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N'ADOO CLUB IS
[ORGANIZED IN
[KENSINGTON
' Fifty Montgomery County
Democrats Form to Back
Him for Presidency.
ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 15.—A
IfcAdoo-fOr-President Club, believed
to be the first in Maryland, has
been organized at Kensington, this
county, with a membership of fifty.
Harry M. Martin is president 'and
George Johnson vice president. It
is planned to form similar clubs at
Chevy Chase. Silver Spring, Whea
ton, Sandy Spring and other places
in the county and through these
organizations wage a vigorous cam-
Ciign in behalf of the candidacy of
r. AcAdoo for his party’s nomina
tion for the Presidency.
Mrs. Cecelia A. Fitzgerald, widow
of Michael Fitzgerald and formerly
a resident qf this county, died in
Washington Tuesday, aged ninety
years. She is survived by a daugh
ter and two sons—Mrs. Eliza K.
Delihant. of Norfolk, Va.: Edward
Fitzgerald, of St. Paul, Minn., and
John H. Fitzgerald, of Washington.
The funeral took place at 10:30
o’clock this morning from St.
Mary’s Catholic Church here. The
services were conducted by Mrs.
Fitzgerald’s grandson, the Rev.
Thomas Delihant, of Baltimore, as
sisted by the Rev. John T. Coola
han, pastor of the church. Inter
ment was in the cemetery adjoining
the church.
Licenses have been issued by the
clerk of the circuit court here for'
the marriage of George E. Miller, i
of Ellicott City, Md., and Miss!
Nellie ,L. Scott, of Baltimore; Ran-1
dolph W, Jones and Miss Vennie
Lawson, both of Washington, and
Thomas C. Carter and Miss Grace 1
D. Duley, both of Chain Bridge,
D. C.
Announcement has been made that
the annual convention of the farm
ers of Montgomery county will be
held in the assembly hall of the
Bandy Spring High School building
Saturday February 23. William J.
Thomas will preside and John E.
Muncaster and Samuel P. Thomas
will be the secretaries.
Potato culture in Montgomery
county, the future of farming in
Maryland and whether or not
further issues of county bonds are
desirable will be the principal sub
jects discussed. The convention is
usually attended by several hundred
farmers and dairymen from all
parts of the county.
Samuel H. Browning headed a
delegation of taxpayers which ap
peared before the county commis
sioners here in the interest of road
improvement in the Damascus
neighborhood. The delegation let
it be understock! that much road
work in that section of the county
was needed, but especially urged
that a mile or more of cement j
pike be constructed at the very
earliest date in the road leading
from Damascus to Purdum, to be
gin at Damascus. The commis
sioners promised to make every ef
fort to comply with the request.
At a meeting of the executive I
board of the Women’s Auxiliary of
the Montgomery County General
Hospital, Sandy Spring, which was
presided over by Miss Anna Farqu
har, chairman. Miss Gallagher,
superintendent of the institution, re
»ported an average of twenty dally
patients in January, and also stated'
that the services of Mrs. Powell,
formerly assistant dietician at Gar
field Hospital, Washington, have
been obtained as assistant superin
tendent.
The application of the auxiliary
for membership in the Montgomery
County Federation of Women’s
Clubs has, it was made known, been
favorably acted on and the opinion
was expressed that such affiliation
is sure to broaden the usefulness of
the hospital.
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sented by the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade at Poli’s Theater next Sunday afternoon and eve
ning. There are 600 in the cast.
OIL LEASES IN
OKLAHOMA
COURT
Lawyer Claims $6,000 Fee Is
Due for Service in Naval
Reserve Case.
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(Copyright, 1924, by Cosmopolitan
News Service.)
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb.
15.—Echoes of the Teapot Dome
scandals resounded through the
halls of justice here today, when
the naval oil reserve lease of W. R.
Ramsey, prominent Oklahoma oil
man, which has already been aired
tin two Federal courts, again was
docketed for hearing through civil
action, in the district court of Mc-
Allister.
J. F. McMurray, former Oklaho
man, and now a resident of Wash
ington, has sued George M. Swift,,
I Okmulgee attorney, for $6,000 as
the result of a quarrel over attor
ney’s fees.
Claimed Fall Influence.
