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U. S. OFFICIALS BACK
BUI FOR M'ADOO
Roper, Wooley, Shouse and
Movie Man Behind Race
of Ex-Secretary.
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"to *?t the f^cta to the people." Wood
"wouldn't have had a chance In Weat
Virginia." Dorat aald.
Hla object waa to "enlighten the
People of Weat Virginia aa to General
Wood and hla qualifications for the
Presidency," Dorat added.
'General Wood's light haa been hid
under a bushel, and not one In twenty
of the people of Weat Virginia knew
anything about him until we got
Husy In thgt State to educate the
people regarding him.
Uorat estimated IIJMO a rounO
unreasonable sum" la the
Wood "ramixl|a of education" la
W?t Virginia.
Hen* tor Harding's total enmpalKn
have b*rn H07.7eil.stl, nilh
contributions III3.INJ*, M. M.
"???berty testified.
Coa tribal lo as to tbr ramp.Ian of
Wlcholaa Marry Butler, of New Vork.
'or the Prealdeatlal nomlaatloa total
MO.&M to date, according to the tea
?l??ar of Jobs R. Oat lea. ju.tlre of
'be municipal ruiirtn of New York,
?nd manager of tbr Butler rampnlan.
There have been five contributions
of *5,000 eacfe, Davies stated. One
of these was made by G. Dunn, an
engineer of New York, and another
by William C. Demarest, also of New
Ybrtc
All For Wood.
Dorat Insisted the "sentiment in
W?at Virginia was for Wood."
"We are all for Wood, you can bet
?n that," Dorst reiterated.
"You can't get men in these days
. of the high cost of living and of la
bor to go out and work for a candi
date unless you pay them money,"
?aid Dorst.
He denied any Wood money was
used in West Virginia to ' buy votes
for Wood."
Wood money was used in West Vir
ginia to get men to "organize coun
ties and precincts.
"You have to pay them more than
common laborers," Dorst said.
. Dorst gave the total of Wood's
I campaign expenses In West Virginia
I <n> to date as *4,438 36.
"We really needed more than that
*60,000 or $55,000. or *1,000 a coun
ty." Dorst said.
Daugherty, manager of the Presi
dential campaign of Senator Harding,
was called when Dorst concluded.
"When .Senator Harding's candl
! dacy for the Presidency was decided
upon, he experssed a desire that
there should be no highly financed
campaign conducted." Daugherty
said. "It was not expected that there
would be any contest in Ohio.
"Ijiter on a contest was brought
on. We were compelled to make
?omething of a cajnpaign.
"Indiana is a neighbor State. Be
i Bides, under the laws of Indiana, any
candidate receiving a majority ?f the
votes at the primary could hold the
I delegates to vote for him and away
from any other candidate until the
, convention was over. It was. there
1 fore, more or less necessary that prac
tically ail of the candidates should
enter Indiana. -
"In all of the other primary States
we notified them that we would not
i ?nter the primaries on account of the
expense. In States where there were
no primaries we made something of
a campaign of publicity, speaking and
?ending literature somewhat exten
sively,
'"Th? neighbors of Senator Harding
. Irving in his home town of Marion
contributed practically one-third of
the amount expended in the Senator's
campaign. Practically all of the bal
ance was contributed by residents of
the State of Ohio, in small amounts,
comparatively speaking.
"We have headquarters at Colum
bus, Washington. Indiana, and Kan
City. We had no auxiliary organ
izations collecting or disbursing any
(money. There is. perhaps, connected
I with the campaign expenditures in
1 Ohio, something over *35,000, which
roust be classified as general expenses,
inasmuch as all the literature and
campaign material furnished all the
headquarters and sent out all over
the milted States was paid for
through the Columbus headquarters."
uJtVftcE? read a lon* typewritten
list of *500 and *100 contributions to
iiardlngs campaign fund, many of
them from citizens of Cleveland
i oungstown and other Ohio cities.
Harding Gave *I.OOO.
*.2" ADk' I' fPnator Harding gave
m S^ck tor <1.000. Daugherty
said. This was Harding's principal
and only contribution, as he "is a
man of moderate means, and his
friends were willing to finance his
campaign. Daugherty added.
H. S Firestone, the rubber tire
aian of Akron. Ohio, gave *1,000.
Other contributors to Harding's cam
paign given by Daugherty were: Mrs
Anna Norton Batelle, J. H. Frantz
,a"? E- **. Poston, all of Columbus.
oj? o, IUO00 each; citizens of Marlon,
Ohio, *10.000; Mrs. Batelle and Pos
ton, *1.000 additional, each; Parmelee
Herrick and U C. Hanna, Jr.. of Cleve
land *1,000 each; Carmi A. Thompson,
of Cleveland, *5,900 and *3,250; H.
