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STRIKERS, SENTENCED TO JAIL, ARE EXONERATED
LHOME EDITIONI
THE WEATHER
Increasing cloudiness followed by snow
late tonight or Thursday; slowly rising tem
perature; lowest tonight about 26* degrees.
f Strawn Expected to Withdraw; J. R. Garfield Next
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STACK CHARGES OIL FRAUD
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uNearly Score Die In German Riots]
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DISORDERS
ON RHINE
SPREAD
French Put Town in State of
Siege Following Separa
tist Clashes.
;BF By International News Service.
BERLIN, Feb. IS.—Battles and
I mob violence wfre reported f?om
I all parts of the Rhineland palati-
F nate this afternoon. Following
clashes between the separatists
and police *at Pirmasens when
nearly a score were killed, dis
orders broke out in other places,
the secessionists and anti-seces
sionists engaging each other in
battle.
French Patrol City.
Martial law has been' proclaimed
at Pirmasens. French troops are#
petroling the city to prevent a re
k currence of fighting.
Scores were wounded in heavy
■rtreet fighting in Kaiserlautern.
■Seventeen Die in Pirmasens.
|H| PIRMASENS, Germany, Feb. 13.
■ —-Seventeen persons were killed and
■more than twenty severely wounded
Bin a violent battle which began here
■ Tuesday afternoon, according to
|B figures furnished today by ‘he
■ French military authorities.
Street- fighting raged for many
■ hours. Order was restored today.
■ A state of siege has been pro
" claimed.
Paris Receives Word.
PARIS, Feb. 13.—A state of siege
has been proclaimed by the Rhine
land Commission at Pirmasens, in
the Rhineland palatinate, said a
Coblenz despatch to the foreign
office today.
Declaration of a state of siege
followed a violent battle at Pir
masens between separatists and po
lice, in which fourteen persons
were killed and many wounded.
Eight of the dead were separa
tists; the other six were policemen.
Two companies of French in
fantry restored order.
The Rhineland commission has
ordered dissolution of the gymnastic
society at Pirmasens on the ground
that it was inciting workmen
■gainst secessionists.
Pirmasens is a manufacturing
.town thirteen miles southeast of
* Bewelbruecken, Bavaria.
GETS 60 DAYS IN JAIL
IN DEFAULT OF FINE
Frank Johns, a mechanic, was
(Arraigned before Judge Gus A.
Bchuldt ii\ the United States branch
of police court today to answer
Charges of assault. He was sen
tenced to pay a fine of S6O or
serve sixty days in jail. Not hav
ing the money he yas committed to
||ail.
The evidence showed that Johns
kot into a fight and used a sawed
off shotgun as a club, accidentally
hitting a friend, who appeared in
court with his head swathed in
bandages.
Omaha Bishop Has Stroke.
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 13.—Bishop
Homer C. Stuntz, of the Methodist
Episcopal diocese, comprising lowa
I and Nebraska, today was reported
I •‘much improved” after suffering a
P Stroke of paralysis at a local hotel
' yesterday. Bishop Stuntz's home is
|n Omaha.
k Address oh Russia.
The results of the Russian revo
lution in other European countries
will be the topic of an address
by Isaac Mcßride, author of “ ‘Bar
' barous* Soviet Russia,” before the
members of the Penguin Club at a
luncheon Saturday at 1 o'clock at
>3Ol fl MM horpiwMb
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Gilda Gray Robbed of
$42,000 Gems and
’ $1,900 Cash
CHICAGO, Feb. 13.—Jewels
worth |42,000 and $1,900 in cash
were reported by Gilda Gray
today as the loot of three high
waymen who followed her from
the Colonial Theater, where the
“Follies” are playing, and rob
bed her in the lobby of her
apartment.
Her husband, Gaillard T.
Boag, New York dance hall
owner whom the vibratory
dancer married February 1, left
for New York yesterday.
WORK ON TOMB
OF KING TUT
STOPPED
> Howard Carter Suspends Ac-
tivity Due to Friction With
Egyptian Government.
