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OL. XXVI. NO. 75
MMON BOUGHT UP
111 of opposition.
AL JENNINGS SAYS
morose, Hays and Daugher
ley Got Lump Sums, He As-
Iserts—Oklahomian Ex-
Ipected All Public Lands
PjpASHINGTON, March 27.—The
about a big money deal at the
Republican convention in
K,was repeated with many new
of color before the oil com-
■ ttee today by Al Jennings, who
■came famous years ago as a
Kin robber and since has turned
Bangelist and politician.
■Jennings said he was passing on
Kat ha l been told him by Jake
■mon, the Oklahoma Republican
Btional committeeman who was
■led by Clara Smith Hamon late
I 1920. Briefly, Hamon’s story as
Bated by Jennings on the stand
■ay was as follows:
■that Hamon had “nominated”
Barren G. Harding for the presi
■'Cy and that it had cost him
■muon) $1,009,00(1.
■That the cost of carrying Okla
■ma for Hardipg had been $599,-
I).
■'hat Hamon had paid Harry M.
Bugherty $25,000; Senator Boies
Bnrose, of Pennsylvania, $25,000,
■j Will H. Hays, chairman of the
■publican national committee,
■ ,000.
I Had Eye on Presidency ( ,
■That Hamon was to become sec- I
■ary of the interior, and share in
B? public lands, and expected with
K money he would make to later I
Biome president.
■Jennings said he had known
■mon for a number of years and j
Id gone with him to the Chicago i
Bivention.
■ ‘We went to a room in one of
B? hotels,” the witness continued, )
■ e told me Harding would be 1
■ninated the next day and that it ,
Bd cost him a million dollars. He )
Id he. had paid $25,000 to Boies ■
Bnrose and in a conversation it ’
Is brought out in some way—l ■
Bl not be perfectly clear about it —
lit it was agreed by Mr. Daugh
■y, Will Hays, and he named
■nobody else from Ohio, that he
luld be secretary of the interior.
I said it had all been settled. He
Id Mr. Daugherty was at first
■ favor of Senator Fall for the po
■on, but that he had bought htem
I over, but that it had cost him
■lot of money to do it. That is
lut all 1 know of it.”
I Daugherty First for Fall
|T understand that Mr. Hamon
Id you that in the make-up of the
fcinet of Mr, Harding,” said Sena
lyiMlßAnecry Republicans-
E&fKIL Daugherty was in favor
■ Mr. Fall.”
FYes, biit that it had been all ar
liged that he, Mr. Hamon, was to
| secretary of the interior.”
|‘Do you think all the information
I gave you turned out with the
Ine degree of correctness as has
Ltr*
■ ’That was the whole deal and that
Is what he expected to get in on.”
■Replying to inquiries from Senator
111, Democrat, Washington, Jen
in gs said:
■ ‘He (Hamon) wanted me to head
|e of his companies. He said the
Imoerats had not left much of the
|blic land, but that he would get
le rest of it.”
■ ‘Did he speak about the oil re- (
I’ves?”
■ ‘He said public lands—nothing
mt I can remember about oil re
l-ves. He said money had beep
Iry potent in Washington, as in the
Itlying districts of the United
Bates, and that with his money he
mold be president of the United
I have talked with people
about Hamon's ex-
BHbuns, and I do not think he
pcit frem anybody.”
"Did you talk with anybody about
m being the secretary of the in
rior-?”
“No.”
Names Those Paid
“Did he say to whom he gave
iv money besides Senator Peu
se?”
"Yes, sir. Daugherty, $25,000;
i’l Hays. $25,900, and a man—is
ere a man named Manning from
ilo—well, some one in Ohio, he
ive $25,000. There was a fourth
irson.”
"Anybody else?”
“No one I can remember. Money
as used indiscriminately with the
dahoma delegation. He said it had
>st him like bell to get the New
ark delegation.”
"Did he say how much it cost?”
"No, sir.”
“I wish you would tell us in a
innected way, as well as your meiu
■y will serve you. about what was
lid concerning the acquisition of
iblic lands or the expectation of
e same.” Senator Walsh said.
