The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, April 3, 1924, Page 1

{ \ Mr. Myhre explained to those p WEATHER FORECAST Cloudy and unsettled tonight an Friday. Slightly colder, / ESTABLISHED 1873 BISMARCK, NORTH DAKOTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 3, 1924 CLAIMS EFFORT TO STOP TESTIMONY COUNTY, STATE HIGHWAY PLAN, FORUM TOPIC Speakers Discuss Methods by Which State and County Y Roads May be Improved NEW ROAD IS URGED Federal Aid Project to Con- nect with Emmons County Road Is Proposed The highway situation from the standpoint of the way @ommission and specifically from the standpoint of the county dis- cussed last night at the Forum din- ner of the Association of Comme held in the McKenzie hotel, with about 100 members of the associa- tion present. Burleigh county, those present were informed by Carl Myhre, as- sistant chief engineer of the high- way commission, and T. R, Atkinson, county surveyor, has-done little fed- eral road work, the reason given by them,being that the county's part of the cost of the new Missouri river bridge and the conerete road to the bridge took up available funds. With the bridge and bridge road completed, the county now may be able to go ahead on a main highway program, speakers said. Dr. N. O. Ramstad, vice-president of the Association of Commerce, in- troduced Judge W. L. Nuessle as the presiding officer of the evening. Orchestral music was futnished and Spencer Boise led in community singing. in general tate high- ent how the federal aid for highways is obtained under the law. The fed- eral government, he said,-enacted a law allowing states to create 7 per: cent of their total road mileage into a state system, on which the feder- al government, by appropriation, would pay half the cost of building. North Dakota's maximum amount of nileage on which federal aid may e obtained is 7,434 miles and to late 4,855 miles have been declared na state system and approved by 4 Washington authorities. Must. Pass Laws North Dakota, he said, has until ‘Yovember, 1926, to enact Igislation reating a state fund to match the ederal aid. At present the federal aid is matched with money obtained from coufties. The government, he aid, has actually paid $2,854,489.11 ‘o North Dakota. Burleigh county has 1 oad in this system -on which feder- I aid may be obtained. The bridge und this road to the bridge, which was declared a great improvement hy Mr. Myhre, took most all of the vouhty levy, which prevented it from vuilding other roads, he said. “Mr. Myhre, quoting figures on the humber of automobiles in the state ‘ind the'cost to run them, said that if 7,000 miles of good roads were ‘uilt in the state and saved each rotorist. only one cent a mile in travel, the total saving to motorists miles of in one year would be — $5,500,000. + ‘Therefore, he said, good ri r R. Atkinson, county surveyo aid that about 10 years ago the ounty began building roads, and built good, cheap roads, Those roads were a vast improvement over the noads 15 years ago, but he believed hat more modern necessary. am not ¢ commissioners,” he — said. pent a lot of money on the Mis souri River bridge and the concrete 4 ‘oud to the bridge, which we all recognize as of great value to the city and Burleigh county, and there- ‘ore could not spend so much on the roads of the count Last year, he said, the county un- dertook systematic maintenance of the main roads for the first time, and the same thing was planned this year. Would Reach Emmons He advocated building a federal aid highway north from, the Em- -qmons county line, saying that Em- mone county has a straight stretch of 65 miles of federal aid road from the Burleigh county line. .The road up to Sterling, he said, ought to be made as good as the Emmons county toad, because a great deal of travel would come into the county, = He expressed belief that the Assoc- iation of Commerce should work with fie county officials on a road pro- gram, whereby federal aid woukl be obtained. He said the county, he felt, ought to build eight miles .of federal aid road on.the Sterling- Moffit road this year. After