L. Thompson, of Toledo, *6,000; It
Grosvenor Hutch in*. New York City
? 2.500; Michael Gallagher, of Cleve
land, *1,000. Citizens of Marlon.
Ohio, also contributed an additional
^*1.000 and still another of *2.500.
Harding's total expenses In Ohio
were between *18,000 and *20,000
Daugherty said.
OUier Contributors.
Other Harding contributions elted
Daugherty were R. B. Creager of
Brownsville, Texas, and F. K. Scobey,
? f San Antonio, $500 fftch; p g
Stare k, New York. *2,000; William P
t*ech, New York. *1,000; John Sher
wood. Cleveland, *2.600; A. G. Bean
Ulyrla, Ohio. *1,000.
Dtaugherty credited himself with
contributing *14.500.
The expense of printing and dis
tributing one of Senator Hardlsg'a
[? . ? Goto SllVt* ?*^?TI?l?< OlS, MASTS
I , trm ??j?utWT(%?c Ptiaponr
i 361 PENNA AVE.
MONK MAIM *?
UEK? are some of the farmeieiiea who will take paj t in the bail and tableaux to be
put on at the Willard tomorrow night by Department of Justice officials and em
ployes in honor of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and Mr?. Palmer. The young
women in the photograph are Misses Helen Mitchell, Marie Suter, Frances Staley, Ruth
Barnhart, Elisabeth Caldwell, Emily Mitchell, Mary Burke, Franoes Burke, Mary
Mitchell, and Jean Mitchell.
speeches vu about $4,000, Daugberty
said.
Following her two early contribu
tions of $1,000 each, Mrs. Ratelle of
Columbus gave an additional $2,000 in
Aprtl. >4
Citizens of Marion. Ohio, had con
tributed $20,000, Daugherty said,
while James G. Darden, of Washing
ton, D. C., contributed $1,000; Myron
T. and Parmelee Herrlck, of Cleve
land. $1,000; Klght citizens of Athens.
Ohio, a total of $725 ;Earl Costln, of
Cincinnati, $225.
Cleveland contributors Included P.
G. and K. R. Grasselll, $500 each; S.
H. Robbins, C. K. Sullivan, F. B.
Richards and William Collins, $500
each.
Mrs. David Tod of Youngstown.
Ohio gave $500. did both W. W.
Ross and C. M. Wambaugh, of Colum
bus, Ohio. Frank A. Davis and K. R.
Sharp, of Columbus, gave $200 each;
and Wm. K. Field, also of Columbus,
$100. John Sherwood of Cleveland,
$2,500; E. B. Cappellar, of Mansfield,
Ohio. $100.
IlaUrd $91,000 for Wood.
John T. Kin*. Hepubllcan national
committeemen of Conneetlent, ralaed
$81400 for Wood rnmfmltrn before
he nevered hi* relation* with It In
January, he testified.
King said he knew nothing about
the Wood campaign since he had
"quit" as Wood's manager.
"When I got through, I got
through," King said. "I know noth
ing about the Wood campaign since
I quit except what I have read in
the newspapers."
How (General . I.conard Wood was
entertained hy Henry ('. Frlck, the
Steel magnate. a year nfro. at a din
ner of aomc thirty or forty flnanelera,
was revealed hy King.
Asked To Be Manager.
King told how he was asked to be
como Wood's campaign manager by
Dan Hanna. soji of the late Mark
Hanna, one time Republican "boss"
The Prlfik dinner was In May. 1919,
King insisted Frick was opposed to
Wood for President, Instead of being
for him. The dinner had no political
significance. King declared. Frlck
was only a friend of General Wood.
(irorfe W. Perkins and C. L. Rlalr
were among thole present at the
Frlck dinner.
Dan Hanna n?reed to raise MOO.
OOfl far t.cncrul Wood's campaign. It
was teatlfled before the committee.
"I was reluctant to take chargo of
the campaign, hut I finally consented
to do so," said King.
"I was opposed to tho methods sug
gested hy some of General Wood's
friends for conducting his campaign.
I was In favor of keepipg his cam
paign In 'cold storage' for awhile un
til sentiment for him developed.
Itrongbt In by Hanna.
King recalled his former associa
tions with Colonel Roosevelt. He did
not seek to become General Wood's
manager; it was nan Hanna who first
suggested he "take hold of It."
King said he and 0?nerAl Wood
"had gone up to Mr. l^rjck's house
together" on the night of the dinner.
He Could not remember the names
of "all the gentlemen who were
there." he said.
