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UNDERWOOD CAUSE
IS OHGED BY HEFLIN
IN CAPITOL SPEECH
An eloquent plea, for the support
of Senator Oscar W. Underwood, ot
Alabama, in the Georgia presidential
preference primary next Wednes
day, was made in the house of rep
resentatives chamber of the state
capitol Saturday night by Mr. Un
derwood's colleague, Senator J.
Thomas Heflin. Senator Heflin was
greeted by a large and enthusiastic
audience, and was frequently ap
plauded.
Senator Heflin declined to make
an attack on any opponent of Sen
ator Underwood, when called upon
by someone in the audience to do so.
“I do not have to assail the char
acter or actions of any other candi
date in presenting the cause of
Oscar W. Underwood to the voters
of the Democratic party,” Senator
Heflin replied. "Personally, I like
Mr. McAdoo. I have made four
speeches in Georgia—this is my
fifth.—and I haven’t said anything
against Mr. McAdoo, nor am I going
to. However, I believe that the logi
cal man to lead the Democrats in
the next, election is Oscar W. Under
wood, of Alabama. He has led them
in the house, he has led them in the
senate, and he will lead them to
victory.”
Senator Heflin devoted his ad
dress to a vigorous attack on the
Republican party, and a review of
the record of Senator Underwood as
Democratic leader in the house and
senate of the national congress. He
declared that the south has proved
its ability to produce statesmen and
national leaders, having furnished
the country with the three greatest
presidents in history—Thomas Jeff
erson, James Madison and Woodrow
Wilson. The reference to Mr. Wilson
was warmly applauded.
G. O. P. Record Assailed
“Grover Cleveland stated the po
sition of the Democratic party when
he declared that a public office is
a. public trust, but the Republicans
regard a. public office as a private
snap,” Senator Heflin declared, in
launching an attack on the record
of Republican administrations, past
and present. He asserted that the
Republican party has always been
controlled by Wall Street and preda
tory wealth.
“G. O. P. no longer stands for
the Grand Old Party,” the speaker
stated. “It is now the Grand Oil
Party that is Going Out of Power.
AU other parties that have sprung
up against the Democrats are al
ready dead, with the exception of
the Republican party, and we are
going to bury it this fall with a
teapot dome tied around its neck.”
Turning to the record of his col
league, Senator Heflin declared that
Senator Underwood wrote the most
scientific tariff bill in all history,
putting luxuries under heavy tar
iff and necessities on the free list;
led the fight for the federal reserve
banking system that stopped 21
Wall Street millionaires from fleec
ing the farmers through forced
panics; supported Governor Well
born, of the Atlanta Federal Re
serve bank, in opposing the progress
ive interest rate injected into the
reserve system by the Republicans
after they regained power; defeated
the effort of the Republicans to sell
the merchant marine to private in
terests at a loss of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars; led the fight for the
restriction of immigration, and di
rected the passage of the farm loan
bill, giving farmers from 35 to 40
years to pay mortgages on their
land.
“When the so-called anti-lynch
ing bill was passed by the house
and sent over to the senate, it was
Oscar Underwood who told the. Re
publican leaders that if they tried
to force that bill through, there,
wouldn’t be any legislation passed
at that session,” Senator Heflin
stated.
Referring to the alleged plunder
ing of coal, oil and timber reserves
by the Republican party, Senator
Heflin declared that “poor old fat
head Denby” qualified for his fu
ture cabinet position when he voted,
as a member of the congressional
investigating committee, to exoner
ate Ballinger in Alaskan transac
tions with the Guggenheim interests.
Worst Scandal in History
“The Teapot Dome deal is the
worst, scandal in the history of the
United States government, and we
must fight and fight on until the
rascals ore turned out and the
standards of common honesty again
erected in the temple of justice,”
Senator Heflin declared, in conclu
sion. “There is rottenness through
out the present administration, and
the trail of the serpent is over it
all."
Congressman William Bacon Oli
ver, of the Sixth Alabama district,
followed Senator Heflin with a brief
address, in which he declared that
the question mark is the symbol of
the public mind today. He stated
that the first appointments by
President Coolidge of attorneys to
represent the government in the oil
lease investigations, were chal
lenged because of remote connec
tions of the appointees with inter
ests under investigation, although
their integrity was not challenged.
