The Washington times. [volume], March 03, 1924, Page 2, Image 2

About The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939

Image provided by: Library of Congress, Washington, DC

                
2
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE TIPS ON OIL INVESTIGATION PROBED
SOLVEALL
nsrcmr
OF CODE
(Continued from First Page.)
Walsh resolution passed by Con
•NM.
Are to Quix Buras.
Tn following the lead into the
Department of Justice the commit
tee first will question William J.
Burns, chief of the Bureau of In
vestigation, and Mrs. Mary Duck
stein, former secretary to Burns,
and an agent of the department.
Mrs. Duckstein’s name was found,
signed to one of the code messages j
to E. B. McLean in which Burns I
was quoted as advising the pub
lisher “that an investigation is
under way by Justice Department
agents.’*
Besides the alleged “tip” from
Burns, the committee is anxious to
know how employes of McLean
••cured possession of a code of
the department.
They will seek to determine if
the code was supplied by McLean
himself who, as an agent of the
department, was given a code book,
• pistol, a badge and a set of
operative’s credentials.
More Employes Called.
Mrs. Duckstein is the first woman
to figure prominently in the scandal
and the committee regards her as
* highly important witness in re
vealing activities of Department
officials on behalf of McLean.
Previously it had been shown
that E. S. Rochester, an employe
of the department, telegraphed Me-.
Lean a “tip” about the Inquiry.
Burns, Mrs. Duckstein, Rochester
and several of McLean’s employes,
have been summoned to appear to
morrow at the resumption of for
mal hearings.
OOCTOOGHT
VALUELESS
'' SERUMS
Jrge Adoption of Measure to
Prevent Fake Advertise
ments of Vaccines.
(Continued from First Page.)
nas been manufactured under sani
tary conditions and that the label I
on the package states the true con
tents of the preparation.”
Opposition Shows Up.
Similar testimony was given at
today’s hearing.
-—'Opposition to the substitute serum
•nd vaccftie bill, introduced by Con
gressman Rathbone last week, was
In evidence today in the same man
per in which it was displayed
•gainst the original bill.
The modified measure, which is a
(stronger bill than the original one,
was introduced at the recommenda
tion of Dr. McCoy. At previous
hearings Dr. McCoy expressed him
•elf in sympathy with Mr. Rath
hone’s bill, but declared that as it
was worked it would not prove ef
fective.
Opposition to the measure lay
largely against the provisions which
would give the Secretary of the
Treasury power to revoke or with
hold licenses to any manufactures
Who makes fraudulent claims for
his product.
Walter Penfield, representative of
the Sherman laboratories. Detroit,
Mich., declared that such power
should not be vested in any one
authority.
The bill, he declared, in urging
support of the new measure, to the
■ubcommittee, declared that he did
not favor any particular set of regu
lations. but wished only to accom
plish his purpose for the good of
the public. In withdrawing his orig-
Inal bill he declared, he had done
•o in accordance with the sugges
tion of Dr. McCoy.
ICE in Industry
The manufacture of Ice is
Uncle Sam’s ninth industry. But
that’s only a small part of the
story of Ice in industry. Refrig
eration is of paramount impor
tance in lard and oil refineries,
in creameries, in margarine plants,
in the manufacture of explosives,
in the storage of furs, in sugSr
refineries, in bottling establish
ments, in sausage factories, in can
b neries, in glue factories, in bleach
f ing and dyeing establishments, in
the manufacture of drugs, and in
' the Kodak plants Florists could
not do business without refrigera
tion, and big cities could not even
be fed.
AMERICAN
i ICE
I COMPANY
Daugherty Now Aided
By G. O. P. Chiefs
By WILLIAM HARD.
The Republican Party, for the most part, will now turn
in and do its best to exonerate Attorney General Daugherty
in his trial before the Brookhart senatorial investigating com
mittee. The Attorney General then thereafter will eliminate
himself and let the Republican Party go to the country in
the November election with neither any guilt by Daugherty
to confess nor any load of Daugherty in office to carry.
