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VOL. XXVI. NO. 62
H’DOWELL WILING
TO DIE MIMES
BUT BALKS AT CELL
Florida Prosecuting Officials
Decide to Insist on Crimi
nal Trial, /Avoiding Test of
Boy’s Sanity
CLEARWATER, Fla.. Feb. 23.
This has been a good day for Frank
McDowell, the nineteen-year-old
slayer of his two sisters, by burning
in their Decatur, Ga., home a year
ago, and the murderer of his par
ents by shooting them as they slept
in jtneir home at St. Petersburg,
last Tuesday night.
Met. representative of the Associat
?d called on McDowell and
remained from 11 to noon today
The boy was more cheerful and said
he had slept well and ate a good
breakfast. The weather here today
ia ideal, warm, bright and dieerfu'.
McDowell was taken from the tier
of cells on the lower floor of the
county jail, this morning, and placed
in a comfortable room in the north
west corner of the building on the
second floor. He was pacing up
and down the floor when the Asso
ciated Press representative was ad
mitted to his cell and he continued
to pace while talking. He said he
had seen no one today, and there
fore was not so tired.
McDowell was asked about a
signed statement he gave yesterday
to a reporter for some news gath
ering agency, and he stated that he
was so fagged he hardly recalled
anything contained in the state
ment, that the reporter wrote it and
urged him to sign it, and he liked
to be accommodating.
Memory Is Hazy
Asked if he recalled the happen
ings of last Monday, the day before
he killed his parents, McDowell said
his memory was hazy regarding
everything that happened that day,
though he remembered something
about meeting a Mrs. Van Dyke on
the streets of St. Petersburg and
offering to take her home in his
car. He also remembered sitting in
the’car on Central avenue, and hud
a faint recollection of having writ
ten on a typewriter. He said he
was pretty good with a typewriter.
Referring to Mary Birdsey, the.
;irl he was quoted as saying he in
tended to kill next year by drown
ng, McDowell showed some spirit
ind said: “I don’t know just how
hat woman reporter managed to
quote me as saying anything like
that. I never had such a thought.”
“However,” McDowell said, ,you
mow, I have been having day
ireams about seeing Mary again.
McDowell said he wished Dr.
Smith, the Tampa alienist who ex
unined him late yesterday afternoon,
ind Mr. Forsythe, who came over
with the doctor, would come back
n the morning when he is fresh so
hey could get along faster with the ,
task of finding out what his trouble I
is.
Pleased by Insanity Verdict
When told that the alienist had
said that he was insane, McDowell
Appeared pleased, ami a flicker of a
smile came to his mouth.
McDowell was then told that his
parents were buried in one grave, [
reside his sisters, yesterday. He |
said: "That is what I told them to
io.”
.Evidently he meant the officers at ,
st. Petersburg who arresetd him aft- i
er the murder.
At the reference to the burial of :
his parents, McDowell showed de- j
cided signs of grief, though no tears
could be detected in his eyes. He |
scowled and held the back of his
neck with his hands and said: “My
God. how cun I stand all this, and
to think I did it."
He then threw himself on his nar
row cot while his body was convulsed
with jerks and his lips turned blue,
but no sobs were heard.
McDowell then was asked if he
oared to sign a statement which had i
been prepared by the representative '
of .the Associated Press. He was
hancißd the following- statement,
he reed carefully, and re-
- He then said: "That is just
KeJ-miy I feel, and just what 1 have
heem trying to say. It contains the
facts, as 1 see them, and I will sign
it gladly, for I want the public to
know how I feel.”
The following is the text of
the signed confession by Frank
McDowell, at St. Petersburg.
Florida:
I. Frank McDbwell, nineteen
years of age, do hereby volun
tarily, and without compulsion,
make the following statement:
I do nqt know what is the
matter with me, or what has led
me to kill my two sisters by
burning them in their beds
while they >slept in our home in
Decatur, Ga., a year ago, or
what strange power, or in
fluence, led me to shoot my fa
ther -and mother as they slept
in tb.ar bed in our home in St.
Fla., last Tuesday
night.
