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.VOL. XXVI. NO. 59
SENATE CONFIRMS
PDMERENE; ACTION
ON HIDE DEFERRED
A
Coolidge’s Choice Wins Place
as Oil Probe Counsel After
Heated Debate Led by
Walsh
Washington, Feb. 17. over
xne vigorous opposition of Senator
Walsh, Democrat, Montana, the sen
ate confirmed last night nomina
tion of Atlee Pomercne. a former sen
ator of Ohio, to be a special govern-
counsel in the oil lease cases.
The vote was 59 to 13.
■*’’ Consideration of the nomination of
Owen J. Roberts, of Philadelphia, to
be Mr. Po'merene’s associate, was de
ferred until Monday, but confirma
tion was forecast.
Approval of the nomination of Mr.
Pomerene came after more than six
hours of debate. For, nearly two
hours the senate fought over the
, question of whether the nominations
should be considered in executive
Session as is the usual custom, then
it voted, 69 to 2, to discuss them in
the open.
Senators Fess, of Ohio, and Nor
beck, South Dakota, Republicans,
voted in the negative.
The Holl Call
The roll call on Mr. Pomerene’s
appointment follows:
Yeas, Republicans: Borah, Bran
degee. Bursum, Cameron, Capper,
Couzens, Curtis, Dale, Edge, Ernst,
Fess, Gooding, Hale, Harreld, Howell,
Jones of Washington; Keyes, Den
root, Dodge, McKinley, McNary,
Moses, Norbeck, Pepper, Phipps,
Reed, of Pennsylvania; Smoot, Spen
eer, Wadsworth, Warren, Watson,
Weller and Willis —34.
Democrats: Bayard, Broussard,
fertile, Caraway, Dial, Fletcher,
Geofge, Glass, Harrison. Heflin,
Jones, of New Mexico; Kendricks,
King, McKellar, Mayfield, Overman,
Pittman, Ransdell, Reed of Missouri;
Robinson, Shields, Stephens, Swan
■on, Trammell and Walsh, of Massa
chusetts—2s. Total. 59.
• Nays, Republicans: Brookhart,
Fr azer, Dafoliette and Norris —4.
Democrats: Adams, Ashurst, Dill, ;
Sheppard. Stanley, Walsh, of Mon
tana, and Wheeler —7.
Farmer-Labor: Johnson and Ship
■tead—2. Total, 13.
Walsh Motion Passes
Before the senate met, the house
without discussion or a record vote,
adopted the Walsh resolution direct;
ing the proceedings be instituted for
the recovery of sections 16 and 36
within the confines of naval reserve
No. 1 in California, now operated by
tlie Standard Oil company under a
grant from the state.
Those were the only concrete de
velopments today in the oil matter.
The oil committee is in recess until
February 25, and Chairman Lenroot
said no subpoenas for additional wit
nesses would be issued in the mean
time. Government auditors will con
tinue their work, however, on the
books of stock brokerage firms in
an effort to determine whether gov
ernment officials traded in oil stocks
about the time of or subsequent to
the Fall oil leases.
There was a sharp controversy in
the senate both in o||pn and execu
tive session over the proposition us
to whether the nominations of spe
cial counsel should be considered in
open executive session, but once that
issue had been settled, tha debate pro
ceeded with little of the fervor that
Usually characterizes senate discus
sion.
President Coolidge was assailed
from both the Republican and Demo
cratic sides of the chamber for his
failure to consult beforehand with
Senator Walsh regarding the counsel
he selected, and there were sugges
tions that he also should have con
ferred with Senators Lafollette, of
Wisconsin, leader of the Republican
insurgents, and Kendrick, Democrat, I
Wyoming, pioneers in the oil inves
tigation.
hl. ack of Ability Charged
n the course of this discussion in
cite details of the manner of the
sereciion of both Mr. Pomerene and
Mr. Roberts were given to the sen
ate by Senators Walsh, Pepper, Re
publican, Pennsylvania, who pro
posed Mr. Roberts, and Curtis, of
Kansas, the assistant Republican
leader.
Practically the only objection
raised to Mr. Pomerene was that he
jacked experience and x ability to
handle the cases at issue. All sen
ators attested to his honesty and
integrity, his courage and fidelity,
while a number of senators, Re
publicans as well as Democrats, con
tended that he had ample ability and
the necessary experience to handle
the cases.
