Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1924, Page 1

WEATHER. and colder tonight; bout § degrecs 1d continued cold, Fair ature ture for twen pan. today rda onded at 2 p, wn to Full “Highes swest, minimum Tomor- four hours 18, at Closing N. Y. Stfclu and linnds: Page 14 @b ¢ Fhening WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION No. 29,124, Dost tered as secon 1ss matter shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. (., SATURDAY, J —— UARY Sta “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star's carrier system covers everycity block and the regulur edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 99,823 ¥ TWO C(CFE * REVELATIONS SHO HARDING MISLED N CURT DISMISSAL OF BUREAL EMPLOVES Eharles B. Brewer, Who Will Leave Justice Department Soen, Presented Data Which Proved Unreliable. War Secretary | Tests Gas Device Callers with overseas experience who were admitted to Secretary Weeks' offfce today instinetively che for g masks. They caught a decided taint of ehlorine gas in the air, T eeretary explained that he as submitting to u test of the gas service device recently p [ o cure colds through mild concentrations of chlorine gas. The Plan was worked out, wnd the ap Diratus developed by medical re search offficers of ‘the chemical warfare service at Edgawood Ar- senal, Md. The apparatus has been tried on some 900 cases of varfous kinds of volds in the Army, and the records show complete cures in 75 per cent of these cases, = 'BASIS FOR SETTLING CRISSINGER. ALSO DUPE, ' - woeo waac eeisooe REPARATION ISSIJE ‘President Feared Gigantic Panic and Acted Without Advice of Mellon, Who Had Given 29 Ac- cused Men Clean Bill of Health in Previous Inquiry. Bl FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE, Within @ropped from th w days there will be : rolls of the De- a special attor B who pe Justic partnient ¢ Charles Brewer., rsuaded 1t Harding t we Preside remove, under sensational circumstandes, on Marcl L. Wilmeth. engraving d twenty-eight subordi Brewer's retirement ] 1 curt on in i1 ring down the fina the Mstory they were it stated cause. the traduced n and women ha justly placed upon them. e he plete na un But their e been cleared of ade all It this writer coneration cannot cotii- without d the incidents that le dlen to the lot ift the veil from th for nearly two yvears, | a case that Sherlock Holmes might 1 1 has to ystery which, u to it. 1 of s enveloped have called “The . the Bur: Irews 1tered @ 1 banian, . governm, k in the Navy Department fifteen ars , fooled | ent Harding into metion that tie ter deplored 1o his dytng dav Iarding that the fnz and printing fon and of it w in the bonds, ' s the v which of & that unloss wies inevitable, disintereste plaved emotinns ne Tarities cd gantic dinen tor anparentiy dramatie. ¢ ciually upon the i susecptibilies of the cipled President, that Mr. 3ng wetcd upan theni without « tation ecither with Scereta er with the sceret service. Thy serviee is dircetly eharged with saf § uarding the eurre 4 securiti ©f the United Stutes nment, ofs Without Voundation. il k [ swi to he ut without founda- tion. The United States government s offered restitution it «ould to public servants ood b [0 hy Br wild vcusations February 11, 1923, ident 1 vinced that zood” fa imposed v eruslly, servier and ixh aerd sl Mellon 1 off pautr ¥r aw wer's and such as - hose sted on wag ver's civil the s th restored £rat “two of removed eflicials. riated Naggie S § to twer Previously he had rein- three women—the Misses Kerfoot. Nellie C. Wilding abeth M. Scott—in their asury b Six weeks amends couid b © to him tirough restoration to ecivii service sunk, one of the dismissed bureau oficials, Euxene Bueeh, died—of £ broken heart, friends his weel another of the anen, George K. Smillie, formerly Derintendent of engraving passed aws divd broke 3 body ught, vause of the ng Affair at| service as a | He persuaded Mr. | bureun of engrav-|eggnizance of the €or- | if only FOUND BY EXPERTS Indication That Ruhr Evacu- ation Will Be Advocated, Is Not Apparent. BY PALL Cable to The News SCOTT MOWRER. - the Clicago Dally Coprright. 