that, he suggested, there might be a program each year whereby by spending $10,- 000 the county, could get ‘perhans $30,000 more from the federal gov- ernment and state, which would make it possible to build 10 miles of ‘federal aid road a year. He said that’ the highway com- mission engineers now are working on a plan for building a federal aid road through the McKenzie slough. highways now ti sing the county Th a FORKS ELECTION Grand Forks, N. D., April 3—Offi- cers of the Ku Klux Klan declared thy‘wesult of the city’ election here a fomplete victory fr. them, City commissioners elected’ were ‘J. D. Turner and J. H. Solstad. Gene Secosd and J. C. Shepard were elect- ed to the park board, THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE PROBABLE, SUMMER WHITE HOUSE The home of Walte e House, id it is his desk this summer. MORE CASH FOR RGGS, PLAN OF N. D, OFFICIALS State Food Commissioner Baird Makes’ Move For Better Marketing ett CONFERENCE BEING HELD Brown, near Wilmington, Vt., been id Coolidge is inclined to accept the offer Tips Private Business Says Members of the North state auditing bo sider tipping to be charged te auditor's office instructed tto cut out a been items which cannot be classed 4 ” says circular te Auditor D, C “Laundry, tailoring. in Pullman cars and t (unless a good reason to why the taxi w issue Ares, en Fargo, N. D., 4 -Methods of seering mgre for egg pro- ducers of ‘the state through more efficient marketing of eggs involving which the board feels classed as neces: the circular continued. expense sea ro ie ; handed down the economy ordéy at Jamestown April 23 edt ie iene. Ce composed of thes Governor, j bie innemlaeas anenwatiore Re} Dreasuren yotate mxaminer, Call for a county convention of gets Meacha tee retary of State and State Au- AAG eanelll Ape 19 for f of ming delegates to R. O. Baird of Faygo, state food pa ee the Republican convention at James- commissioner, suggested a confer- Auditing Board Dakota rd do not con- CALLED TODAY legitimate expense gZainst the state while officials are traveling on has 1s Poindex- tips, necessary) are among the items cannot bi The state auditing board which LEADERS HOLD offered President Coolidge a summer if he finds it possible to get away from CONVENTION IN COUNTY TO BE Republican Meeting Set For April 19 to Indorse Leg- lative Ticket da ALSOCHOOSE DELEGATES Burleigh County to Have 14 Delegates at Convention will be issued t: town on April 23 PEPPER HITS DENOCRATSIN PROBE EFFORT Declares That They Aimed at Republican Party and Hit Entire Nation a BLOCKING LEGI Ss JATIO Asserts That Republicans will Make Every Effort to Enact Big Program ine, April 3.—Senate} Democrats, endeavoring to inflict in- jury upon the Republican party, have ded in discrediting both of the political parties, Senator Pep- an, Pennsylvania, de- “Key-note” address here before the Republican state his discrediting — pro- Pepper , that “an irrespon- sible and highly dangerous third par- ty has actually suggested itself to the extremists as i rhe Democ Charges Partisanship Senator Pepper charged that the Demo ing the most of their age in Congress, for political reasons “ni situation in which con- legislation difficult if created a tructive not impossible. As a result, he continued, the ad- ministration forces have been able to do little more than to make a be- ginning translation into law the pro- gram laid down by President Cool- idge in his first annual message to Congress. “During the residue of this ses- sion,” he said, “we shall do what we can to move forward in the right di- rection and rely upon the great po- pular indorsement which we expect to receive next November to give us the momentum nece plete our program." ary to com- ce of egg d je a sho} im 0 7. i an x cus a ul ious anes ae day by T. Burke, state commi a A wheel a ox . teeman for Burleigh county on the meeting were eeteey Real Republic state committee. Wichert, m Produce Co. of. Fargo, temporary chairman, the meeting includ: 1, Formation of a ager of the state-wide or- ganization of wholesale egg dealers. 