Senator Walsh, who was praised
on all sides as the one man who had
made possible the disclosures in the
oil inquiry, told the senate there
were two qualifications necessary in
special counsel —honesty and capa
bility.
“Senator Pomerene answers the
first," he declared. “No one ques
tions his honesty. No one dares to
question it.
“1 am opposed to Senator Pome
rene because I don't, think he has
had the experience or training as a
lawyer to fit him for this tremend
ous task ahead of us. 1 venture to
nay that not one of the 96 senators
In this chamber, ’if this property
worth millions, had been taken away
from him, would select Senator
Pomerene to represent him. I am
certain the president of the United
States would not."
Practice Not Familiar
Senator alsh said Mr. Pomerene
had practiced only in his home
town of Canton and adjoining
ecuutles and had never tried a ease,
etvii nr criminal in a federal court,
added 'hat at 'east one of gov-
counsel should be thorough
ly experience! m public lang laws,
but that both of counsel had told
them, the oil committee, that the legal
phases of the public land ques’ion
were "a sealed book to them."
“If it were not for th* political
considerations involved." Senator
Walsh declared. “I cannot see how
tlie president of the T’nited States
could have appointed Senator Fem
erenc." *
‘ Voicing his opposition to Mr. Rob
erts. Senator Walsh declared th; 1 .!
what was needed was a lawyer of
outstanding reputation and that yet
not a. single member of the oil com
mittee over had heard of Mi lto.>
errs until his a poni n t men t was made.
Chairman T.onroot. -»f the oil com-
on I’ase 6, Column 3)
Published Every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
RARE LIBRARY OF MORGAN
TRANSFERRED TO TRUSTEES
FOR BENEFIT OF SCHOLARS
Financier Announces Crea
tion of "The Pierpont
Morgan Library" as Per
manent Memorial to Father
NEW YORK, Feb. 17.—(8y the As
sociated Press.)—J. P. Morgan an
nounced that, as a memorial
to his father, the late J. Pierpont
Morgan, he had turned over his mag
nificent library, its valuable con
tents, and the ground upon which
it stands, to a board of trustees who
are entrusted with its maintenance
in perpetuity for the use of schol
ars. from all parts of the world.
The collection, believed to be the
best in private hands in existence,
was estimated by Mr. Morgan to be
worth in the vicinity of $7,000,000.
With it he gave an endowment of
$1,500,000’. In addition he waived afi
personal and legal rights to the
property.
The library which is to be desig
nated the “Pierpont Morgan Libra
ry,” was first assembled o.V the late
Jr Pierpont Morgan in '-')oj and
housed in a building opened the fol
lowing - year on a tract of land ex
tending from East 36th to East 37th
street between Madison and Park
avenues.
With the additions which have
been made by Mr. Morgan since the
death of his father in 1913, it con
tains 25.000 books and manuscripts
of which 10,000 are rare or unique.
“My father’s intense interest and
satisfaction in the library which he
left me,” said Mr. Morgan, “makes
it a peculiarly fitting memorial to
him. It is a memorial which keeps
alive the memory of his love of rare
books and manuscripts and his be
lief in the educational value of the
collection which he had gathered.”
Full Power for Trustees
Mr. Morgan made it clear tnat the
trustees would take his place in the
ownership with full powers “to di
rect and control the use of the build
ing and contents, so that they may
be made available in every way pos
sible for the advancement of knowl
edge and for the use of the learned,
men of all countries.”
He said the use of the library
would have to be confined to schol
ars and research students, and would
have to be denied the general public
because of the fragility of the books
and manuscripts and because, once
injured, they could neither be re
stored nor replaced.
“A careless thumb,” he said,
“could undo the work of 900 years.
I believe the interest from the en-
should support the library.
If I want to do more, I shall do so
from time to time in the way of ad
ditions.”
There are six trustees, Mr. Mor
gan, his wife, his sons. Junius Spen
cer Morgan and Henry Sturgis Mor
gan, James Gore King and Lewis
Cass Ledyard. Whenever a vacancy
among the trustees occurs by death
or resignation, the remaining trus
tees will elect another to keep the
number six.
