The Daily Worker Newspaper, February 25, 1924, Page 2

Page Two VANDERLIP URGES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE PROBE Hammers Failure Prosecute Graft (Special to The Daily Worker) NEW YORK, Feb. 2&\—“The> de- partment of justice, itself, obviously now must be investigated’,” Frank A. Vanderlip told the Masonic Club {n a speech at Ossining last night, tontinuing his campaign against cor- ruption in the government. Vanderlip ¢aid that “no such state- ments about the department of jjus- tice as have been made in the senate can be allowed to go unchallenged\” The banger, who last week brought the name of the late Pres- ident Harding into the vil lease scan- dal by urging an_ investigation of wumors that the Marion Star had been scold for far more than it was worth, reviewed the whole series ot investigations in Wasbington and declared the government is proceed- ing in the wrong way. : “The machinery of justice,” he said, “not the courts but the ma- chinery back of the courts, has failed to bring forwgrd for trial men whose guilt appear clear from prima facie evidence.” ‘ i Vanderlip described his taking a hand in bringing publicity to bear on the scandals as a “moral war. PIK UP . * * ° VANDERLIP IN BAD. By Seat of The Federated Press) Corresps! o ‘WASHINGTON, Feb, 24.—Frank A. Vanderlip simply couldn't understand the short-range vision’ of the senate oil scandal investigating committee, when they called him down here from New York to ask him—a giant of finance and big business and war patriotism—what he had meant by making a “common rumor” speech 0’ scandal and alarm to the Rotary Club of Briarcliff, near Sing Sing. He Ought te Know. . Hadn't he, the great Vanderlip, been president of Standard Oil's Na- tional City bank, head of the Amer- ican Internationa] Corporation, grand poo-bah of the crusade to make the world safe for democracy and for- eign concessions, and general shining light of the bigh temple of the cult of gain? to These machine politicians, with a stery, sprinkling of mild progressives, were e- er drawn out, it will show actual crim- of} inal intent. calling him to accaunt for having peated, in a loud and fiery manner complete righteousness, a grist rumors involving the shipping board, the Veterans’ bureau, the Alien Prop- erty Custodian, and the price paid for Present Harding’s newspaper, in Marion, O. THE DAILY WORKEK Senator Davis Elkins of West | Virginia--A Representative of “‘The Great American Pee-pul’’; Senator Davis Efkins has admitted that he gambled in Sinclair oil. He not onJly ‘admits but boasts of it. Senator Elkins is among the five richest of the twenty-one millionaires in the setate, He is a member of such aristocratic and plutocratic organizations as the Metropoliftan Club of Washington, the Harvard Club and the Tennis and Racquet (lub of New York. He iraherited immense business interests from his father from whom \he also ifvherited a seat in the senate—the Elkins West Virginian dynasty. He is president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank at Morgantown, W. Va., Vice-President of the American National Bank’ of Washington, ‘and Vicq-President of the West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railroad. The p ipality of this, oil-smeared potentate is the “sovereign” state jof West: Virginia, where the Guggenheims are overlords, anti-union coal | magnates find a paradise, the Baldwin-Felts gunmen find steady employment land the workers are ruled by the Colt automatic and machine-guns. Senator Elkins is one of the last of the old school of industrial lords who believe in doing the dirty work in Washington themselves instead of hiring lawyers for it. | Criminal Prosecution Is Now Objective of Senate Committee: | (Special te The Daily Worker) WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—“Get facts that will make legal cases for prosecution.” This is the purpose of Senator ‘Walsh, as he completed today his program for next week’s probings of the Teapot Dome Committee. Walsh, who has just returned to Washington after a week’s \CHICAGO FOREIGN- BORN JOIN FIGHT ONDAVISLAWS March 2nd Meeting to Unite Nationalities In an effort to centralize and make more powerful, the campaign protest- ing against the proposed oppressive laws to register and finger-print for- eign-born workers, the Chekoslovak Workers Council has issued a call for Daugherty War Graft Report Kept (By The Federated Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—The American people must not be given too psec ty ht on these war fraud cases, all at once. It might hurt them—or 'y- Senator King of Utah, rising in his place on Feb. 19, moved to rescind the order of the previous day under whieh Attorney General Daugherty’s report on the war fraud litigation was to have been printed as a public document, “My attention has been called”, he said, “to some matters connected with the report, which, in my judgment, indicate that perhaps that order was improvidently issued.” Inasmuch as the report from Daugherty had been demanded at King’s suggestion, his willingness to turn the material over to the Senate judiciary committee for its careful scrutiny was welcomed by Senator Willis, spokes- man for Daugherty, and the Senate agreed to that course. From Public By Senator Friend a joint conference to be held March) 2nd, 10:30 a. m., at Room 801, 180 W.