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MARINES TO LEAVE
SAN DOMINGO SOON
American Military Control
Will Be Withdrawn After
Ratification of Agreement.
Withdrawal of American military
control in the Dominican republic
probablv will occur next July. By
mat time it is expected the pro
visional government will have rati
fied the agreement for evacuation of
the S.OfiO marines under command of
Brig. Gen. Harry Dee, acting gover
nor, and have completed other ar
rangements required under the con
vention drafted to cover the turn
ing over of the government from
American to Dominican control.
Actual orders for the evacuation,
however, will bo issued by the Wash
ington government only after the
convention has been ratified. As
surances already have been given by
l*t>minican authorities that ratifica
tion will take place without delay or
any alteration of important provi
sions of the convention.
Parties llench Accord.
Sumner Welles. American commis
sioner in Santo Domingo, has report
ed to the State Department on the
success of the recent election in the
Dominican republic. This, he said,
marked a new and important step in
the direction and capacity of self
government and not only was the
first free election in the country, but
also was the first held without blood
shed. Political and revolutionary
factions, seldom before at peace with
one another, recently reached an ac
cord and agreed to support orderly
and constitutional government.
Must Ratify Acts.
Proposals laid down by the Wash
ington government as a basis for
withdrawal from the Dominican re
public include recognition of all acts
of the military government, specifi
cally with reference to the bond issue
of 191 S, the customs administration
sinking funds gold bond issue of 1932,
and assurances that the present cus
toms tariff will not be changed dur
ing the life of the 1922 loan without
consent of the Washington govern
ment-
Guarantees for the fulfillment of
these and other conditions are made
a part of the convention which says
“after all the steps specified have
been taken” and after the conven
tion has been ratified the military
forces of the United States “will
thereupon leave the territory of the
Dominican republic."
ADMISSION TAX REPEAL
AGREED BY SENATORS
(Continued from First Page.)
followed by Treasury estimates of
greater receipts than previously of
fered in the House.
"Next, the press advised the coun
try that the same authority had an
nounced the bonus bill would cost
nearly $5,000,900,000 instead of $2,-
100.000.000 as shown by the Degion
actuary. in arriving at this figure
numerous controverted items with i
accumulated interests for twenty
years were added.
Misrcpiepenting Pacts.
“Testimony, estimates and tax rates !
reach--d by proxy methods or such |
guesswork are wilfully unfair and i
ucered for the purpose of njisrep- |
resenting to the country .the real facts ■
in issue.”
Mr. Frear praised Representative j
D< ngworth of Ohio, the republican :
leader, and defended the latter's com- :
promise tax rate schedule which was j
adopted by the House after the re- i
•public; n insurgents had swung from]
the democratic plan to its support, .
it was knocked out by the Senate j
finance committee in favor of the |
Mellon schedule.
The Senate finance committee re- j
coived - some additional data today :
from the Army and Navy regarding !
the number of veterans entitled to I
the bonus in an effort to determine
the probable cost of the measure.
This study will he completed also
early this week. Mr. Smoot said.
Action of the House in transfer
ring from the Treasury Secretary to
the President the power of appoint
ment of members of the proposed
board of tax appeals, was approved
by the committee. Salaries of the
twenty-eight members, however, were :
placed back, as first proposed, to $lO,-
000 instead of $7,500 as voted by the
House. It was voted also to have the j
hoard consist of twenty-eight mem- !
hers for two years only, and after -
that of seven members, on the ground
that most of the back work on tax
appeals could be disposed of in two j
years.
Secretary Mellon on Tuesday will '
be asked particularly about the es
tate tax, which was increased by the
House, and the gift tax placed in
the bill by the House. Mr. Mellon
previously has denounced both of •
these changes in the bill.
Other sections of the measure yet ;
to he considered are corporation, to- ;
hacco and miscellaneous taxes, the
proposal for a 23 per cent reduction
in income taxes payable this year and
a provision relating to inspection of
income tax returns by certain con- i
gressional committees.
VETO OF AUTO GAS TAX
LAW MAY BE SOUGHT
(Continued from First Page.)
the United States and District gov
ernments.
This was objected to on the ground i
that the. possible violation of the
60-40 status was only one of the
objectionable fcaturea
Substitute Is Adopted.