By Internaional News Service.
I LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 13.—Work
• of exploring the thirty-century-old
tomb of Tut-Ankh-Amen in the
Valley of Kings was suddenly dis
continued this afternoon. Howard
Carter, Egyptologist in charge of
the work, said he would close the
tomb immediately owing to “dis-
[ courtesies and restrictions im
t posed by the Egyptian govern
ment.” Carter has long been at
, loggerheads with the Egyptian
, department of public works.
Cause of Brecali.
■ It was understood that the re
fusal of the Egyptian government
to allow the wives of the excava*
tors to enter the tomb precipitated
the sudden suspension.
Before decision was taken to close
the tomb a number of newspaper
representatives were allowed to
visit the mortuary shrine, where
the opened sarcophagus rests. It
looked like a huge golden idol. A
bizarre effect was given by golden
head dress and the golden beard of
the bas relief on the lid of the
mummy cases. The beard had been
worked out by goldsmiths into thick
rope-like strands.
Egyptologists believe that four
inner coffins are symbolic of the
four heavens. They are made of
gold and silver. The only defect
yet discerned consist of two cracks
l in the gold sheeting. Workmen
' with much experience amongst the
I ton bs of the ancients said there
1 were probably secret bolts which
would release the corners, if they
! could be found.
To X-Ray Mummy.
The golden coffin containing the
mummy of Tut-Ankh-Amen may be
opened at the end of the winter
, season to allow X-ray photographs
to be made of ths body, it was
' stated today by Arthur Weigall,
inspector general of antiquities for
> the Egyptian government.
Before the X-ray pictures are
; made the winding sheets of per
fumed linen will be removed from
• the 3,000-year-old corpse. These
1 pictures are expected to reveal the
age of the ancient Pharaoh and
1 perhaps throw light upon the lost
art of Egyptian embalming which
preserved the bodies of. the dead
1 for many centuries.
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GIRL INJURED, DIES,
AFTER AUTO PARTY
> JOHNSTOWN, Pa., Feb. 13.
: Stories that do not agree are told
i by survivors of an automobile wreck
I that proved fatal to eighteen-year
i old Helen Sarver, who died at
I Mercy Hospital here.
i She had been taken to ‘her resi
dence, cast out of the automobile,
it is alleged, and deserted by two
men and another girl, who did not
even report an accident. County
• detectives arrested Winston Brama
i well, army recruiting officer, and
i Harry Hammer, a Johnstown vouth.
■ The two are held without bail".
• At the hospital it was said the
i girl died as the result of a frac
; tured skull, eeven broken ribs and
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STRIKERS
FREER OF
CHARGE
Aftermath of Terminal Walk
out Results in Seven New
Indictments.
sented Itself in the District Su
preme Court, today when the grand
jury returned indictments against
seven former employes of the Ter
minal station who had joined the
strike and who the indictment
charges were implicated in the at
tack on James R. Keeton and
Judson R. Powers, who refused to
join the strikers and continued
their work with the company.
Accused of Assault.
The men indicted and charged
with assaut with a dangerous
weapon are: Raymond F. Erhardt,
433 H street northeast, machinist
helper; Charles B. Austin, 614*4
Park road, vice chairman of Pull
man electricians; William B.
Beckett, 2621 Twenty -fourth street
northeast, machinist; Edward A.
Smith, 1008 Ninth street northeast,
terminal electrician; Norval C.
Pumphrey, 226 Twelfth place north
east, sheet and metal worker; James i
Joseph Dugan, 10 Baltimore street,!
Hyattsville, Md., carman, and Wil-1
liam Phillips, 617 Eleventh street
northeast, machinist helper.
They are accused of assaulting
Keeton and Powers on the evening
of September 20, 1922, at Brentwood
road and Rhode Island avenue as
they were leaving their workshops.
A jury in Criminal Court No. 2,
Justice Bailey presiding, last spring
tried Earl D. Dean, thirty years
old, 1517 Gales street northeast!