| Washington Street. invited from all Chicago local unions, local labor politica] parties, and the various national councils which have already set up: a machinery to take part in this campaign. Meanwhile the Chekoslovak Work- ers’ Council] has arranged a protest mass meeting which will be held Thursday, Feb. 28, at Pilsen Park Auditorium, 26th and Albany Streets. Speakers of various nationalities will analyze the true character of the! alien bills. Lithuanians In Stock Yards. The Lithuanian Workers’ Alliance | will hold a mass protest meeting Delegates are! Terrorize Backers of Oil Quiz . (Continued from page 1) ee clear indication that he is standing lof Ohio delegates submitted to him by_him. pea ; |by George B. Harris of Cleveland.’ President Coolidge is courting poli- This step is required under Ohio law ;tical ruin by keeping Attorney Gen- of a candidate in the primaries there eral Daugherty in the Cabinet, Sen- in April, at which the delegates will ator Robinson, Arkansas, Democratic be formally chosen, \ floor leader, s in a speech to the | ini Senate. | Political Endorsement. Robinson’s speech was delivered self nothing to do with his attitude |had endorsed Daugherty as a “Cool- |towards Daugherty as biggie dated FLY delegate” from Ohio to the next jeral of the United States, such @ po-|Republican national convention. This litical endorsement, in the face of |step by the President followed withi |the attacks upon Daugherty by three ibes, ike GL uate” 5 datenen : Of While the President's approval of | just after it had been announced at! Daugherty as a delegate has of it-\the White House that Mr. Coolidge out}ready is under a committee And while most of the investigation out of realm of gossip and fancy and return it once more into channels that will dig at the fundamentals of the scandal. After a series of conferences designed to develop a new line of inquiry in the oil investiga- tion, Senator Thomas J. Walsh notified Bascom Slemp, secre- tary to President Coolidge, to appear before the investigating committee. Slemp will be the first witness and strong indications were given that he will be questiowed closely about certain stock transactions. Walsh made this announcement after conferring with Senator Ad- ams and Senator Kendrick, demo- cratic members of the committee. Criminal Cases Object. First off, Walsh would turn the committee on the trail of the “in- side story” of the entire deal for leasing the naval! oil reserves. This it is said, will yield the grounds for criminal prosecutions, because it is claimed ff it can be “The man who is said to know the story and to be willing to tell it if his own interests are protected, x sub- poena, He wants to protect himself, them’ were ready to admit they had} but. the committee has, met his ad- 5 Gent the rumors, many many more, | vances to this end with no promises. they were shocked that Vanderlip had come forward in a public meeting and “broadcasted” the suggestion Harding received for his newspaper twice what it was worth, from a mysterious source and for an un- extraneous Under this new trend of the case, the plan for this week calls for a that] getting “back to basic facts.” Walsh had a clearly defined program of pro- cedure which got out of hand when matters began to be known consideration. They demanded] thrown into the hearings in order facts from Vanderlip, and he assured] to confuse its operations. This them that he had no facts. On the|reached a climax when Frank A. contrary, he said he had done a Vanderlip was called in to explain triotic thing, in bringing “these| about rumors he had heard regard- Ranigem rumors to light, so that/ing the sale of President Harding’s the memory of my friend Mr. Hard-| paper, the Marion Star. ing may be cleared.” Vanderlip Juggled. Sabotage by Officials. It was at this juncture that Walsh When he was questioned by Pitt-| decided it would be a good time to man as to what caysed him to speak of the Harding newspaper deal and to ask “Where did the money come from?” and then to charge it the senate committee had let Fall go be- cause it was afraid Fall would con- fess on higher-ups, the banker denied that he had had azy thought of in- suspend hearings so that he could revamp the program. That is what sence this week. Meantime he points out that it is a singular fact that the committee, of which he is the prime moving factor, is “going it alone.” volving Harding in the oil scandal.) No aid is being contributed by any He also admitted, when informed that] of the government agencies which the committee had let Fall go because his forced testimony would give him immunity from criminal prosecution, might well be expected to be func- tioning in cooperation with the com- mittee—the department of justice, that he had been wrong in charging|the navy department and the secret the gommittee with cowardice. Bat it was clear, nevertheless, that Vanderlip could not understand why he had been blamed