I do know that my brain does
not function as it should, and I
would appreciate any help that
science may be able to give in
determining and removing the
cause of my strange actions.
While 1 now realize that my
hands performed the awful
tragedies of which 1 ant accused.
I also know that I am not re
sponsible for them. I was di
rected by some power over
which I have no control, and I
regret them and grieve over the
loss of my parents and sisters
as any normal boy would. lam
ready and willing to jxiy any
penal'c- exacted from me by so
ciety 2nd I hope the final set
tlenny..*- will not be unneces
sarily delayed. I had much
rather be executed than be con
demned to remain in prison the
rest of mv life. I do believe,
and hope, that science can cure
me of this terrible malady,
whatever it is. if I receive the
proper treatment from able
alienists and surgeons. Mv
nerves are so shattered at pres
ent, from the horrible thoughts
in mv mind ami the countless
questions I have been tisked.
and I have tried so hard to an
swer intelligently and truth
fully.
Wants Soothing Influence
If 1 could only have some
(Continued on l’:me 6. Column 4j
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SLEMP. COOLIDGE'S
SECRETARY. HEARD
IIU OIL LEASE QUIZ
iSays He Advised Fall to '“'Tell
All” —McLean’s Financial
Records Checked Up by
Committee
WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.—The
senate oil committee opened another
bag of surprises today'’ when it re
sumed hearings after a ten-d'ay re
cess.
Taking up the trail of the .SIOO,OOO
loan made to A. B. Fall by Edward
B. McLean, publisher of the Wash
ington Post, the committee was told
by officials of two Washington banks
that Mr. McLean’s checking balance
lin neither of them was more than
: SIO,OOO in December. 1921. The pub
| lisher has informed th’e committee
Ihe gave Fall checks aggregating
[sloo,ooo on the two banks during
that period but that they were re
turned uncashed.
C. Bascom Slemp, secretary to
President Coolidge, was questioned
about a visit he mil de to Palm Beach
while McLean and Fall were there
last December and January. The
secretary declared hfe talked with
Fall several times, asked him for the
truth about the oil charges and ad
vised him to tell everything. Mr.
Fall replied, he said, that he had
nothing more to tell.
The president’s secretary said Mr.
McLean and Fall were, at Palm
Beach at th'e time while he was
there in December and January and
that he had conversations with them
but they were not “private, confi
dential” talks.
Slemp told the committee he met
Fall only at lunch or dinner ‘‘some
three or four times,” before Senator
Walsh, Democrat, Montana, arrived
at Palm Beach ,to examine Edward
B. McLean, publisher of the Wash
ington Post.
Was Not on Mission
“I want the committee to know.”
he said, ‘‘that I was not down there
on any mission for anybody, but for
my health and recreation.”
Slemp testified that the oil matter
was not discussed generally at his
meetings with Fall and McLean, but
he did ask the former interior sec
retary what the facts were.
"Young man, read the record,
Slemp quoted Fall as replying, "I
have said all 1 have to say on the
subject.”
I Slemp said that after Senator
Walsh was at Palm Beach he ad
vised Fall to tell the committee "all."
The witness said he would have
to "treat as cQnfidential ’ any re
ports he made to the White House
on McLean’s testimony at Palm
Beach.
Slemp asserted also that he han
not talked to any member of
oil committee “about this case.”
He said he never had met Harry
F. Sinclair or E. L. Doheny, and
never had any communication direct
ly or indirectly with either of them.
The committee set out after the
I week’s recess in its public hearings
I to determine whether administration
officials or individual members of the
committee itself had communicated
with persons involved in the scandal
since about the middle of Decem
ber.
At the reopening of the oil com
mittee public hearings today, Chair
man Lenroot read into the record
a letter from E. L. Doheny. demand
i ing that Senator Wheeler, Demo
I crat, Montana, be called to testify
as to his statements on the floor of
' the senate that Attorney Genera!
' Daugherty was a friend of Doheny.
Marine ‘Corpse’ Rides
Nailed Inside Casket
I / To Father’s Bedside
’ DALLAS, Tex., Feb. 25.—William
Baker, private in the marine corps
stationed at San Diego, Cal., rode
into the Union station here today
nailed inside a coffin.