Robert W. Sisson, twenty-three
years old, Ninth street
northeast, and Morris J. Sullivan,
forty-five years old, 423 Second
street northeast, on the same
’ charges and found them guilty.
Dean and Sisson were sentenced
each to five years in the peniten
tiary and Sullivan received a seven
year term. Attorneys James A.
O’Shea and John Sacks represented
the accused.
Sisson and Sullivan throughout
the trial protested their innocence
and so informed Assistant District
Attorney Presmont, who conducted
the prosecution. The case was
taken to the Court of Appeals,
which sustained the verdict of the
lower court February 4 last. When
the jury brought in the verdict
finding the accused guilty, the sis
ter and wife of Sisson and Sullivan
, exclaimed in open court that the
latter were innocent, and they were
led away by court attendants
weeping. ’ ‘
Both Men Exonerated.
The positiveness with which Sis
son and Sullivan protested their
innocence to Mr. Presmont and
the repeated assurances of their
counsel that their clients were in
nocent, caused Mr. Presmont to de
cide to undertake a thorough In
vestigation of the case. He sub
poenaed the accused and one by
one put them through a searching
examination of all the details con
nected with tho case.
After repeated efforts on the
part of Mr. Presmont, Dean made
a full confession, exonerating Sis
son and Sullivan of all complicity!
in the crime, saying that they were 1
not even present when the assault
was made. Dean divulged the
names of the seven who were to-1
day indicted by the grand jury as
being directly connected with the
crime, Presmont had each of
the accused come to his office
and after much difficulty obtained
from each a full confession of hav
ing participated in the assault and
each declaring on his oath that
neither Sisson nor Sullivan had ‘
anything to do with the affair.
The accused were arraigned im
mediately after the indictment had
been presented and they utared
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Entered as eeoosd-elMe matter at
FoatefHeo at Washington. D. C.
WASHINGTON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1924.
STRAWN TO
QUIT, IS
BELIEF
Garfield, Called to White
House, May Succeed Him as
Oil Case Prosecutor.
President Coolidge today was
chaMengedby Senator Robinson,
- Democratic leader of the Senate,
to “carry to th® country” his “de
fense" of Secretary of the Navy
Denby.
Replying to the President’s New
York address, Robinson declared
Mr. Coolidge soon would be forced
by public opinion not only to dis
miss Denby, but other public offi
cials connected with the naval oil
leases.
In the face of stern opposition
that has developed in the Senate
to the selection of Silas H. Strawn
of Chicago, as one of the special
counsel appointed by the President
to prosecute the naval oil leasing
cases, it was strongly indicated at
the White House today that Strawn
may retire, and that James R.
Garfield, secretary of the Interior
in the Roosevelt administration,
may be appointed in his stead.
President Coolidge had a confer
ence of two hours with Strawn this
morning and later called in Dr.
j Garfield, who is a conservationist
: and is understood to have none of
| the “big business” connections
which led to the opposition to
Strawn.
The Senate Public Lands Com
mittee was spilt wide open today
on the nomination of Strawn and
also Pomerene, of Canton, Ohio, as
special counsel.
Walsh Leads Attack.
The attack upon Strawn in com
mittee, led. by Senators Walsh
(Dem.) of Montana and Dill (Dem.)
of Washington, took a new turn
because of hla testimony that he
is a director of two Chicago banks,
the First Trust and Savings and
the First National, which handle
finances of the Standard Oil Com
pany of Indiana.
Pomerene was assailed by rail
road labor organizations, which
united against him in his unsuc
cessful fight for re-election to the
Senate two years ago, and because
of his lack of experience in prose
cuting criminal cases.
Four times in executive session
the committee has been unable to
act upon the nominations. Wit
nesses have been heard opposing
the names.
Str&wn and Pomerene themselves
have appeared to testify and sub
i mit to a gruelling cross-examina
i tion. But each time the committee
has not even come close to a de
cision.
Strawn Again Called.
Again today the nominations were
up for consideration. It seemed
' highly Improbable, however, that a
decision could be reached. Strawn
himself has been called to reappear.