“Mr. Hamon had at two or three
mes before 1 got into this mix-up
anted me to come back to Ard
ore and asked me to go in with
m in an oil deal.” replied Jennings.
L don’t, like to say it myself, but
te people rather had confidence in
e in Oklahoma, and more than one
I company had tried to use my
ime in the exploitation of compa
ies in selling stock, and Jake had
ipeatedly asked me to come in and
>rm a new company and we could
nace it with his money. The com
iiny would be perfectly legitimate.”
Opposed Jake’s Methods
"In talking about being secretary
f the interior, it was just a general
mversatioti and 1 want to be per
idly trank with you. I did not
elieve in Jake's methods. 1 had
o faith ,’n those methods. There
as one reason 1 liked him and ad
eted to his friendship. That was
ecause he was the only lawyer in
.awton who had extended his hand
> me when 1 came out of prison.
“I would have hesitated a long
ime about making the statement I
m today, I do not believe in talk
tg about anybody. I am always
ery reluctant in giving evidence
ven against a criminal. But 1 be
eve our country is really in need
f all the help it can get at this
ime.”
After Jennings concluded his story
enatois Walsh and Spencer had a
i>w over a statement credited to
cnator Spencer in a dispatch from
(Continued on Page 6, Column I)
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I LONDON. Premier Macdonald
j initiates negotiations so rsettlement
I of London transport strike.
i
VERA CRUZ. —General Calderon
! and seventy employes sail for Puerto
I Mexico to re-open the customs house.
MUNCIE, Ind.—The Independent
Klan of America, closes its first na
tional congress after electing offi
i eers.
NAPLES. —More than 100 per
sons are reported killed in landslides
along Tyrrhenian coast of Italy
south of Naples.
WASHINGTON? Condition of
Senator LaFollette. who is seriously
■ ill with pneumonia, is reported as
) improved.
ROME. More than a hundred
persons are dead, thousands home
less and many missing as result of
landslides in region of Amalfi,
Italy.
MUNICH. —Trials of General
Ludendorff. Adolph Hitler and oth
ers. charged with treason for their
part in the November “patsch” are
concluded.
WASH I NGTON. —M usical chibs of
Amherst college give, concert for
school’s most distinguished alumnus
President Coolidge, in east room of
White House.
PARIS.—The expert committee of
the reparations commission is ex
pected to submit its report on Ger
many’s economic condition next
W ednesday.
PARIS.—M. Poincare, having con
sented to form new ministry, seeks
to put into effect far-reaching
economies in government, Paris ob
servers believe.
DAYTON. Ohio. Lieutenant
Harold R. Harris, of McCook field,
reaches height of 28,411 fe|t in
plane carrying 551 pounds, unoffi
cial altitude record.
JACKSONVILLE,” Fla. Three
members of crew of converted sub
marine chaser Russ are burned
when craft, used in chasing rum
runners, explodes at. sea.
WASHINGTON.—Secretary Wil
bur approves plans for an air car
nival in which the dirigibles Shenan
doah and ZR-3 will participate this
summer at Lakehurst, N. J.
HONOLULU.—SaIes of jewelry
and art collection of late Queen
Liliuokalani, last of Hawaiian mon
archs, bring approximately $500,900
to be used for orphan girls’ home.
NEW YORK. Police seize nar
cotics valued at $750,000 in East
Side apartment, which they believe
source of supply for Calfiornia’s mo
tion picture colony, and arrest two
men.
SALEM, Mass.—Fire seriously
damaged relies in “the Witch
i+oasw.” - ohlcPff
which in 1692. Jonathan Corwin, one
of the “witch judges.” conducted
his investigations and trials.
WASHINGTON. Representative
John W. Langley, Republican, Ken
tucky. with five others, indicted
by federal grand jury charged wilh
conspiracy to interfere with opera
tion of prohibition and internal rev
enue laws.
SAN FRANClSCO.—Representa
tives of the American Legion, Amer
ican Federation of Labor and agri
cultural organizations telegraph to
President Coolidge urging laws bar
ring immigration to persons in
eligible to citizenship.