19: Janu of relieved PA While working by brief 1 dally. it is now pos- Lroad lnes the settiement to ttees erts are | seerecy only bulleting Issu to fo rep two sessions dally. it e first that d to Berlin o d agreement of the fact that the Be early next taken t now has understood from after having princivle are leaving week may these agree- are prac Pa for be to i 1 laded. reparations ments ciple cully cor The problem. as smen has three . namely, the G the allied war of French or ations de the quest urity re n man debt contin the « and n deal one asked details with certa the stabili the balan n budget and investigation of the flizht of German capital. all in rela- tion to the German reparations debt. to of Must Consider Others. Yet it is mittees expect to L inevitable that the com- obliged to take ther aspects, even negatlve Thus under the heading of French security they seem- ingly do not intend to recommend that the French and Belgians shall evae uate the Ruhr. They seern to s reas why military oceupat tons should nccessarily in- h 4 resumption of normal ministrative life. heading lied mion the that ment of the to Britain and the :s depends necessarily on may be able to recover pany. F untii it is pretty definitely what Ger- can pay it will be inexpedient ach a debt settlement, der t arations debt the experts have adopt- d the thesis that th ¥y way to discover What Germany can pay is by actual experiment. It is the task of the cxperts, therefore, not merely to {er these questions in the ab- but to discover how stabiliza- the currency wnd balancing of izet can be effocted in connec- n s m these terfers ceonomic Under Debts” re w the the to be ench debt War o of experts i ith a practical scheme of rep- | yment. oy stabilization, they rec- lishing a new bank of Is. basis, preferably in itral country, with @ capital of per. billion " gold ma turnished by German el 1t is believed the nk would red 1 1 becoming the in- litical maneuvers and Eenuine guarantees of sary capial could be 3 chietly invest thus | strus woull xive security that nec easily obtained, To estimate how much_ German capi- al ha ed is admittedly diff cult, but it is felt a bank of this kind would inevitabiy attract a considerable amount of this flown capital, while tabilizing the currencr, together with For Curing Colds the | the committees would ! in | seen The experts of |o » heading of German rep- | a possible reparations settiement, would | result in attracting most of the rest of ' this German capital back to Germany. twen- suny- Yid been in the T To-sight years when yearily dismissed, he was 'TAXI FLEET STOLEN IN PLOT T0 SERVE WRIT, FIRM CLAINS ‘Charges Burns Detectives | Engineered Hold-Up of Motor “Caravan. DRIVERS GIVE UP CARS AT POINTS OF PISTOLS Ten Marines, in Jail, Say They Thought Procedure Was 3 Perfectly Legal. | Twe private { ten marines headquarters here cabs of the Pennant pany, a newly formed zation, and mad chines near Upper night, to b arrvested a afterward by Maryland who intercepted the cara of Baltimore. The hold-up orted to, according to J. H | manager of IPANY, 10 Serve writ of attachment for the machines. | Seated in t otfice of Sheriff John | J. Fink at Upper Marlhoro today. Mr. | Parsons <aid a fina corporation i1 had “sought an illegal means to col oLy it by the Pennant detectives 1 isted niar it as by from held up Tuxical 1o i ¢ with the ma Marlbor last short time state was T | Parson: | | e i r owed pany [ be pressed against | Who hired ‘the dri cars to drive then boro and then for Ipoints of pistols |over to them 1 Part Played by Detectives. | The entire plan, it is asser sineered by operatives attachid to [the Washington of the Detective Agency when Mary- {land state police the pro of stolen t few outside howev the “highways of the st Upper Ma hem at the turn the cabs ed o Burns and halted xeabs, two me riding «t their nd smilin ofticers stor 3 mor, touri -d 3 1 had 3 to the ir 3 about the was evenin sprung whett any suddeni Nooded with Tequests twent ild muster E rush of bLusiness were efght of the fluet. Most of thes were hailed on the strect and turncd over to the waiting customers wi sald they wished to be driven to party at Upper Marlboro, nd itsels cars. It supposed s Drivers Face Pixtols. ! Reaching this town ostensible lrevelers alighted at a hotel remaincd inside for some tim and upon cmerg ing ordered the d the direction of Annapol “Scarcely had the ligh Marlboro faded in the distancs the leading cab, belicved to b upled by priv te ardered to stop. The driver sudd found hin, inig e {tols and befors other clauffenr. jknew what had they covered by vers their fares iet out wnd beat belong to us now. fers siid he was told ! The men obeved and hurrled back T Marlboro while their former ntinued on Page slumn ) vers to proceed in the happened t rove of it " one The of the chauf- CUTTER RUSHES 100 | TROOPS TO SURIGAD { Philippine Fanatics Threaten Mur- der of Constabulary Officers. | By the Asociated Press. | MANILA, January 26.