He also stated that congress is
compiling a list of former govern
ment officials who are in any man
ner employed by interests that con
flict with the government in any
way, with the intention of passing
laws to prevent such connections in
the future.
Representative H. H. Riders, of
Tatnall county, president of the
Underwood campaign committee in
Georgia, introduced Senator Heflin.
Louisiana Federal Judge
Is Reported Near Death
SHREVEPORT. Da.. March 15.
Physicians attending Federal Judge
George W. Jack, of the Western dis
trict of Louisiana, at his home here,
said today his condition was critical
and that his death within the next
few days would not be unexpected.
The jti?ist. who is suffering from a
heart affection, went to California
early last summer for his health,
but began to decline and was re
turned home. He was appointed to
the federal bench in 1017 by Presi
dent Wilson, and is fifty years of
a
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! 4 to 4:39 P. M.—Music by the Howard
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1 5 P. M. —Music; Home Gardening talk
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songs and Burgess Rodtime story.
8 to 9 P. M.—Classic concert apon
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10:45 P. M. —Okeh entertainers and
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12 to 1 P. M.—-Entertainment spon
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4 to 4:30 r. M.—Music by the Howard
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5 P. M.—-Twilight serenade by Vick
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5:30 P. M. —Miss Ronnie Earnhardt's
songs and Burgess Bedtime story.
| 8 in 9 P, M.—Silent night.
10:t5 P. M. —Concert in honor of
| Canadian Rotary dub, with Masonic
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Thursday
12 to 1 P. M. —Entertainment.
4 to 4:30 P. M.—Music by the Howard
| theater orchestra.
5 P. M. —News, markets, nine-year-
I old Alta Mae Beard, reader; music.
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SCANDAL RUMORS ABOUT
WOODROW WILSON PROVED
INVARIABLY TO BE BASELESS
Partisan Politics Blamed for
"Whisperings” About War
President Which Were
Scattered Over Nation
9
RY DAVID LAWRENCE
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CHAPTER IX
OF no phase of Woodrow Wil
son's life was there less actual
knowledge and at the same
time more misrepresentation, than
the personal side. The true story
has never appeared in print largely
because there never was an occasion
to take public notice of that which
originated in partisan politics.
Almost from the beginning of his
political career Mr. Wilson could not
bring himself to believe that what
he did in the privacy of his home,
what the members of his family did,
whom he entertained and whom he
did not, was of any business to the
newspapers or the public. On more
than one occasion he exhibited in
dignation over the inquiries of the
press relative to his personal plans
from day to day—he never did be
come accustomed to the fact that
just as the secret service men were
constantly in the company of a presi
dent of the United States, so also the
representatives of the large press as
sociations must keep their eyes on
their president or at least know
where he is every minute of the day.
One of the reasons for this espio
nage was a practical one. Strange
as it may seem, there develops every
now and then a rumor that the presi
dent of the United States has been
assassinated. Unifees it can be in
stantly investigated, the rumor trav
els onward. Just what the source
of these rumors really is no one has
ever determined, although newspa
per men suspect that the rumors are
originated by persons who are inter
ested in playing the stock market
and hope that the rumor will gain
currency and that the stocks will be
affected before the truth can be de
termined. Perhaps the author is
superstitious, but in his experience
m trailing presidents for a large
news association nothing ever hap
pened except on those few occasions
when the newspaper men took a
chance and left their assignment, be
lieving all was well.
In Auto Accident
Not a newspaper man was with
Mr. Wilson, for instance, when he
motored from Red Bank, N. J., to
Princeton on the Saturday night be
fore he was elected president of the
United States. His automobile struck
an obstacle, and he was painfully in
jured. At another time when Mr.
Wilson had become a presidential
nominee he objected to being follow
ed to New York one afternoon by
a squad of newspaper men. He said
he did not mind one man being se
lected to act for the group. The au
thor went to New York with Mr. Wil
son who, for some peculiar reason,
insisted upon taking street cars in
traveling the long route from the
railroad station to the University
club. As he alighted from a street
car at Madison avenue he stepped in
front of a truck and some one
caught his arm in time to prevent
an accident. Needless to say I tried
to convince Mr. Wilson that he
would never be in personal danger
if he permitted the newspaper cor
respondents to accompany him. His
ideas on the subject, however, never
changed.