WASHINGTON. AI Jennings,
former train robber, testifies before
oil committee that the late Jake
Hamon. Oklahoma politician, spent
a million to secure Harding’s nomi
nation with view of becoming sec
retary of interior.
NEW YORK.—Frank A. Vander
lip, former banker, says he has
taken out a $1,009,000 insurance pol
icy payable to the “Citizens Federal
Research bureau.” which he has
established to investigate reports of
government negligence and graft.
NEW YORK’—Bishop William T.
Manning advises Rev. William Nor
man Guthrie, rector of the Church
of St. Marks-in-tbe-Bouwerie, that
the church will be without Episcopal
visitation or ministration, so long
as ritualistic dance programs are
continued.
IN DIA N APOLlS’—Giula nd Pow
ell. head of the Americanization de
partment of the American Legion,
says Grover C. Bergdoll, draft
evader, has been given no induce
ment to return from Germany ex
cept assurance of a fair and im
partial trial. 1
JERUSALEM.—Oscar S. Straus,
former American ambassador to
Turkey, returns from a conference
with King Hussein in which he
stressed the importance of main
taining- friendship between Jews and
Christians, a Jewish telegraphic
agency dispatch says.
NEW YORK. Dr. Win. Norman
Guthrie, rector of St. Marks-ln-The-
Bouwerie, replying to Bishop Man
ning’s denial of Episcopal visitation
and ministration because of the pro
gram of ritualistic dances. says
bishop's action is undemocratic and
that he is in error as to circum
stances.
Bandits Kill Louisianian
MONROE, La., March 27.—Adolph
Eppensteine, wealthy gas land pro
moter and proprietor of a grocery
store at Swartz, La., was killed last
night by persons believed by the au
thorities to have been members of a
robber band who looted the store
and escaped with $530 in cash.
The Weather
FORECAST JR SATURDAY
Virginia: Cloudy; unsettled and
mild temperature.
North Cm-olina, Sbuth Carolina
and Georgia: Cloudy and un'-ettled.
tollo-ved by .bowers.
Florida: Partly cloudy.
Extreme Northwest Florida. Ala
bama and Mississippi: Cloudy: prob
ably showers: mild temperature.
Tennessee and Kentucky: Showers
Louisiana: Unsettled, probably
showers.
Arkansas: Proba. / showers; eold
c.• i west portion.
Oklahoma: Colder.
East , exas: Colder in the interior.
West Texas: Generally fair, colder.
JOHNSON IS LEADING
COOLIDGE IN DAKOTA
PRESIDENT PRIMARY
McAdoo Is Three to One Vic
tor in Race on Democratic
Ticket —Johnson’s Margin
Grows
SIOUX FALLS, S. D.. March 27.
The Sioux Falls Araus Leader, which
had supported President Coolidge’s
candidacy, this afternoon declared
Senator Hiram Johnson had won the
Republican presidential indorsement
in Tuesday's primary in South Da
kota.
Returns compiled by these newspa
pers and the Sioux Falls Press, in
cluding a number of semi-official re
ports from county auditors, gave the
senator a lead of 1.743 votes over
President Coolidge when all but 150
precincts haa reported. These re
turns from 1.684 precincts out of a
few more than 1,825 in lhe state
gave Johnson 49,243 and Coolidge 38,-
500.
Coming down the final stretch as
shown in unofficial returns, John
son pushed into the least last night,
held it until early this afternoon,
when again the president forged
ahead by a 3-vote margin.
Dewey county, reporting a two-to
one advantage for the president was
responsible for the spurt on his part, ,
and showed 1,528 of the state ap
proximately 1,825 precints giving,
Coolidge 37,480 and Johnson 37,447. j
Johnson again went into the lead
as complete returns from Hutchin
son county, were nearly three to one
for the Californian, and 1,556 pre- ■
cincts gave Johnson 37,915 and
Coolidge 37,658.
Only 35 votes separated the
two when tabulation was resumed
today in one of the closest contests
South Dakota has ever known.
Senator Johnson increased his )
lead to 297 in later returns today
from another hundred precincts.