Mr. Morgan expressed the hope
that if at the time of such an elec
tion, there “should be in existence a
direct descendant of my father in
the male line” and if he were deemed
a “suitable person" he should be
chosen to fill the vacancy.
Ancient Books Preserved
Among the principal collections in
the library, there are 530 volumes
of ’illuminated manuscripts dating
from the sixth to the sixteenth cen
tiyy. Among holograph manuscripts
or the Works and correspondence of
American, English and Continental
authors, 905 writers are represented
while there are about 7,000 signed
letters and documents, unbound.
The extensive collection of in
cunabula. comprising books printed
before 1500, includes the only speci
men in America of the earliest dated
piece of printing, the "Indulgence,"
dated 1455, of Pope Nicholaus V
issued to “each person as should
contribute money to aid the king of
Cyprus against the Turks.”
Among Bibles there are the Ash
burnl am, so-called Gutenburg print
ed at Mainz before 1455, all the Eng
lish editions from Coverdale opward,
and dozens in strange tongues or
from the collections of historical per
sonages; thirty shelves in all.
Os greater raretv is the great
psalter, the first book to bear a date.
Scores of shelves of rare Elzevirs
and Caxtons vie with examples of the
press -of Laurens Coster of Hurlem
and with books printed at the Aldine
pressed at Venice and elsewhere
from 1 495 to 1598.
William Caxton’s press has given
the only perfect copy known of the
first book printed in the English
language. “The Recuyelt of the His
toryes of Troye," Bruges, 1475.
Wynken de Worde. Caxton's succes
sor, is represented by sixty speci
mens.
i Tumulty Says Wilson
Threatened to Resign
If Canal Tolls Stood
NEW YORK, Feb 16.—The
.1 oklyn Eagle today publishes a
letter to Herbert F. Gunnison, its
p -her, fi >i Joseph T. Tumulty,
former secretary to the late Wood
row Wilson, st ag Mr. Wilson had
determined to resign as president in
1914 if - s did not accede tc
hi dei. and ' ’ tii. repealing
the Panama canal tolls.
In the let.er, Mr. Tumulty writes
| "As an in-eresting sidelight or
? th, courage • f Woodrow Wilson ir
[ connection with this controversy. 1
i wish lor the first time to call at
j tention to the fact that ia the most
I solemn way ne made the statemen'
I to me that in rase congress shook
! i -e to repeal Pana - ...a. tolls there
1 , nothing .■ f> im to do but
I resign hs president of the Unitec
jSt u< Th ■ conversat on I ha.
with 1 im in this matter took plac<
i immediately a 'tei the delivery of hi
i message to congress when it lookei
ias if the tides of opposition weri
i running very strongly In discuss
| mg the matt r of h's ’awignatlor
with me. he said
“ I wool not want to be pres
•.dent of a-co’i-try that would vio
late a solemn treaty. In case o
. fafui it '■ < matter. 1 shall gi
before the country ,ifi?r my resigna
1 .ion is tendered and ask it to sa\
vh.-ther Amer -a is to stand befori
I the world as i nation that violate
jit.- .-nncacis ■< r mere matter «
■ \c”ience, .pen a basis es expe
| Deiicy.’ __ . _ „ .
IT or Id News
I To ld In \
i Brief
MEXICO CITY’. —President Obre
gon returns from Guadalajara.
WASHINGTON. —Charles B. War
ren will probably accept ambassador- j
ship to Mexico.
MEXICO CITY. Tuxpam is an
nounced as the next objective of the
federal forces.
TARRYTOWN, N. Y.—Philipse
Manor, lately the home of Elsie
Janis, actress, is destroyed by fire.
| NEW YORK. Lillian Gish au- j
j thorizes denial of any printed reports |
of her engagement or impending
marriage.
VERA CRUZ. l’nited States
cruiser Richmond leaves as condi
tions become more nearly normal at
this port.
LONDON. Efforts fail to avert
strike of British dock workers, and
unofficial estimate says 120,000 men
are involved.
WASHINGTON—North Pole flight
of dirigible Shenandoah is ordered
held up pending information as to i
attitude of congress on plan.
BUDAPEST.—The fall of the
Hungarian crown twenty per cent
below Austrian crown, or to 90,000
for dollar, is creating something of
a panic.