"They were all friends of Mr. Frlck,"
King explained. "General Wood was
the guest of honor. He and Mr.
Frlck were friends, and th<- dinner .
was Just a social affair, the 4tlnd itr.'T
Frlck liked to glva to his friends
every now and than." I
Baruch Denial of Big
McAdoo Fund Stirs Up
Cox-Edward Activity
NEW YORK, May 27.?Astounded at Bernard M. Ba
ruch's denials under oath that lie knows anything of "Wil
liam G. McAdoo's candidacy for the Presidency or the al
leged millions solicited to put it over, Cox,and Edwards
campaign managers united yesterday und telephoned and
telegraphed demands that Baruch be recalled to the stand.
The managers also urged that prac
tically every member of the Demo
cratic national executive committee
be summtftied ito testify before the
Senate committee which is inquiring
into Presidential campaign expenses.
At the inquiry the following collo
quy took place:
"You've found some a6ttve symp
toms of a campaign for W. G. McAdtoo
as a candidate against Mr. Palmer?"
Chairman Kenyon asked.
"It has all the earmarks, though
I've seen that Mr. Baruch said he
wasn't a candidate," C. C. Carlln,
manager of the Palmer campaign, re
plied. "Somebody got the votes out
for Mr. McAdoo in Michigan. , It
doesn't seem to have any headquar
ters or tailquarters. though we have
the literature."
Messages were sent to Chairman
William S. Kenyon and Senators
Borah and Reed after conferences
here between Walker W. Vick, na
tional campaign manager for Ed
wards: William F. McCombs, who i*
working hard for Cox. and National
Committeeman Hudspeth, of New Jer
sey, an ardent Edwarda man. <
Vick, who listened to Baruch's tes
timony before the Kenyon commlttec
and witnessed his renewed intimacy
with Dr. Grayson. President Wilson's
.physician. was so amazed that he was
speechless when asked to comment
upon that testimony yesterday.
But the Cox-Edwards machinery
was put in motion to urge:
First, that Baruch be specifically
asked if he did not make this ofTer
In the Hotel St. Charles, Atlantic City,
on September 27, last, to Chairman
Cummlngs and his associate members
of the Democratic national exeeutlve
committee:
"If you will drop Palmer and back
McAdoo for President, I will guar
antee to underwrite the McAdoo cam
paign for any amount from ten mil
lions upward." ?
Second, that Baruch be asked If he
has not ever since been conducting a
McAdoo campaign, using the name
and ofljce of Deputy Police Commis
sioner Wallls, at lit Broadway, as a
means and clearing house for personal
and written demands for campaign
contributions.
questions to Committeemen.
The Cox-Edwards managers have
also demanded that these Democratic
national committeemen be sub
poenaed :
,? Chairman Cummlngs. Wilbur F.
Marsh, of Iowa, treasurer; Norman
K. Mack, of New York; Fred B. Lynch,
of Minnesota and Clark Howell, of
vjrvi gia. *
The Cox-Kdwsrds men have be
Bought Kenyon and Reed to ask of
these men If they did not hear Haruch
make his talk at Atlantic City and to
ask the witnesses also:
"How much did Treasurer Marsh
and Assistant Treasurer Jamieson
collect for the 'Wilson Third Tcrm
McAdoo Crown Prince Fund' under
the guise of an appeal for JIO.OOO.OOO
to finance the natiiuU cci miUce for
1920?
'"Why was It that the White House
group withheld from certain Demo
cratic Senators a list of a half mil
lion Democratic voters, to whom ap
peals for funds were made."
"How much of the Jamieson fund
was spent by Chairman Cummings
and his cronies in their transconti
nental tour a year ago to "cultivate
sentiment' to make Woodrow Wilson
the President of the League of Na
tions and McAdoo President?
"Was there ever an accounting for
these expenditures?
"Why have Democratic National
committeemen opposed to Wilson and
MrAdoo been refused all information
as to collections and disbursements?"
SUSPEND HOUSE RULES
TO SPEED LEGISLATION
Meets Wishes of Ways and Means
Chairman Relative to Action
on Bonus.
The House Rules Committee today,
by a vote of 6 to 4. voted to report
a suspension rule under which any
bill may be called up fpr passage In
the House without amendment and
with .debate limited to forty minutes,
on and after Saturday.
Chairman Kordney of the House
Ways and Means Committee Indicated
that he would not attempt to secure
action on the bonus bill until this
rule is adopted.
SENATE CUTS COMMITTEES.