2. Adoption of ygrades now being consin Primary Results Milwaukee, April 8.—(By the A. used in neighboring states, 3. Improving shipping facilities. TO POSITIONS} Little Change Shown in Wi: A legislative ticket, it is expected, will be endorsed. Mr. Burke will ask that precinct meetings be *held on Wednesday, [right. April 16, for the purpose of naming delegates to the county con- Ivention. The number of delegat for each precinct in the city will be P.) small dealers will “grade their pro-|f, Wisconsin's) presidential; delegate] Pouniit Patni : duct" Bnd. grepare i properly ‘for] Vote last night, Only a few. scatter. | © gate, shipment. ing Tewurng, from a hundred pre-| ‘the county convention here on Our principal purpose in calling] CMets (TenATMy since 6 o'clock last) April 19 will elect 14 delegates to the this meeting ix to improve the quali. | Might." SihithAAud LaFotlette candi- | Jamestown convention. ‘The ty of eggs shipped from this state,”| Utes for delegate-at-large to the! convention call fixes the apportion- declares Mr. Wichort, “At the pres-|™4JoT political party conventions} vont for the Jamestown convention ent time exes | bought on af maintaine? their lead and W. Gl at one delegate for each 250 votes flat prige per crate, irrespective of] pood oe Mi Jags Hk or major fraction thereof for Gov- size and quali This penalizes the| eee Of Missou ie ‘e fe op ae or R. A. Nestos in 1922. This producer of high-quality eggs, who| President. Less than half of the/it i. figured, will make a convention is rightfully entitled to a premium| Stl : nets had reported!) ¢ 441 delegates. Dye TE) ae at 7 a. m. he count at an early gies duds hour stood, La¥ollette — delegatess| One state senator and three repre- “The total egg production in North 118,701; Coolidge delegates 66, sentatives in the le ature to DAkgoa estore Drourhtrandinmnne | eee emesis Neen be clected in Burleigh county this of upproximately $7,000,000. the state ‘the race for delegates was | year. ‘Thus far no candidates have Venn dun thee push tivee years. the es 274; Smith Jannounced themselves formally for production of eggs in North Dakota the positions which now are held by Hee ineretaea Uncaee cE saree: polngaecte® Semiter Lynn Sperry and “Represen pet ineeseed ante LATER FIGURES ania 1B, ishemrititay Vil Milwaukee, April 3.—-(By the A. P.) | Anderson and 1. E. Heaton. mor marketing will mean an immense development where rom 1 consin for rge to the ve LaFollette 1 i Repub ing to- produc: ep “Minne of egg grades, and the dealers there pay a premium of-four cents per doz en for egus of No, 1 grade over those | of No, 2, and a premium of three cents per dozen for 2 over 3, or a total spread of seven cents per dozen for No. 1 over No. 3.” Among those who attended the meeting are J. C. Borden of Chicago, last year pt! ident of the Chic butter and egg board; KE. R. Phillips, manager of the produce department convention Coolidge 69, WEATHER REPORT For twenty-four noon today. Temperature at 7 a. Highest ye: Mts last night . ecipitation oe Highest wind velocity ......... North Dakota vift & Co. ut South St. Paul; |! Morford, manager of the egg | Comm and wheat department of the De Soto Creamery ; peatione A and Produce Co., of Minneapolis; W. |A™ © A. Ross, president of the Northern | BISMARCK 0 Produce Co., of St. Paul; W. A. Don- | Bottineau p nelly of Fargo, secretary of the | Bowbells ) state retail merchants’ association, s Lake 0 and R. O. Baird of Fargo, state food nson 0 commissioner. + |Dunn Center 0 A number of ggg dealers of Chi- | Ellendale 0 cago and the Twin Cities will have | Fessenden 0 representatives present at the meet-| Grand Forks 0 ing. Officials of the railway traf-{ Jamestown 0 fic departments will be called on for| Langdon . 0 information regarding increased fac-| Larimore 0) ilities for shipping including better] Lisbon 0 refrigerating service. Minot 0 Taking Good Step Napoleon 0 “Ege dealers are taking & step] Pembina . 