by the party state, convention to
cast their votes for President Cool
idge for the presidential nomination.
A slate of 26 delegates and alternates
were selected by the convention.
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, February 16, 1924
PROPHET ISAIAH’S WARNING
BLOCKS MISSISSIPPI HOUSE
IN REPEALING OLD LAW
Pastor-Member Turns Tide
When Solons Seek to Raise
Restrictions on Business
Concerns
ACKSON, Miss., Feb. 14. —When
the prophet Isaiah about 2,600 years
ago wrote what is now known as
the eighth verse of the fifth chapter
of his contribution to the Gospel he
didn’t know his utterance would kill
in the Mississippi legislature in
these days and times a measure for
which developers of the state have
worked for some years.
Mississippi has a law which pro
hibits manufacturing concerns from
owning land within its borders to a
value of more than $1,000,000. Com
mercial bodies and business men
have contended that the act retard
ed the development of the state and
when the senate some time ago
passed a bill repealing the statute
COURT FIGHT IS FORECAST
AS ORDER OF AUTHORITIES
CLOSES VALLEY OF KINGS
Estate of Lord Carnarvon to
Protest Order Barring AH
Visitors From Tomb of
King Tutankahmun
BY GEORGE W. MEACHAM
(Special Cable tu The Atlanta Journal ano
Chicago Daily News—Copyright, 1924.)
LUXOR, Feb. 14.—Sensational de
velopments have occurred in connec
tion with King' Tilt’s tomb.
Guests at the Winter Palace hotel,
clad in trim sports costumes and
riding habits, preparatory to making
the five-mile jaunt to the tombs Val
ley of the Kings for a view of Tul
ankahumtin’s tomb were astounded
Wednesday morning to read a notice
publicly posted and signed by How
ard Carter to the effect that no fur
ther work on the tomb could be
carried out “owing to impossible re
strictions and discourtesies on the
part of the public works department
and its antiquity service.”
As the culmination of a long se
ries of frictional incidents between
governmental departments and those
working at the tomb, there arrived
Tuesday a peremptory order from
the ministry or public works forbid
ding inspection of the tomb by the
wives of the collaborating scholars
and scientists gathered here from
all parts of the world.
Howard Carter had planned to al-
Icw them to view the sarcophagus
early Wednesday, before the press,
but this order, which was regarded
as a direct insult to all concerned,
added final unwarranted interfer
ence, making continuance of the
work impossible, and every man as
sisting Carter manifested his right
eous resentment by refusing to go
on with the task.
Strike of Archaeologists
This amounts, virtually, to the
first record strike of archeaologists.
Director General of Antiquities,
Monsieur Peirce Lacau, is a scholar
of acknowledged high standing, but
as an administrator of high office,
carrying with it great power, he has
revealed himself as extraordinarily
incapable and has gone far toward
I wrecking foreign organizations do
i ing investigative work in Egypt. He
is unfortunately sympathetic toward
the policy of interference of the
present ministry, and thus involves
i himself and indirectly France, the
country he represents, in a prepos
terous insult tendered American and
British scientists, who will be slow
to overlook it.
The correspondent has had access
to all contracts existing between
Carter and the government and
those once in force between Lord
Carnarvon and the government, and
has read all the correspondence be
tween Carter and director general
of Antiquities. The law and con
tracts are all on Carter’s side, and
were the matter brought before a
mixed court, the government would
' surely lose.
Litigation Likely
The government did not expect
| Carter to stop work and the result
cannot be forecast, nor that of the
i suit inevitably coming, when parti-
I tion of the Carnarvon estate, of
I which the tomb forms a part, arises
1 All this has led If- Carter tu lose
■ an average of one-third of his work
ing time.
It is unlikely that work will be
i resumed this season, for by the
time a settlement is reached, the
I season will be over. Today there
I will be released and made public a
i letter of protest signed by James
; Henry Breasted, Albert M. Lythgoe,
| Percy E. Newberry and Alan H.
I Gardiner, which was sent to the di
i rector general of antiquities on
• January 30 with copies to High
Commissioner Allenby and the min-
I istew of. public works.
Allenby who is due in Luxor on
Feora«ry 20 has wired from the
Sudan asking for permission to view
I the tomb and Carter has replied ex
plaining the whole situation. Publi
cation of the letter and general pub
licity are likely to precipitate an
j unparalleled situation.