Without objection, the Senate to
day passed a resolution providing for
the abandonment of forty Senate
standing committees and the reduc
tion of the slse of the ten msjor
committees of the Senate to fifteen
tnr nbrrs. There tW be thlrt>-two
committees remaining. The resolu
tion's provisions will fcecoma *ff??Uve
Beat Congress.
ROUGED BERGDOLL'
IS SEEN IN BOSTON
Police Scamper to Depot In
Search of Slacker Dressed
As Woman.
BOBTON. May 27.?-A report fram a
"reliable source" that Grover Cleve
land Veridoll, milling Philadelphia
draft dodger, ?v? seen In the North
etallon, disguised aa a woman, re
eultrd In a detail of patrolmen being
sent to the terminal from the Hanover
?treet atatlon today.
The police made a thorough aearch
but faltpd to locate the auapected
peraon.
According to the report, Bergdoll
wore a ploture hat, black ailk dreaa.
black ahoea and allk Block luge, and
a half cape, and waa heavily powder
ed and roused.
Ilnrrlrlln *( Alarltrr
The War Department today made
public the official description of
Bergdoll.
The deacriptlon followa:
?Tweaty-eigbt ;e?n oldi B feel
4 Inehea lalti ITS poaada. heavy
build ( bread, a^iiirr aboalderai
dark kr?w? hair, bruahed liarlt
frea the (erekradi dark brtna
eyeai >Md teeth, muck alalaed
froaa lobareoi arm aa aeek aad
throat| la a member af a wealthy
Philadelphia family aad haa trav
eled esteaalvelj.
"I unaiaaily ,,n the aaove, and
prahahly accompanied hy male
eonapaaloaa. Kipert automobile
driver and dellghta la exploiting
bla ability. Pliably aad dramatic.
!.literal apender 'jnd well aupplled
with money. When laal aeea waa
In a lludaon auper-ala aulomobile,
Peaaayivaala lleeaae U.I7N, ae
rompanlrd by ehauffear,
"If located arreat and notify
neareal military poat, ageala of
"epartairnt of Juatlce, or lo<lil
police aatboriliea. and the mili
tary intelligence dlvlaloa, general
ataff. Hit Department. Uaak
Inglon, II. C?
BAKER HAS NOTHING TO
SAY ABOUT BERGDOLL
Secretary of War Raker today re
fused to confirm or deny u report
that Grover Cleveland Bergdoll Is be
ing sought In Boston.
"I have nothing to say," the Secre
tary stated.
There was apparent activity In
connection with the Bergdoll case
about the War Department today.
The Judge advocate's office was in
almost constant telephonic communi
cation with General Billiard. In com
mand of the department of the cast,
in New York.
PALMER WASHES HANDS
OF BERGDOLL'S ESCAPE
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, convict
ed draft-evader, who cscapcd, from
military guards, has nothing to fear
from the Department of Justice.
Attorney General Palmer's office
"passed the buck" to the War De
partment again today, on the ques
tion of responsibility for Bergdoll's
smooth getaway to hunt for alleged
hidden gold.
"We have no further Interest of
ficially In the case, as it is outside
the Department's Jurisdiction." it was
said with a degree of finality.
Attorney General Palmer's connect
tion with the Bergdoll "plot" ceased
when no effort was inade to release
him under habeaa corpus, it was said.
Spokesmen for the Attorney Gen
eral said they are holding tight to a
letter written by a lieutenant of the
military Intelligence office, disclos
ing the alleged "plot." They main
tained that it was not the duty of tne
Department of .Justice to acquaint the
adjuant general of the army, assum
ing this already had been done.
Karly capture of Bergdoll was pre
dieted today by Samuel T. Ansell and
Edward S. Bailey, Bergdoll's local
counsel, who increased their reward
for his apprehension to f.3,500.
Chairman Clark, of I. C. C.,
Bans Cross-Examination of
Official Until Later.
Chairman Clark's decision not to
allow cross-examinations until rail
road officials have concluded their
testimony served today to speed up
the h-arlngs of arguments on the
carriers' petition for rate increases
before the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Protracted delays, through
lengthy questioning of carriers' rep
resentatives by lawyers for various
shippers, caused the. commission to
decide that the healings must be ex
pedited.
Resides sidetracking long cross-ex
aminations, the commission also has
decided to eliminate from the formal
arguments, as far as possible, dupli
cations In the presentation of facta
by various rail officials. This Is due
to the fact that data of a geneval
character Is applicable alike to situa
tions in all of the carrier groups and
requires no detailed argument. Com
missioner Clark stated today that
counsel for shippers will have ample
opportunity later to question officials
of the roads.