0 which should prove of benefit to pro-| Williston Rea 0 ducers, dealers and consumers alike,” | Moorhead ... ee G13 0 WEATHER FORECAST For ‘Bismarck and vicinity: is the comment of State Food Com- missioner Baird. “This is practical- ly the only important agricultural product in North Dakota which has’ not been standardized for market purposes. Similar steps were taken for cream marketing a short time (Continued on page 2) a an Slightly colder.; Gloudy Friday. For ‘North Dakota: day, Slightly colder. DOG WHINES, SAVES TWO BOYS, BUT DIES IN FIRE Alexander, N. D., April 2—Awak- ened by the whining of the dog owned by Richard Roberts, one of three’ making the structure their home, Melvin Sandy and Arthur Paulson, two high school boys, es- eaped from the fire which destroy- ed the dwelling here owned by George Nohle. The dog perished. Mr. Roberts was away at the time. The boys saved part of their. belong- gs. Hard fighting saved an ad- joining lumber shed, ~ ' ‘ States and Rocky ers occurred, sant weather Rocky Mountain prevails from region tas were near freezing. ROAD CONDITIONS condition, — \ River Stage at 7 a, m. today, feet; 24, hour change —0.1. 61 precincts out of Cleve. hours ending at Cloudy and somewhat unsettled tonight and somewhat unsettled tonight and Fri- GENERAL WEATHER CONDITIONS The pressure is low over the Plains Mountain region but only a few light scattered show- Generally fair, plea- ‘i eastward. Minimum temperatures in the Dako- Though rough in spots, the main highways of, the State are in good ORRIS W. ROBERTS, Meteorologist. that he wat for re-clection as state or subject to the will of the convention--that he would not make a. bitter fight for the convention in sement but that he would accept mn land r the basis of representation town, Cass county will have at the state conventio: county will have ‘orks d 19, 0] Each county is entitled to the fol- lowing number of delegates. Adams, 3;, Barnes, 15; Benson Billings, 1; Bottineau 8; Bown Burleigh, 14; Burke, 6; Cl | Cavalier, 12; Die 9; Clo} Dunn, ‘ddy, 5; Emmons, 6; Cl | ter, 5; Golden Valley, 4; Grand F Cl 129; Grant, 5; Griggs, 5; Hettinger, Clo] 3; Kidde LaMoure, 8; Logan, Cl | McHen Melntosh, 5; PC | 4; Mel 8; Mercer, Clo] 10; Mountrail! 6; Nelson, 9; Oliver, PC |1; Pembina, Pierce, 7; Ramsey, Cl ]14; Ransom, 9; Renville, i PC }land, 17; Rolette, 5; Sarg Cl | Sheridan, 3; Slope, 2; Sioux, Clo} 8; Steele, 6; Stutsnian, 19; Towner, Cl {63 Traill, 11; Walsh, 15; Ward, PC | Wells, y 9. Clo at aa mC ° 1 | Mill, Elevator . PC + Work Separated and Forks, N. D., April 3.— Arrangements: for the segregation vf the mill and elevator units of the state owned plant ‘here were completed by the board of man- agers of the North Dakota Mill and Elevator Association yestérday. Under the new arrangement C. KE. Austin, will continue as gen- eral manager of the mill while B. L. Simmons will be manager of the elevator. C. W. Ross, chairman of the board of managers, explained to- night that under provisions of the federal warehouse act the state elevetor cannot retain its federal and the warehouse license unless its man- agement is entirely separate and distinct from that of the mill, In order that this license might be retained for the mill the segrega~ tion wag made, he said, 49 Favors Farmers Declaring that the government had done less for farmers in genera than for other economic groups, the speaker said the constant effort of the wise legislators would be to re- duce the spread between the er's price and the consumer's price. Two dangers are to be guarded against, he went on, one an “emo- tional emergency relief which wastes money without doing good and the other sectional legislation.” ASK MONEY FOR RIVERS, HARBORS Washington, — April -Expendi- tures of $200,000,000 over a period of in completing the 500 riv- arbor projects approved by OVER $11,000,000 OF GRAIN HELD BY FARMERS IN STORAGE IN STATE Maye than $11,000,000 worth of in is held in elevators of the «oon stor for farmers, to . shipped out this spring, ac cording to John N, Hagen, super of grains and grain grad- This amount, determined ing. from a check of elevators, does not include grain on the farm or grain stored by elevator or mill- ing firms themselves, Mr. Hagan’ said, he grain has been held pre bly beewuse the farmers