In addition to being depositories
for the Standard Company, the com
, mitttee has been told that the two
Chicago banks were members of a
syndicate which floated millions of
dollars worth of bond and stock is
sues for the Sinclair Consolidated
Oil Corporation.
j The committtee is working on in
| formation to verify this report, and
planned to ask Strawn whether he
had any part, as a director, in
j floating any of the Sinclair stock.
I Walsh and Dill were insistent
that the special counsel should be
men with wide and full experience
in criminal nature.
Pomerene is said to have admit
ted to the committee he has prose
cuted few criminal cases; Strawn
virtually none, having devoted his
attention as a lawyer to civil suits.
Dill wai, vigorously and energeti
cally opposed to the appointments.
"I have no personal feeling
against either Strawn or Pomerene,”
he said today. "They both have
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Major Omar J. McMackin (left) and Col. Albert L. Culbertson, in command of militiamen called
to Herrin, HL to quell riot between Klansmen and deputy marshals.
LAXITY IN WAR
FRAUD GASES
DENIED
Daugherty Tells Senate Civil
Settlements Did Not Give
Criminal Immunity.
Replying to a Senate resolution
> sponsored by Senator Norris (Rep.)
of Nebraska, Attorney General
Daugherty denied today in a formal
communication to the Senate that
i he had dropped criminal cases
• against persons accused of defraud*
ing the Government during the war
i in order to make cash settlements-
In negotiations relating to civil
settlements, Daugherty said, the
persons involved were always warned
that they were liable to criminal
prosecution regardless of any set
tlements that might be made.
His letter to the President pro
tern of the Senate said:
"In the prosecution of no per
( son, partnership or corporation
charged with defrauding the Gov
’ ernment in any war contract, or
L contracts for the sale of surplus
> war materials, or any contract con
‘ nected with or relating to any such
[ materials or war supplies wherein
both a criminal and a civil liability
. was either alleged or claimed has
[ the Departmerft of Justice made
i settlement of the civil liability with
i out prosecuting the same defend
ants for criminal liability, where
the same existed or was developed,
i “Many cases growng out of war
i contracts have been settled and no
criminal prosecutions brought there
- in, because said cases, in the main,
involved overpayments by the Gov
ernment, through mistake of law or
i fact, misconstruction or illegality of
contract, refusal of contractors to
refund, and many other like conten
tions which would in many in
stances amount in law to construc
tive fraud, but which would not
i constitute a criminal offense or
jracraat» primlnal
PzMiAed
Week-days
La Follette to Head
New Third Party
By WILLIAM HARD.
The main outlines of the three-cornered national political
fight of 1924 began to be revealed here today when news re
ceived from conservative quarters in the northwest showed
that radical organizers in that region were making rapid
progress in forming the framework of a sectional third party
with Robert Marion La Follette, of Wisconsin, as its chosen
leader in recognition especially of his Senatorial efforts in
unearthing the naval oil reserve scandals.
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This development was thought to”
mean that the conservative forces
of the country will rally to Calvin
Coolidge with an earnestness not
seen in American politics since the
days when those same forces rallied
to William McKinley and elected
him against William J. Bryan.
It began today to be realized here
that the Republican party may this
year have on its hands a fight
against radicalism second to none
in its history.
Various conventions of third
party groups have been summoned
to meet in the northwest during
the next few months.
These groups, it is learned, have
been able to persuade various north
western United States- Senators that
the agricultural depression in the
northwest, combined with reports
and exaggerations of the naval oil
reserve scandals, has produced a
great weakening of old party ties
and has created a great multitude
of new third-party voters.
The states particularly affected
are Wisconsin, Minnesota, North
Dakota, South Dakota, . Montana
and Washington.
Senators from certain of these
states are known to be willing to
follow La Follete on a third-party
ticket.
La Follette to date has always
refused to start a third party, be
cause, as he has often expressed it,
parties are born and not made. To
day it is reliably believed that his
friends are making considerable
progress toward convincing him
that tn the northwest a new party
is getting born.