In his answer to McMurray’s pe
tition for the $6,000 award, Swift
reveals what purports to be an ad
i mission made by McMurray, that
he had unlimited influence with
former Secretary of the Interior
Fall.
McMurray, an attorney for Ram
sey, told Swift that he (McMurray)
was to receive $1,000,000 for his
share in obtaining the Ramsey
lease from the Department of In
terior, Swift alleges.
. McMurray is also alleged to have
told Swift that he had represented
himself repeatedly as a close friend
of Secretary Fall. Swift said Mc-
Murray told him to address all com
munications to him in care of Fall
at Washington, and, that in answer
ing, McMuarry often used the de
partmental stationery. Swift de
clared that McMurray introduced
him to Mrs. Fall.
Big Leases Promised.
Swift said that while on a trip
to Washington, McMurray told him
that Ramsey was to have 105,000
acres of California naval leases and
E. L. Doheny was to get another
106.000.
“Whether or not Ramsey later
conveyed his leases to Doheny, I
do not know,” Swift said.
It is believed that Swift referred
to the lease on naval reserve num
ber one, at the base on Mount
Diable, Kern county, Cal., obtained
by Ramsey, July 8, 1921.
This deal had previously been
a’red in the Oklahoma City courts,
due to a suit.filed against Ramsey
by John Doelln, of Alva, anot rof
his attorneys. Doolin sought to col
lect $50,000 as his share in obtain
ing the lease. He mentioned Mc-
Murray as one of his co-attorneys.
According to the Doolin suit it
was agreed to pay the United States
65% cents royalty on every barrel
of oil produced, later the oil price
declined, and Ramsey sought a re
duction in the royalty.
Lawyers again went to Washing
ton, and the Department of the In
terior, as a compromise, increased
the lease acreage, Doolin alleged.
The first lease had included 52.70
acres. After the compromise it in
cluded 63.2 acres, and on the new
, acreage the royalty was reduced
to a sliding scale of 12 to 85 cents
per barrel.
Doolin alleged specifically in his
petition that Ramsey paid no addi
tional consideration for the second
lease.
Sold for $750,000.
Ramsey sold the double lease on
April 12, 1922, for $750,000, the
lawyer set forth. Doolin estimated,
in addition, that $500,000 was re
ceived fro moperation of the leases.
Costs did not exceed $400,000, he
believed. He estimated proceeds
from the operation and sale ex
ceeded $900,000.
How much was paid the Govern
ment for the lease was not stated.
Ramsey in his answer, however,
denied that any profit was made.
He asserted that actually he had
sustained a $18,013 loss. He cited
figures, as follows:
Total cost of acauiring and im
proving lease, $525,891.
Total sale price, $460,000.
Loss, $75,391.
Claims $62,377 Profit.
Profit from operation, $68,877.
Ramsey raid he procured the sec
ond lease on December 14. 1921. act-
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Sheriff Called When
Hard Cider Affects
Boys in School
HAGERSTOWN, Md., Feb. 15.
—Drinking a quantity of hard
cider before going to school yes
terday at Beaver Creek, two
boys' of tender age became so
unruly that Ernest Barties, prin
cipal, was compelled to appeal
to B. J. Grimes, superintendent
of education in this city, for
'help and he in turn appealed to
Sheriff Richard Duffey who dis
patched Deputy Sheriff Samuel
Kaylor to the school to take
charge of the recalcitrants.
When the deputy arrived at
the school building the boys had
disappeared. Investigation
showed that the boys had se
cured the cider at a farmhouse.
Their actions nearly disrupted
the school session and Principal
Barties was unable to control
or eject them. One of the boys
was formerly an inmate of the
Orphans’ Home in this city.
ing through the Assistant Secretary
bf the Interior.
Doolin’s district court action was
filed February 8, 1923, and was dis
missed November 21, 1923, “with
prejudice to new action.”
Hearing of the McMurray-Swift
litigation at McAllister is pending,
and it is expected to reveal further
details of McMurray’s alleged influ
ence with Fall.
McMurray was in the limelight
several years ago, when he de
manded $650,000 attorney fee for
representing Oklahoma Indians.
