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) ! Saturday, February 16, 1924 THE DAILY WORKER $1,000,000 Slush F | (Continued from Page 1) | were that Mr. Coolidge considered the fight on Pomerene merely politital| and would insist upon his confirma- tion. New Investigations The senate committee was prepar- ing to pursue several lines of inquiry. Testimony of John C. Shaffer, Den- ver, and Chicago newspaper owner yesterday, indicating that Fall began negotations with Harry F. Sinclair! for leasing Teapot Dome soon after Fall took office in 1921, will be fol-/ lowed up, because at the time the! naval reserves were not even in Fall’s| jurisdiction and the committee wants) to know whether he had some under standing when he entered the cabine' that the reserves would be transfer-| red from the navy to the interior de- | partment. Such evidence would clinch| the evidence of fraud and corruption in making the leases and would make certain their annulment by the courts, | committee members believe, Investigation of the $1,000,000 | “slush fund” reported loaned to gov-| ernment officials by oil men went ahead quietly as E. B. McLean, Wash-| ington publisher, sped to Washington| to be the first witness concerning the/ funds. | Senator Wheeler, Montana, author | of a resolution for investigation of | Attorney-General Daugherty, decided today to let his measure lie on thes table for a few days so as not to con- flict with the Teapot Dome inquiry proper. | Cross Examine Vanderlip, Frank A. Vanderlip, New York; financier, who dragged the late Pres-! ident Harding’s name into the oil in-| quiry by saying the sale of the Marion star, the President’s newspaper, | ought to be investigated, faced the! annie Teapot Dome committee to-/ av. Examination of Vanderlip was be-| gun by Senator Lenroot, ohs at once) asked about Vanderlip’s speech, near | Ossining on Lincoln’s birthday. “On the evening of February 12 did you make a speech at Ossining?” “No, at Briar Cliff, near Ossining. bh subject was ‘Courage in Leader- ship’.” “You are credited in the news- Papers as having said at that time | | This Coupons Sell for 10c, 25c, 50c and $1. ASHLAND AUDITORIUM SAYS SECRETARY OF TREASURY IS MORE GUILTY THEN DOHENY (Special to The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. Senator Reed of Missouri, in a Senate speech, d. cussing the wholesale corruption of the fed- eral government ice the begin. ning of the war, said of Secretary Mellon: “I submit that Andrew Mellon holds his office of secretary of the easury in violation of the law vhich prohibits men engaged in trade from holding that high po- sition, At the ti he assumed his seat he was a director in 68 great banks and industrial corpo- rations, and was the chief owner of one of the greatest trusts on earth. He, too, is heavily inter- ested in oil. There is scarcely anything the earth produces or man creates that does not pay its tribute to this retary. le writes the tax laws and he sought in that last congress to reduce the income taxes of 12,000 mil- lionaires by the sum of $90,000,- 000. The saving to himself and his associates would have run into the millions, but this does not seem to shock the public con- science. “What is the difference between Mellon’s attitude and that of Do- heny, If Mellon can write the tax laws, why should not Doheny write the oil laws? Poor Doheny had to act indirectly thru a cabi- net officer. Mellon acts directly and is paid for acting as a cabinet officer.” PRR AS SC ROD ALN STA that thers was something wrong with the sale of the Marion Star by the late President Harding?” “What I said, was that there are rumors in Washington and current thruout the United States and among the rumors this story. That is sub- stantially what,I said the rumor was. I said the rumor rose far above gos- sip. Ruston From Responsible People. “It was something like the whis- pering campaign that was heard in the month before Mr. Harding’s elec- tion. I believed out of respect for |memory of Mr. Harding that these |scandalous rumors should be | downed,” |. “What information did you have?” Lenroot asked. “Only of having heard this story |from responsible people.” | “And you thought it your duty to give it publicity?” “I thought it my particular duty.” Senator Walsh called attention as the hearing started to a newspaper |story which stated the subpoena for Vanderlip was issued at request of democrats.” “T desire to say that if any demo- erats conferred about the matter 1 did not know of it and I do not believe it,” Walsh said. Walsh then told of how the sub- poena was issued. He said he met Senator Lenroot privately and they agreed Vanderlip should be subpoe- naed. No Legal Evidence. Lenroot then made a statement concurring. i “T regret that so inaccurate a statement should be made in this connection,” Walsh said. Continuing his statement Vander- lip said: “As the rumor was weds % every newspaper office it seeme o me (ghoue aie for it to be brought to ithe surface and the scandal stopped.” | “Did you say that in your speech?” lasked Lenroot. |. ME aia” ; ; | “Then you cannot give this com- mittee any information?” “J have no legal information. I have heard some reports about the price of the transaction. What was bought, as I understand it, was only a part interest. I do not even know of my own knowledge the exact price eke current story was $550,000. I’ve heard it was $600 a share. don’t know how many shares were involved. Copies of AWeek’ Free! NOTICE Beginning Feb. 14, the Labor Defense Council will give away a copy of Iury Libedinsky’s vivid novel of revolutionary Russia for every sheet of Ruthenberg Appeal Coupons. WE MUST NOT LET RUTHENBERG AND FOSTER GO TO JAIL FOR LACK OF SUPPORT By selling Ruthenberg Appeal Coupons you will do your bit for the Michigan Defense and at the same time build up your library. THE DEFENSE NEEDS $15,000 BY MARCH IST! Buy and Sell Ruthenberg Appeal Coupons! GET BEHIND THE RUTHENBERG APPEAL! | SEND ALL MONEY TO RA. te OS. —— oO nC eeN Cm A Full Sheet Sells for $6. DEFENSE COUNCIL 166 West Washington St. CHICAGO, ILL. und Aids Losers “I have heard that a payment of $10,000 a year was to be made for a contributing editor but that it was to go to Mrs, Harding in the event of Mr. Harding’s death. “I had sufficient facts to base the statement that, I made—that is, that these rumors had come to me. That is all I said—and that it should be traced.” “Why didn’t you communicate with ; the committee?” “I have no connection with the committee. I didn’t know there was any connection between public lands and the sale of an Ohio newspaper.” Thought It Duty. “You thought that these rumors were broadcast thruout the country and they ought to be stopped?” asked Lenroot, “I did.” “Do you think it is the duty of & man of public standing in a pub- lic speech to assist in circulating rumors of that kind?” “That wasn’t the purpose in any way. The purpose was to bring these rumors to public attention that they might be killed.” “What do you mean by responsible quarters? Do you mean they knew what they were talking about?” “No, I never heard anyone say they professed to know the facts— Tl of senate merely that they have heard ru- mors.” Clear Harding’s Name. “And your only purpose was to clear Mr. Harding’s name?” “Tt certainly. was.” “What did you mean by your state- ment about the committee being afraid to question former Secretary of the Interior Fall?” “I gave that from my _ personal inference, It wasn’t altogether per- sonal, for I had heard it stated.” “Did you know that his counsel advised him that he couldn’t be com- pelled to testify?” “No,” “Where did you get any informa- tion about this?” “Oh, well, I can’t say where I got it, I am familiar with the powers committees and I didn’s believe that the committee could be stopped from questioning a witness.” Vanderlip Kids Solons. “You now think you are perform- ing a public duty in making a state- ment of that kind without one basis of fact whatever?” “Well, that is your opinion,” said Vanderlip, not answering the ques- tion. “You charged this committee with neglect in a public speech without taking the trouble to ascertain the facts?” “If you tell me you had legal rea- son to take the course you did, I'll I still think you could have passed legislation in the senate compelling Fall to testify without immunity,” Vanderlip insisted. “Do you think we can pass laws violating the constitution?” “I don’t know—you do sometimes.” Fire Takes 11 Lives. en persons are believed to have lost their lives in a fire here today. Eatly reports said the damage would reach $200,000. RESTAURANTS co LABOR COZY LUNCEI George E. Pashas on We Bake Our Own Pies || 2426 Lincoln Avenue One-half block from Imperial Hall 4 CHICAGO [RESTAURANT Ben Norske Kafe Entire 2nd Floor Good cooking served in a homey atmosphere, Math Pedersen Orchestra Sunday Evenings SPECIAL BANQUET ROOM Phone Armitage 4706 Open—11 A. M. to 12 P. M. Meet us at the Prudential Restaurant 752 NORTH AVE. The only place to eat. For Discriminating People SUPERIOR LUNCH Expert Cooking 753 W. NORTH AVENUE CHICAGO say your action was warranted. But |! MONTPELIER, Vt., Feb. 15—Elev- |} 2741-45 West North Avenue iit Here and There WEATHER FORECAST. (For Saturday, February 16.) For Chicago generally uncertain. Fair and bright sunshine around Ashland Auditorium. + THE FOUR-BIT MYSTERY. Chapter 1. Join the joyous movement (Con- tinued). Daughters of 1812, the Rev. Dr. | Grant said: “True they say that Mr. Lincoln swore, but who didn’t those days, especially if he was con- nected with politics or the army And who wouldn’t today—if he was connected or not! ee oe Chapter 2. At the Red Revel on (Cont.), * * ® CURRENT FICTION. (The Week’s Best Smeller.) tion to wage earners, for the better- ing of their condition, while it has never been fully settled, does not ap- pear at present to be acute. The rewards of labor engaged in com- merce, transportation and industry are now such as to afford the most liberal participation in all the es- sentials of life.”