With the arguments of the eastern
carriers In official classification terri
tory already submitted, and the aouth
ern carriers now in the midst of their
arguments, there was prospect that
the western group might be reached
iind concluded before the end of the
week.
tn addition to the executives of the
roads the chief operating officials In
the various departments are being
heard In detailed arguments, to sup
port the demands tor higher rates
needed to produce enough revenue to
place the roads on a paying basla.
Clark said today that Immediately
a/ter the submission of all the car
rier's briefs, the commission will at
oin-e hear evidence of ? general char
a< ter applicable to all of the rail ter
rltoiles. In opposition t'> the pmpoial
of the < ai riars TUa hnar ngs will con-j
tiauo at least two week* longer.
r&K U Um Lm4m hwM of J P Mtrfu, which he has
offered as a gift to the United States to be used as the
permanent home of the Amerioaq ambassador. President
"Wilson has ashed Congress for authority to accept the
gift.
ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE TO I
END SEMESTER JUNE 15
, i
Commencement Program Outlined.
Examination* Will Begin Next
Week?Field Day Feature.
St. John'n College closing program !
wan announced today by Brotheri
' Denis Kdward. president of the tn
' stitution. The last day of school In
Jump 15. and vacation will last until
early In i-'eptenibcr.
The program follow.-:
June 5?Scholarship examinations
I
open to all graduates of eighth grades
or those with an equivalent educa
tion.
June 7?Competitive drill. Columbus
Country Club, Kort Berry, Va.
June 7?Field Day, Columbus Coun
try Club.
June 7?Beginning of "Alumni
Week."
June 9?Contest in elocution. Win
ner will be awarded "P. T. Moran"
medal.
June 13?Baccalaureate sermon.
June 14?Alumni day and closing
exercises of high school department.
June 15?Last day of school. Com
mencement exercises at Carroll Hall,
Tenth and tl streets northwest, t
p. m.
SEE ROECTION OF
MORGAN'S OFFER
Official Attitude It Against Ac
cepting Magnate's London
Home for Embassy.
[ Iniitnltneoui And positive objec
tion la being tiprtiitd here today t?
lb* offer of J. Plerpont Morgan te
preaent to the Government hie houae
in L<ondoa for us* u the Ancricu
tflfibnajr.
In the diplomatic world tho proffer
la viewed a a a rrkuke te the I'mted
Slates for not providing palacea or
elaborate placea of realdence far I la
I diplomatic representatives In ?urope.
and In Ixndon eape< lally. There la
| read Into the offer by of Aciala alao
the neceeaary implication that under
the clrcumatancea It la in very bad
taate.
The attitude of State Department
official! le that If the offer did not
of neceaalty liav? to be referred tg
Congreaa the department would re
ject It with the usual expreaalon of
lla "diatlngulahd consideration."
The rule la general that neither In.
dividual* nor the Government can 10 "
cept valuable donatlona without tho
aanctlon of Congreaa.
A feeling of objection and resent
ment la felt In Congressional aa well
as In diplomatic quarters. It la
clearly underatood that Congreaa will
not accept any free gift of an em
baaay or legation. There havr. been
many diacuaaions In Congreaa look
ing to placing the American Diplo
matic Corpa abroad on an equality of
pay and quartera with those of other
natlona as represented in the United
States.
THi Is discussion always revolved
around the fact that it required a
fortune ready made for any man who
would accept a post at Paris, Vienna,
Berlin, or Kondon. The Senators said
that if the. Morgan house had been
offered for sale to the Government
the matter would be entirely dlf
| ferent. But no far the proposition
seems to have no friends or indorsers. /
LONDON, May 27.?Believing that
the preaent time la most oppor
| tune for pressing the movefent for
the maintenance of permanent re
sidences for the United States ambas
sadors in Kurope. Ambassodor John
W. Davis says he hopes Congress win
accept the offer made by J. Plerpont
Morgan of his house here as a per
| manent American Embassy.
Acceptance of the offer, he said,
| would establish a precedent for tho
acquisition of such residences and he
pointed out that Great Britain took
advantage of the rate of exchang*
at the end of the Napoleonic wars
to acquire much of its chancellories
property in Paris.
This 25% off sale makes
your dollar worth $1.33
25% off a price means 33 1-3% added to
your money. That simple bit of arithmetic has
been crowding the P-B Store since this offer
opened.
You may purchase anything excepting
about half a dozen lines, in our store, and at the
time of payment deduct 25% from the regular
^selling price marked on the goods.
The regular prices remain on merchandise
already in our store. When new goods has
come in, it has been marked with the prices
planned. You pay 25% less. When merchan
dise to be sold at a special price has come in, it
has been marked with the special price. You
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For a limited time, practically our entire
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men, boys and women to wear, at 25% off regu
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