Such is the idea and such is the-<
policy toward which the Republican
party in Washington is tending to
day as the Senate begins another
week of busy toil in its capacity
as the national invesigature.
Daugherty’s Attitude.
Attorney General Daugherty's
1 own personal attitude toward the
complicated subject of his resigna
tion may now with absolute condl
dence be understood to be as fol
lows:
He has been confronted with four
different sorts of proposed resigna
tions.
First, there is the immediate vol
l untary resignation to be given in
| response to a mere request by the
; President and to take effect at
once. This sort of resignation Mr.
Daugherty has peremptorily re
fused to consider.
Next there is the pre-dated or
forward-looking resignation to be
written out now and to take effect
at a given and specified later time.
This variety of resignation was for
a brief moment considered by Mr.
Daugherty as a possibility but after
(Continued on Page 2. Column 4.)
a conference with his closest friends
he was moved toward rejecting it
and did reject it definitely.
His reason for rejecting It was
and is that if he should say now
that he was going to resign on any
given later date the investigation by
the Senate would thereupon become
a faint-hearted and almost farcical
performance.
Senators would find it difficult
and in fact would find it absurd to
investigate an officeholder and to
try to prove him unfit for his office
when all the while they were well
aware that he was just about to go
out of office.
~ Wants AU . ed.
Attorney General Daugherty is de
termined to have a complete in
vestigating surgical operation per
formed upon him without chloro
form.
He wants the investigating Sen
ators to get out their knives and do
their worst. He, therefore, finally,
definitely refused to accept the sug
on C Or a P re *da.ted resignation.
The third variety of resignation
pressed upon Daugherty’s attention
by his loving friends was the oblig
atory or enforced resignation to
consist of a letter by him submis
sively accepting an outright writ
ten dismissal from the President.
This variety of resignation
Daugherty was always ready to
consider and to produce. He is
readj r today' to produce a resignation
for which President Coolidge shall
take full complete open responsi
bility.
This responsibility, however, the
President so far has refrained from
taking, especially since Daugherty
has made it clear that he is de
termined to get Investigated and
exonerated somehow and some
where. and that if the. President
dismisses him he will start off on
a sort of Chautauqua lecture tour
of the whole country and bite the
Republican party in vital spots
from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
Problem for Party.
Accordingly the knotty problem
of how to deal with the human
porcupine in the Department of
Justice and of how to get him out
of his present position without get
ting the Republican party all stuck
full of quills and wounds has re
solved itself into a final thoughtful
consideration yf the fourth species
of resignation and disappearance.
This fourth and concluding
species might be called the tenta-
delayed-pass resignation. It
consists of a Republican effort to
exonerate Mr. Daugherty and of
then thereafter a graceful per
sonal fadeaway by Mr. Daugherty.
According to this plan, in the
-view of Mr. Daugherty’s friends,
Mr. Daugherty will thus save the
Republican party twice.
In the first place, he will go
before the Brookhart senatorial in
vestigating committee and will clear
himself, he asserts, of all those
charges which make him out to
be a criminal. He may be forced
to admit that his department, in
some ways, has been conducted
inefficiently.
Confident of Results.
He may be forced to admit that
in some ways it has been conducted
politically. He will be able, how
ever, he confidently asserts and be
lieves, to prove that’ the charges
of corruption and criminality
against him are false.
He thus, as he and his friends
look at it, will clear the Republican
party of the charge of having had
a criminal Attorney General.
There will remain the charge that
the Department of Justice could be
better managed by somebody else.
To meet that charge and to make
room for that somebody else, Mr.
Daugherty will then hand in his
delayed-pass resignation and it will
be accepted by a relieved President
and a grateful Republican party.
The party, having helped Mr.
Daugherty to exonerate himself and
to exonerate it of all jail-worthy
offenses, will bid him good-by with
double pleasure, once for the exon
eration and once for his departure.
Mr. Daugherty is willing to de
part on these terms, and since they
are the only terms on which he is
willing to depart except though an
outraged dismissal, which the Presi
dent refuses to issue, it became in
creasingly clear today that presently
a large part of the Republican party
will be rallying—and is already be
ginning to rally—to do its best for
Mr. Daugherty before the Brookhart
Inestlgatlng committee.