for warning the country that the gyod old system of commercialism was in need of an in- spection and repairs. What if he had been sensational? In his memory must have stirred a hundred after- dinner speeches by just such bankers service. All these are leaving the whole probe to the senators. Here is the schedule as desired by Senator Walsh: 1—Call Edward McLean, Wash- ington newS aper publisher, who was an intimate friend of President Harding, and other leaders in the administration, to learn what he knows or is willing to tell about as himself, and just such politicians) +46 inception of the scheme to lease as these who now glowered and|the naval oil reserves and who was shouted and hammered the table at}; him—speeches denouncing German atrocities in Belgium that never hap- pened, and nationalization of women in Russia that never occurred, and over-throw of Porfirio Diaz “civiliza- tion” in Mexico that proved a bless- ing to mankind. Wh; been called to book these more serious things? Traitor to His Class. He had no evidence; he had merely said that rumors were going around; rumors would keep on goi: speak out.” And the senators, each in his own degree, showed disapproval of Van- derlip, He had turned on his cl He had spoken ill of Harding, in ef- fect, and he had created a panic among the standpatters, A carbon any, of a telegram from one Mosely in ator Willis of Ohio was sent along the press tables. It charged that Vi lyre cbse ing in support of the soviets”—a discovery that_ will much surprise the friends of Russia. Firemen Caught i NEW ORLBANS, La., Reig a , Ras ihe barenced more are ‘ed to smouldering ruins and the Marx department store with three adjacent buildings is a total loss as a of an carly morning fire here, Blaze. ° Gat unity thru the Labor Porty] | by had he never or lying about ing, unless somebody had “the courage to in on the play. 2.—Call C. Bascom Slemp, secre- tary to President Coolidge, for ques- tioning about conversations he is supposed to have had with McLean and certain government officials. 3.—Call Harry F. Sinclair, for questioning about various phases o! this lease of Teapot Dome naval re- serve in the hope that indirect evi- dence now before the committee may be obtained in form permitting its use in criminal prosecutions. Fall Balks Committee. The committee admittedly ran into a stone wall when former ry of Interior Fall refused to take the stand and tell his story. It is feared Sinclair and even Edward L. Do- heny—the two lessees of the naval reserves—may now decline to tes- tify further and that the only hope hiladelphia to Sen-|of tearing the lid off lies in obtain- ing the inside story from the “source already mentioned. Slemp was in Palm Beach, Fla., about the same time as Fall and Mc- Lean. It was at that time McLean said he had “loaned” $100,000 to Fall and later retracted his state- ment to the effect that the checks ‘eb. 24.—|had never been cashd. Officials of local Washington banks are to be asked if they have any definite in- formation regarding the transaction. Connections Sought. Walsh did not make clear what “stock transactions” Slemp might be estioned about. Other members of committee are interested im ask- he has been doing during his ab- absence to study the scope of the inquiry, is bent upon getting ing the presidential secretary just what moved him to go to Palm Beach in December when former Sec- retary of Interior Fall and Edward B. McLean, purchaser of the Wash- ington Post, were there, They also desire to ask him about conferences he has had with Attor- ney General Daugherty, but Walsh indicated he has some questions to ask beyond these. Chairman Lenroot of the Teapot Dome committee has conferred with an accounting expert who has been surveying books of Washington bro- kerage firms. The survey probably will be completed by the middle ot the week, Lenroot said. Denials were made by all mem- bers of the committee that the names of any additional officials had been found on the brokerage books. Some results of the brokerage in- spection may be made public when the committee resumes in open hear- ings on Monday. Bank Official Summoned. Milton Ailes, president of the Riggs National Bank of Washington, has been summoned to appear Mon- day in connection with the so-called million dollar slush fund which is rumored to have been sent down to Washington by New York financiers to cover stock losses of certain gov- ernment officials, Ailes will be asked if any such fund was deposited in his bank. “No. communication has been re- ceived by Walsh or Lenroot from Harry F. Sinclair, who leased the Teapot Dome naval reserve from Fall. Walsh said a subpoena had not yet been issued for Sinclair be- cause the committee had not yet de- cided the exact time when his ap- pearance would be required. After Slemp leaves the witness stand on Monday Walsh intends to call Ailes and other local bank offi- cials, McLean has not been requested to appear Monday because Walsh desires first to lay the basis for Mc- Lean’s testimony by Slemp and other previous witnesses. Doheny Is Wroth. Lenroot announced he would lay before the committee Monday a let- ter from