—One hundred | | constabulary troops left Manila yes- | {terday on the coast guard cutter Po- | Nillo for Surlgao to reinforce a con- | tingent of constabulary troops which ' | has been attempting to disperse re- | | ligious fanatics in that region. H The situation among the fanatics| of Surlgao province and nearby Is-| | republic {on the WISH UNCLE SAM ‘WOULD bo SOMETHIN® LIKE THAT, MELLON PLAN HIT FRST OBSTAGLE House Committee Rejects Proposal to Ban Family Income Division. Mellon's recomm hat husbands and hibited from dividin ¥ urpo. f returns wives 1 family incomes separate tax ight states, the Hou, pr in Ly for allowed mmitte the proposal the commit Wwas pustpone od;t placed jeat then Sanu unty et f Monduy The will sider asury bill ptions on an Green the Income next week, s for their 11 must be xt Committee c isions in the prefer: Planning rates the mid which will allow ten da rted to the House rate chunges, decl allng some of tuxe ., x ex Chs up of is to b d on ves- the mis- tnstitug- ed by nittee and of both terduy cellar x the n-partisan vot pded some sug Mellon and democratic plans. ixes on ter admiss! of 30 cents o ind on beverages. Were repe jewelry and were cut o in o tel incl the s exehange Previous the taxes « message were coufirm consideration of the nearer, yester produce tre thu tidy n-part He | the pry ent at sident A Mellon bili e stantial it for the bill 11 whoever votes for it, regardiess of political afliliation: A The democrats, however, continued their attitude of indifference to the n proposal for a compro- mise agreement in committee on the ir ates, Representative exas, ranking democrat “that his party was united for th atic plan. spublican mend diff puesth members sh istons Teved W leaders sought " < within the party n whether the majority uld write a separate bill ek w compromise in_committee With the democrats. The question will be taken up by the steering com- mittee today DEMOCRATS OBDURATE. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. After a week of cajoling, the repub- licans have mot succeeded in convine- ing their democratic brethren that tax Tevision should be nonpartisan. It goes against the grain for the democrats to yield to the importunities of the r for they remember how _th publicans turned a cold <houlder to the recommendations of democratic President subsequent to 1918, when the control of both houses should | 30 KILLED IN ILLINOI ] 2 MISSIN @ ( G, OTHERS NEAR DEATH Rescue Work at Johnson City Hindered by Gusts of | and Bitter Cold—Many Dead Unidentified. ¥ the As JOHNS A che numb ed Pros TON CITY up today v of d explosion at reported missin spital and recover. Tlinois min and offf owner the blast occurred, jo Tort to determin be to T defin Jar. tely . two are n “damp It w workers fumnes t who w and dust mldnight before mine res reach re cau . dense v strewn about burned away. the positions of some of them indicating they had sought viinly to reach safety COLLEGTION STOLEN ONWAY TOMLSEUM Gravel When He Unpacks Valued Crate. A scientific collection of great value | dealing with prehistoric man, made in | Europe this summer by Dr. Ales Hrdlicka and intended for the Smith- sonfan Institution here, Las been stolen en rqute, ke announced yester The collection, which Inclu sou 125 photographs of the fossil bone de- iposits of central Kurope and sou- venirs from sites, it will be hard to packed in Europe and Dir. Hrdlicka's office in the New Na- tional Museum. Tt routcd through the collector of the port of New York. Found Only Rocks. the many duplicate, was wddressed to was This week the crate arrived and the | scientist eagerly tore it open, because the material is ential in his studies. The crate contained nothing but rocks and gravel. Whether the theft occurred in this country or on ! shipboard Dr. Hrdlicka is unable to Dr. Hrdlicka Finds Only; of which | wan the mine news of to the eurfa First hrought wer in the « broux! exp by 450 men most of to the approximately Hiery and «uickly surface Foriy-five n entry off by art ber telephone porarils One of the surface dent of [ of the miners gathered 1w they One of t they were the first the or n, George, twe it’ been resc turning int T Throughout the g about erowd the it lat shaft, despite th of th (Contin in lumn 2. FOLGEAND