NEW YORK. —Joseph Diamond is
convicted by jury of participation
with brother, convicted last week, in
robbery and murder of two bank
messengers.
MERIDA, Yucatan. Mexico City
is cut off from communication with
Ocotlan, Guadalarajara, Tampico and
western front, revolutionary public
ity director says.
TOPEKA, Kan. Albert B. Fall,
former secretary of interior, was un
der the care of a nurse when his
train passed through here en route
to his home in New Mexico.
SOUTHERN PINES. N. C.—Gif
ford Pinchot, governor of Pennsyl
vania. cuts short his winter vaca
tion and goes to Baltimore for
treatment for ear trouble.
WASHINGTON. Senate oil com ;
mittee approves nominations of Owen
J. Roberts and Atlee Pomerene as
special government counsel; ad
journs its hearing until February 25.
WASHINGTON.—House Repub-
lican leaders decide to* boost pro
posed maximum surtax rate in reve- 1
nue bill* to 31 1-2 per cent in es-i
fort to break deadlock with insur
gents.
BOSTON. Senator David I.
Walsh says the most dangerous men
today are those w’ho make reckless j
statements that they cannot provi? j
about the government and its rep- j
resentatives.
WA S HIN G TON.—AII or ney Gen
eral Daugherty reports to President
I Coolidge that 'stricter enforcement j
i of prohibition already has inspired |
I a “more wholesome respect for law
[ and order.”
WA S HIN GT O N. —All orn e y Ge n -
I eral Daugherty reports to President
! Coolidge that a stricter enforcement
' of prohibition already has inspired
j a more wholesome respect for law
jand order.
WASHINGTON—Frank L. Greene, j
I United States senator from Vermont,
is shot and perhaps seriously wound
ed at Washington in pistol fight be
tween prohibition agents and boot
leggers.
WASHINGTON. Railroads in
! 1923 earned net operating income
! of $977,543,590, or 5.10 per cent on
1 estimated value of property fhey
| o and put into ti -portation
; service, as against 4.14 per cent in
i 1922.
WASHINGTON. Secret service
I operatives arrest James C. Hough-
Iton, employe of the bureau of en
(graving and printing, and Curt Ja-
Icobson in connection with an alleged
I conspiracy to make and distribute
counterfeit treasury notes of SI,OOO
. denomination.
MOUNT PULASKI. Hl.—Funeral
services Are held for Mrs. Lina
Shoup Lincoln and her brother, By
ron Shoup, both of whom Warren
jj. Lincoln has confessed he killed
(January 11. 1923 Two small coffins
i jabout three feet long are used, as
1 Jonlv the heads have b r ' , 'n found.
' Washington Thoma? w
I Miller, alien property custodian, is
’ quoted at New York as having said
j that a "'aiga treasury official." whom
i Miller d.d not name, rfad told him
that the treasury had “juggled' - fig
ures In bonus fight to deceive the
public; Secretary Mellon says the
. charges are absolutely untrue.
J I INDIANAPOLIS.—John R. Quinn,
'jnational commander of the Anieri
' lean Legion, charges the Republican
: 'party's publicity organization in
i Washington is sending news matters
’ - o country newspapers stating false
r ily there can be no tax reduct O', if
[adjusted compensation is paid, and
practice be discontinued.
Him WOMAN
KILLED IN WRECK
ON DIXIE HIGHWAY
J, W. Mashburn, Jr,, Atlanta
Policeman Driving Car,
Pinned Beneath It 2 Hours,
Second Woman Unhurt
HAMPTON, Ga., Feb. IS.—Mrs.
H. Y. Calloway, of 615 Ponce de
Leon avenue, Atlanta, was killed
when a large car driven by J. W.
Mashburn, Jr., an Atlanta police
man, turned turtle on an embank
ment on the Dixie highway a half
mile above. Hampton this morning
about 1 o'clock. A woman who gave
her name as Mrs. Johnson, and who
said that at present she had no
home address, was thrown clear of
the wreck and was able to walk to
a nearby house for help. Officers
and others lifted the car off Mash
burn, and he was found to be practi
cally unhurt, Mrs. Calloway appa
rently had been killed instantly.