But after all, the newspaper men
did keep close tabs on Mr. Wilson’s
movements after he came to the
White House or cheeked up with the
secret service men whenever pos
sible.
When Mr. Wilson first came into
national prominence in the cam
paign for the presidential nomination
in the months preceding the Balti
| more convention, his personal life
was the srbject of a. penetrating in
. vestigation on the part of a chain
i of newspapers who were interested
I in advocating the candidacy of an-
I other man. The investigators nat
■ urally went to the little town of
i Princeton to search for something in
I Mr. Wilson s private life which
j would lend itself to scandalous expos-
I ure. They supposed that Mr, Wil
! son’s enemies in Princeton would- be
I the first to disclose facts which
I would be damaging to his political
i future but they were mistaken.
Sought to Buy “Scandal”
“Otte of these newspaper men came
> to me and offered a large sum of
10:45 I'. M. Entertainment by the
Atlanta chapter. Order of Deitolay,
featuring the Whiteway orchestra.
Friday
12 to 1 P. M.—EntertMwment.
4 to 4:30 P. M.- -Music by the How.
aid theater orchestra.
5 P. M.—Twilight serenade by Vick
Myers' Melody orchestra, news and
markets.
5:30 P. M.—Miss Bonnie Barnhardt's
songs and Burgess bedtime story.
8 to r. M.—Roy A. Lay's Synco
pators, colored jazz band.
10:45 P. M.—Darky's spirituals by
colored choir No. 1, Big Bethel A. M. F.
church.
Saturday
12 to I P. M.—University of Georgia
Instrumental Four.
4 to 4:30 P. M. —Musig by ths Howard
theater orchestra.
5 r. M.—University of Georgia Bull
dog orchestra, new* and markets.
5:30 P, M.—Miss Bonnie Barnhardt’s
songs ami Burgess bedtime story.
i 8 to 9 P. M.—Operatic night, featur
ing comic opera numbers, presenting
Signor Emilio Volpt's gretid opera quar
tet, sextet, chorus and soloists, includ
ing Nora Allen, John Hinton, the "South
Georgia Mocking Bird," and others.
10:45 P. M.—Entertainment presented
by the Princeton university alumni.
11:15 P. M.—University of Georgia
Glee band and Instrumental club, and
University of Georgia quartet, J. Brooke
Johnston, director; message by Mrs. C.
V. Hohenstein, announcing aeries of lec
tures by Edward Tomlinson.
money,” said a Princeton professor
to the author in 1912, “If I would
write an article even hinting that
Mr. Wilson's personal conduct in
Princeton had been improper. You
know how bitterly I despise Wood
row Wilson, but I told that news
paper representative I not only
would not write anything for him
but that there was nothing to
write.”
The pursuit of something that
would be injurious did not end.
Through some irresponsible source
the newspaper representative learn
ed that Mr. Wilson had at one time
engaged in a correspondence with a
woman of brilliant intellect. This
was promptly magnified entirely out
of its proportion anor was whispered
about the corridors of the Democratic
National convention at Baltimore.
But it failed to hurt Mr. Wilson’s
candidacy.
Inasmuch as Baltimore is only a
short distance from Washing-ton and
there were Republicans in close
touch with the gossip of the Demo
cratic convention, certain Republi
cans who heard the rumor began
talking about it and wondered if it
were worth investigating further.
The investigation was made and dis
closed nothing improper and the mat
ter was dropped.
One of the highest officials of the
Republican administration then in
power subsequently told the author
that in a sual conversation with
Dean And. _ v F. West, Mr. Wilson’s
arch-enemy in Princeton, the latter
had said in 1912 that the gossip at
Baltimore was absurd and. was al
together news to the people who had
known Mr. Wilson for twenty years
or more in Princeton.
Invited to White House
When Mr. Wilson wag elected
president, he took Mrs. Wilson and
his family to Bermuda for a rest.
They occupied the cottage of the
woman who had been mentioned as
the recipient, of attention from Mr.