FRE SHLARYBLLOD One ast dents i Measure Favorably Reported to House With Rest Day Proviso. The favorable providing new report and higher salary lule T police and fire de- partments, including a provision for one day off in seven in liew of Sun- da da | man of Maryl the 1. acting chairman of House District committee, ent gasoline tax bill can of quickly is hoped the police and firemeg's pay bill be considered in the House on day, but the probabilities are that | have to wait until the | from Zihlman Report. The Zihlman report says that this lation as originally introduced approved by the District Com- sioners and by the bureau of bud- ort shows that the ag- increased carried in _the bill amounts to $1 department and t the one day of car zero weather. | next | PRESIDENT HASTENS 2 PROBES LOOKING TO ANNULLING OIL LEASES 'Orders U. S. Experts Make Rul- ing on Wisdom of Transfer to Private Operators by Fall. 'CRIMINAL ACTION HINTED HERE: CHIEF WITNESSES ARE RECALLED ‘Fall, Sinclair, Roosevelt and Wahlberg ummoned; G. O. P. Chairman Confers With Coolidge. While the Senate oil committee was seeking ght | today on the relations of former Interior Secretary Fall and Harry Sinclair, President Coolidge asked the Interior Depart- ment to submit to him expert advice as to the wisdom of the [ policy under which the Sinclair and Doheny interests secured leases from Mr. Fall for the oil reserves in Wyoming and ( fornia. This inquiry i partment of Justic whether there rected to separate structions given . which is studying the cvidence to determine as been proof of iraud, but both actions are di- ard the same end. The purpose is to ascertain d i Iy whether the leases should be canceled. ! sked the department self had no s the entitest poss the transactios the otect the efinite report ses p on question Criminal Action See whether |of the | Mr i statemer jtic lee Coo! t both ngs, as s gations s Mr. which begt Attorney per epresen General Daug Fresident ting to made may make governm a publi inten of 1 civil pro- departmental 1d given an as the “ con has bee day to present |in as | clear at. which th that involved would be ng, > seric |OF 011 1 conn dence H o no jump at conelu- with John T republican | discus: |but indica matter h Te he Senate was Representative ebraskz, this that views on the made M introduced the Hou: em: ution ing forth Wwis cor ber of the National Republican, which casure Fall able to the ator | was a mem but w nate cihe wiil characteris in lis Inoted fwill n J\nu h with official re i | five thirty or thirty- pended « Every cial in ¥ sworn to every tru. Ly whomsoever conin should be prosceuted with a punishment of the guilty.” t not to betra u itted of th h Interior Dey betray 3 Ju did in_the Was Inspector Here. r¥'s office, coming here with Secre- Francls, remaining under s and for a time under Secrc- mure quite bublic Jand work of “Well, I became r sall's ohvaleal condie | WIthIt, ves Sir. | Although Mr. Fall's physical condi I wizh you would tell [tion was said to Le somewhat ir ‘thing, you had to { proved, his physician Dr. John Whar- | execution of the lease of ton, declared it mot yet absolutely | o the Mammoth Ol Compans corfain whether he would be able to| “I went with Mr. Sincluir, in Decem- Defore the committee on Mone | ber, 1921—1 guess it was—to Thres day. He remains confined to his bed | Rivers, to dise with the then Sec- |and is being attended by a trained | retary’ Fall a matter pending in the {ntrse. Another physician, Dr. Wil- | Indian cffice douching the sale of lands liam Mercer Sprigg, was called in to- | in the Osage na and after w Spent & couple of days there discus ing that 1 think Mr icliir e - tioned to Seeretary Fall the matte of Teapot Dor I think he asked whether was going to bLe leased. Secretary Fall said he was having it vestigated, and that his decision would be determined by the report “When we got home, about the 1st of February, Mr. Sinclair filed an ap- | plication to get the Teapot Dom | lea: Thereafter it was negotiute Fall In Seclusion. Mr. Fall remalned cluded At the home of J, W. Zevely, Harry | Sinclair's personal attorney, who te {tified yesterday that Sinclair loaned | |the former Sccretary $25.000 in lib- | i onds three months after he left | today |t tar niliar with department?” «bly familiur us what. i with t 0 - do very sick man,” said | Dr. Wharton in his first public state- ment regarding his patient. “He was south and his condition | | \as aggravated by his