(Copyright, 1914, Washington Press
Service.)
Alaska Cable Laying to Begin.
The Navy Department today
ordered the Destroyers Corry and
Hull to proceed to Alaskan waters
to take depth-findings at four-mile
intervals from Seward to Seattle.
Wash, tn preparation for lay
ing the new Washington JKlaaka
cable in the spring.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES * * Tho National Patty * 9 MONDAY, MARCH 3, 1924.
4
BLAST PROBE IS
HELD UP BI
HEAT
Two Missing Besides 181 Dead
and 100 Injured in Nitrate
Explosion.
By International News Service
NIXON, N. J., March 3—Ef
forts were being made today by
Middlesex county authorities to
fix the blame for the explosion
which on Saturday destroyed the
plant of the Nixon Nitration Com
pany here and took the lives of
at.least eighteen persons and in
jured one hundred more.
Owners Are Quizzed
Lewis and Stanhope Nixon, own
ers of the razed plant, and R. Nor
ris Shreve, president of the Arp
monlte Company which owned the
explosive material, were called into
conference at the country prose
cutor’s office, together with army
officers from the adjoining arsenal
at Raritan and survivors* of the
blast.
In addition to the eighteen killed,
two others are missing, and of the
fifteen seriously injured in various
hospitals, it is feared many will die.
Arsenal Denies Blame
Opinions varied as the cause of
the explosion. Officials of the
nitrate plant believe small quanti
ties of T. N. T. had been left in
the ammonium nitrate when it was
extracted from shells at the aresnal
and sent to their plant, while
Major A. S. Casad, in command at
Raritan arsenal, was equally sure
the explosion was caused by chemi
cal conditions in connection with
the making of fertilizer from the
nitrate at the plant and not due to
carelessness in leaving T. N. T. in
the mixture at the arsenal.
A vast crowd of sightseers, esti
mated at 20,000 persons, thronged
the country roads leading to the
scene. Only those on official busi-f
ness were allowed closer to the ruins'
than a quarter of a mile.
Heat Halts Experts.
Chemical experts were requested l
by the prosecutor's office to conduct
an examination on the scene, but
were still held up In their efforts to
day as the debris had not yet cooled
off.
All fear that the 500,000 high
explosive shells at the Raritan ar
senal across the fence from the,
nitrate plant were In danger were i
dispelled this morning, when it was
practically assured that no more ex
plosions would occur.
OOiniNG
STARTS IN
HOUSE
Committee to Report Bill This
Week—Votes to Pass Over
- Veto Claimed.
(Continued from First Page.)
be given the widows of thousands
of veterans who died since the
armistice after letting their war
risk insurance lapse.
To expedite the hearing, the com
mittee voted unanimously to give
each witness five minutes, with ex
tension of time by committee vote
if the committee deemed it ad
visable.
Advocates Option.
Congressman Cole, in answer to
a question, said he never had heard
a veteran oppose the bonus. He
spoke in favor of an option clause
to cover the Insurance or cash
question.
"Why the option?” asked Con
gressman Gardner.
“Because of revenue conditions,”
Cole replied. “I favor letting the
party leaders get together and de
cide what the revenue of the vcoun
try will permit.”
"The drain on the Treasury,” he
added, "will be very large, and,
therefore, I favor paid up insur
ance.”
rea d from a letter from Col.
C. B. Robbins, commander last
year of the lowa Legions, indors
ing insurance in lieu of cash.
MacDONALD AVERSE TO
CALLING ARMS PARLEY
LONDON, March 3.—The present
moment is Inopportune for any
single nation to attempt to summon
ft disarmament conference. Premier <
Ramsay MacDonald told the House
of Commons this afternoon.
Asked whether he intended to call
an international disarmament con
ference the premier replied:
“Broadly speaking the League of
Nations already has discussed that
situation. Ido not think the pres
ent moment suitable for an inde
pendent step. We must await de
velopments."