Edward L. Doheny, lessee of California naval reserves who loaned $100,000 to Fall on a personal note, the signature of which has not yet been produced” before the in- quiring committee. Doheny in his letter suggested that Senator Wheeler be made to prove a charge that Daugherty, Doheny, Sin- clair and McLean were intimate friends and often met in the apart- ments of the attorney general. Len- root said he would leave to the com- mittee as to whether Wheeler should be asked to appear. Wheeler laughed at the Doheny letter. ‘ “Red Herring,” Says Wheeler. “Mr. Doheny is attempting to draw a red herring across the trail,” Mr. Wheeler said, “What the people want is an in- vestigation of Attorney General Daugherty. That is the main issue. After that they can investigate me or anyone else.” Subpoenas for some additional Fcnegaarn may be issued later to- ys No subpoena will be written for f|Slemp. Walsh notified him indirect # late yesterday that his appearance was desired. He called him on the phone and told him to be present. A report also is expected from the accounting experts who have been running down -the written re- rt obtain by Senator Wheeler, fontana democrat, “indicating At- torney General Daugherty specula' in oil stocks.” Judge Defeats Woman’s Effort to Escape Gallows ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 24.—Mrs, Ida May Hughes, sentenced to hang March 14 for the murder of her mother-in-law, lost a new fight for her life here today. Judge G. H. Howard, in superior court, refused a motion setting aside the verdict and sentence on the grounds that the jury’s decision was read while the defendant was absent from the court room. The motion was designed to free Mrs. Hughes from prison and dl in with the Friday, Feb. 22, on thig particular issue. The stock yards workers, of which a large percentage are of part in the arrangements. cago, who have succeeded in uniting united front for their mutual inter- ests, have gone on record to do everything in their power to launch an effective protest against the pro- is being published to make clear to the workers just what these measures mean, and preparations are being | made for mass protest meetings. The provisional committee initiative of our Party units, to take part in this campaign, has now be- come definitely crystallized into a council for the protection of the for- eign-born workers. Over twenty or- ganizations were represented at the ive of local unions of the Amalga- mated Clothing workers, Cap Makers, Workmens’ Circle, Branches of the Workers Party and others. Circle, who in the past have followed the general policies of the Jewish Daily Forward but became embittered at the action taken by the bureaucrats in control of this paper, in excluding the left-wing branches from a confer- ence held nearly two weeks ago, have also joined in and became part of the present hepconnpe council, aA tiette steps en to bring e ein token of Chicago into the campaign for protection of the ,for- eign-born workers. Scandinavians Organizing. The Scandinavian population, who furnish a great part of the industrial army of this city, are scattered in colonies mainly on the North, South and West sides. Upon the initiative) of our Party units central organiza-| tions are being formed within each of | these colonies to take up this vital! issue. Even the churches have be- come interested, realizing that the workers following their particular creed are endangered. The conference to be held on March} 2 will unite the efforts of the many) thousands of workers, no matter what other political differences may exist, in an effective protest against the endeavors to convert the foreign-born working class yopeiston of this country into available material for strike-breaking purposes and wipe iyi every vestige of labor organiza- jon. ee Davis Bills Issue In Kenosha. Local Workers Party, Kenosha, Wis., hi Tranged a mass meeting in ainst the peoieed anti- foreign-born workers legislation, Tom O'Flaherty, associate editor Daily Worker, will speak. The meeting is ursday, Feb, 28th, at German- jérican Home, 665 Grand Ave, Ad- mission is free. ee « Chicago Meeting Tomorrow. A general Party membership meet- ing has been called tomorrow at 7:30 p. m, at Imperial Hall, 2409 N. Hal- sted Street. In order to consider all the vital questions arising out of the Party campaign in connection with the Teapot Dome scandal. Leading these issues is the Labor Party move- ment, made more prominent by the St. Paul convention on May 30. The campaign for protection of for- eign-born workers, as well as the Daily Worker subscription drive will also be discussed at that meeting. Every member should be present. Membership book will admit, Industrial Accidents Increase. SEATTLE, Feb. 24.—A life a day is the toll of industry in the state of ted | Washington, according to the state department of labor and industry. Industrial accidents during January mounted to 3,163, Of 32 men fatally hurt in this state during the month of January, 20 were killed in the | ging and pete inn) business, four in general cons' ion work, and two in coal mining. The total of injuries for the month of January exceeded the total of the same month last year by 39 per cent, Troubles of France's Chaplin, PARIS, Feb. 24.