trip to Wash- | ington, especially the bronchial trou- ble. But there is some improvement rature— E bnormal. But he cannot leave t present land we cannot state before Monday He now has no temp 460 for the plice | Whether he will be able to appear at that time before the Senate commit- | | tee. He certainly could not do so to- for bLtained fn April.” “ You given us the extent to which the negotiations went at Thre President Coolidge, on Christma Once the currency is stabllized the |1ands I8 growing worse, according to {of Congres passed from his hands. = .o rest iIn seven Will require 138 ad-jjuy in his present condition.” ivers? k the last step by re-! civil service status of | a dire nes L. Wil- | his assoliute, James n bout the same time, Hill, who succeeded Mr. Wil- director of the bureau, his resignation. to. sandered e * ousted officials would be offered either thelr old positions or egalv: nt posts. James L. Wilmeth iirged to retake the directorship, but tecl dereinstatement. He was lled (o Washington from his present head- uart in Philadelphin, and was ersonally offered his old post Str. Mellon, constituting in effect a Faderal government apology for the Julstreatment given him two years BEO. No Neflection on Harding. * The facts herein be cast mo reflection upon Jlarding. The President cilessly misinformed. e was not th victim of senseless gullibility. $ir. Harding acted on what appeared o bhe evidence no man of presiden- Jonsibilities could have ig- Brewer's “evidence” lad presented convineingly to two ligh officials of (e United s government. It had made a ) rofound impression upon D. It. Cris- minger, then controller of the cur- yuncy and one of President Harding's Yosom friends and most trusted counselors. Brewer “sold” his case ogalnst the burcau officials to Mr. Crissinger before he “sold” it at the White Hous Mr. Crissinger was not the only victim of Brewers per- ruasiveness outside of the executive snansion. The leading authority in <ongress on government finance, Jouis T. McFadden of Pennsylvania, chairman of the House committee on banking and currency, became con- inced, In_a spirit of genuine sincer- that Brewers story seemed de- verving of thorough-going investi- \(a!lon, Mr. McFadden is president A to narrated Tresident was mer- (il re: siored. heen ather Btat by | etary Mellon had announced that e experts seem to think the balancing of the budget would be relatively easy, for Germany has reduced her internal debt almost to nothing and has less military and naval expenses than before the war. However, the Ruhr and the Rhineland constitute one of the most productive Meantime, |parts of Germany andet is thought nec- y these regions ehould again be- ome productive in order to contribute - | their share of taxes. Compromixe Seen Vital. The principal question just now cems to be whether the French are willing to release the Ruhr taxes to ermany, and, if not, whether some compromise can be reached. also apparent that Germany must | have some kind of a moratorium, the | | | | i (Continued aa Page & Coluun 44/ duration and conditions governing which are still under discussion. Opti- mism_continues to prevail in Ameri- can circles, but German circles seem extraordinarily _gloomy, although Whether this is because it is feared the committees will fall or succeed is not clear. The French seem much interested, but slightly skeptical. As or the British, their attitude was well expressed Yesterday by the Brit- {sh expert, Sir Robert Kindersley, who sald: ' “Our task is obscure and heavy with responsibilitics, but we intend to spare no efforts to reach a conclusion both practical and con- vineing. Rules for The Star’s “Best News Story“\ Prize Contest May be had by calling at the Business Office of The Star or by mail if 2-cent stamp is inclosed. Tt s dispatches received at the offices of Gov. Gen, Wood. Col, stabulary commander of Surigao, has | wirelessed that two constabulary | lieutenants with thirty-three men, | have established themselves outside | jthe town of Placer, | The lieutenants, Col. Bowers said, | roported that more than 200 fanatics near the town were threatening to | Kill all officials. Col. Bowers said ho | would attempt to disperse the Y:lnal-‘ ies who have cut the telegraph lines. | {The constabulary officer said there | was a movement among small bands of fanaties to create disturbance | throughout northern Surigao, which | !may spread through the provinces of | {Agusan and Leyte.' In addition to| {the troops sent from Manila, another | i constabulary company has been sent | {to Surigao from Tligan. | About 300 | | constabulary troops are in Surigao | {now. e — FOUR KILLED IN CRASH WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO Snow on Curtains Prevents Driver Seeing Flyer—Bodies Badly Mangled. By the Associated Press. RAVENNA, Ohio, January 26.