Delegate Suter then offered a sub
stitute motion, which was adopted,
and which provided that in the event
that Congress fails to grant the
wishes of the people that Charles
A. Baker, president of the federation, j
is empowered to invite the Commls- i
sioners and the civic bodies to join'
in asking President Coolidge to veto
the measure.
The action of the federation was
preceded by long debate on the as
. serted unfairness Os the bill as it
now stands. George Finch took the
stand that the proposed action of
Congress is not as bad for the Dis
trict as it has been pictured.
Arrangements were completed last
night for a get-together smoker to
bo held by the federation at the
Payette Hotel at 8:30 o’clock the
evening of April 11. Jesse C. Suter
is in charge of the smoker.
Platinum Vein Found.
MOSCOW. March 29. —Ore contain
ing 76 per cent platinum Is reported
to have been discovered along the
River Biely, a tributary of the Anadyr
river. This region is in the extreme
portion of Siberia, near Kamchatka,
QN Stand at Hearing
11 w
i
NICHOLAS Cl Ml NO,
A New York restaurant man, who tes
tified before the Senate committee
Investigating the Department of Jus
tice ut the Cnpitul yesterday.
FAVOR CURTAILING
DAUGHERTY PROBE
(Continued from First* PageA
and collected later from Price "be
tween SI,OOO and $1,500" as “reim
bursement for expenses.”
Tells of Whisky Heals.
He told likewise of approaching j
Mannington with a request to “get j
in on” the granting of permits to '
withdraw whisky, and of being sent j
by Mannington to W. A. Orr. who
also has figured in the stories of
whisky “deals.” Cimino “overheard”
a statement that E. ID Mortimer got
the SIOO,OOO that was- involved in
aaiother supposed whisky transac
tion.
Former Senator Chamberlain, who
represented Mr. Daugherty in the
cross-examination, said after the
hearing that his client might wish to
appear, and certainly would desire
to summon witnesses before the com
mittee.
A detail of the committee’s past
action was brought up when Chair- •
man Erookhart said that a memo
randum had been filed with the com
mittee in behalf of M. S. Daugherty,
the former Attorney General’s broth
er, challenging the committee’s right
to call him as a witness.
Senator Wheeler, democrat, Mon
tana. the committee’s prosecutor, was
absent from the day’s session, be
cause of illness.
VANDERLIP CAUSTIC
FLAYING OFFICIALS
Declares Burns Should Not Resign, j
But Should Be "Fired" With
Many Others.
SILENT ABOUT MELLC
i
Says People Unable to See Signifi
cance of Scandals.
j Special Dispatch to The Star.
I DADTIMORE, March 29.—Frank A.
; Vanderlip’s own conception of the
! depths of depravity in government at
I Washington, from the lips of Mr.
| Vanderlip himself, was heard in Bal
! timore today at the City Club. He
I said more in his talk with reporters
I afterward than he had said in his
i speech.
j “AVhat about William J. Burns.” he
j was asked. “Do you think his resig-
I nation as chief of the secret’ service
J ought to follow Daugherty's?”
“Xo, Burns ought not to resign,’’
i said Mr. Vanderlip; “he should be
1 fired. And so should a good many
j United States district attorneys, who
are just as corrupt as Daugherty
and were in league with him.”
“What do you think of Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon?”
“I’d prefer not to bo quoted on
what I think of him,” said Mr. Van
derlip.
Describes Probe Bureau.
In his speech Mr. Vanderlip had
! described in a general way the work
| ing of the Citizens’ Federal Research
j Bureau he has established hi Wash-
I ington at his own expense—how he
I proposed, through it, to help the in
vestigating committee to unearth
; more corruption in government than
; the committees had unearthed.
• He had spoken of the distinguished
citizens he had asked to sponsor it.
Since the business of* getting their
names and assistance would have
taken much time, he said, “the dis
; tinguished citizen” idea had been
; abandoned and the bureau had been
| composed of a considerable number
i of well known and patriotic young
'■ men, about forty or fifty in,number.
Afterward, when asked for the
names of some of the workers in his
new bureau, Mr. Vanderlip said he
{ was chairman, that the secretary
was John D. Pearmain, a Harvard
man, a Massachusetts man and former
proprietor of a fruit farm in Massa
chusetts, whreh he had recently sold
j Henry Ford; that the treasurer
i was Boyd Fisher, former newspaper
'j man. former industrial and employ
ment executive, also a Harvard man.
and that one of his most effective
workers was a man named Glavis.
