The Daily Worker Newspaper, March 8, 1924, Page 2

RE BROOKHART HAS GOODS ON DAUGHERTY Sensations Coming Monday | Harry Sees Cal, WASHINGTON, March 7.— Unshaken in his determination not to quit office under fire At- torney General Daugherty came back to Washington to- day to face renewed demands for his resignation and. to plan his defense before the Senate Committee which next week will begin investigating him. It was reported, tho without Verification from any official source, that the president would ask Daugherty’s with- @rawal from the cabinet. Sensational Evidence. Plans of the senate committee in- Westigating Daugherty included: 1. Decision to open hearings on Monday or Tuesday with some sensational evidence instead of with the federal trade commission @ases, ag was originally planned. 2. juance of a dozen subpoe- Bases, returnable Monday for per- ens whose identity the committee it in deepest secrecy. 8. Announcement that Daugh- erty would be called to the stand early in the investigation to ex- oe evidence with which he will confronted. Brookhart Got It. The switch in the committee’s Plans for opening the hearings with federal trade commission cases lowed a secret conference between Senator Brookhart, Iowa, chairman ef the committee, and someone vaguely identified as “in or formerly connected with the department.” Brookhart admitted “substantial evi- dence” of a “very sensational nature” had been put in his hands. He imme- aed transmitted it to Senator Wheeler, Montana, committee prose- eutor, who refused to discuss it. Senator Wheeler today announced Sppointment of A. B. Melsener of Butte, Mont., as the legal assistant which the committee authorized him to employ to aid in sifting and an ranging evidence for presentation to the committee. Melsener has been an attorney in Butte for 20 years and has been prominent in democrat Politics in Montana, THE DAILY WORKER Saturday, March 8, 1924 Cal’s Pipeline Tips Him Off to Senate Evidence: McLean Told Not to Worry In ‘Count’s’ Wires (Special to The WASHINGTON, March Dally. Worker) 7.—Sensational disclosure that President Coolidge sent personal, friendly telegrams to Edward B. McLean during the oil scandal probe left the White House today the center of excited in continued perusal of telegranis terest as the Senate Committee and examination of witnesses. Repercussions of the committee findings were crashing rank and file of both old par- ties as charges of partisanship were flung back and. forth. “Leak” To President. The Teapot Dome committee was plunged into dissension over indica- tions President Coolidge had been | “tipped off” in advance about mes- sages concerning him. Investigators were so aroused they threaterad to carry the matter to the floor of the Senate, or summon witnesses to ascertain if evidence of a “leak” in the committee proved true. The committee knows that senators outside the investigating committee received information on what tran- spired in the executive session of the committee Wednesday, They believe the senators went to Mr. Coolidge and informed him that his name had been found on telegrams to McLean, so that he could prepare statements regarding his motives for the tele- grams, Ira E. Bennett, editorial writer of the Washington Post, is expected to testify concerning ‘this message, of which he was the author. A half dozen more telegrams which may furnish new leads are to be read into the record. The Palm Beach Telegrams. Two new code telegrams to Mc- Lean at Palm Beach from a mys- terious sender in Washington who either left the messages unsigned or signed himself “Count” were deci- phered for the committee today by W. F. Friedman, army code expert. Other code telegrams were signed “I, E. B.” Ira E. Bennett is editor of the Washington Post, MecLean’s newspaper. The messages follow: “Washington, D. C., Feb. 11. “Edward McLean, Palm Beach, Fla. “Telephoned me last night. Said tell you not to worry. “COUNT.” “Washington, D. C., Feb. 14. “Edward B. McLean, Palm Beach, Fla. “Saw ‘X’ for nearly an hour. His direct méssage to you is quote I am at ‘Y’ elbow and standing at the guns. All that is possible to do will be done by us so you should worry delay selection prosecutor. Give ‘Z’ my love. I don’t want ‘Z’ compels the German workers to TATORSHIP OF MILITARISM and the annihilation of their org: lished by us in Germany, Help establish more kitchens, Today It Is Germany. TOD can do so by remitting thru us. in thig 82 So. Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Enclosed find $......+. $0 vivre BRAME oon cess cssccceeorncnees | ADDRESS ........+ | Trade or Profession.. American Soup Kitchen—Petersburg Platz No. 3, Berlin The Dictatorship of Hunger greedy demands of the industrial lords and accept THE DIC- cknis sad Picmars a hematin INVEST IN LABOR’S FUTURE Help avoid the complete demoralization of the German workers Help feed the German workers out of their present lethargy into a state which will make them fit to decide their own destiny. Help maintain the two American Soup Kitchens already estab- A DEFEATED GERMAN WORKERS MEANS A DEFEATED (WORLD WORKERS Tomorrow It May Be America. Any organization wishing to maintain a Soup Kitchen in its own name $2000 monthly for upkeep. Several organizations can club together [ Friends of Soviet Russia and Workers’ Germany, 4 to help support the American Soup 4 | Kitchens in Germany opened by you in January, meals at 10¢ each monthly for the maintenance of the | Kitchens. Send me a Meal Coupon Book (YES or NO). Committee for International Workers’ Aid 3 bow in meek submission to the which was forced upon them anizations. ye * am | It takes $500 initial outlay and effort, I pledge myself | | with McLean, a central figure in the | =| oil scandal, |thru the committee itself, the senate and up and down the to be disturbed so long as I am on the job. You know what to depend upon, The fight is on me and I am ready for them and feeling fine, “COUNT.” “Washington, D. C., Feb. 8. “Edward B. McLean, Palm Beach, Fla, “Personally delivered apples mes- sage fuzumgovsa sincere thanks and same message returned to you with best regards. I. E. B.” “Washington, D. C., Feb. 8. “Edward B. McLean, Palm Beach, Fla, “Personally delivered apples