Meanwhile, scientific expeditions
which have lent aid to Carter are
| lying idle, and’ the tomb remains
i locked.
Dead at 120, Is Survived
By Son 17 Years 010
VIENNA. Feb. 14.—Tussuf Maca
i Mohomettin is dead a Yagoubitza,
Jugoslavia, at the age of 120, ac-
I cording to a Belgrade dispatch
I Tussuf married thrice, and one of
i his surviving sons is only 17
there was general rejoicing among
the boosters.
The vepeal measure was reached
on the house calendar yesterday and
the going- was good in the debate un
til the Rev. Mr. Evans, a minister
and representative from Leake
county—-the only county in the state
without a railroad--arose and in op
position to the bill drew upon the
Scriptures for ammunition. He
quoted the passage from Isaiah:
"Woe unto them that join house
to house, that lay field to field, till
there be no place, that they may
be placed alone in the midst of the
earth.”
Pandemonium broke loose and
with only five minutes for debate re
maining almost every member was
on his feet clamoring for recognition.
The time was up when Speaker Bai
ley had restored order and on the
vote the measure was rejected, 73
to 56.
LEADERS OUTSIDE
PARTY INVITED TO
IMO MEETING
r
CHICAGO, Feb. 14.—Whether
William G. McAdoo shall stay in the
presidential race will be determined
at a conference here next Monday
of McAdoo supporters and others
outside of the party.
McAdoo-for-president headquarters
here announced that in addition to
McAdoo supporters a call has Veen
made for “representative progres
sives outside the Democratic party,
lepresentatives of labor and farmers
and other liberals.”
This action followed the decision
of McAdoo to ask his followers to
decide whether he is still available
now that his name is involved in the
Teapot Dome scandal hearings.
Under the signature of David L.
Rockwell, McAdoo’s campaign man
ager, the headquarters drafted a
letter to McAdoo, stating in part:
“Obedient to your suggestion I am
calling a conference in Chicago for
February 18, to which I propose to
invite, in addition to representative
men and women leaders in the Mc-
Adoo movement over the nation, rep
resentative progressives outside the
Democratic party, representatives ot
labor and farmers and other progres
sives.
“This is the most daring, direct
and courageous step ever taken by
any presidential candidate. I know,
of course, that you are prepared to
abide by the result.”
The Washington developments
have not “by one particle reduced
Mr. McAdoo’s prominent qualifica
tions,” William O’Connell, Illinois
manager for McAdoo, stated.
Dr. F. Eugene Elmer,
Former Floridian,
Arrested in Frisco
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14.
Charged by the state medical hoard
With practicing medicine after a lit
cense had been refused him, “Doc
tor” Francis Eugene Elmer, gland
physician, was under arrest here
today.
Elmer was engaged in writing a
letter to Elinor Glyn, the author,
when police women, posing as pa
dentes, raided nis luxurous “temple
of rejuvenation.”
The "doctor” is alleged to have ob
tained his diploma from a school in
Maryland, the head of which was
convicted of selling them. He was
first licensee Dy the eclectic medi
cal board of F'orida, which was
ousted by the governor, according
to agents of the state board.
Investigators for the American
Medical association informed the
California board that Elmer had
been ordered to leave Miami, Fia.,
lust April after being kidnaped and
beaten.
Elmer is said by the police to
have performed several gland oper
ations here, and to have obtained
as high as $5,000 for them.
$1,500,000 Aero Mail
Appropriation Killed
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Appro
priation of $1,500,000 for the air mail
service was knocked out of the post
office supply bill in the house late
i Tuesday on a point of order raised by
■ Representative Cranton, Michigan.
Representative Clancy, Michigan,
who moved to double the amount,
charged that the railroads were op
posed to the air mail service as com
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MORE DATA SOUGHT
ON EDITOR’S LOAN
TO SECRETARY FALL
Quizzing of Vanderlip on
Speech Delayed—Nomina-
tion of Strawn Withdrawn
• 18
by Coolidge
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—The sen
ate oil committee decided today to
undertake to run down another of i
the many sensational rumors that 4
have been sptread about the nation
al capital since the oil inquiry start
ed.
It asked Edward B. McLean, the
Washington publisher, to come here
at once from Florida for question
ing about reports that a $1,000,000
slush fund had been sent to Wash
ington by New York financial in
terests.