—President Coolidge. * * 5 Chapter 3, Saturday, February 16 (Cont.). * * * 7 Pres. Coolidge made another speech, Ho-Hum!—Now what’s next? But These Investigations Must Stop Some Place! The Chicago Tribune reports charges that Forbes sold pajamas badly needed by the veterans, Bare the facts. Let the public see what’s in the army! You'll help the Labor movement (Cont.). Chapter 6—The End. (Thank God!). And you'll have a helluva fine time! WALT CARMON. In a speech at a meeting of the | “The industrial struggle which | came, lasting up to the days of the world war, for increased compensa- | the High Price of Bread in U. S. A. (Special to The Daily Worker) |, WASHINGTON, I | Federal] inv la “bread trust” is robbing American |consumers of nearly $500,000,000 an- |nually is promised here today. Minor to Speak In Milwaukee and | Waukegan, } With the great Teapot Dome scan- dal stirring the country, the lecture to be given by Robert Minor Sunday, Feb, 17, both at Waukegan, Ill, and | | Milwaukee, Wi on the subject of | “Who Owns Congress?” should at-| tract particular interest, In Mil-| waukee the lectures will be given at | Miller Hall, State and Eighth Sts., {at 8 p. m.; in Waukegan at Workers | Hall, 517 Helmholtz Ave., at 2:30 |p. m. Irish Meeting Sunday Night. | Sam Hammersmark, advertising ‘manager of THE DAILY WORKER] will be the main speaker at an Irish meeting Sunday night in Emmet} Memorial Hall at 8 p. m. His sub- ject will be “The Effect of the British Labor Party Government on the Irish Republican Movement BERTRAM H. MONTGOMERY. Attorney and Counsellor }10 South La Salle Street, Room 601 Chicago |\Promise Probe of Page Thre: MULLER’S RESTAURANT A good place to eat. 1010 RUSH STREET Tel. Superior 7079 Downstairs of National Office, Res. Phone Crawford 0331 Office Phone Rockwell 0112 Teacher Violin HENRY MOSS ORIENTAL JAZZ BAND Music Furnished for All Occasions Members American Fed. of Musicians 1215 S, LAWNDALE AVENUE Chicago, Ill. Res. 1632 S. Trumbull Ave, Phone Rockwell 5050 MORDECAI SHULMAN ATTORNEY-AT-LAW 701 Association Bldg.. 19 S. La Salle Street CHICAGO Dearborn 8657--Central 4945-4947 FOR ELECTRIC WORK CALL HARRISON 2193 Telephone Franklin 4849 Residence Phone Oak Park 8853 MARYLAND R 1011-1013 North HIGH QUALITY FOOD BIALKO’S International Orchestra The Music for Austrian-Hungarian-Slovenian-Croatian-Russian and Bohemian Peoples BRICK LAYER. K * Chapter 4, | t the Ashland Auditori (Cont). uditorium Chapter 5. Albert J. Bialko 1020 S. Ashland Blvd. CHICA: OPEN DAY AND NIGHT Telephone: Superior 9441 Phone Seeley 9022. HARRY O. STILLWELL 548 So. Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ml. ESTAURANT State Street GOOD SERVICE Paul Pavetla 723 W. 19th Place GO, ILL. to. 3943 Foreign Money Order to ___Wil14 Mn GERMANY’S WORKERS CALL Amalgamated Trust and Savings Bank S71 WEST JACKSON BOULEVARD — CHICAGO, ILL. Date_January 29th, 1928 bere, General Secretary Residing at Internationale arbeiterhilfe, Unter den Linds Berlin W 8, Germany Priends of Soviet Ruseia vA Fereicn Ammonet | 8500.00 _]—Pi¥¢ fund od Dollars no centa —s Amount Received in Dollars | $500.00 1 Payable in United States Dollare WITH RELIEF BASED ON POLI many. WE CABLED V on February 2nd, TOWARD THE $2000 FOR MARCH? So Radically Different! Sat The Red Revel HUSE O HARE'S TEN WOODEN SOLDIERS | WITH RELIEF BASED ON CONDITIONS that the German workers agree to accept the form of government chosen for them by the bankers who are willing to make the loans. will assure the distribution of funds to those trade unions which agree “to help fight Bolshevism” in Germany, $500 initial outlay and $2000 monthly will open and maintain an American Soup Kitchen in Ger- $500 on January 29th and $2000 HOW MUCH WILL YOU GIVE TICAL DISCRIMINATION which Soviet Russia Sends Grain AMERICAN WORKERS AND FARMERS Answer quick! What is in YOUR heart today? How much is your feeling of INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY with Germany’s workers worth? Based on Famine Relief WITHOUT Conditions-WITHOUT Political Discrimination [ Friends of Soviet Russia and 32 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Enclosed find $.............. Cd American Soup Kitchen. ' ' i i} 1 | Purpose as & conerete expression of | Starving workers and thelr families, ' 1 ' ' Febr BREAD! BREAD! And the powers-that-be With Machine Guns With Diplomatic Notes With Huge Loans With Military Occupa- I pledge to send $. urday Eve. Answer tion -~—-- = = 8 Workers’ Germany. Hlinois. my contribution to the support of the ++ monthly for this my feeling of solidarity with Germany's uary [6th

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