Wilson in earlier days. She was not
in Bermuda at the time. When the
president-elect and Mrs. Wilson re
turned to New York they motored
from the dock to the hotel where
their hostess of Bermuda was mak
ing her home. Mrs. Wilson on at
least two occasions later invited her
to the White House for luncheon.
The correspondence which sprung
up was typical of Mr Wilson’s gen
eral attitude toward old friends. He
frequently discussed public matters
in his letters and found a means of
self expression in these communica
tions. It was an inspiration to him
to write. He made no especial secret
of his fondness for letter writing.
These mental adventures took him
as completely out of his day’s bur
dens and responsibilities as a good
detective story or a game of golf
proves diverting to so many men
nowadays.
From 1912 until the latter part
of 1915 not a word was heard about
this episode. But when announce
ment wag made of Mr. Wilson’s
prospective marriage to Mrs. Galt,
there was a noticeable revival of the
old gossip. At one time the renewal
of this campaign was attributed to
German sympathizers who were par
ticularly bitter because of Mr. Wil
son’s alleged anneutrality. By the
time the 1916 presidential contest
was in full swing, the same rumors
which had been heard in 1912 had
been so widely distributed that hard
ly a part of the United States was
immune from the whispering cam
paign. The author in his canvass
of political sentiment from coast to
coast in 1916 visited many states
and invariably was asked what ef
fect the widespread discussion ot
Mr. Wilson’s personal life was hav
ing in other states.
The Democratic national campaign
committee was fully aware of the
effort to damage Mr. Wilson’s can
didacy but was powerless to meet
the accusations by any direct means
except to point to his exceptionally
happy home life.
Death Broke Bond
Nothing but the death of Mrs. El
len Axson Wilson in August 1914
broke the bond which had existed
between these two people since they
first became engaged in 18S3. Mrs.
Wilson gave her whole life and en
ergy to her husband, standing de
votedly at his side through the
strain of his many battles at Prince
ton and through the trying days
when his health broke for the pres
sure on him was so great that he
twice suffered a serious breakdown
before he came to the White House.
Just what was the true source of
the effort to hurt Mr. Wilson by a
campaign against his persrmal life
will probably never be known. That
it was malicious cannot be doubted.
For instance, about a year after the
death of Mrs. Wilson, on the night
before Thanksgiving day. 1915, sev
eral of the more important newspa
per bureaus in Washington were
called on the telephone and mys
teriously given a tip to the effect
that important court proceedings
had been filed involving Mr. Wilson.
The newspaper men could not afford
to ignore the information and yet
they disbelieved it. Many of them
spent the better part of a week in
vestigating the story and found it
baseless .
Dissatisfied with this, the rumor
mongers tried another tack and in
sisted that prominent lawyers knew
the circumstances., Every lawyer
named was visited, but none knew
anything about it. The fact was. the
story was made out of a whole cloth
CURTIS 0. WM.
CALIFORNIA JURIST,
NAVY'S NEW CHIEF
Thirteen Lucky Number
For New Naval Secretary
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,
March 14. —Thirteen, shunned by
the superstitious, is a number as
sociated with the luckiest events
in the life of Curtis D. Wilbur,
to be secretary of the navy. As
evidence that the “thirteen jinx
is the bunk,” as he remarked last
night, Judge Wilbur explained;
He was married on the 13th,
He took his bride to live at
1313 Winifred street, Los An
geles.
He was admitted to the prac
tice of law on the 13th.
He was inducted into office as
chief justice of the state supreme
court on January 13.
He was appointed secretary of
the navy on March 13.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 14.
Chief Justice Curtis D. Wilbur, of
the California supreme court, today
prepared to lay aside the ermine
of his office to take up the weightier
duties of the post of secretary of the
navy.
Tendered the office by telegraph
late last night, Justice Wilbur re
sponded, accepting the portfolio sur
rendered by Edwin T. Denby last
Monday. He will leave for Wash
ington as soon as his appointment
is confirmed by the senate.
President Coolidge's summons to
the California jurist wag terse.
“You seem to be the man I need
for the navy,” the president tele
graphed, “am drafting you today.
Please answer.”