—Two men and two women were killed in- stantly here early today, when a west- bound Baltimore and Ohio flyer de- molished their gutomobile at a grade crossing. The men were identified as James North and Andrew Nofeier of Alllance, through papers found in their pockets. It is believed the four were driving to Alllance from Cleyeland. The driving snow encrusted the vision spaces In the curtains of their car, the authorities believe, preventing the driver seeing the train. ‘Wreckage was strewn along the track for several hundred feet. The car was completely wrecked and the bodles “badly maugled. | Bowers, con- | ¢ |2 The democrit <o feel that this is ir year. They want to do nothing t will help the republican admin- tration stay in power. In other if they do support a tax bill oy want it to be &0 obviously a democratic measure that the credit will come to them rather than to their opponents. At the present moment, however, the proposals emanating from the democratic side, if put into operation, would hardly keep the issue out of the campaign, for the critics of the democratic bill insist that in many respects it doesn't change the effect th ¥ Iof the present law at all, and that there would still be a clamor for re- vision if it were passed. The whole fight really centers around the surtax rates. The changes already agreed to in the House ways and means committes have not been Bones of contention. Both parties have wanted to get rid of the so- called “nuisance” taxes on theater dmissions, telegraph and telephone messages, etc. Indeed It s not un likely that there will be further agreement on other parts of the bill, o that the surtax rates will be left to the last. . The democratic proposal of 44 per cent maximum on surtax rates is being tenaciously supported by them Dbocause of a belief that the insurgent republicans wiil not consent to a re- duction. So long as the democrats {play ball with the insurgent repub- licans the combination can control it The talk of compromise ~ {Continued on Page 3, Column 2) St URUGUAY WAR MINISTER AND EX-PRESIDENT DUEL By the Associated Press. MONTIVIDEO, Uruguay, January ~—Dr. Balthozar Brum, former president of Uruguay, engaged in a pistol duel today with minister of war Rivera. Neither was hit. The meeting resulted from attacks in Dr. Brum’'s newspaper against the war minister's project for compul. 6ury wilitary service He has notified government officials in an effort to have the crate traced from the time of its arrival In this country. Worthless to Thief. Although of great value in his own work, physical anthropolog: of which Dr. Hrdlicka probably ‘is the greatest living exponent in the United States, he claims the collec- tion will prove puzziing and worth- less to any ome not versed in this most involved of sciences. Durin the summer he had visited and stud- ied a large number of prehistoric de- posits in England, Germany, France, Austria and Croatia, and returned with well defined theories as to the actual descent of the human race of { today, which he explained to the Washington Academy of Sciences. Articles in the collection would have | done much to support his views. 'REVOLUTIONARY PLOT i NIPPED IN GERMANY | Advices From Stuttgart Report Seizure of Explosives From Communists. By tiie Assoviated Press. BERLIN, January 26.—An alleged communist plot for the overthrow of ditional privates of class 1, will necessitate other amounting fo $250.200. For the fire department sregate iucrease carried in the bill is §147,160, and that the provision for one day of rest in seven will r quire 105 additional men and an ex- penditure of $189,000, “It will be seen that the total in- crease carried in this bill for the two |departments amounts to $344,620 ex- clusive of the one day of rest seven provisien.” Should Set Standara. tcpresentative Zihlman says that the House District committee “feels that the police and fire departments of Washington, the Capital of the nation, should set the standard, not only in the quality of p service, but in the remuneration for I men engaged in that service, and it is With the hope of attracting the char- cter of men cssential to the high- est efficiency In the two pepartments that this bill is presonted. . e “The police and fire departments have been rendering most excellent " Representative Zihlman em- although a shortage of men has existed in {he departments, due to the difficulty of qualifying under the increases the ag- (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) U. S. SHIP ABANDONED. lSteel Vessel's Crew Removed 2,700 Miles From Honolulu. SAN FRANCISCO, January 26.