mes- sage. Faith friendship sincere thanks and same message returned to you. With best regards. “1. E, B.” “Washington, Jan. 25, 1924. “Edward B. McLean, Palm Beach, Fla, “Wyzza with yannf stop distinct- ly cold stop have made appoint- ment for this afternoon, Will wire | you result. WUYPA.” |__ Friedman told the committee that |X, Y, Z, Whyza, Yannf and Wuypa, |were code symbols arbitrarily as- signed to certain persons whose iden- tity he could not establish from the messages, As soon as the committee convened Walsh made the following state- ment: Privileged Messages. “Some days ago Mr. Renahan, at-~ torney for Senator Fall, sent a: let- ter to the committee protesting against introduction of telegraphic communications between Fall and his counsel, Renahan claimed these mes- | sages were privileged under the rules of evidence, “The question was submitted to presidential counsel and they advised that such telegrams could not legally be introduced.” Walsh then moved that the tele- graph companies be instructed to withhold messages passing between Fall and his counsel, The motion | was adopted. Walsh also made a statement in| answer to criticisms that the commit- | |tee was going outside its jurisdic- | | tion. | | “T think the committee has kept fully within its rights,” Walsh said. Senator Kendrick pointed out that ll evidence admitted had been put in on unanimous consent of the en- tire committee. The Fruit List. From Ira E. Bennett, editor of Me: | Lean’s newspaper, the Washington | Post, the committee first learned that | @ person referred to in the telegrams | as “Apples,” was Albert B. Fall, for- mer secretary of the interior, and/ Bennett said he did not know who “Peaches” and “Apricots,” other per- sons referred to in the messages, were, Referring to new code messages read today and signed “Count,” Ben. nett said he was sometimes referred to by his associates as “The Count,” because he had been decorated by the king of Italy. Daugherty In McLean Wires. The name of Attorney General Daugherty was designated in code in one of the McLean messages ,it was revealed to the oil committee today. Ira E. Bennett, editorial writer of BURNS THINKS HIS|ohn Henrichson Shakes Wicked | | STOOLPIGEONS ‘FINEST’ IN WORLD No Body of Men Like Them, He Says By LAURENCE TODD (Staff Correspondent of the Federated Press WASHINGTON, March 7.—Brag- ging, blustering, sneering in turn, with the arrogant assurance of a plantation foreman wielding a black- snake whip, Detective Burns, direc- tor bureau of investigations, depart. ment of justice, faced Sdnator Walsh of Motnana across the table of the senate committee on public lands and declared that he would have been “glad and eager to make an honest investigation” of the oil scandal if anyone had asked him. Of the detective force under his} control, in the bureau, he loudly an- | nounced that they were “the finest, | cleanest investigating organi: mn in the world,” equal to any task, and made up of “fine, straight, hones clean men.” His Agent’s Perjury. He seemed so anxious to have this statement accepted, and so uncon- vinced that anybody present believed him, that Senator Dill of Washington felt compelled to ask him whether he read the’ testimony of his special agent, McLean, owner.of the Wash- ington Post, which amounted to a confession that McLean had commit- ted perjury in an attempt to mislead the senate as to the Fall-Doheny cor- ruption payment, | Dill then asked him whether he | were quite sure of the honesty, pu- rity and veracity of his staff. To which the detective replied, that Mc- Lean was “only one of these dollar- a-year fellers; they dont amount to much anyhow.” Burns’ Go-Between. Mrs. Jessie Duckstein, special agent under Burns since last Novem- ber, and for two years previously his confidential secretary, told how she had been called to Burns’ office on Feb, 2 and told to inform her husband, who is private secretary to McLean, in Palm Beach, that sena- | tors were inquiring into McLean’s | being a special agent of the depart- ment of justice. She was to hint that McLean should resign. She, took from Burns’ offite a copy of the secret code used in ordinary business in the bureau, and for the first time in her life sent a message | in that code. The message read: “Special inquiries being made spe- cial agent department of justice; Burns thinks this important informa- tion.” McLean Still Agent. Members of the ¢dommittee were skeptical as to these words being de- | signed to say that McLean’s status as a special agent was being inves- tigated. Burns, however, supported | the testimony of his special agent, | and said that he had thought to have the hint of resignation conveyed to | McLean in order that “none of this | Teapot Dome shouldbe hung on the | attorney general; he had troubles enough of his own.” He confessed that McLean is still a special agent | and has a code book. , Francis H. McAdoo, son of W. G.! McAdoo, sprung a sensation when he | testified that A. Mitchell Palmer was described to him in a letter from | McLean, his client, as being attorney | for Fall and Sinclair, as well as for McLean. Palmer, on the stand, a few days ago,-testified that he never was counsel for either Fall or Sin- clair. the McLean Washington newspaper, declared the “H. D.” referred to in! |@ message he sent to Edward B, Me- Lean, was the attorney general. The message stated that Bennett had an appointment to see the at- torney general at 4 p. m., February 14, the date the message was sent, Bennett said he did not know what he wanted to see Daugherty about | but assumed “it was in connection with the case.” “Your conference with Daugherty was arranged apparently for one o’clock on Feb. 14?” Senator Walsh, chief prosecutor of the oil commit- b| tee, asked, “Yes, but I don’t think I saw him until later, possibly the next day,” ;| Bennett answered, 4 Children Stories :| Wanted by Readers of Daily Worker To The DAILY WORKER: I can't express my pleasure in seeing for once, a real working class daily pa- er, I have been working hard to | build a daily working class paper, not only at the present time but in ¢| 1916 and 1917 when there was a by the Socialist Party. 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