United States Senator T. P. Gore
charged on the Senate floor that
Jake Hamon, former Oklahoma po
litical leader, who was killed by
Clara Smith, was behind the claim.
Started Big Feud.
This was the beginning of one of
the State’s biggest political feuds.
There was a Congressional invest!-
gation and McMurray was returned
winner. He was authorized by Con
gress to sue the Government for his
claim, and this suit is now pending
in Washington, and is set for hear
ing in March.
McMurray has since been reputed
as wielding big power in Washing
ton.
INTELLIGENCE TESTS
. PRAISED BY TEACHER
Claiming that five hundred hours
of teachers’ time had already been
saved through the method, Miss
Jessie LaSalle, supervising principal
of the second division of elementary
schools, explained the accomplish
ments in her division through the
use of intelligence tests, when she
addressed the open meeting of the
committee on educational methods
and progress of the District of Co
lumbia School Association last night
at the public library.
All other business scheduled to
come before the meeting was held
over to allow Miss LaSalle to devote
the entire evening to explanation of
the modern method of testing.
MOTHER, TIRED AND COLD,
DROWNS HER 2 INFANTS
REVERE, Mass., Feb. 15.—Leav
ing a note to her husband that she
was tired and cold and could not
“stand it any longer,” Mrs. George
C. Wilfert drowned her two infant
children in a bath tub and at
tempted to end her own life at the
same time.
Wilfert, returning from work at 6
o’clock, found the house in dark
ness. Investigation revealed the
mother and children in the bath tub
fully dressed. The infants, a boy
of three years and a girl of
eighteen months, were clasped in
the arms of the mother, who was
unconscious. In her struggles, the
woman had apparently kicked aside
the stopper of the tub and the
water had drained away.
CLOTHIERS SAY DRESS
IS KEY TO SUCCESS
BOSTON, Feb. 15.—Dress Well
and you’ll be successful in the
opinion of the New England Asso
ciation of Retail Clothiers and Fur
nishers. At its annual meeting the
ad °P ted this resolution:
Whereas it has been abundantly
proved that proper attler aids in
success, therefore
“Resolved, that this association
commends, the efforts being made
to stress the importance of pride in
appearnace.”
A resolution asking Congress to
repeal the 1928 Income taxes and
to repeal all excise .taxes in force
also was passed.
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600 WILL TAKE
PARTS IN BIG
PAGEANT
Proceeds of ‘Dreamer Awakes’
to Be Used for Catholic
Missions and Churches.
A cast of 600 persons will take
part in “The Dreamer Awakes,” a
pageant to be given Sunday after
noon and night in Poli’s Thfeater
under the auspices of the Catholic
Students' Mission Crusade. Proceeds
will go toward the missions of the
archdiocese of Baltimore and for the
destroyed churches in the Japanese
earthquake region.
Fift<\n Catholic schools of Wash
ington are lending their support.
The costumes were made by the
Association ■ of Theater Arts. A
fifteen-piece orchestra led by Sk»l
Minster will 'provide the music. The
Catholic University Glee Club will
also assist.
“The Dreamer Awakes” with its
theme of world wide interests is an
easy subject for vivid stage work
Two typical college-goers, “Jack
America,” played by Aloysius P.
Kane, and “Jane America,” played
by Madeleine F. O’Brien, meet Old
Man Experience, played by P. J.
O’Connor, and the plot gets its
take-off.
The scenes then shift. The first
scene is the palace of King Cosmos,
the second a college campus. Next
is shown an Indian reservation
which is followed by a scene in the
islands of Southeast Africa.
A country revel, a concourse of
the nations, opens the third episode
with a sudden change to Japan and
China. The cast lead is a crusader
in Chain Mail, Charles E. Clifford.
The Rev. I. Walter Nall, of
Catholic University, is the director
of the pageant.
FARMER KILLS WIFE
BLOWS OWN HEAD OFF
WILLIAMSPORT, Pa., Feb. 15.
The little village of Proctor, in the
mountains in the extreme north
eastern part of Lycoming county,
was the scene of a grim tragedy
when C. K. Reibsam, a farmer,
killed his -wife and then blew off
the top of his head with the. same
shotgun. Seven small children are
orphaned.