According to officers, Mashburn
said that he lost control of the car
as he tried to pass an automobile
meeting him. The car was found
headed toward Hampton on the left
side of the road, and the tracks
showed that it had traveled some
distance on the side of the road be
fore it overturned.
Mashburn hired a taxicab here
and he and Mrs. Johnson left for
Atlanta. Mrs. Calloway’s body is
held at a local undertaking es
tablishment. It is understood that
Mashburn will return later to com
plete arrangements for sending the
body to relatives,. Mrs. Calloway,
who wore three diamond rings, a
wedding ring and other jewelry, ap
parently was about 25 yars old.
Eighty-seven dollars in money was
found on her person.
Mrs.' Johnson, a young woman in
her early twenties, said that there
were two men in the car, but when
the car was righted, only one man
was found. When Mrs. Johnson was
asked where the other man was
Mashburn spoke up and said that
there was no one else in the party.
He stopped Mrs. Johnson from talk
ing.
A bank book found near the wreck
bore the name of Mrs. Ruth Ken
dall. The name of the bank was
“The I?ink of the Bay of Biscayne,
Miami.” The car, said to belong to
Mrs. Calloway, bears Florida license
tag No. 114,347—C.
Mrs. Johnson said that Mrs. Cal
loway’s husband was in Jackson
ville. Mrs. Johnson called Jack
sonville long distance and tried to
get the Radio Taxicab company, ask
ing for Harold Long, said to be
known in Atlanta. A small quantity
of whisky was found at the ivreck.
according to officers.
MASHBURN WAS TAKING
TWO WOMEN TO JACKSONV ILLE
Police Monday were detailed by
Assistant Police Chief E. L. Jett to
investigate the report made to him
earlier in the day by Patrolman J.
W. Mashburn, Jr., about the acci
dent in which Mrs. H. Y. Calloway
was killed near Hampton, Ga., early
Monday morning.
Officer Mashburn told Chief Jett
that he was taking Mrs. Calloway
and Mrs. Bobbie Johnson, of Atlanta,
to Jacksonville, where he was to
leave them, and return by train to
Atlanta. Mrs. Calloway was to con
tinue to Miami, where she was to
join her husband, he said.
Officer Mashburn also said he
wished to emphatically deny that
there was any whisky in the car, or
that any of the trio had been
drinking.
He said that the accident was oc
casioned by him becoming blinded
by the bright lights of a car ap
proaching him, and that unable to
see the road, he skidded off an em
bankment, the car turning over and
pinning all three of the occupants
beneath it.
He said Mrs. Johnson was riding
on the back seat, and managed to
extricate herself. She went to
Hampton and got help, he said, a
number of people assisted him in
getting from under the car. Mrs.
Calloway was dead when she was
taken from the wreckage, he said.
The fashionable apartment occu
pied - by Mrs. Calloway on Ponce de
Leon avenue was rented in Novem
ber according to the renting agents
Neighbors of Mrs. Calloway stated
i that her husband was a, traveling
man and was away from home quite
a good deal.
W H.L^TRKVr - CAT AR RH “DEAF-
NESS AND HEAD NOISES FREE
Davenport. lowa.—Dr. W O Coffee, suite
2146 St. James Hotel bldg., announces be
found a treatment which completely cured
' him of catarrh of the nose, deafness and
head noises. Thousands have used it suc
cessfully He believes it will relieve any
; case. He offers a 10-day supply Free to
every reader of this paper who writes him.
Send your name and address.
(Advert‘sement.)
Don’t Disappoint
Yourself
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run out in January and wrote in, after we had been
forced io 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 expense—U’hich is heavy in the course
of a" month—of sending back numbers to those wh<
were careless about renewing.
We must stop the paper this month to 10,000
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tember of next year.
2 CHILDREN KILLED.
2wwimi
CUES INTO BUS
I
Virginia Harper, M 2, and
Ruby Brown, 11, Are Vic
tims —Injured Are Brought
to Atlanta
i
Two children were killed, one in
stantly, and two other occupants of
a Douglas county school bus were
severely injured early Monday morn
ing when the bus was struck by a
Southern railway train at Harper’s
crossing, one mile west of Lithia
Springs, Ga.