Coolidge trimmed a few votes otf
Johnson’s lead in the next 43 pre- i
cincts to report unofficial returns,
the count in 1, 512 precincts giving
Johnson 37,186 and Coolidge 36,965
a Johnson lead of 221.
In the Republican senatorial race, >
1,374 precincts gave Governor W.
H. McMaster 39,520 votes and Sen
ator Thomas Sterling 28,526.
Leading at one time by more
than 2,500 votes. President Cool
idge gradually Jost ground yester
day. His lead decreased with the
late day returns and finally he was
forced into second place by the I
Californian.
William G. McAdoo, candidate for )
the Democratic presidential prefer
ence indorsement, carried the state
ft«r. -the .fac
tion seeking to send an iinlnstruct
ed delegation to the national con
vention at New York, according to
statements by the party’s .'.fate head
quarters. These statements declared
that “reasonably complete reports’
received at headquarters, “substan
tiated completely” their claim to
victory,
MISSOURI PROGRESSIVES
INDORSE LAFOLLETTE
ST. LOUIS, March 27.—Senator
Robert M. LaFollette, of Wisconsin,
ment of the National Progressive.
League of Missouri at a meeting here
last night
"SHAMEFUI.” USE OF ( ASH
IS CHARGED BY JOHNSON
ST. LOUIS. March 27.—Senator
Hiram Johnson, of California, in a
statement here today commenting on
the South Dakota presidential pref
erence primary, charged that “if
ever an effort was made to buy an
election, it has been done in that
state.”
“In the fight in South Dakota, the
most reckless and shameless use of
money was made by the president.”
said Senator Johnson, “not only in
hiring an army of orators, but in
buying full I page advertisements in
every paper in South Dakota, ami
in utilizing circulation without stint.
Unemployment of politicians gave
way to most industrious employment
at very high salaries. There was
no purchaseable, element which was |
not-purchased, and the result is the I
largest tribute that can be paid to j
a citizenship. For if ever .an at- i
tenmt was made to buy a citizenship, j
it was made in South Dakota.
"If 1 win out there. 1 it will be I
marvelous demonstration of how the
people of the west feel' toward Mr. !
Coolidge.”
SOUTH DAKOTA ANOTHER
PROOF OF M’ADOO’S GRIP
CHICAGO. March 26.—The result
of the South Dakota primary "is
merely another proof of the fact
that 5 Tiam ioo is generally
held by the rank and tile of the
Democratic party of the United
States as the hope of progressive
democracy,” David Ladd Rockwell,
national chairman of the McAd >
campaign, said in commenting on
the primary last night.
“Certain reactionary interests
have been conducting a South
Dakota campaign against McAdoo |
f.r months,” Mr. Rockwell said. “In
South Dakota, as in Georgia and :
Missouri, every possible campaign
slander that could be imagined
agai. st Mr. McAdoo was given full
rein by the opposition.”
The voters, the statement said,
hive repudiated these insinuations
and have demonstrated faith in and
demand for McAdoo for the next
president.'
Referring to the results in Mis
souri, Georgia and the Dakotas. Mr.
Rockwell said: "The progressive
Democrats of America have already
actcf in a reliable cross-section of I
the country. They have announced)
in no uncertain terms their demand I
for M> '. and their defiance to |
his foes. That he will be nominated )
at the New York convention and
elected in November js a certainty, i
Georgia Peach Crop
Insured Against Loss
By Fire or Blizzard
HARTFORD. Conn.. March 27.
Confirmation was given today from
the home office here of an insur
ance company which issues automo
bile insurance, of reports from the
south that it had insured the peach
crop of growers represented in the
Georgia Peach Growers’ exchange.
Weather, cron, transportation and
fire hazard are covered.
DEAUTY. PAGEANTRY
EimLLTHNIS
AT PEACH FESTIVAL
'
)AdJi'?ss by Gener?.' Shanks,
Rand Music, Airplane
Stuntsand Gigantic Barbe
i
cue Also Feature Program!