It was one of the boys who gave
the alarm. Running to the home
of a neighbor, he said his father
had fired at his mother, but missed
her. He was using a double
barreled shotgun. Reibsam then
calmly reloaded, placed the muzzle
to his head and reaching out
pushed the trigger with his toe.
EXAMINATIONS OUST
MANY MIDSHIPMEN
ANNAPOLIS, Feb. 15.—One hun
dred and three midshipmen, who
indicated school deficiencies at the
semi-annual examinations just com
pleted, will be compelled to leave
the Naval Academy.
Many of them left today. The
first class, whose members will
graduate in June, was untouched,
but seven members of the next class,
the second, must resign and two
more go back to the third. Nine
teen members of the third class
leave and seven go back.
As usual the largest number of
enforced resignations is in the
fourth ciass, which was entered dur
tog the summer. Seventy-eight will
submit their resignations.
REPORTED EOT
"LINE ON” FREE
AS JOB
Denver Newspaper Man Takes
No Particular Credit for
Doing Duty.
By MICHAEL F. DACEY.
International News' Service.
DENVER, Feb. 15.—“1t was just
In the line of duty as a reporter,**
was the laconic comment of D. F.
Stackelbeck, Denver newspaperman,
who was given credit on the floor
of the United States Senate by Sen*
ator Walsh, of Montana, for per
forming a “great public service” in
revealing the essential facts that re
sulted in the thorough investigation
of the circumstances surrounding
the leasing to Harry F. Sinclair by
former Secretary of the Interior A.
B. Fall of the Teapot Dome (Wyom
ing) naval oil reserve.
Stackelbeck. declined to go into
details regarding his trip to New
Mexico in the summer of 1922, when
be discovered that Harry F. Sin
clairs private car Sinco had stood
on a sidetrack at Three Rivers, N.
M., for several days prior to the
securing of -the valuable oil leases
by Sinclair from the Interior De
partment. Fall's ranch snuggles
close to a mountain near Three
Rivers, and Sinclair had been the
guest of honor there at a series
of informal parties.
Reporter on Job.
From other sources it was learned
that Stackelbeck spent a strenuous
fortnight in the State of New Mex
ico, poring over official records that
disclosed the fact that Fall had
paid ten years’ delf -Tuent . taxes
shortly after the aw | Ung of the
leases to Sinclair, am. that exten
sive improvements had been started
about the same time on Fall's
ranch property, which for years
had been considered *g a “deploy
ably rundown condition."
The Denver newspaper reporter,
it was said, traveled from one end
of the State to the other investigat
ing Fall’s affairs; he talked with
former" mining associates of Fall;
spent many nights in the cactus
infested desert searching out cow
man who were acquainted with
Fall's career; interviewed former
members of the territorial govern
ment of New Mexico who knew
Fall as a district territorial judge
under appointment of former Presi
dent Grover Cleveland: • Stackelbeck
obtained intimate details of Fall's
work in the constitutional conven
tion that preceded the acceptance
nf New’ Mexico Into complete State
hood in the Union, and he learnetj
of the former Cabinet member’s ac
tivities as a State Senator and later
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Sheer and Thread Silk
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at
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Dawn Nude
Flesh Peach
Champagne Beige
Fallow Orient
Lightwood Moonlight
Formosa Gray
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Let us tell you about our
repair service.
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 15, 1924.
as Unlted States Senator from New
Mexico.
Thrilling Experience.
According to close • friends of
.Stackelbeck, the Denver newspaper
man encountered some thrilling
experiences in his investigation in
New Mexico and heard many lurid
tales of political conditions in that
State from the lips of former as
sociates and acquaintances of Fall,
who have been intimate with the
latter’s career from the time he
was a miner to his elevation to
the Cabinet of the late President
Harding..
These revelations are said to
have “dumfounded” Senator Walsh
when they were made to him in
Washington last November by the
Denver reporter.
Stackelbeck is widely known
throughout Colorado and the inter
mountain region. He first camo
to Denver in 1905 from the South,
hating been engaged in news
paper work in Louisville, Ky., and
other cities. At one time he was
known as the “crack police re
porter’’ of Denver, but in recent
years he has “covered” the State
House, sessions of the legislature
i and general politics. He has at
tended several national political
conventions for the local paper by
which he is employed.