Within ten minutes Justice Wil
bur replied:
“I will accept the appointment,
and will come to Washington as soon
after confirmation as possible.”
He announced that he would not
resign from the California supreme
court until he had been sworn in
as naval secretary.
Chief Justic Wilbur has for many
years been one of the leading law
yers and jurists of California, and
a leader in child welfare and Sun
day school work. He was graduated
from the naval academy in 1888.
Born in Boonesboro, lowa, May
10, 1867, he was educated in the
public schools of that place and of
Jamestown, N. D. Following his
graduation from the naval academy
he came to California, taught school
for one year and entered an attor
ney’s office to study law. In 1890
he was admitted to practice. In Los
Angeles, while he was judge of the
supreme court, he organized the ju
venile court and drafted several bills
which later formed the basis for
California’s juvenile court law.
He was elected chief justice of the
California supreme court in 1922,
after having served since 1919 as as
sistant justice. He is a brother of
Dr. Ray Lyman Wilbur, president
of Stanford universitv.
NOMINATION OF WILBUR
IS SENT TO THE SENATE
WASHINGTON, March 14.—Cur
tis D. Wilbur, chief justice of the
California supreme court and a
graduate of the naval academy, has
been selected by President Coolidge
to succeed Edwin Denby, a veteran
of both the navy and the marine
corps, as head of the navy depart
ment. Judge Wilbur announced his
acceptance of the appointment last
night at San Francisco, and Mr.
Coolidge sent his nomination to the
senate today.
Judge Wilbur was tendered the
cabinet post after William S. Ken
yon, who resigned from the senate
to become a federal circuit court
judge, had declined the appointment
because he felt he lacked “essential
qualifications” for a naval secretary.
Both jurists had been considered
also in connection with the attorney
generalship, it is understood, and U
belief prevails that if Harry M.
Daugherty should resign, an offer
of his place in the cabinet would
psove more acceptable to Judge Ken
yon.
Assistant Secretary Roosevelt has
been acting secretary of the navy
since Mon lay. when Mr. Denby re
tired, and will remain in charge un
til the new secretary takes the of
fice.
Florida Convict Is
Burned to Death in
Isolation Booth
PALATKA, Fla., March 14.—Jo
seph Robertson, negro convict, was
burned to death in an isolation booth
at a county camp Wednesday night,
it was learned today.
Robertson is believed to have
started a fire at the bottom of the
booth in an attempt to burn himself
out, and the flames got beyond his
control. His screams attracted at
tention of guards, but they arrived
too late to save him.
The establishment of isolation
booths, which are three fee square,
for refractory prisoners, grew out
of the Martin Tabert case, the leg
islature abolishing the lash in favor
of this form of punishment.
for some purpose the true nature
of which probably is known only to
those 'who originated it. Sneers from
the senate cloak room were carried
to Mr. Wilson and helped to develop
certain personal bitterness with men
on Capitol hill. Occasionally Mr.
Wilson was told that one or two
newspapers had planned to attack
him in connection with the old gos
sip. Mr. Wilson was always ready
to meet the slander squarely—he
never flinched
President Wilson was not the only
occupant of the White House, how
ever, who had to contend with a cam
paign. of innuendo. AH sorts of ugly
rumors have from time to time been
current respecting the character of
our presidents, either relating to ex
cessive drinking or indulgence of one
kind or other, but they can be traced
almost always tn thn ppnple who
harbor a grudge—and there are
many persons who fancy themselves
aggrieved by the acts of public offi
cials.
(Thursday's chapter will deal with
Mr. Wilson’s attitude toward the fair
sex—why he first opposed and then
' favored woman suffrage.)
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FIGHT FILM BRIBE
STORY REITERATED
BY PICTURE MAKER
(Continued from Page 1)
been fined as those sold state
righlr.
The selling syndicate, according
to Quimby, included himself, “Tex”
Rickard, fight promoter, and the
Jack Kearns-Jack Dempsey Amuse
ment corporation. The contract
with Mu ma and his associates pro
vided for a. 50-50 division of profts,
he said, and he testified to payment
of $65,000 to Muma.