RY HUNTER BELL
(Staff Correspondent of The Journal)
FORT VALLEY. Ga., March 27 —j
A parade that rivaled in beauty the j
pink-tinted paradise through which )
thousands of visitors came here to- |
day to. attend the third annual peach |
blossom festival circled the down- )
town streets this morning through )
crowdi that jammed every inch of)
standing room and made progress,
difficult. Fully 15,000 people were I
on the streets when the Central of :
Georgia railway shopmen’s band,
the forerunner of the parade, swept;
down Main street and doubled !
around the reviewing stand on which
were seated Governor Walker, )
Mayor Sims, of Atlanta: Major Gen- >
era! David C. Shanks, of the Fourth
army corps area, and a host of other i
specially invited guests.
Winning Floats
The Montezuma float was award
ed first prize of $75 by the judges.
Second prize went to the Randolph
county float and third to the Mon
ticello float. Favorable mention was
given the Central of Georgia minia
ture locomotive and car.
Two special trains arrived here)
from Atlanta during the forenoon!
and another brought hundreds from !
Macon, while the, traffic on the roads.;
leading into the city was so heavy :
that it was almost a continuous pa- )
rade of automobiles. Atlanta and ,
Macon policemen assisted Fort Vai-!
ley American Legion men and Boy!
Scouts .in handling the crowds.
Every one of the 19,590 seats in i
the big amphitheater where the pag- j
eant, “Peach of the World.” was!
given this afternoon, had been sold I
by 10:30 o’clock and people, arriving)
every moment wore asking for seats. ■
while a committee worked to pro
vide extra room.
Atlanta's Float
Atlanta’s float, a bower of white ;
.blossoms, was directly behind the
leading float on which rode Queen
•H oTerr- 7<rrnfe -rrtrd Ki n El ftp Ft'* W
ing with their corps of pages. From i
every hand, from the hundreds of i
Atlantians here, and from other |
friends from all sections of th*> state.'
came greetings and praise of the '
beauty of the float and its two love-j
ly occupants. Miss Erskine Jarna- .
gin and Miss Louise Barnwell.
Other Georgia cities represented by ;
float's were Fort Valley, Marshall- ‘
ville. Macon, Gray, Montezuma, Mon-1
ticello.y while Randolph county and i
Jones county also had colorful ve- i I
hides. A doughboy from Fort Ben- I
ning and a float typical of the work |
of the Fort Valley chapter of the
Red Cross were other high lights.
Martial Air
Three bands lent a martial air to ]
the carnival spirit that reigned in
the streets, Including one from Fort I
McPherson that arrived on the sec- I
ond Atlanta train, accompanied by a |
crack drill squad in charge of Cap
tain Bolling. The flare of khaki was
everywhere, with General Shanks as
the speaker of the day. and with
members if the governor’s staff and i
of the regular army also on hand.
Three 'army planes from Montgom- (
ery provided thrills for the crowds
waiting for the parade which was )
held up until both special trains
from Atlanta had arrived. The city (
was “bombed” with literature in the '
interest of citizens training camps.
The barbecue was served after
General Shanks speech, when the
thousands of visitors surged to the
big 'cue grounds near the scene of
the pageant, which was presented im
mediately afterward with 700 partici
pants tracing in vivid pagentry the '
history of the fruit which has '
brought fame and fortune to the '
Georgia peach belt.
Intermittent showers during the
early morning only served to settle
the dust on the highways that were '
jam 'od with automobiles before 8
o’clock, and the sun was out shortly
before 9 o'clock, when the celebration i
of south and central Georgia’s "blos
som time” opened with a band con- i
cert by the Twenty-ninth infantry, ;
in Fincher park, near lhe railroad ;
station.
General Shanks Speaks
At 11 o’clock Major General David I
C. Shanks, commander of the fourth (
tot ps area, delivered the principal
address after an introduction by Colo-■
nel Charles Leighton Shepard, gen
eral chairman of arrangements. ‘
Mayor A. C. Riley. Jr., welcomed the;
visitors to the city.