The dead are:
VIRGINIA HARPER, 12-year-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nesbit
Harper, who reside within sight of
where the accident occurred.
RUBY BROWN, 9-year-old daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. Posey Brown, of
the same vicinity.
The injured, who were brought to
the Georgia Baptist hospital, are:
William Harper, 18-year-old broth
er of the dead girl, who was driving
'the truck. He suffered a compound
fracture of the right leg and his fore-
I head was lacerated.
Catherine Harper, 15 years old, sis
ter of William Harper and of the
dead girl, whose right leg was
broken.
Dense Fog Blamed
Catherine Harper declared that a
I heavy fog blinded the driver and
; prevented any of the occupants of
i the bus from seeing the train until
it was directly upon them. The cyl
inder of the locomotive struck the
bus with such force as to hurl it
clear off the track.
Rrby Brown was dead when medi
cal aid reached the group, her head
being severely mangled, and Virginia
Harper died on the traan en route to
Atlanta. The accident occurred at
S:OS o’clock and the train reached
here at 9:15 o’clock, where it was met
' by ambulances which had been sum
■ moned from H. M. Patterson & Son.
I These ambulances rushed the injured
j to the hospital
Engineer J. M. Cox, of the train,
which was; known as the Heflin ac
commodation, No. 21, reported that
the bus approached on the side op
posite his seat, but that his. fireman.
Ed Ray, -yell'd at the driver in an
unsuccessful attempt to stop the bus
before it was struck. He said that
the train blew for the crossing,
which is situated on a private road
| leading from the Harper home to the
main highway into Lithia Springs.
Sister Sees Crash
. Geraldine Harper, another staler
j of one of the dead girls, was sit-
I ting on the front porch of her home
I and saw the train strike the bus.
! She ran into the house and notified
her parents, while the train crew
stopped and rendered whatever first
aid it could. Dr. Charles Haggart
wis hurriedlj' summoned from Ma
bleton, Ga., after efforts to locate a
physician in Lithia Springs had
proved unavailing.
Georgia License Tax
On Commission Men
Held Valid by Court
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18.—Geor
i gia’s license tax upon brokers, mer
i chandise and commission merchants,
' a part of whose business was inter
state, was declared valid and con
stitutional by the supreme court to
: day in a case brought by J. E
Railey & Brothers, and others
against the tax collector of F>ilt j .
county.
A number of commission mer
chants of Atlanta, who represented
principals living in Georgia as well
as in other states, contended tnat
the tax was invalid because it was
imposed on all business done by
them, including interstate, which*
they insisted could not be subjected
to a state tax.
The state courts sustained that
part of the law which levied the
tax upon those brokers and "mer
chants who handled on commission
merchandise coming to them from
non resident and resident principals,
but held that the tax could not be
applied to those handling only me"
chandise shipped in by non-resident
principals.
Atlanta, Ga., Tuesday, February 19, 1924
Secretary of Navy Denby
Resigns; Coolidge Accepts
MARRIAGE TRAGEDY OR JOKE?
COURT TO DECIDE FOR COUPLE
M S w wMMi.-. E'
♦X . \ _ O
ANN VICTORIA SHAKESPEARE AND JAMISON MEREDITH,
COLLEGE LOVERS, WHO WED, ACCORDING TO THE BOY. AS
A JOKE. BUT THE GIRL SEES THEIR AFFAIR AS A TRAGEDY.
Youthful Groom Maintains
Vows Were Jest, but Giri
Classmate He Wed Cannot
See It That Way
MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Feb. 16
Is marriage a joke or a tragedy?
Two young students here —one a
pretty girl of humble home, the
other a dashing boy of wealth and
influence —are wondering. For their
futures depend on their finding out.
They have appealed to the courts
for judgment. And now their case is
before the supreme court of the
state —on which sits the father of
the boy.
The actors in this drama of real
life are:
Ann Victoria Shakespeare, the
daughter of a former mill worker,
who now run a little confectionery
store in this small college town. Her
father worked hard to give her the
best of everything—and she got it/
She became one of the most popular
students in the West Virginia uni
versity.
Jamison Meredith, .the son of
Judge James A. Meredith, of Charles
ton, member of the supreme court of
appeals of the state. The family is
prominent and wealthy. The bby
mingled in the best society and be
came a lion on the university cam
pus.