The young leatherneck arrived
I safely laid out in a' pine box in the
i baggage coach of a Santa Fe pas-
I senger train. Trainmen who suspect
ed the "corpse” they were hauling,
ripped the lid off the box and turned
' the "body” over to authorities.
Baker said he ran out of money
at Prescott, Ariz., and had a stranger
at the station nail on the lid and
i ship'him c. o. d.
“I bad to come home to my fathet
I who is very ill,” he said.
Coolidge Opposes
Additional Pension
Drain on Treasury
I WASHINGTON. Feb. 25.—Presi
dent Coolidge told ranking Republic
an members of the house pensions
committee todav that he was op
posed to enactment at this time cf
| any pension legislation involving
1 any considerable drain on the public
Itreasurv.
Among the measures hetors the
! committee is a proposal by Repre
[ tentative Fuller to increase pensions
of Civil war veterans from SSO to
■ $72 a month, and of widows of Civil
war veterans from S3O to S4O a
1 month, which would involve an addi
i tional annual expenditure of $42.-
000.000.
Drops Dead With Book
Os Prayer m Hand
NASHVILLE. Tenn., Feb. 25.
i Frank H. Burk, aged 71. en route
home from early mass at St. Mary s
■ Catholic Cathedral dropped dead in
front of the Hermitage hotel here
Sunday while clasping a prayer
book b’ his hard. He was horn In
Ireland, but immigrated tc th*
■ United Slates when young. A ,
Wor Id News
Told In
Brief
PARIS. Bulgarian legation de
clares everything is quiet in Bui
gar la.
TARBES. France. Earthquake
shock, lasting ten second, damages
buildings and causes panics.
ROME. —King Victor Emmanuel,
ill from influenza, shows decided im
provement.
ROME.—Premier Mussolini and
the Jugo-Slav minister exchange rat
ifications of treaty making Fiume
Italian territory.
COLUMB US., Ohio. James M.
Beck, solicitor general of United
States, denounces effort being made
to oust Attorney General Daugherty.
WASHINGTON.—Theodore Roose
velt is chosen as edlegate fr i Nas
sau county, New York, to Repub
lican national convention.
NEW YORK.—Edward R. Stet
tinius, member of J. P. Morgan &
Co., goes to hospital in New Yo:k
City for another operation.
LOS ANGELAS. William G. Mc-
Adoo again asks that all guilty per
sons in the oil lease revelations be
punished.
CAIRO. Egyptian authorities
force entrance into Tutankhamun’s
tomb in absence of Howard Carter
and find sarcophagus undisturbed.
WASH wenty Demo
cratic members of national house of
representatives unite in statement
opuposing the rigidly restrictive
Johnson immigration bill.
PARIS. —Myron T. Herrick. Amer
ican ambassador, and Count Charles
D. Chambrun, descendant of Lafay
ette, speak at Washington’s birthday
banquet.
WASHINGTON?—An earthquake
of moderate intensity approximately
2,100 miles away registers for 21
minutes on Georgetown Unversity
seismograph.
PERTH AMBOY, N. J.—Fire dam
ages rare collection of books and
manuscripts, including letters of
Washington. Burr and Franklin,
with an estimated loss of SIOO,OOO.
MERIDA, Yucatan.—Revolution
ary headquarters’ statement says a
seriousr split Impends between Pres
ident Obregon, of Mexico, and Gen
eral Calles, his principal supporter.
SULPHUR, Okla.—Designation of
Decembe 28. birthday of late Wood
row Wilson, as a national holiday, is
favored in resolution of Oklahoma
League of Young Democrats.
WASHINGTON. President and
Mrs. Coolidge attend services at
Christ church, Alexandria, Va.,
where Washington was for many
years a vestryman.
PEORIA. 11l. —Senator James A.
Reed opposes League of Nations,
world court and all other agencies
for co-operation by United States in
world affairs.
MARION Ills. Citizens of
Williamson county issued denial that
S. Glenn Young, dry worker and
paid Ku Klux Klan leader, has been
requested to leave country.