VETERAN HELD IN DEATH
OF MAN ON HOUSEBOAT
NORFOLK, Va., Feb. 15.—Pend
ing the outcome of the coroner’s
inquest next Tuesday, Albert
Cameron, a world war veteran, is
held by police, in connection with
the death of John Flanagan, fifty,
whose lifeless body was found on
the beach near Ocean View, follow
ing a quarrel with Cameron.
The men lived in a houseboat
I and made their living along the
beach. Police believe ‘ Flanagan’s
death due to natural causes.
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Rock-Bottom
Clothing Prices
Everywhere you turn—clothing sales
greet your eye—offering all sorts of reduc
tions to clear their racks. But we have
gone them all “one better”—as the following
prices quickly testify.
Think of it—a fine hand-tailored overcoat
made from long-wearing fabrics—for only
twenty dollars. It sounds “fishy’’—but
$ nevertheless such is our offer.
Remember! Sold up to SSO
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Headquarters
If you would be thrifty and
match up that odd coat—there
is only one place thht can as
sure you of matching it or come
nearer matching it—that’s
Friedlander Bros.
$4.00 TROUSERS SUITS
$0.85 ■ **
Just, because this price happens to look
ridiculous—has ho bearing on the quality
CK Aft TDAIIQFDQ of thesesuits * partof ourregu^ar stock
YVaUv IHVUV tII V —bought to sell at a much higher figure.
Sold op io SSO
$7.00 TROUSERS A £A
$8 & $lO Trousers jf f
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CUJTUINC DEPT. IB
OPEN SATURDAY EVENING UNTIL 10 P. M.
J. G. DUDLEY TO
RUN AGAINST
MOORE
Cherrydale Man Chosen by
G. O. P. to Make Race
for Congress.
CLARENDON, Va., Feb. 15.
John G. Dudley, of Cherrydale, for
mer chairman of the Arlington
county Republican committee, has
been chosen as the Republican pan
didate for Congress from the Eighth
district to oppose R. Walton Moore,
of Fairfax, Democratic incumbent.
The third annual community sup
per of the Clarendon Parent-Teach
ers* Association will be served to
night at the school house between
the hours of 5 and 7 o’clock.
Needed improvements on the roads
of Arlington district,* especially on
Wilson boulevard, are now being
made under the direction of the
new superintendent' of roads, Capt.
* hl LT.' Talma n. The straightening
S™. HS®? boulevard at Pickett’s
Hill will be included in the recom
mendations to be made by ths
executive committee to the Arlington
District Good Roads Commission
at their meeting at the Arlington
.count court house tonight.
The ei'angelistic services now be
ing conducted by the Rev. L. C.
Robey at the Cherrydale Methodist
. Church are being well attended.
I Last night several of the secret
organizations of the county at- *
tended in a body.
Announcement is made thdt
Wednesday night, February 20, will
be known as Masonic night. Mem
bers of Columbia Lodge No. 285,
A. F. and A. M. of Clarendon, will
meet at the temple at 7:30 o’clock
and attend the services in a body.
The February term of the cir
cuit court of Arlington county will
convene on Monday, February 18,
at 10 o’clock, with Judge Samuel
G. Brent on the bench.
Arlington Post, No. 189, American
Legion, is planning to bold a leap
year dance at the Clarendon com
munity hall Friday night, Febru
ary 29. Dartcing will start at 8:80
o’clock.
The condition of Traffic Officer
John R. Burke, who has been con
fined to his home for several days
was reported greatly improved to
day.
The Thrifton village Indoor so
ciety circus will give an entertain
ment at the Thrifton Episcopal
parish hall tomorrow night at 8
o’clock.
WARRANT IS SOUGHT
FOR ERWIN A. MORSE
District Attorney Gordon yester
day asked the District Supreme
Court for a warrant to require Er
win A. Morse, son of Charles Morse,
shipbuilder, to appear in New York
city to answer an indictment
charging him and his father, two
brothers and twenty others, with
using the mails to defraud, in con
nection with the sale of stock in
various steamship companies.
Morse, his father, two brothers and
four others were acquitted last
summer on a charge of conspiracy
to defraud the United States Ship
■ ping Board in connection with build
ing ships during the war-