—Max Linder, France’s Charlie Chaplin, and his wife have been foun patch said today. all DAILY WORKER serves EVERY DAY. How ee the DAILY a total of some 25 organizations, com-! prising nearly 5,000 members on a| posed finger-print laws. Literature| of | Jewish workers established on the} first conference held recently, inclus-| Those branches of the Workmens’| “| This is espec dying in a|turnover such as hotel in Vienna, a news eeeaty dis-| is capable of of the most influential Republican senators—Lodge, Pepper and Borah —held great significance for politi- Lithuanian birth, are taking active {cians here. erty that would have been accepted at once as an indication he was no longer standing by the Attorney Gen- eral. Conversely, the fact that he did accept Daugherty as one of his delegates was regarded as equally Fear Exposure (Continued from Page 1) Wheeler would promise to let Daugh- erty’s relations with industrial gun- men lie quiet. To the Point. Wheeler’s speech in the senate on Feb. 19, demanding that Daugherty be forthwith put under examination before a special committee, was blunt and ominous. He had shown how Fall and Doheny and others had ad- ficiently to warrant prosecution, and that Daugherty had done nothing. | “Thruout the entire investigation,” he said, “‘not one scintilla of evidence |has been offered to the senate com- | mittee by any of the investigators for | the department of justice. Here the congress has appropriated a million dollars for the detection and prose- cution of crime. the Burns detective agency, one of the most renowned detective agencies in the world, and we find that the de- partment of justice, instead of try- ing to detect the greatest crooks and those guilty of the greatest crimes against the nation that have ever been perpetrated—we find the de- partment of justice protecting them all during this tin.e; we find them pro- tecting them tonight, becanse 1 am reliably informed that only last Sun- day that attorney general of the United States held a conference with Ed McLean. Daugherty and McLean. “Then what do we find? We find the attorney general going down to Palm Beach and there consultiny with McLean. When the newspapers cerried the story that McLean was about to testify as to his connection with the oil scandal, and that it a A It was pointed out that if Mr. Cool- | bi: The Southslavic workers of Chi-|iage had declined to approve Daugh- mitted their guilt in the oil deal suf-|h We have employed jf: less than 24 hours a defense of Daugherty by John T. Adams, chair- man of the Republican Committee, who said the assaults on Daugherty were being conducted by “political jackguards and scandal mongers.” “It must be clear to everybody,” Robinson said, “that so long as the President retains as his intimate po- litical adviser a man who has lost his confidence and the confidence of the people, it is calculated to work out the political ruin of the executive.” of Spy System would expose Mr, wre. car AG we find Mr, Daugherty immediately getting in touch with Mr. McLean again. “This is only a small portion, an extremely small portion, of the testi- mony that will produced before the committee, showing, beyond any question of doubt to my i§ind, that the attorney general of the United States, the highest law officer in the nation, instead of prosecuting crime as been protecting crime and crimi- nals.” Blocks Doublecross. Because he has made this charge, and because he knows that the ma- jority of the old guard are alike afraid of keeping Daugherty and of seeming to join in kicking him vver- board, Wheeler boldly blocked the trick of Willis of Ohio, messenger boy ‘or Daugherty, who had slipped into the hand of Senator Cummins, pre- siding over ie senate, a list of sena- tors who should make up the special committee to try the case. Willis, as Wheeler promptly told the senate, had just come from a conference with Daugherty, and this list must have been suggested or approved by; the accused. Meanwhile everyone around the capitol had learned how “Cautious Cal” had staged Borah’s visit to the White House; had dramatically sum- moned Daugherty into the room; had listened in silence for two hours while Borah told Daugherty tit not even Coolidge had any confidence in him, and that he, Daugherty, ought to re- sign; how Coolidge had just twiddled his spectacles in both hands, and said nothing, even at the end, and how Daugherty stayed +3 the cabinet-— for the perilous present. in this age of specialization? “The machine is run to revery.” from an address made by Dr. Bureau of Education of the Bureau of Mines, before the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers here. The mental make-up of the indivi- dual, he said, is determined far more by this habitual reveries than Ss his concentrated thinking. And... “by way of habitual revery comes scien- tifie genius at one end of the scale and mental obsession of melancholia at the other. . “It is important therefore to dis-| % cover what re habitually domi- nate the ave! e individual and why. all machine operation, once vidual is habituated to his mood of revery is necessarily nant. The worker does not need concentrate on his work, but he can. not concentrate on other things. machine is hyo ee run the a companimen: juman revery.’ That is to say day-dreams, , . . Ing sheet" A grewt hay perp inj great many this big market town, besides tists like Dr. Read, would to know. s8 task, A WORTHY STORY would like to tell you sions of “A Week.” It is story told right time. Only of such will lly ggg in| J domi- , s Thel¥ ace in the right paper at the | The Machine Workers’ Dreams Puzzle Dr. Read, and Others Too NEW YORK, Feb, 24.—‘“What kind of a dream do you dream while you attend your machine—if you attend a machine —or while you do whatever mechanical work is required of you the accompaniment of human That is not a line from a modern poet, but a quotation Thomas T. Read, Chief of the He'll Get Educated Now. ASHTON, Idaho, Feb. 24.—Olcott Zarn, 16-year old high school junior, who started dog racing four years ago for his health and who emerged yesterday as an international cham- pion, defeating veterans, will use his winnings for a college education and will defend his title again D He wants trade and color of the paper. tisement in next year. tions allowed SHE tEIESE IONS eee Oo. Cini Ever | Wear Clothes? What the Merchants Want to Know Is— WILL IT PAY ? will get results regardless of the creed or When you buy anything—anywhere ; YOU TELL THEM that you have been looking for their adver- THE DAILY WORKER. Monday, February 25, 1924 — LEGION HEAD NOW ADMITS BIG BIZ GOT WAR PROFITS Says Dough \ Was Used to Fight Bonus (Bpecial to The Daily Worker) WINSTON-SALEM, N. C., Feb. 24.—Defeat of bonus legislation up to date has moved John R. Quinn, ! national commander of the American Legion, to launch an attack at Big Business for its opposition to the , bonus. In an address to American Legion representatives from Southern states jhe demanded that in the next war money and means must be drafted as well as men. War profits were used to fight the bonus bill, he declared, and Presiden. Harding was led to veto it by an “astounding miscalculation” of treas- |ury statistics by Secretary Mellon. “And so it goes on; Mellon juggles | figures and big business spends a few | hoarded war profits to fight against the passage of obligations which are pledged to us by the republican party. I say that taxes can be re- duced as much or even more than Secretary Mellon contemplates with- out hardship to any person, and you have heard the figures that prove it. I leave the issue to your conscience.” Teapot Was Losing Proposition, Say s Harry, The Spoofer (Special te The Daily Worker) MEXICO CITY, Feb. 24.---Harry Sinclair is glad to get rid of Teapot Dome. All the scandals of the oil in- vestigations in the U. S. Senate are part of a baleful, machiavellian, mas- ter-mind plot of Harry himself be- cause he couldn’t find any oil in the Teapot, didn’t know how to get rid of it, and so hit upon the plan of in- vestigating himself thru the Senate. He knew the psychology of the American people so well that he \reckoned that they would cancel his worthless lease, if graft were hinted, ‘and he would thus get rid of the bur- jden. Harry himself admits all of the above. At least, that’s the kind of propaganda he sends down to Mexico. Read the stupendous confession word for word as it appeared in the Eng- jlish section of Excelsior down here. But take a sedative before you be- gin, ’cause it’s exciting. All ready? Here goes: Special Staff Telegram from Excelsior’s Office, OKLAHOMA CITY, Jan, 24.— (Delayed.)--The Harry Sinclair tea- pot dome revelations are being read jhere with the atest interest as | Sinclair is well known here. There is more than a suspicion that Sin- clair brought about the investiga- tions himself in order to get the tea- pot dome leases cancelled and part of his expenditures returned It is believed here that the gov- ernment possibly made a good deal so that it would get fuel oil ata very low price and provided the tea- jot dome had been highly prolific Sinclair would have a made a good thing out of it in spite of the stiff terms, but it is a colossal failure as |compared to the expectations. Sin- clair has obligated himself to drill a ,eertain number of wells and if he goes thru with his contract he will suffer a tremendous loss. It is now the logical conclusion that he is going to get out of the affair as best he can which is to have the government can- cel the whole business and reimburse him for money already spent. He knows the public mind well enough to understand that ‘the public will insist upon the cancellation, Hard on St. Louis Judges,—T hey Must Pay Their Taxes ST. LOUIS, Feb. 24,— Circuit judges in this state are not exempt tng to/an opinion issued by Attorney ing to an op rney- General Barrett. The St. Louis judges had asked for an opinion as to whether or not they were not tax exempt. The state income tax on he salaries of the cir- cult iudges wil be i be on the same basis as that paid by all other Missouri residents—-1 per cent after deduc- law. SKS advertises where he — - { ‘ ‘ i . , \ \ Z o