TAMPA. Dr. A. A. Murphree,
urged by William Jennings Bryan as
Demociatic presidential nominee,
will not allow his name to go on
Florida ballot in primary.
WASHINGTON? Adolfo de la
Huerta, Mexican revolutionary lead
er, says in message to agents here
federal losses for last month have
been four times those of rebels, and
forecast marches on Mexico City.
NEW YORK.—A charge of $lO a
minute will be made of political cam
paigners who wish to reach a radio
audience thro rgh broadcasting sta
tion WEAF, officials in charge of
station said.
LONDON.--Co-operation of Great
Britain, Frame and Germany is
urged by Win-ton Spencer Churchill,
speaking at dinner in honor of Am
bassador Frank B. Kellogg, and
Mrs. Kellogg.
M ASIIINGTON. President Cool
idge in radio address from White
House appeals to American people to
accept responsibilities and sacrifices
needed io make enduring the institu
tion which Washington established.
CHICAGO.—Jessie Reed, who re
cently was erroneously reported en
gaged to Russel Colt, divorced hus
band of Ethel Barrymore, is mar
ried to William F. Young, Jr., at
Waukegan, 111.
NEW YORK. Chairman Adams,
of Republican national committee
gives formal notice that party or
ganization will insist that ' Mr.
Daugherty be proved of wrong-doing
before any sentence is pronounced
- gainst him.
OSSINING, N. Y.—Shadow of
business on the newspapers and the
circumspection <> the work of news
papermen impede the nation’s
stream of information, Frank A.
Vanderlip, the New York banker,
says m an address.
I'-OAIE. Ihe Osservatore Romano,
organ of the Vatcan, in article in
dorsing recent stand by Cardinal
Begin, archbishop of Quebec, severe
ly condemns modern dances with es
pecial mention of "shimmy" and
Camels step, and denounces
"jazz.”
NEW YORK.— Salvation Army of
ficials say orders by head of or
ganization, General Bramwell Booth,
calling upon officers to quit secret
societies and prohibiting officers
from joining them would eithei i
paralyze the American brunch or
cause it to secede.
LONDON.— a Reuters despatch
from Athens, quoting local news
papers says there are rumors of a
communist revolution and establish ■
ment of republic in Bulgaria, with i
King Boris sent into "rural se- |
ciusion,” and the premier and some I
of his ministers murdered.
PARIS. Brigadier Genera ■
Charles G. Dawes. American mem- i
her of committee of experts investi- ,
gating Germany’s situation, identi '
ties himself as the expert tc whom
Premier Poincare referred in ad
dressing chamber of deputies whet
he said expert had said “we should I
have been unable to reach our pres
ent results were you not in the |
Ruhr."
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DAUGHERTY’S IMPEACHMENT URGED
IN SENATE BY BORAH AS COMMITTEE
SUMMONS SLEMP IN “LEAK” PROBE
ATTORNEY GENERAL
ASSAILED IIH DEBATE
FOB NOT RESIGNING
Fight Is Expected Monday
on Resolution to Investi
gate Official Acts of Cab
inet Storm Center
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23—The
fight to oust Attorney General
Daugherty, which has proceeded in
private conferences for several days
among Republican leaders, today
again broke openly In the senate.
Senator Borah, Republican, Idaho,
and Senator Robinson, of Arkansas,
the Democratic floor leader, joined in
an attack on Mr. Daugherty, agree
ing that all responsibility for his re
maining in the cabinet must be as
sumed by President Coolidge. Mr.
Borah added that he was prepared
to "join with any one in laying
a foundation for impeachment pro
ceedings.”
The senate flare-up was the only
open development today in the fight
on the attorney general.
Next Monday when the senate re
convenes the plan for a committee
investigation of Mr. Daugherty and
the department of justice will be re
newed. The leaders agree that the
resolution of inquiry of Senator
Wheeler, Democrat, Montana, ulti
mately will be adopted but it is un
certain whether it can be brought to
a vote Monday.
Daugherty’s Friends Combative
Immediate action on the resolu
tion under the senate rules would
require unanimous consent and this
probably will be denied, meaning
the delay of a vote until Tuesday,
or even later, if extensive debate
should develop.