were looking for national legis- sunt 700 N. D. BONUS CLAIMS PAID} $even hundred state soldiers \ bonus claims, totalling 3,000, e been called by the Adjut- ant-Gene |, bringin the total number of bonus claims paid by the state to 13,0! M’ADOO OPENS IN CALIFORNIA FOR PRESIDENT Democratic Candidate Calls Democratic Party the Party of Progress | \ | | | | | | | | | William | | | 1 ' after an opening last night in w didate for the Democratic presiden-} tial nomination challenged his op-! ponent within the party to reveal their real motives which he described as sinister in what he branded as the recent governmen- tal scandal “exclusively Republi-| can,” i “In the forthcoming election,”! he said, “the people must decide | whether th the Republ reaction, subse privilege and y shall keep in power n party dedicated to} it to special! permeated — with} scandal and inefficiency, or wheth-! er they will restore to power the Democratic party, the foe of reac tion and special privilege, the par- ty of progress, the party of hon; esty. the party of Woodrow Wil- yon,” MELLONAGAIN OPPOSES TAX’ Declares Estate Tax Provision, Congress waa proposed today td President Coolidge AT CHICAGO Utah Team Defeats North Dakota Basketball Five Chicago, April 3—Panguiteh, Utah, continued its good form in the ma- tional interscholastic basketball tournament at the University of Chi- cago by defeating Fargo, North Da- kota, 34 to 31 today. Cooper, right forward for Pang- uitch scored cight ds go: and his teammate, Henry, Center, made four field goals. Fargo had difficulty in getting past Panguitch’s guards but the game was closely contested, the lead alternating in the second half until near the close when Panguitch got a free throw closely followed by a basket by Cooper. Rusch, F cored five field goals and free throws. TWO BURNED DURING FIRE Morgantown, N. C., April 3.— Two women were killed and a man and woman badly burned, one per- haps fatally, when fire destroyed the north wing of the sanitarium for nervous here today. WouldReduce |» Teaching Force Broadoak dise or j continue, this i lation, ‘such as the tariff change, expecting to obtain better prices for it by holding,” said Mr. Hagan. #1 do not know whether this amount is larger than usual, but I think perhaps it is more than usually is held in’ storage at this time of year in compari- son to the size of the erop. Where elevators ship out grain from bins where the farmers stored grain and other grain have lost their identity additional bond required to protect the farm- crs’ storage tickets, he said. STATE BANK’S LOAN BUSINESS IS INCREASING Rural Credits Department of Bank of North Dakota Has Loaned Over 12,000,000 SEE NEW HIGH RECORD Month of April Likely to Sei New High Record in Amount of Loans Made Business in the farm loan depart- ment of the Bank of North Dakota is the the in the booming, with prospect. of month April redits department The business done during bigge rural since was open- ed. the month of March approached the ree- | ord, when loans totalling $619,850.00 were closed by the departments 36 more employes and the finance committee of the bank, Applications for loans continue to be made in such volume that the to- tal still is ahead of the capacity of the department to complete the tedi- ous process of appraising land, pass- ing the loan, examining the abstracts, and executing mortgages and numer- ous papers which are necessary be- fore the loan is completed. De i often caused by the person seeking the loan, since when papers are com- pleted and sent to such person for signature it frequently requires time to get them back. It is only by keep- ing a great volume moving through the grist mill of the loan department that it is able to keep up a steady volume of business averaging around a half million dollars a month While the applications for loans not entirely due to : farmer making the the fact that t application is in danger of losing Is Wrong his farm, according to department of- ficials. They seek to renew loans Washington, April’ i. -Seeretary! #lready being carried by other agen- Mellon extended his arguinent