Details of the arrangements were
drawn from Quimby with mudi dif
ficulty at times and he was excused
only with a promise to submit his
books and records showing the whole
transaction. This will be gone int*
further Monday by the committee
with G. O. Holdbridge, of Baltimore,
former department of justice agent,
who today was summoned here hur
riedly while Quimby was testifying.
.Senator Wheeler, Democrat, Mon
tana, conducting the development of
the testimony read today fragments
from w’hat purported to be a report
by Holdbridge to the department of
justice regarding an investigation of
the film “deal.”
Tex Rickard in Deal
This report, presumably in the de
partment’s flies mentioned MUma
and others mentioned in the trans
action.
Quimby said he was told by Tex
Rickard that Muma "was a good
friend” of Mr. Daugherty, Edward
B. McLean and William J. Burns,
chief of the bureau ot investigation.
Muma also told him of his friend
ship with Jess Smith; and it was
under these circumstances that
Quimby went into the affair with
assurances, he said, that “every
thing would be all right.” and that
those interested would not be “dis
turbed.”
“And he (Rickard) told you that
Muma was the close friend of a
Harry M. Daugherty, Edward B. Mc-
Lean and that it could be fixed to
show them all over the country?”
Quimby was asked.
“Yes,” he replied.
Alfred R. Urion, a Washington
lawyer, said to be a friend of the
attorney general, also figured prom,
inently in the development of the
film story. The testimony was that
Urion, with Muma, arranged to have
attorneys in different states select
men to whom the films could be
sold.
Quimby reiterated that his part
only was jn making and selling the
films and not in their transporta
tion. He desisted entirely from
showing the films, he said, in De
cember. 1922, after being told by
Ralph Navarro, a New York agent
of the department of justice, that he
would be subject to prosecution for
conspiracy.
Border Irregularities
Meantime, for exhibiting the films
in New York state, Quimby asserted,
he h;id been prosecuted and fined
SI,OOO, but was told by officials in
the office of District Attorney Hay
ward and in Hayward’s presence
that he should “wait a little while”
before giving further exhibitions. He
said he waited about thirty days, re
sumed showing the pictures, and
then finally made about $75,000.
After Quimby’s testimony, com
mittee pursuit of the subject was
deferred until Monday in order to
hear testimony on gun-running and
other subjects from men who had
been waiting for several days.
Baldwin, whose home is at San
Antonio, testified that he had re
signed as department of justice
agent on the Texas border, after be
ing, as he believed, “too active” to
suit officials at Washington in his
investigations of border gun-running
to Mexican revolutionists, bootleg
ging and other cases involving Dis
trict Attorneys Zweifel and Hart
man, of Texas, and their friends.
With trim running rampant on the
border, he said, he was ordered to
close his office at Del Rio and go
to Dallas, leaving a 200-mile stretch
of border unprotected so far as the
department of justice was concerned.
His testimony, Senator Wheeler as
sured the committee, was but “a link
in a chain” of evidence by which he
expects to demonstrate that Amer
ican oil interests were behind revo
lutionary activities in Mexico.
Called Off Dry Raiders
Other high spots of Captain Bald
win's testimony were that he re
ceived orders, after making a report
on District Attorney Zweifel, to
cease investigating federal officers,
and that during the administration of
Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
the department of justice gave orders
stopping its agents from prohibition
enforcement work, an order which,
he said, was still in force.
District Attorney Zweifel was
charged by Captain Baldwin with
failing to press prosecution of Jack
Wiley, a friend, charged with im
personating a federal officer and se
curing SI,OOO. Baldwin also declared
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the matter with D. W. Dawkins, post
office inspector at Fort Worth, and
that Dawkins came here and said
later he had talked with Mr. Daugh-
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day, however, the committee issued
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District Attorney Hartman, of the
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understanding among secret serv
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official position to aid the business
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When the committee resumes
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to dig deeper into the fight film
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Gaston B. Means, as an associate
of Jess Smith in the receipt of money.
Another subpoena went out for
Thomas B. Felder, New York at
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Means for an alleged attempt to
bribe Mr. Daugherty and other offi
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his counsel and advised him against
testifying here. Felder was associ
ated with Mr. Daugherty in securing
the release from prison of Charles
W. Morse, the shipping operator.
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A. Vanderlip, former New York
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see him. instead arranging to meet
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