“I have forgotten his first name,”
said Mr. Vanderlip. “That is strange
i too. because I have been working
[ pretty closely with him lately. But
he was in the Department of the In
terior under Ballinger, and is a law
yer, and an expert investigator.”
There were a good many others. Mr
Vanderlip said, but he had no list
with him and couldn’t remember
them all.
Among the striking things in his
speech was his criticism of President
Coolidge, who he charged with lack
of leadership and not sufficient “mil
itant honesty” to handle the situation
as a President should.
“I was impressed with your chair
j man’s saying that these investiga
l tions hnd been demanded bv the peo
” Pie,” Mr. Vanderlip began. “The
truth is that Jhe people have not
; really demanded them. The con
science, of the people is slow. The
newspapers have said the people are
in a state of hysteria over the Wash
ington scandals. I tell you they are
really In a state of coma. They are
not yet half awake.
“A good many investigations have
been held and are being held. There
was an attempt to impeach the At
torney General some time ago. It
faile'd because it was poorly prepared
and poorly conducted. There was
an investigation of the Veterans’ Bu
reau. It was thirteen months after
the head of that bureau was put out
of business before he was Indicted
and then by an assistant attorney
general who was out of .sympathy
with his chief.
* “Then the public lands committee
of the Senate is investigating the
naval oil leases. This has proved that
a Secretary of the Interior was
bribed by one of the most prominent
business men in this country. Now
big business men are trying to put
o etnn to oil
THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. Q., MARCH 30, 1024-PART 1.
HONOR TO JUDGE RUGG MEANS
GALA DAY ON REDSTONE HILL
1 f
Coolidge Selection to Succeed Daugherty Man Who
• Fought Way to Top From
Rocky Farm.
BV AN OLD NEIGHBOR.
Dirty fingers of a mischievous
March have ripped and soiled the
snow blanket of the pine woods.
Roads are rutted knee deep In mud.
Town meeting is over in Sterling,
Mass. For three weeks now the But
tericks, the Sawyers, the Kendalls
and the Fitches of Redstone Hill have
been puttering around their barn
yards, oppressed with ennui. The
■winter woodchopping is finished. It
Isn’t time for spring ploughing.
There’s not much to do except rise at j
5 a.m., milk the cows, clean out the I
stables, patch up fences, clear plough- |
ed fields of thousands of rooks thrown |
up by winter, prune the apple trees—
in fact not enough to prevent a New
England farmer from giving way
to the grouches that come of forced
idleness on ston acres and hating
himself, his wife and the world.
Sap is stirring. There are spigots
in all the maple trees. Roosters
ctow lustily. The good wives arc
mixing doses of sulphur and mo
lasses. Thus it has been for two
hundred years on Redstone Hill,
fortress of Puritan tradition. The
blue shadow of Mount Wachusett,
twelve miles away to the west, falls
over white farmhouses and weather
beaten barns. Five miles below, to
the east, smoke rises from the fac
tory chimneys of Clinton.
News Comes lo People.
Into this scene of pastoral discon-
I tent the Miller boy, a chap from the
j city who married one of the Kendall
i girls ami covers the R. F. I), route
1 from Sterling Junction, will bring the
! most momentous news that has come
to this island of the past amid the
surging tides of industrial New Eng
land since the raids of King Philip.
Arthur Prentice Rugg may be ap
pointed Attorney General of the Unit
ed States. For Judge Rugg is a Red
stone Hill farmer, a child of the soil
born and bred. Sterling's most distin
guished resident. To the Buttericks,
the Sawyers, the Kendalls and the
Fitches he not only is a neighbor, but
a relative.
Mary's Little Lamb.
For a century Redstone Hill has
been proud and satisfied with its sin
gle claim to fame. Its district school
house. a little white building on the
Clinton road with a pump in the
front yard, is the identical school
house to which the iamb followed
Mary. The celebrated rhime was
written by the schoolmaster of that
day, afterwards a distinguished law
yer. Sterling has documentary evi
dence to prove this. To the tradition
of Mary Sawyer the hill clings as
jealously as Domremy clings to the
tradition of Joan of Arc.