against: 1% in order to obtain a more the inerease in the estate taxes | orable rate of interest or a longer f ‘ axes time in which to clear up the indebt- voted into the revenue bill by the House in his third succesive. ap. Cates: Most of the loans made are pearance to finance committe Original plans of Chairman Srieot allotted only one day for the hearing of the Secretary but drawn-out dis- cussion of the tax rate upset the schedule and leaders said today the bill probably would not be reported to the Senate before ly next wee The committ also had before it y new figures on the cost of the soldiers’ bonus bill passed by the house which were requested after a nee of two and one-half billion dollars had been shown between the estimates of sury and Ve- terans Bureau actuaries. 1,200 SAVED AS LINER BURNS (By steamshi}) ndoned on fire in the Red Sea and the 1,200 iigrims aboard her before the Senate age to Lloy latter veesel. The proceeding with p Said. 1 n Maclver engers to I rt to take up old indebtedness in whole or part. The total amount of loans made by the rural credits department since operations began in 1919 is $14,6: 097.00, of which about $2,700,000 was made by the farm loan department under the Nonpartisan League ad- ministration, and about $11,000 000 under the present Nestos administr: tion. For considerable period bi fore the all election of 1921 the department was inactive, The total amount of applications in the last two and one-third y is $35,168, considerable mui her of applications, however, being withdrawn after being made. The total number of applications 8,941, was The department kept up a average during the — first months of 1924, loans for the three months totalling $1,450,000.00 190 individual loans being made finance committee has appro 1,200 loans since the middle of Jan- and a big volume of business is in the making at this time. A to- tal of $ 0 loons “in the mill” department officials ex- press it. Applications during the first three months of 1924 numbe ed 726 and the -total amount $2,770,575.00. 33 YOUNG LADIES OF BISMARCK TO BE ROTARY HOSTESSES HERE Thirty-three young ladies of Bis-| marck take unto themselves new} names during the Ninth district Ro- Williston, N. D. April 3--As a step toward economy, the board of educa- tion has adopted a proposal submit- ted by Superintendent Harry E, Polk providing for the reduction of the faculty of the city school from 38 to 34 during the coming year. All teachers in the departments which are to be continued during the com- ing year have been re-elected by the board. As a means of further econ- omy, the general salary schedule was lowered sothewhat as affecting the maximum wage and only in case teachers now: receiving mote than the established maximum, were any material reductions made. tary clubs convention to be held here April 24. and 25. Their identity will be lo names as iss Minneapol “Miss Fargo,” “Miss Grand Forks”—for one lady will be assigned as “hostess- es” of each of the 33 clubs in the dis trict to be represented here in the} big conference gathering. The fist--that’s a secret--but Bob Simpson in writing to the varivus| Rotary clubs in Minnesota und North Dakota embraced in the district as- sures each that they are the “fair- est of the fair.” “1 take pleasure introducing to the members of the Superior Rotary club,—of Bismarck, North Dakota, to be better known as Miss Superior.” he wrote one club, “For each of the 33 clubs in the district, a fair guide has been ap- pointed and of Bismarck’s finest have been selected to act as hostess- es during the Conference. “Miss Superior desires to become better acquainted with her Club and has authorized me to enclose her latest photograph to represent her in this introduction. “The burden of responsibility in showing the Superior crowd a real time while here, rests to a great ex- tent upon her shoulders and with such a lovely guide, Superior shculd send a delegation to Bismarck of which Miss— may be proud” The hostesses will meet the visi- tors upon arrival in Bismarck, | w FINAL EDITION | PRICE FIVE CEN WITNESS SAYS PAPERS STOLEN IN AIR BUREAU ifies That He Was_ Dis- missed Because He Would Not Stay from Committee WAR FRAUD CA Declares Lincoln Motors and Standard Aircraft Firms Let Off Too Easily Washington, April 3.