Considerable discussion is regard
ed as not improbable, inasmuch as
the friends of Mr. Daugherty are
in a more combative mood since
Chairman Adams, of Ihe Republican
national committee, gave his support
publicly to the position taken by the
attorney general.
Controversy in the senate consid
eration of the Wheeler resolution
promises to revolve about the clause
for selecting the investigation com
unittee personnel. Virtually all Re
publican leaders are united in oppo
sition to it a s drawn.
Seriate discussion today of Mr.
Daugherty was opened by Senator
Robinson who criticized Chairman
Adams’ statement opposing the
resignation of the attorney general.
Attack Made By Robinson
Declaring that Mr. Adams was
seeking to confuse the issue by mak
ing both the Daugherty case and
the oil scandal appear to be political
in character, Senator Robinson reit
erated that Mr. Daugherty had lost
public confidence and ought to be
replaced. With thousands of federal
secret service operatives at his com
mand, Mr. Daugherty, he argued,
could hamper and embarrass the
senate inquiry.
Senator Borah declared that Mr.
Daugherty should resign immedi
ately "in the public interest.” This,
the Idaho senator said, required a
personal sacrifice by Mr. Daugherty
in order that the public might have
confidence in the head of the de
partment charged with the respon
slbility for action, not only in the
oil cases, but in matters relating
to the veterans’ and other bureaus.
There were many indications to
day of a stiff fight in the launch
ing of the investigation under the
Wheeler resolution. Senator Wheeler
and his associates were busy collect
ing ammunition, while the attorney
general also was reported to be pre
paring for the expected assaults.
Republicans Hopeful
Some Republican leaders were
hopeful that action bv Mr. Daugh
erty might at the eleventh hour
avoid the open contest, under the
belief that Senator Wheeler would
be content to drop his resolution
should Mr. Daugherty in the mean
time resign. The attorney general,
however, gave no indication of any
change in I s position, and there
was no sign of further immediate
development from the White House
Republican senate leaders who
have * advised President Coolidge of
their belief that, in the general in
terest, the attorney general should
offer his resignation, also appeared
content to let the matter rest in the
hands of the president and Mr
Daugherty, and allow events to take
their evident co’’ —* so far as the
senate is concerned.
Senator Borah in his address to
day. stated his views frankly, and
as they were reported to have been
given President Coolidge and Mr.
Daugherty in a White House con
ference last Sunday evening. In
fact, his address was said to have
been one of contemplating-just be
fore Senator Lodge, of Massachu
setts, the Republican leader, and
Senator Pepper. Republican. Penn
sylvania. went to the White House
and advised the executive that Mr.
Daugherty ought to be replaced. At
that time Senator Borah was sain
to have agreed to withhold the ad
dress in the nope that results sat
isfactory to his views would come
from the meeting of the senate lead
ers with the president.
Wounded Man Shoots
N. C. Farmer to Death
HIGH POINT N. C.. Feb 23
William Wald. Davison countv
farmer, was shot to death and a
neighbor. Butler Myers, was proba
bly fatally wounded near the home
of Myers, six miles south of Thom
asville, late this afternoon, accord
ing to advices received bv local po
*ice.
Myers admitted to the police, thev
said, that he fired the shot that I
killed Ward but claims- he did rm*
’-iv. h:« g::n yntil c.ftci he hac
been shot by Ward.
GETTING AN EARFUL
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WILSON WILL GIVES
ESTATE TO WIDOW;
DAUGHTER SHARES
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25. The
will of Woodrow W'ilson, filed so. 1
probate today, leaves the estate to
his widow, Mrs. Edith Bolling Wil
son, with the exception that his
daughter, Margaret Wilson, shall re.
ceive an annual income of $2,500 as
long as she remains unmarried.
A request in the will calls upon
Mrs. W’ilson to distribute among Mr.
Wilson’s daughters such articles of
clothing, jewelry, personal memen
toes and art works that may have
belonged to their mother, the first
wife of the former president.
Under the will, Mrs. Wilson is to
retain the estate during her life,
and the unexpended portion at her
death is to be distributed among Mr.
Wilson’s daughters.