This crowning glory it never ex
pected. The eyes of the nation are
centered upon it. The Kendalls can
be depended upon to spruce up their
front yards. The Sawyers will take
time from the spring work to patch
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Boyish tailored jersey Charming dresses for after
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Colors: Gray, nickel gray, Colors: flame, tan, beige,
crush berry, azure blue, 'inonterey, green, reseda
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monterey, beige, tan and • crush berry, nickel gray and
flame. ' gray.
The Avenue at Ninth
up any holes in the stone walls that
can be seen from the road. They
are a proud people.
Born tm Raleigh Hill.
Redstone Hill, however, must share
its present exaltation with Raleigh
Hill, which faces it on the west.
There in a great, rambling farmhouse
which durigg the past few years has
been rojnodeied for summer hoarders
by the Coyne family who bought it
from his mother. Judge Rugg was
born. Few men who have achieved
national promienee struggled up
through greater difficulties. His fam
ily was desperately poor. The civil
1 war was just over. Duxuries were
j unknown.
j The Ruggs were among the poorest
jof the Sterling families, fighting hard
!j-°.r orCf> a I* v *hk’ from rock-strewn
fields. The lot of a Sterling farm hov
was far from enviable. He rose at 4
tcm. and helped with the milking,
"hen he did an ordinary day's work
before trudging off to the district
school. After school he worked until
dark and then studied by lamp light.
He worked his way through Am
herst and then studied law at Boston
University. Thus he is a fellow
alumnus of President Coolidge, al
though the two men were not co
temporaries and probably did not be
come acquainted until the future
President of the United States began
to take a prominent place in Massa
chusetts politics.
In the meantime Judge Rugg
worked on the home place in
Sterling during the summer vaca
tions, and did all sorts of odd jobs
about the neighboring farms to se
cure funds with which to meet his
college expenses.
Started in Sterling.
Then he opened a law office in
Stirling. Business came slowly. The
town was larger than it is now—it
has declined in common with most
central Massachusetts farming towns
—but it was hardly large 'enough to
support a lawyer. Within the past
twenty years his shingle still hung
on the door of the Beck house, on
Maple street. Bdt he took advantage j
of whatever leisure came to him to ’
brush up on his knowledge of law. j
Dater he moved to Worcester, still '
keeping his practice in the home j
town.
In Worcester, the Industrial center I
of central Massachusetts, his progress I
was rapid. His practice was assured I
when he was appointed city solicitor. I
Those were the days when the influ- I
ence of ex-Senator George H. Hoar j
was dominant in the Bay state and j
especially in Worcester, which was
his home city. Rugg soon became
known as one of the keenest and
most learned lawyers in Massatnu
setts. it is noteworthy of the char
acter of the men, however, that his
practice never was exceedingly profit
able. Through it all he remained a
poor man. Dike President Coolidge,
whose career he duplicates in so
many respects, he is a poor man to
day.
His next step was an appointment
as associate justice of the Massa
chusetts supreme court. Judge Rugg
always had displayed unusual judicial
ability more marked than his capacity
as a lawyer. Ho was named chief
justice by Gov. Guild in 1911 and
, has remained in that capacity ever
I I since.
it is a career typical of American
politics—from the farmhouse up. Hut
Judge Rugg never has forsaken the I
, farmhouse. As soon as his legal
career was established he purchased
a run-down Redstone hill farm which
he has improved slowly ever since.
It is only a few acres, but on it he
spends all the time he can spare
from his public duties. “Sholan ,
Dodge" he calls it.
But don't get Hie Idea that he sets j
up as a gentleman farmer. The name ]
he has selected indicates his greatest i
hobby—researches into the early his- |
tory of central Massachusetts. He [
lias given especial attention to the |
early days of Sterling and Sholan ■
was the Indian chief who occupied '
tlie territory when his ancestors ,
came.
He surprised Sterling people a few ;
years ago by digging up the fact that !
the little fanning town, hidden in the I
valley of its five IsiUs, could lay claim j
to another distinguished man. Back |
in the days of the Puritans there was 1
a I’ongre-rationalist minister there
named Mellon.
His son, Prentice Mellon, became !
the first chief Justice of the supreme j
court of Massachusetts and the first ,
ito declare the illegality of slavery '
jon tii e soil of the Bay state. It was '
a source of keen pride to Judge Rugg |
! to have such a predecessor from his i
j home town in the office ha held, hut I
Sterling had long ago forgotten such '
1 a man had lived. Rugg. out of his I
slender resources, purchased an oil j
painting of Mellon and presented It
to Sterling to lie hung in. the town
hall in the center village.