Revised estimates of the crowd ex-) c
pected caused officials to announce)
that fifty thousand could he cared
for at the mammoth barbecue |
served at noon. In the pits at the
barbecue grounds were 433 hogs 20
goats and 25 head of cattle, totaling
47,000 pounds. Four thousand gab -
ions of Brunswick stew, four thou- .
sand gallons of coffee and seven ) f
thousand loaves of bread were readj ,
for celebrants. (
Sydney j. Catts Enters
Race for Nomination
As Florida Governor
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.. March 27.
Sidney J. Catts. of DeFuniak i
Springs, today qualified with the
secretary of state as candidate in the 1
June primary for nomination as 1
governor of Florida. He held the
office for the four-year period, 1917
1921.
George A. DeCottes, of Sanford. J
qualified as a candidate for state’s j t
attorney for the Seventh judicial l
circuit. . s
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MVSTERY SHROUOS
KILLING OF MAN ON
COVINGTON HIGHWAY
COVINGTON, Ga., March 27.—The
body of Albert Spence Williams, of
Macon, was found in his car, a small
coupe, on the side of the Augusta
road, about three and halt miles
east of Covington this morning by
D. K. Hicks and Charlie Biggers, of
Covington, drivers of a soft drink
truck, who were making their daily
trip to Madison.
These men were attracted to the
car by seeing a pool of blood under
it and on investigation found Mr.
Williams dead with a bullet hole
through his head, the ball having
entered on the right side just back
of his ear and coming out on the
other side. A pistol was found in the
car.
The coroner’s jury was still out at
2 o’clock, and whether it was mur
der or suicide, remains unknown.
Young Williams was a brother of
Mrs. A. A. Aenchbacher, of Coving
ton. and was well known here,
where he had been with his brother
in-law in the bakery business until
a short time ago, when he accepted
a position in Columbus, Ga.
He "’as in Covington Wednesday
night visiting friends and was seen
leaving the Flowers hotel about 1
o’clock and getting into his coupe
with two men who have not as yet
been identified.
Mr. Williams was 24 years old and
unmarried.
Jury Hearing Granted
In Row at Reynolds
Over Preserving Trees
COLUMBUS. Ga., March 27.
That the court fight over the ques
tion of whether trees that stand i*»
the s’rects at Reynolds may be cut
down or dug up by the town offi
cials over the protests of citizens n
tercsted in preserving them, is apt
to be waged to a finish and may be
a long-drawn-out one, was indicated
late Wednesday when the question
of injunction of the town was up
before George P. Munro, of the
Chattahoochee circuit. The hear
ing was attended by the mayor and
members of council, the chief of po
lice and a number of interested cit
izens <>f Reynolds.
Judge Munro decided that th?
questions raised would have to be
threshed out before a jury.
Cotton Mill Fire
WILMINGTON, N. C., March 27.
Fire which broke out in the store
of the Delgado cotton mill here early ,
ibis morning was extinguished with
slight loss.
I
Atlanta, Ga., Saturday, March 29-, 1924 /]/\o.rch
’Boy Cuts Off Hand
That Had Offended,
Citing Bible as Guide
LOCUST GROVE, Ga., March 27.
Holding up the bleeding stump of
his right hand, Herbert Little, seven
teen, ran into his home near here
and informed the family that he
had performed the amputation in
accordance with the Biblical injunc
tion, which says “if thy right hand
offend thee, cut it off.’’
Herbert Little is the son of H. 11.
Little, well known and prosperous
citizen. He is said to have been
seeking solitude a great deal re
cently and his avoiding of people
had become noticeable. He always
took the Bible with him when set
ting out upon his solitary walks
along lonely roads.
After first aid had been adminis
tered at the home, he told his par
ents that he had read in the Bible
the passage from the Sermon on the
Mount, which reads: "If thy right
hand offend thee, cut it off.”
He explained that he understood
thia to apply literally in his own
case and therefore had taken the
hatchet and chopped off tne offend
ing member. _
Nation-Wide Inquiry
Ordered as Result of
Dyed Salmon Fraud
WASHINGTON. March 27.—The
discovery that white salmon colored
with aniline dye was being sold as
red salmon here and at Philadelphia
will result in a nation-wide investi
. gation by the bureau of chemistry
of the department of ap.iculture,
i which has be i’ instructed to take
samples of all salmon in the market
and condemn any found to have been
dyed.