The boy and girl met. They be
came close friends.
Their Se es Gets Out
On August 14, 1922, they went out
for an automobile ride. According
to the story told in court, there was
a proposal of marriage and an ac
ceptance. Then they drove on and
got a marria::> license, declaring
that they were twenty-one years old,
although they were only nineteen.
A visit to a church, a consultation
with a pastor, a ceremony—and a
promise not to tell a soul.
The pledge of secrecy continued
for two days and then the story
leaked out. The elder Merediths got
busy. They started court action for
an annulment.
“The marriage was entered into
as a jest, and we never intended to
fulfill the marriage vows,” the boy
is reoorted as saying.
But the girl has another view.
“We were serious and I still am
serious.” she says. “I was and am
ready and willing to take my place
at. Jamison's side and appear before
the world.”
Continuing, the attractive little
girl declares that the ceremony was
not- enter into in the exuberance
of youth and as a college boy and
girl prank” as is alleged in the court
action.
What About the Girl?
“All this has caused me untold em
barrassment and now they want to
have the marriage annulled for his
sake,” she went on with tears in her
eyes. “But what about me?’ ’
When the case came up in the cir
cuit court of Monongahela county the
judge refused to annual the mar
riage.
Nuw the case is being carried ‘o
the higher courts —and the boy's fa
ther is one of its members!
While it is making up its mind,
both the young principals are contin
uing their studies at the university:
both are taking a prominent part in
the activities of the campus. They
sit in the same class rooms, have the
same friends —yet theV are as
strangers to each other.
For the boy sees the ’situation as
a joke.
But the girl sees it as a tragedy.
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H SENSITIONS
SPUING IIP MING
I OIL PROBE RECESS
WASHINGTON, Fell. IS.—Despite
the ten-clay recess of the investigat
' ing committee, developments in the
oil scandal whirled along today at
their customary break-neck speed.
Coincident with the resignation of
Secretary Denby, there were predic
tions among senators that important
disclosures of a new and sensational
character were imminent.
These predictions revolved for the
I most part about the inquiry that
I committee experts are making into
I the books of various brokerage
firms, in search of evidence of oil
' stock speculation by government of
i fiends. „
Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, who has taken a hand in the
, inquiry in ,the absence from Wash
: ingtdn of his colleague, Senator
! Walsh, declared Harry Payne Whit
ney and members of the Benkard
broker fmm in New York undoubted
: ly would be summoned before the
j committee as a result of informa
| tion that has reached the capital.
Mr. Wheeler also asserted that
i “important information” had been
; given senators by Wilton J. Lam
, bert. attorney for Edward B. Mc-
Lean, publisher of the Washington
Post. Mr. McLean came to Wash
ington from Palm Beach in response
to a summons from the committee.
There were- reports that those
members of the oil committee who
are in Washington might confer
during the day behind closed doors
with regard to the latest develop
ments. Chairman Lenroot, however,
said that no meeting had been ca’led
and that there had been no change
in the plan to delay further hearings
I until next Monday.
Savannah Klansman,
Expelled, Threatens to
Give Membership List
SAVANNAH, Ga., Feb. 18. —
I Homer F. Geiger, a “life member”
of the Ku Klux Klan, got a letter
Monday morning from Imperial
I Wizard “Evans expelling him from
'the order.
Mr. Geiger says, he is not going
■to submit to expulsion. He declares
j he will go into the courts and en
i join the order from getting rid of
him. as his life membership is ir
i revocable.
He created a eensation by saying
that if it is necessary when he files
his injunction in the courts, he will
file with it a list of the entire mem
bership of the local klan and make
them co-defendants.
Gasoline Mistaken for
Kerosene, Man, Wife,
Baby Badly Burned
ASHEVILLE, N. C„ Feb. 18
Carmen Smith, his wife and infant
child, were seriously burned at
their home near the city this morn
ing by the explosion of gasoline,
used by mistake instead of kerosene,
jin starting a fire. Smith is in a
local hospital and it is said he may
not survive. The family was living
iin a garage while their-home was
being built,
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Action of Naval Secretary x ■
Revives Rumors That
Daugherty Also Will Quit
the Cabinet
WASHINGTON. Feb. IS.—Secre
tary Denby has resigned and will
retire from cabinet on March 10.