Prophecy for Kugg.
He made the dedication address.
Ho was introduc’d to his fellow
townsmen by William S. Walker,
chairman of the selectmen, a martial
appearing veteran of ’6l,
“1 won’t lie alive when it happens,”
Walker said that night, “but. mark
my words, there’ll be a statue of
Arthur Rugg put up in the Common
some one of these days.”
As for the man himself. He Is
heavily built, square jawed fellow of
medium height. The lines of power
are written on his face hut softened
by a culture which is the heritage
of Redstone Hill —a book-learning
which is common to the Buttericks,
the Sawyers, the Kendalls and all
the rest. How they come by it is a
i mystery. Most of them have never
j pursued their studies beyond ■ the
1 three years of Sterling High School,
j They have little enough time for
j reading—hut the culture is there. It
lis that unmistakable atmosphere of
i culture about it which distinguishes
I the face of Rugg from that of a man
who could have become the world’s
I greatest prize fighter. It is the face
of a tighter, none the less.
Lends Strenuous Life.
1 Only in recent years has Judge
j Rugg owned an automobile, and he
seldom drives it himself. Instead,
especially during the summer months.
' he submits himself to a regime that
is the wonder even of the farmer
folk among whom he lives. It is
three miles from Sholan to the near
est street car line for Worcester, lie j
walks every morning when court is in
session and takes a crowded car,
usually sitting in the side seats at the
rear with mill workers on their way
to work.
If it were any one else he might
form an incongruous contrast—the
dignified, middle-aged gentleman in
high hat and frock coat and the
poorly clad textile operatives, wire
workers and clerks, who jostle this
i
way and that. But Rugg naturally
fits into the picture. He is a demo
crat of democrats. He could eat din
ner with a bootblack and the event
would seem perfectly natural to the
boy.
Han Liberal Faith.
He is a devoted Unitarian. When in
Sterling he is a regular attendant at
the village church of that denomina
tion. His ancestors have been Uni
tarians for three' or four genera
tions. The town early was a center of
i the bitter revolt against evangelical
; religions which raged in New Eng
land just before the civil war. Al
most everybody on Bedstone Hill Is of
the same creed.
Judge Rugg has a family of two
! (ions and one daughter. The eldest
i non, Charles, has established himself
iin a law practice in Worcester,
; where ho rapidly is following the
: footsteps of his father. Ho nerved
j ail a naval lieutenant during the
I world war and waa married after his
| discharge. It la noteworthy that
| Sterling appointed him town counsel
j at once after he graduated with a
law degree from Boston University.
I The second son, Arthur, ia employed
|in a Worcester bank. The daughter
makes her home with her father and
) mother.
The Ruggs could set up as aristo
• crats in Sterling if they wanted to,
‘ especially after the judge’s latest
• advancement That means a great
deal, for one must be very distin
guished, indeed, to put on air-', around
Redstone and the other four hills.
The town probably is the most liberal
spot in the world in many respects.
The idea of any inequality arising
from blood or name is so obnoxious
to these farmers that the mere sug
gestion is like waving a red flag in
front of a bull. Among those hills
the traditions of the abolitionists
nover have been diluted. The Pole
who takes over an abandoned farm
immediately ranks with families who
have lived in Sterling for five or
six generations. That democracy is
bred in tho blood.
Take Words Literally.
If there is any Inclination nowa
days to speak cynically of the phrase
ology of the Declaration of Inde
pendence such towns as Sterling and
such men as Rugg can be adduced to
prove that Thomas Jefferson was not
talking empty words, but that he
meant exactly what he said: ‘‘All men
are created free and equal.”
At least Sterling thinks so, and it
is from such a culture Rugg. has
come. The town was an abolitionist
stronghold. Judge Rugg never tired
of boasting of the practical demon
strations of freedom which have
taken place there.
Crowded.
From Life.
He—How was the bathing down at
Palm Beach?