COOLIDGE GIVES
0. K. TO HOUSE
TAX BILE
Smooth Sailing in Senate Is
Expected to Follow
Indorsement.
By International News Service.
Administration leaders in the
Senate received word from the
White House today that the tax
reduction bill as passed by the
House is satisfactory to Presi
dent Coolidge.
This means that the Republi
can regulars in the Senate will
not seek to cut the surtax rates
or increase the normal income
tax rates fixed by the House,
but will satisfy themselves with
defending the bill against on
slaughts of the Democrats and
Republican insurgents.
Mellon Plan Dead.
After a survey of the situation
In the Senate, Administration mem
bers of the Senate Finance Com
mittee, which is now considering
the tax reduction bill, have reached
the conclusion that the original Mel
lon tax plan is dead beyond all
hopes of recuperation, and that ef
forts to revive the Mellon rates
would be efforts wasted.
President Coolidge has been ad
vised of this situation and he has
therefore given the word—unofficial
ly thus far—that he will approve
the Income tax rates written Into
the bill by the House. These rates
were adopted through a compromise
effected with the insurgents by
Congressman Longworth, the Re
publican leader. The normal tax
rates are 2 per cent below 31,000
5 per cent between $4,000 and 38,-
000, and 6 per cent above SB,OOO.
The maximum surtax rate is
per cent, whereas Mellon wanted
the maximum fixed at 25 per cent,
a reduction of 50 per cent under
th® existing rate.
Senator Smoot (Rep.) of Utah,
chairman of the Senate Finance
Committee, announced today that
hearings on the tax bill will open
on Thursday. Secretary of the
Treasury Mellon will be the lirst
witness.
SENSHIorDUE
IN DAUGHEBTY
“TRIAL”
Whole Administration Will Be
Put on Grill, Senate z
Leaders Assert.
(Continued from First Page.)
the Harding-Coolidge Administration
•—all this In the face of an approach
ling election.
In this connection they point out
that already the groundwork has
been laid in the Senate for a similar
"investigation” of the Treasury De
i partment, through the Couzens-Klng
resolution.
Everything, according to Senator
Brookhart, chairman, is to be in
the open.
"The committee will meet in
executive session late today or to
night," said Brookhart, “to map
out a course of procedure and de
cide upon policy. Except for the
purely administrative features of
the inquiry, which concern only the
committee itself, all other moves
are to be made *in public. Open
hearings will start later in the
week.
"The request of the Attorney Gen
eral’s lawyers for the usual repre
sentation at these hearings will, of
course, be granted. The committee
will give Mr. Daugherty every fa
cility in presenting his defense. The
question, however, of permitting his
attorneys to cross-examine witnesses
must be decided by the committee
as this hardly comes in the usual
course of things.”
Daugherty May Testify.
Whether the Attorney General
himself will take the stand has not
been decided. Events during the
hearing Itself probably will deter
mine this. The impression prevails,
however, among Daugherty’s friends
and advisers that -he will do so.
Whatever else has been charged
against the Attorney General, he
has never been accused of lacking
courage, and It is understood to
be his present intention of facing
his accusers from the stand if he
' annot refute the accusations against
him by other means. *
Daugherty Is expected to return
to Washington the last of this week.
Daugherty Maintains Silence.
MIAMI, Fla., March 3.—Attorney
General Harry M. Daugherty today
remained in seclusion at a hotel
here, refusing to issue any state
ment relative to the Senate’s inves
tigation of charges against his ad
ministration. He spent Saturday
with his invalid wife and today was
engrossed in governmental duties,
according to his secretary.
The Attorney General said he had
not decided when he will return to
Washington, but intimated that he
will do so as soon as an actual charge
of malfeasance in office are filed
against him if not sooner. He has
ordered reservations from Miami
for Wednesday night, but explained
that these were “subject to change,”
depending upon developments at
•Washington.
GIRL, MISSING MONTH
FROM CONVENT, SOUGHT
CLEVELAND, March 3.— Police
were asked to search for Miss
Verna Smolko, of Benedict, Pa., who
has been missing for a month from
Ursuline Convent hero.