He informed President Coolicjga
that in view of his connection with
the leases he did not desire to further
embarrass the admimstration by re
maining a member of it.
The president, in a letter .accept
ing the resignation,, praised the of
ficial record of his retiring naval
secretary, and said he acceded to the
request with regret.
Theodore Roosevelt, who as as
sistant secretary under Mr. Denby,
had a part in drafting thq. order
which transferred the naval reserves
fiom the navy to the interior depart
ment, conferred with the president
and announced later he did expect to
resign. -
Ooubt As to Successor
There was no indication that Mr.
Coolidge had given thought to a suc
cessor to Mr. Denby, but it appeared
likely that one would be selected
without ihuch delay.
Secretary Denby’s decisipn was
reached after personal and political
friends lad advised him not to con- *
tinue the attitude of defiance he
adopted when the senate passed its
resolution asking that he step out /
of his cabinet.
The senate attack was not directed
against any suspected moral wrong
doing on the part of Mr, Denby, but
was based on charges that he had
not been a sufficiently diligent pub
lic servant in his connection with the
oil reserve*.
His resignation was coincident
with the comjXetlon of senate con
firmation of the government’s spe
cial oil counsel, and Mr. Denby’s ad
visers had urged that once the gov
ernment had moved in the courts tor
cancellation of the oil leases he
signed along with Albert B. Fall,
his position in the administration
would become untenable.
Resigns on Birthday
Mr. Denby's resignation was sub
mitted on his fifty-fourth birthday,
just after he had gone to the navy
department to find his office filled
with flowers from his friends. _ When
his letter had been sent to the pres
ident, he turned cheerfully to official
duties waiting his attention and
told those about him that a great
load of worry had been lifted from
his shoulders. ,
The retirement* of the navy secre
tary also revived rumors that the
resignation of Attorney General
Daugherty would follow within n
-iw days. A resolution relating i>
him, and somewhat similar to biat
adopted some days ago asking for
the resignation of Mr. Denby, is
pending in the senate and Its spon
sors are pressing for quick action
on it. .
The resolution in which the pres;-
e’ent was advised to ask Secretary
De.iby to leave the cabinet wa.4
adopted February 11, with ' ths
Republican organization leaders op
posing it, but with ten Republicans
voting in its support. The vote was
47 to 34.
Immediately it was sent to the
White House, Mr. Coolidge issued a
statement declaring that such ques
tions lay wholly within the province
of the executive, but adding:
“The president is responsible to
the people for his conduct relative
to the retention or dismissal of pub
lic officials I assume that respon
sibility. and the people may be as
sured that as soon as I can be ad
vised so that I may act with
entire justice tn all parties concern
ed and fully protect the public in
terests, I shall act.
) “1 do not propose to sacrifice any
innocent man for may own welfare.
Nor do I propose to retain in office
any unfit man for my own welfare.
I shall try to maintain the functions
iof the government unimpaired, to
act upon the evidence and the taw
las I find it, and to deal thoroughly
a d summarily with every kind of
wrongdoing.”
Numeiaus Conferences
Since then many conferences have
be°n held-by the president with other
officials of his administration, sen
ate leaders, and personal friends of
Mr. Denby. Two of the most fre
quently at the White House have
been Secretary Weeks and Charles
B. Warren, of Michigan, both old
personal and political friends of tha
navy secretary.
1 The decision in favor of a resig-
I nation apparently was reiched soor.
after Mr. Coolidge went to his e
this morning, but a fo.-nial announce
ment was deferred. E. T. Ciark, one
of Mr. Coolidge’s secretaries, visited
Mr. Denby's office to consult as to
what form the announcement
should take. Mr. Denby soon alter- /
ward left the navy department by <
■ private entrance, elnd'ng newspaper
men. and left Word that so- the pres
ent he would have nothing to say.
The secretary’s retirement makes
the first break in the official family
Mr. Coolidge took over intact from
i the Harding administration. Mr.
Denby was one of the original mem
bers of Mr. Harding’s cabinet, hav
ing taken office on March 4, ESI
His selection brought to that de
partment for the first time in many
years a man who knew by personal
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