View* tending in this direction
are known to be held by Senator
THREE CENTS I
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Command Troops At
Stormy Herrin
Militia Called Oat to Quell
Trouble Between Kim md
| Deputies.
1
TIMES PLAN IS
EDUCATIONAL
FORBOYS
I Business Training Received by|
Carrier Work Will Be
Valuable in Life.
I
1 From the time his son is born a
i father watches with pride every in
■ dication of business ability that his
boy shows. During the times the
boy is studying or playing the
father is watching with keen in
terest to find in his son some mani
festation of the ability that will
spell success for him in later years.
It is the natural tendency for
fathers to support any plan that
will tend to teach their sons that
lesson. In presenting its Savings
Club plan. The Washington Times
is offering the fathers of this city a
’ chance to give their boys an educa
, tlon in many of the elementary and
essential principles of business.
Value of Plan.
Through a series of articles ex
plaining the plans and outstanding
benefits of the club, The Times has
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HOME
EDITION
Sinclair in
STANDARD
DEAL HE
SAYS
Bares $40,000,000 Pipe Line
Details—Tells of Hiring
Creel Here.
? By KENNETH CLARK,
International News Serviee.
Charging “bad faith, fraud and
secret dealing” in connection "with
the leasing of Teapot Dome to
Harry F. Sinclair by ex-Secre
tary of Interior Albert B. Fall,
Leo Stack, wealthy Denver Oil
man and politician, took the
stand in the Senate’s oil investi
gation today and submitted to a
gruelling cross examinaion re
garding his allegations.
The ramifications of Stack’s
charges included the Standard Oil
Company of Indiana and subsidi
aries which claimed rights in the
naval reserve, and which were
paid $1,000,000 by Sinclair to
quiet claims, he said.
Standard in Pipe Line.
Aside from the $1,000,000, Stack
alleged that the real consideration
which the Standard Companies ob
tained from Sinclair was a half in
terest in the pipe line from the
Wyoming fields, required to be con
structed by the oil magnate in the
lease contract he negotiated with
Fall.
, Under questioning by Senator
' Lenroot (Rep.) of Wisconsin, Stack
said he applied for lease to Teapot
i Dome, acting for, the Mid-West Re
fining Company, on May 30, 1917.
He declared he offered to drill
wells on the reserve and give the
navy all fuel oil, his company
only reserving the water rights and
gasoline
His offer was flatly refused by
the navy, Stack said, and the ne
-1 gotiations temporarily ended.
After Congress passed the navy
leasing act on June 4, 1920, Stack
said he approached E. L. Doheny
about going in with him for a lease
to the Dome.
Wanted to Meet Daniels.
“Doheny was not enthusiastic at
first but later we went in together,”
Stack said.
“So I came to Washington and
went to my friend George Creel
and asked him to introduce me to
Secretary of Navy Daniels.
'"I didn’t know Daniels myself
and I only wanted Creel to intro
duce us.”
“Did you want to lease the whole
roservo?* 9
“No. I only wanted to drill off
set wells.
“It was common knowledge that
• the reserve was being drained by
wells in adjacent fields and it
seemed to me it would be wise for
the navy to lease part of the re
serve to save its oil.”
Stack said he went to Doheny be
cause “I thought he was an inde
pendent and I believed the Ameri
can people would like an inde
pendent oil man to handle the oil
in the reserves."
Repudiates Creel’s Testimony.
Stack repudiated Creel’s testimony
1 that he was unaware that Doheny
i was backing the proposition for
, the lease.
“He (Creel) knew Doheny was
. my backer."
I Creel said he broke with Stack on
the plan to get the lease when he
■ learned Doheny was back of Stack.
“I told Doheny I wanted Creel
■ in the deal because he could do
i things in Washington I couldn’t do.
i “Doheny agreed and he gave me
, $5,000 for Creel.”
"Why did you want Creel?”
[ “I wanted him to introduce me
to the heads of the different de
partments with which 1 had to deal.
1 hired him tor that one purpose.”
“When was that?”
“In November. 1920.” i
1 “What could Creel <k»?”
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