Dr. Paul B. Dunbar, assistant
j chief of the bureau, said teday the I
I dye was not likely to cause more
•’ than slight illness, the principal ob
jection being the fraud involved in
coloring the inferior fish to get the
higher prices for red salmon.
Income Tax Agent
Indicted for Bribery
CLARKSDALE, Miss.. March 27.
A Barnard Stark, of Brooklyn, N.
Y., former income tax agent, was in
dicted by a federal grand jury here
Wednesday on a charge of bribery
in connection with the alleged falsi
fication of a tax report for Abbey
and Leatherman, plantation owners
at Commerce Landing, Miss.
The indictment charged that Stark |
accepted a payment of 5850 on an I
alleged bribe of 53,500 for which he '
agreed to ‘ arrange it” so that the I
amount of taxes to be paid by the ’
plantation owners would be material- i
!y reduced. The firm’s taxes 1
amounted to approximately 514,000. i
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COOLIDGE PROGRAM
TO HELP FARMERS
TO BE WORLD-WIDE
WASH IN G TON, Ma rc h 2 7.—1 n
augu ration by the federal reserve
board of a study designed to suggest
practicable methods of stabilizing in
ternational exchange and extension
of the service of the department of
agriculture have been determined
upon by President. Coolidge as two
steps in an administration farm re
lief program.
Woman Slayer Going
To Florida Asylum;
Girl to Be Released
TAMPA, Fla., March 27. —The final
j chapter was commenced today in the
I case of Mrs, Laura E. Winchester
'and her sixteen-year-old daughter,
I John Eva, formerly of Gastonia, N.
I C., in connection with the killing of
J. E. Winchester, husband and
father, March 12. An order issued
late yesterday by Julian Hazard,
county judge, would commit the old
er woman to the state insane asylum
in Chattahoochee, and place the girl
in the home of a family living near
the place in Seffner, where the man
met death.
The two women were arrested
March 12 when the girl told authori
ties she kicked and trampled her
father to death after her mother, be
coming irrational, had hit him with
a piece of pipe and forced her to
attack him. At a preliminary hear
ing Tuesday the girl was released,
when it was shown that her blows
probably did not cause her father’s
death. The mother was returned to
the custody of the sheriff pending
issuance of the order committing her
to the institution. A lunacy com
mission previously had found her
criminally insane.
j Samuel Rutherford
Urged for Congress
FORSYTH, Ga., March 27.
Friends of Samuel Rutherford, of
Forsyth, in Monroe county and
throughout the Sixth congressional
district, are awaiting with interest
his announcement whether or not
he will consent to run for congress
io succeed Congressman J. Walter
I Wise this fall. Mr. Rutherford hafi
been asked by friends throughout
. the district to run, but as yet he
; has made no announcement of his
■ intentions. Mr. Rutherford, W’ho is
l at present Monroe’s representative
j in the legislature, has served in that
capacity and also as state senator
for several terms.
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IDAUGHERTY QUITS
CABINET POSITION
UNDEfi HY FI
■Charges Piling Up Against
Attorney General .Seen to
Be Forcing Hand of the
President c
WASHINGTON, Marell 28.—Attor
ney General Daugherty resigned Fri
day morning.
His resignation, promptly accept
ed by President Coolidge, clears the
administration of the last of those
cabinet members who have become
storm centers in the oil scandal.
WASHINGTON, March - 27.—(8y
the Associated Press.) —Retirement
of Attorney General Daugherty from
the Coolidge cabinet has again been
1 brought under serious consideration
and indications today uoint to de
velopments in the near future.
President Coolidge has almost, if
not entirely, come to agreement with
many of his closest advisers that
with charges piling up dally against
Mr. Daugherty’s administration Os
the department of justice, continu
ance of the attorney general in of
fice is more of a load than any ad-'
ministration justly can be called
) upon to bear.
i Inquiries made by the president
) are understood to have failed to con
vince hint that the current business
of the department is being- admin
istered with the expedition the coun
try has a right to demand. This cir
cumstance is believed to have weigh
ed more heavily with Mr. Coolidge
! than any other factor.