A sister, Helen, twenty, is here
from Benedict to aid In the search.
SINGLAIRADMITS
STANDARD OIL
INTERESTS
Owns Half of Teapot Dome
Pipe Line and Purchasing
Company, He Says.
By International News Service
NEW YORK, March 3.—The Tea
pot Dome naval reserve lease be
tween the Federal Government and
the Mammoth Oil Company was
signed “forty years after oil was
first produced In Wyoming and
twelve years after the State had be
come one of the greatest oil pro
ducing districts of the world,” Harry
F. Sinclair declared today in a
statement issued by him as chair
man of the board of the Sinclair
Consolidated Oil Corporation.
The statement summarized the
obligations and investments of the
Sinclair Company in the Mammoth
OU Company whose lease of Teapot
Dome brought Sinclair into the lime
light of the Senate Investigation of
the Wyoming and California naval
reserve leases.
Stock Ownership.
Though the Mammoth Company
was organized by Sinclair to de
velop the Teapot Dome, the Sinclair
Consolidated Oil Corporation "owns
slightly more than 26 per cent of
the stock of the Mammoth Oil Com
pany,” the statement said. The
ownership of the remainder of the
stock is not revealed.
The Sinclair Corporation has not
loaned money to the Mammoth Com
pany or guaranteed any of its finan
cial or other obligations, the state
ment said.
For the slightly more than 25 per
cent interest it holds in the Mam
moth Company, the statement said,
the Sinclair Corporation gave 260.000
shares of its common stock “with a
present market value of approxi
mately >5,750.000.“
Storage Project.
One by-product of the lease of
Teapot Dome, the statement reveals
was the construction by the Sin
clair Corporation of a sl,ooo,ooo r oil
storage project for the Navy at
Portsmouth, N. H., now almost com
pleted—the cost of which will be
paid by royalty oil “accruing to
the government through the Mam
moth Oil Company operations ”
Construction of a pipe line into
the Wyoming field, he intimates,
will increase the price of the field s
oil.
"During all the time and prior
to the leasing of Teapot Dome the
Wyoming fields were isolated,” the
statement said. The capacity of
local Wyoming refineries was much
less than the available Wyoming
production and producers were sell
ing less than half of their available
output and receiving 60 cents a
barrel less than the price paid in
the Mid-Continent field for oil of
similar quantity.
Standard Oil Interests.
The pipe line which is to have
a carrying capacity of 40,000 barrels
a day and “create the first direct
outlet from the Wyoming fields to
the markets of the world,” is nqw
being completed by the Sinclair Pipe
Line Company, the stock of which
is owned half by the Sinclair Cor
poration and half by the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana.
One other contract with the gov
ernment held by the Sinclair inter
ests is revealed by the statement
Issued today. It is the contract
of the Sinclair Crude Oil Purchas
ing Company, jointly owned bv the
Sinclair Corporation and the Stand
ard Oil Company of Indiana, to
purchase all government royalty oil
in the Salt Creek field of Wyom
ing. This now averages more than
20,000 barrels a day, according to
the statement. The contract runs
five years from January 1, 1923,
with the privilege of renewal for
another five years.
mrat is
JUSTPLAYFUL,
CLAIM
N. Y. Museum Statement
Says Giant Fish Is Harm**
less and Friendly.
By Cosmopolitan News Service.
NEW YORK, March 3.—There Is
no need to turn green with fright
when swimming around in warm
Southern waters; one suddenly
bumps into a terrifying shark the
size of a whale. The whale-shark,
for all its baleful looks, is not only
harmless, but even friendly, accord
ing to a statement issued by the
American museum of Natural His
tory today. x
The first satisfactory life-size
model of a whale-shark was being
constructed at the museum from
a specimen taken in the Florida
keys last June.
The whale-shark has an enormous
mouth, filled with almost micro
scopic teeth. It feeds by sifting
small creatures from the sea by
means of a mesh work of gill
rakers.
It is almost as largb as a whale,
specimens in the Indian ocean
measuring seventy feet in length.
It is a beautifully marked creature,
with narrow, vertical, white lines
and series of large white spots.