The will was opened February 13,
according to a notation on the en
velope. in the presence of Mrs. W’il
son. Margaret Wilson, Eleanor W’il
son McAdoo, W. G. McAdoo and E.
W. W’hite, the attorney who filed it.
Annuity for Daughter
The will reads:
"I will and devise all my property,
real and personal, after the payment
of any just debts that may consti
tute a claim upon it at th£ time of
my death, to my beloved wife, Edith
for her lifetime with the request
that she distribute among my daugh
ters such articles of clothing, jew
elry, personal ornament or art mate
rial as may have been the persona;
belongings of their omther. and witn
the direction that my daughter, Mar
garet, shall receive out of the in
come of my estate so long as she
remains unmarried the sum of ?2.5J0
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Atlanta, Ga,, Tuesday, February 26, 1924
Poor but Dishonest
Burglar Makes Tax
Return in St. Paul
ST. PAUL, Minn., Feb. 23.—Bur-
I glars may not obey the command-
I ment, "Thou shall not steal,” but at
least one in St. Paul obeys the in
come tax law.
This honest burglar today submit
ted an income tax return by mail to
L. M. Willcuts, local collector of in
-1 ternal revenue, claiming $2,500 ex
emption because he is married, and
. paying one dollar tax. four per cent
of the remaining $25 of his last
year’s income.
! The burglar explained in his re
turn and in the letter that accom
t panied it that he only "took in” $2,-
525 last year because business was
[ dull and illness compelled him to go
■ on a part-time basis.
Authorities are wondering what
. this conscientious burglar "takes in”
when he is on full time.
• annually unless that amount should
at any time exceed one-third of the
entire annual income of my estate;
in which case she shall receive one
third of the income.
“Upon the death of my beloved
wife, Edith, it is my will and direc
' tion should she die without issue
■ j that the whole of my estate, real
■ ; and personal or so much of it
[ shall remain unexpended or india
| persed. shall revert to - my children,
i share and share alike and that
I should she die leaving issue, her
I child shall inherit share and share
■ alike with my daughters.”
No Estimate Given
■ The document was dated May 31,
1917. It was witnessed by Helen
I Woodrow Bones, a cousin of the tes
’ ! tator, I. H. Hoover, chief usher at
the White House, and Ralph M. Rog-
[ ers. formerly an usher there. Mrs.
Wilson is named as executrix.
I The value of the estate is not
I given and Attorney White declined
- ! to place an estimate on it at this
> I time.
On the envelope which contained
•[ the will.is written, in the handwrit-
• | ing of Mr. Wilson, the words: “Last
will and etestament of Woodrow W:1
i I son.”
M'MTOETO
RACE AGAINST COX
in OHIO PBI«
COLUMBUS, 0., Feb. 23.—Politi
| cal activity in Ohio, almost dormant
during the past several weeks, to
day underwent a rejuvenation.
Developments of the day included:
Official filing with Secretary of
State Brown of the declaration of
candidacy of President Coolidge.
Announcement that William G.
McAdoo would carry his fight for
the Democratic presidential nomi
nation into Ohio and make a de
termined effort to capture the Buck
eye delegates.
Official ruling by Secretary of
State Brown requiring candidates
for delegate to the national conven
tion to obtain the written consent
of the presidential candidate whom
they wish to support before they
may enter the primary. This ruling
reverses rulings of two previous
state secretaries and closes the dele
gate lists to those selected 'by the
managers of the various presiden
tial 'candidates.
Definite entrance of James A.
White, former superintendent of the
Ohio Anti-Saloon league, in to the
contest for the Republican guberna
torial nomination, op a plqtform
which Included law enforcement and
tax reduction'.
Hylan Says He’ll Repeat
If Populace Wants Him
NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Mayor
John F. Hylan is willing to head the
Democratic administration of New
York City for another term "if the
people want me,” he said in reply
to a telegram of H. F. Gunnison, of
the Brooklyn Eagle.