She —Hardly a place to sit. :
j Two Things Please Me
In Connection with the Sale of Stock in the
Wardman Mortgage and
Discount Corporation
FIRST. The type of people who capital comes in, out it goes profit
are subscribing—both men and ably to work. And with practical
women. They are the thoughtful ly no overhead—because we are
and conservative class. Folks who operating without expensive exec
are not swept off their feet by the utive salaries and the other
glamour of speculative operations; profit-absorbing incidentals,
but who calmly and collectively
probe into the facts—and weigh
critically the prospects. are going to get some in
teres ting report when
AND second. The rapkfity with round-up at the semi-annus j divi
which we are filling the ini- dend—and you’ll be surprised - i
tial quota. It isn’t quite two when you see what a cattsasce «o
months yet since the stock books ministration of the affairs of the
were opened—and we are well on Corporation has cost. All of which
our way. naturally swells the dividends.
!H
BOTH of these points are strong
indorsements—and I person- T CAN tell you frankly it’s an op
ally appreciate the confidence they * portunity worthy erf considera
express in the ability of the Ward- tion. Right now every share of 8%
man Construction Company to Preferred, for which you pay $125,
continue to make good. is accompanied by a share of Com
mon Stock. $4 is the minimum
OF course, if it wasn t for the dividend it can pay, according to
huge scale of operations of charter. You see, thus a sl2 divi
the Construction Company—re- dend is anticipated—but it should
quirtng the use of large capital and be greater unless 1 miss my calcu
making quick and profitable turn- lations.
overs —the Wardman Mortgage
I and Discount Corporation could
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fidence it does. In our case it’s * explained let us know and we
| action all the time. As fast as our will make them clear.
i Send in your subscription—for all cash—or upon the
| basis of SSO cash, and the balance in 30 and 60 days.
i Sincerely,
I Harry Wardman
1430 K Street Phone Main 4190
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JUSTICE A. P. RIGG.
POPULAR VOTE FAVORS
WINNER OF BOK PRIZE
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March £9.—The na
tional referendum on the winning:
prize for the Bok peace award, sub
mitted by Dr. Charles H. Bevermore,
showed 534,177 votes in favor of the
plan and 76,381 against, it was an
nounced today. Citizens in every
state of the Union and many abroad
were represented in the ballots. The
voting closed on March 15.
Under the conditions of the award.
Dr. Bevermore was given $50,000
when his plan was selected by the
committee and will be given another
$50,000i "when or if the plan is ap
proved by Congress,” or if the com
mittee decides the measure of sup
port has been adequate to warrant
giving him the second half of the
award.
JUSTICE A. P. RUGG
OFFERED POST OF
ATTORNEY GENERAL
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Attorney General than Judge Ken
yon is supposed to be. In some well
informed quarters it was insisted last
night that the President would not
name Judge Kenyon as the chief law
officer of the land. Judge Kenyon
would have been eminently satis
factory as Secretary of the Navy, it
was said, but as Attorney General—
that was another matter entirely.
Some of the republican senators
who believe that Judge Kenvou
should be named, declared that they
were sure he would accept the nomi
nation if it were offered him, not
withstanding the fact that he de
clined the Navy portfolio recently.
Career of Stone.
Harlan Piske Stone, dean of the
law school of Columbia University, if
a native of New Hampshire, where
he was born in 1872. He is a graduate
of Amherst College in the class of
1894, just a year ahead of President
Coolidge’s class. He studied law at
Columbia and was admitted to the
bar in New York in 1898, and has
practiced there since. He became
first a lecturer, the/i professor, and
in 1910 dean of the Columbia I-av.'
School. He is a member of the firm
of Satterlee, Canfield & Stone. t
The feeling in many quarters in
Washington is that Mr. Ooolidga
would like to offer the place to Sec
retary Hughes, who he believes
could work out successfully the poli
cies he has in view for the Depart
ment of Justice. Mr. Hughes hard!;.’
would accept it. is the belief of his
friends, as he prefers the Stale De
partment and considers that x>ost his
greater field of usefulness.
Somewhat the same considerations
apply to Senators Borah and Pepp-r.
Friends of the former said yesterday
he absolutely was opposed, so far ns
his present frame of mind is con
cerned, to taking a cabinet place.
DAKOTA BANKER GUILTY.
Hagen Convicted of Accepting I; -
posits During Insolvency.
GRAND FORKS, N. D.. March 2!
H. G. Hagen, former pre-a*Aent_of
Scandinavian-American B vik at K.
go, charged with accepting'deposit.-
an insolvent bank, was convicted by .
jury here tonight.
The penalty is a fine not to excee i
SIO,OOO or imprisonment not to exceed
five years. He will be sentenced later.