Observers of the shark in action
say that it will swim up alongside
of a fisherman’s boat and rub Itself
againpt it in the most friendly man
ner imaginable in an effort to rid
itself of barnacles. This is its most
hostile action toward man.
PUBLIC DEBT OF U. S. IS
SET AT $21,601,676,680
The public debt of the United
States on February 29 was $21,601,-
676.660, a reduction of $933,371,878
during the past year the Treasury
Department announced today.
During February the debt was re
duced $60,645,000.
BANKER HARRIS’ WIFE
AND "BROTHER”
.to ' *■' ' to
OP WT' '
MiT '' • Jail
r w* w
-
life
1 I
"**” to to
ito to to 'S’ IB
■ flfl
h to ■ '■ to to to
■ ■ JEI B
t. -;xx, WM
i i" A-B
K fl
1111 mill LIU II HI H.H iW'iltoiqto—l
) INTERNATIONAL NEWS REEL
j Mrs. Eleanor Elaine Lee Harris, shown in New York with Whit
ney Rayner, who aided her in hyr fight against the suit brought
by Beverly D. Harris to annul his marriage to Mrs. Harris. Whit
n«*y Rayner testified that he was the son of Eli Rayner, gambler,
of Memphis, Tenn., who also was declared to be the father of Mrs.
Harris.
i ‘PHANTOM’ GIRL'
NOTDIVDRCE
WITNESS
; Mrs. Harris Will Not Call
“Sister” in Husband’s Case.
Defense Near End.
i
■ NEW YORK, March 3.—The
J Samuella Lee or Susie Ella Lee,
. whose mysterious personality has
i haunted the record of the trial of
J Beverly D. Harris annulment suit
against his beautiful wife, Mrs.
■ Elaine Lee Harris, will not appear
as a flesh and blood witness in
Justice Wasservogel’s courtroom.
The jury will have to establish her
Identity from testimony of others.
The plaintiff contends that Sam
uella is the same woman as the
defendant and was, before her mar
riage to him, the mistress of Ell
Raynor, Memphis gambler.
Mrs. Harris’ contention pictures
Samuella as her sister, born eight
years before the defendant, and the
legitimate child of her mother,
Saluda Ann Lee, while Mrs. Harris
is the illegitimate child of her
mother and Raynor, the gambler.
This problem of Identity is the
principal issue of the trial and will
play an important part in determin
ing the jury’s verdict.
Another sister of the defendant,
Mrs. J. W. Corder, will take the
witness stand today for the de
fense. Her testimony is expected
to deal with the identity of Sam
uella.
Mrs. Corder has traveled from her
home in Indianola, Miss., to ap
pear as a witness. But the Samuella
of Mrs. Harris’ claim will not be
present, Mr. Battle said, althougn
her deposition may be read in court.
Samuella. the defendant’s attor
neys declare, is now happily mar
ried and does not wish to risk
losing her present happiness.
The defense will attempt to con
clude its case today, placing Mrs.
Harris on the stand climax.
Her direct examination will last
about an hour, Mr. Battle said.
• But Carruthers Ewing, Harris’
attorney, who himself comes from
Memphis, may prolong-cross-exami
nation of the defendant concerning
her early life in the South until
a late hour'in the day.
The skirmish of the easy-going
attorney, who knows everybody in
Memphis, and the quick, spirited
emotional Southern beauty is ex
pected to provide a dramatic chap
ter in the already picturesque record
of the trial.
360 GALLONS OF LIQUOR
IN AUTOMOBILE SEIZED
UNIONTOWN, Pa.. March 3.
Three men said to be from Detroit
were arrested near here early to
day, when nearly 360 gallons of
high-grade liquor was found in the
automobile in which they were
riding, according to the police.
The men, who gave their names
as George S. Robertson, R. G.
Barry and Marion Foster, said they
were on their way to Detroit from
Florida. The liquor, according to
police, was valued at SB,OOO.
TFTWARSHIPS
SURROUNDING
HONDURAS
Officials Report Situation in
Republic Alarming, With
Fighting Expected.