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SENATORS RESUME
STRUGGLE TO OUST
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Early Announcement From
White House Foreseen
After Conferences Among
Party Chieftains
WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Some
1 definite pronouncement from admin
istration quarters regarding the con
troversy over Attorney General
Daugherty was forecast today as the
senate assembled to consider the
resolution for a sweeping inquiry
into Mr. Daugherty’s administration
of the department of justice.
President Coolidge was represent
ed by those in his confidence as still
without a. definite decision regarding
the demands for the attorney gen
eral’s resignation. An adjustment
of the situation without great delay,
however, was said to be believed by
the president to be possible.
The executive is continuing to
take counsel from Republican lead
ers in and out of congress. Last
night he had another conference
with Senator Borah, Republican,
Idaho, who in the senate last week
openly urged the resignation of Mr.
Daugherty as a personal sacrifice
in the public interest. Senator Borah
today declined to discuss his con
ference With the president beyond
I indicating that it referred again to
Mr. Daugherty.
Seeks Compromise
In other quarters it was said the
president might work out some solu
tion which would not make a sac
rifice of Mr. Daugherty, and yet
would meet the situation which some
of his party leaders say requires sub
stitution of an attorney general who
would meet with a greater share of
public confidence.
Among plans reported under con
sideration was a suggestion that Mr.
Daugherty might present His resig
nation effective a month or two in
the future, and meantime present
his case before the proposed senate
investigating committee. This would
allow him to answer all charges
prior to his leaving the cabinet and,,
some Republican leaders believe, re
lieve him of retiring ‘‘under fire.”
After a call at the White House
today John T. Adams, chairman of
the Republican national committee,
reiterated his willingness to submit
ney general should resign while his
official acts are under attack in con
gress.
"If we let men be forced from of
fice by mere accusations,” lie said,
“blackmail and blackguardism will
become a most popular occupation in
the country until decent men are
driven from public life.”
Daugherty Card Promised
Another public statement from Mr.
Daugherty, as a part of his plan to
carry his fight to the country, may.
be issued tomorrow. It was said to
day he was preparing again to reply
to his senate critics and publicly
reitearted his willingness to supmit
to a complete investigation by con
gress.
It appeared likely that senate ac
tion on the investigation resolution
of Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, would be impossible at today’*
session. A number of senators want
ed to speak on the resolution, and
Senator Wheeler meantime con
tinued his discussions with Repub
lican leaders over the personnel of
the investigating committee.
Action on the resolution was pre
vented last week because of the pro
vision incorporated in it naming
the special committee to conduct the
inquiry, and Senator Wheeler, Dem
ocrat, Montana, who introduced it,
was prepared when the senate con
vened today to modify this feature
in such away as to permit election
of the inquiry personnel by the
chamber. He said he was determined
to make a fight, however, to have
Senator Brookhart, of lowa, Repub
lican-insurgent, selected as chairman
despite the opposition of organiza
tion Republican leaders. His other
suggestions for the committee mem
bership—Senators Jones, of Wash
ington, and McLean, of Connecticut,
Republicans, and Ashurst. of Ari
zona, and himself, Democrats—have
i aroused no serious opposition.
Borah at White Mouse
A large volume of reports have
come to Senator Wheeler *mice he
introduced his resolution, and it will
take him some time to sort and as
similate these before he will be ready
for the inquiry to begin. He will
present his side of the case first,
and will insist that the attorney gen.
eral appear in person when given an
opportunity to reulv.
Senator Borah, Republican Idaho,
who said in the senate Saturday he
was ready to help lay a foundation
for impeachment proceedings againsrt
the attorney general, conferred with
President Coolidge again last nighr
at the White House. The visit is
understood to have been at Mr. Cool
idge’s invitation and they talked
over the suggestions made in Mr.
Borah’s senate speech.
There was nothing to indiciat*
what position the president has
take n.
E. Y. Clarke Case Set
For Trial in Texas
HOUSTON. Tex., Feb. 25.— The
case of Edward Young Clarke, of
Atlanta, former imperial giant of the
Ku Klux Klan, whose home is in
Atlanta, was set today in federal
court for March 10 over the protest
of his lawyer, who stated Clarke
might be needed in Washington at
that time in the Peddy-Mayfield con
test. The case against Clarke
ehargeg violation of the Mann act.