Just what relation the fund is sup
posed to have to the oil leasing ne
gotiations is not revealed. A rumor
of such a mysterious fund fias been .
current here for several weeks, but .
the uses to which it was to have been -
put have been variously reported.
Like its subpoena to Frank A.
Vanderlip, for questioning as to his
statements regarding the sale of
President Harding’s Marlon newspa
per, the committee’s action today
was taken as an evidence that every 3
possible avenue of investigation is
to be opened up so that the facts
may be established and unsubstan
tiated reports definitely disproved.
Mr. McLean also will be question
ed further about his statement that
he loaned Albert B. Fall SIOO,OOO, and
his later testimony that the checks
for that amount were returned to
him by Mr. Fall uneashed.
Nomination of Silas H. Strawn, of
Chicago, as special government coun
sel in the oil land lease cases, was
withdrawn from the senate by Presi
dent Coolidge late today. .
Vanderlip to Testify
Mr. Vanderlip came to Washing
ton today, but the committee decided
to defer his testimony until tomor
row, when it also will hear the state
ments of those who purchased the
Marion Star from President Harding
just before his death.
The senate oil committee produced
a fresh flock of sensations from wit‘
nesses today.
John C. Shaffer, publisher of the
Chicago Post and othei* newspapers,
testified that Secretary Fall had told
him In March, 1921, the very month
he entered the cabinet, that he was
going to lease Teapot Dome to Harry
F. Sinclair. At that time Teapot
was not yet under Mr. Fall’s juris
diction.
Mr. Shaffer told also how he him
self had got a one-eighth interest in
the Pioneer Oil company, a Stand
ard subsidiary, in connection wlfth
the Sinclair Teapot Dome leases, H
and "gave up nothing” In return. He
had an old claim pending, he said,
and Secretary Fall promised, merely
for the asking, that he would be
taken care of.
Dougherty Is Quoted
A letter by H. Foster Bain, direc
tor of mines, written before the
leases were made, and put into the
committee record, declared the
writer "understood” that Attorney
General Daugherty had given an in
formal opinion upholding the valadity
of the leasing policy. Mr. Daugherty
previously has denied he gave any
opinion. The letter, addressed to
Secretary Fall, suggested a written
opinion' be asked from the attorney'
general, but added that “I realize the
objections to asking such an opin
ion.”
Oscar Sutro, counsel for the Stand
ard Oil Company of California, tes
tified that he had suggested to As
sistant Secretary Finney, of the in
terior department, that an opinion
be obtained from Mr. Daugherty,
but that Mr. Finney replied that
Secretary Fall thought it "unneces
sary” to take such a step.
H. C. Finney, assistant secretary
of the interior, testified that his rec
ollection was that Secretary Fall
told him a short time before the Tea
pot Dome lease was announced that
arrangements had been made with
Harry Sinclair to give some land in g
the reserve to John C. Shaffer, the
publisher.
Disagrees With Sutro
Finney said he disagreed with :
Oscar Sutro, counsel of the Stan
ard Oil Company of California, a pre
vious witness, who held there was
no legal authority for the Fall
leases.
The witness could not recall all
the circumstances, but said he would
not deny Mr. Sutro’s testimony as to
their talk about the reasons for not
asking Attorney General Daugherty
for an opinion .
Finney said there had been "ao
called bids” for the offset wells in
the California naval reserve and. tha
Pearl Harbor tankage project. The
bidders included th» Standard Oil
Company of California, the Associat
ed Oil company and the Doheny Oil
company.
Asked directly why Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty was not asked for
an opinion Finney said the secretary
did not regard it as necessary.
Finney said the Teapot Dome con
tract was handled “very largely” by
Secretary Fall.
Finney testified that Fall in
structed him to issue a statement de
nying that leases had been entered
into a week after Teapot actually
had been leased to Sinclair.
Why News Was Withheld
Explaining how he came to sign
the Doheny-Pearl Harbor contract,
Finney said Fall was in New
co, and wired him to sign after the
secretary had studied the summary
of the bids sent to him at his home.
The real reason why the Teapot
lease announcement was held up,
Finney said, was because Fall didn’t
want it made public until the
Doheny lease to the California re
serve had been signed.
Finney disclosed that the questloix
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