Two Conferences Held
Two conferences held by the presi
dent with his attorney general yes-'
terday are understood to have been
devoted largely to a consideration of
this subject and to have brought the'
matter nearer to a head than it
ever has been before.
There is no question in the minds ,
of White House officials that the, /
senate investigation of the attorney
general has had its effect in divert-,
ing- the attention of some officials,
a tleast, away from their regular
duties in order that they may con
centrate on a defense of Air. Daugh
erty and his department.
Mr. Coolidge feels ’ at, at the pres
ent time, more than at any other in
recent years, perhaps, the chief law
officer of the government should be
in a position not only to command'
public confidence, but to give his en-i
ergies unrestrainedly to the dis
charge of public business.
There have been strong indications
that should the president actually
decide the time has come to part
company with Mr. Daugherty, &
• realg-" ’
nation may be necessary so get him
out of office. The attorney general
has taken the position that he should 1
be permitted to remain until his,
hearing before the senate committee
has been concluded.
Today Mr. Daugherty indicated
that he will have some statement to i
make during the afternoon but be-; I
fore the hour set he suddenly left
the justice department for his hotel’
without informing those in his office
what to expect.
The Daugherty investigators today)
heard Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of,
Jess Smith, go through a cross-exam-'
I ination by attorney general’s coun
sel; decided to consider whether the
attorney general’s brother, M. S. :
Daugherty, Washington Courthouse:
banker, and others of his bank
should be cifed for contempt for
failing to answer committee- sum
mons, and listened to a long recital
by H, L. Scaife, who investigated airl
craft frauds,. and who charged his
investigations were “blocked.”
Miss Stinson’s testimony was in
terrupted frequently hy clashes be
tween committee members and cbun-l
sr.l for the attorney general, mainly;
in the efforts -of the "‘counsel -to
bring out the names of five men who,'
she said Smith told her, had made;
$39,01)0,000 in oil stocks The com
mittee had no’ interest in the mat
ter, but former Senator Chamberlain
said he expected the witness to say;
one of the men was- the- "president!
of the United .States.” Senator ,
Ashurst retorted . the committee'
would not be "trapped into besmirch-'
ing the name of a man now dead.”
An executive session of the com
mlittee was "called to consider the
case of M. S. Daugherty, after the
sergeant-at-arms had reported him!
not present and Raul Howland, the
attorney general's lawyer, had said
he was not in. the city.
Scaife gave the committee a de
tailed account of his work in inves
tigating war frauds, especially the
aircraft cases, and charged that he
was “blocked” at various times in
his efforts.
Overpaid $2,000,000
The name of Mitsui & Co., Japa
nese bankers, was brought in by
Scaife, who said the Standard Air
craft corporation "owned by Mitsui
& Co.” had been overpaid $2,000,000
by the government. Mitsui & Co.
was mentioned in the testimony of,
Gaston B. Means when he was on
the stand. Means asserting a Japa
nese representative of the bankers
had handed him SIOO,OOO in a Wash
ington hotel, which he in turn gave
to Jess Smith.-.‘‘'f®
150 Garrett Institute
Students Sign Pledge
Never to Go to War
CHICAGO. March 27.—Pledges
never to participate in any act of
warfare were signed last night by
fifty students of Garrett Biblical in
stitute, at a r.u»eting of 150 students
who passed resolutions demanding
the abolition of the army, navy and
reserve officers training corps.
Meanwhile the executive commit
tee of the trustees of Northwestern
college, a German Methodist school
at Naperville, 111., not connected
with Northwestern university, de
cided to discontinue the R. O. T. C.
there on grounds that the students
ar; opposed to military service.
The pledges taken by the students
of Garrett do not represent the
teachings of the institution, Dr.
Charles M. Stuart, president, said.
Freedom of belief is one of the
tenets of the institution, he said,
and it was permissible for the
pacifi its to meet. A telegram was
read at the Garrett student meeting
from a pacifist group at Yale uni
versity. promising '-©-operation in
“the world mov.m.-nt for peace."