—The freight steamer Mary Horlock, a steel which | in| lice and fire | exacting requirements of the physical | All Callers Denled. Mr. Fall is still being denied to all callers and will make no comment on developments in the committee in- quiry until he is able to appear be- fore it. . ) Archie Roosevelt and G. D. Wahl- berg, former secretary to Harry F. | Sinclair, whose testimony Monday be- | Ban a week of sensational develop- | {ments in the Senate public lands com- | mittee’s inquir. were recalled today for further examination. Roosevelt asserted Monday that | Wahlberg had told him he had seen canceled checks of the Hyva Cor- | poration—a _ Sincl concern—for | $68,000 made payable to Thoma: Johnson, foreman of the New Mexico 1I, who, as Sec- | | i | | i | ! ranch of Albert B. E {retary of the Interior, Was in charge of the leasing of the reserves Wahiberg denied this part of | Roosevelt's testimony, saying he had been misunderstood when he men- tioned the sending of six or eight head of cattle to the foreman. He also denied knowledse of any money passing between Sinclair and Fall but sald he had reganied the tr fer of a large block of Sinclair cor- poration stock and $25,000 in liberty bonds to J. W. Zevely, Sinclairs porsonal counsel, as being in some Tespects ‘suspicious. | Loan Deals Admitted. Subsequently, the committee learned from B, L. Doheny, Caiifor- | nia oil magnate, that he had loaned Fall $100,000 on his personal note in 1921, about a year before he ob-| |tained a lease on & naval reserve in | Californta, and Zevely testified yes- lmrd:,\y that Sinelair, who some time ! previously had been awarded the Teapot Dome lease, had loaned Fall I, the government was brought to light| vessel of 23,249 nct tons, has been |$25,000 in liberty bonds three months today in the debate of the finance committee of the Wurtemburg par- liament, according to advices from Stuttgart. Large quantities of explosives are &aid to have been siezeds ) 2bandoned about 2,700 milgs west of Honoluly, and the crew taken aboard the liner President Taft. according to radio advices r ved by the Fed- eral Telegraph Company he early this meralng. *> ? After his resignation from the cab- inet. Zevely said he held the former Secretary’s note for the amount of | ihe Sinclair loan. the bonds having de subject to his order for been ma alie - purpuse,- but that-Sinclair bime far as 1 know. T had nothing onally to do with it substance, Mr. Sinclair asked Se retary Fall if he was going to leus Teapot Dome and he answered that he was having the t examined. Did not Sinclair a general ubmit & proposition to Mr. Fall?" 1 do not know of any proposition Eaving been submitted.” “Do you know anything about th drafting of the general outline of the proposition?’ Later Knew of Offer. sbsequently I did. I was some times present at the drafting of th lease." “I am nterior There clair out.ir in the Dome.’ “I think that wa helped to prepare “Who collaborated with v “It was prepared by Sinclair. “I have a memo; of February 3, thing about an between Fall betwee Three River memorandum? “No_sir.’ “Did not you or Mr. Sceretary Fall Teapot Dome “I do not know, referred to Three Riv Indicates Fall Willing. “This memorandum evidently pro ceeds upon the assumption that the request addressed to Secretary Fall at Three Rivers by Mr. Sincluir had been answered in the affirmative by Mr. Fall—namely, that he was will- ing to lease.” “The proposition application, £0." the document the application. nce here that Mr. S to Secretary Fall an t he was wiiling tosdo of the lease of Teapot 1 thinking of to the lease; \uhn.llh.li e of wh matter in February. yself and Mr. ndum bearing date Do vou k negouutions u the time of this Sinelair know was willlng to lease It may have been while Mr. Sinclair was at laid down i if you choose tu it wag dizcussed by Secretary Fall and Mr. Sinclair at Three Rivers. It may be that they understood each “(Continted on Puge 3, Column 3o~ M N