By International News Service.
The Republic of Honduras, em
broiled In a civil war which has
endangered American lives and
property, is completely surrounded
by warships of the United States
navy, the State Department an
nounced today.
In addition to the cruiser Denver,
anchored off Ceiba, and the destroy
er Billingsley, off Puero Cortes, on
the north coast, the destroyer Mil
waukee has taken up a position at
Amapala, on the south coast.
No orders have yet been issued
for the landing of additional marines
or sailors to augment the forces at
Ceiba, but officials said today that
the situation was alarming and the
further fighting was anticipated
within the next few hours.
According to consular advices to
the State Department, rebel forces
under General Ferrera have cap
tured the citv’ of Tamara, twenty
miles from Tegucigalpa, the capital
of Honduras, and an attack on
Tegucigalpa is being planned, i
It was emphasized at the State
Department today that the pbesence
of American marines at Ceiba is
not to be construed as “interven
tion,” but that the United States
forces are in Honduras merely for
the protection of American in
terests.
LADY ASTOR, ALL WOMEN
REJECTED BY ROTARIANS
CHICAGO, March 3.—A request
from a group of English women
headed by Lady Astor and Lady
Rhonnda, for sanction from the
International Rotary Clubs to
organize a woman’s rotary in Eng
land, has just been refused by the
board of directors of that organiza
tion, according to announcement to
day from the offices here.
The board advised the group of
English women that the present
constitution of the clubs prohibits
any but men from belonging to the
organization. Until there is a con
stitutional change, all applications
from women’s groups are being
turned down. Intimation has come
from London that English dele
gatee to the international Rotary
convention in Toronto, during June,
will move tq change the laws of the
organization to permit women’s
auxiliaries.
Smk/ Rpsfauratii I
STEAM TABLE \
SPECIAL ATTENTION TO LADIES 1
srnucnr xknclass eating p&&
■
Wan ys to MimncHT
PROBE IS URGED
OF 50TH ERN
PACIFIGOIL
Californian Writes Senators
Promising to Expose
“Biggest Grab.”
By Cosmopolitan News Service.
OAKLAND, Calif., March. is.~
Close on the heels of the statement
of Gov. Gifford Pinchot of Fenn
sylvania, that in 1920, Attorney
General Palmer, without a fight
turned over $500,000,000 of oil landi
from the public domain to th<
Southern Pacific Company, M. K
Miller, of Oakland, former city en
gineer and now president of thi
Peoples’ Investment Company, to
day revealed the fact that he hai
been in communication with th<
Senate committee investigating th
Teapot Dome scandal concernini
the Southern Pacific case.
Mr. Miller today revealed to i
representative of the Post Enquire
and Cosmopolitan News Service th
contents of letters in which' he stat
ed that he stands ready to respont
to subpoenas from the investigatini
committee at Washington and tel
what he knows of the dismissal b;
Palmer of the fraud suits agains
the Southern Pacific.
Explaining
My Policy!
The Deal organiza
tion is satisfied with
I a fair charge for
professional services
rendered. These
services are a fitting
tribute, in every way,
to your loved ones.
Nothing that will add
dignity to the occa
sion is left undone.
i .
Complete
i Funeral
5
’125
I
For Reference Ask Your
■ Neighbor
i
( Inspection of the beau-
I tiful new Deal Funeral
; Home is invited. It of
i fers the modern way to
i conduct services in a
, beautiful, edifying man
» ner. ,
* A $125 Complete
Funeral Includes:
A black. broadcloth cas-
F ket, with silk interior and
t six very fine handles
* (this casket alone sells for
r $150). Engraved name
’ plate; Number 1 white
pine outside case, em
’ balming, washing, dress
ing, shaving, if necessary,
£ advertising the death, re
t moving from hospital,
9 crepe for the door, rugs,
’ chairs, gloves, hearse and
b two new Cunningham
, seven - passenger limou
sines.
r
9 When in need of Our
’ Service, Call the Deal
Funeral Home.
As Near As Your T elephant
Lincoln 8200-8201
W. W. DEAL
816 H St. N. E r