—The Daugherty investigating commit- tee pursued its aircraft inquir into the war department today with the result that Secretary Weeks was directed to appear on the witness stand tomorrow morning. Washington, April P.)— Thomas ago legul advis Army Air Daugherty n ordered of the Air Servic from the committe When he he said, he Air Serv On motion of Senator Jones, Re- publican, Washington, the commit- tee directed Chairman Brookhast Sec. Weeks of Lane's testi- (By the A. Lane, until a week r to the chief of the Service, told the Senate committee today he had “by Captain Volandt "to sta: and t pital. refused to be dictated to, “dismissed” from the The witness also declared that pa- pers from his own personal files in connection with the aircraft e had been taken fom his brief cas by Captain Volandt. As legal adviser to the air service, Lane said, he had recommended to the Secretary of War that the gov- ernment ainst the Standard Aircraft Corporation and others who furnished mate should b reopened. He felt. he declared, ther was “some ulterior purpose behin his dismissal” and that he had be “shocked and pained” because he trusted in Captain Volandt. To Call Captain rhe committee decided Captain Volandt and dire bring papers takgn from Lane, S$. ator Ashurst suggested that Volani be “attached” if he did not appear to eall ted hin soon, hese papers, cor Lan of the his onl tary We I presume I was dismissed,” he said, “I don't know what my s is—yesterday I found my — private files empty and all‘the papers tak- en from the desk where I have work- ed for five years.” is* fi the witneds “extra copies” of all papers that had gone through his hands in “following up $50,000,000 worth of war claims which I kept as a matter of person- pride.” Thought Situation Bad As far back as 1919, Lane said, he had become convinced that the 8 ation regarding airdraft construc- tion was “bad.” The Lincoln Motors was the first he dealt with which he thought was “bad,” he said. It was settled for one million dollars, he added, while the government's m was more than $9,000,000. The war department refused to accept the settlement in the Lincoln Motor recommended former Attorney-General Daugh- y but “they went ahead and set- d anyhow.” Senator Wheeler, prosecutor, brought out that Lane had not volunteered to testify but had appeared only when sent fox, “I haven't sought the limelight,’ he said. “I have thought that what was going on at the War Depert ment would come out. “I don’t believe the Secretary oi r will indorse any action of this kind,” commented Senator Jones. said, were the committee The Standard Case Wheeler directed Lane te in detail of the Standard Air Senator tell came convinced when I firs started that the situation was bad a to all of these negotiated settle ments of war cases that inyolved hnge sums of money,” Lane said, “Ty 1919 officers in the Air Service te- signed and were discharged. Abou’ the middle of 1919 2 Colonel came from the treasury department ant was put in charge. The first cast called to my attention was the Lin. coln Motor. I was ordered to write an opinion as to 2 one million dob. lar item, I recommended in this that the Lincoln Motors ought to pay back $9,880,000, : “I bet my ears that if a suit had been filed the government would have got more than it did. I handl- ed the case and I know what I am talking about. Lawyers for, the re- ceiver of the Lincoln Motors admit. ted ‘greater liability, Lane asserted “Were the assets in the hands of the receivers enough to meet thé government's. claims,” he asked. “No, they were about $8,000,000 7" “Did you hold conferences with the Attorney-General himself in these matters?” Senator Wheeler asked. “Freqwently,” he answered. “Wil- liam Ryder, one of the assistants Attorney-General was the Attorney of General Dagherty, Capt. C. Volandt, J. M. Wainwright, assistant secretary of war, myself und a dozen persons (Continued op page 3)