Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1924, Page 4

* COUNSEL ON WA - TOFILEOIL SUITS Receivers to Be Asked for Sinclair Venture—Doheny Action Later. | Government counsel were on their way toduy to Cheyenne, Wyo.. (o oben the long court fight for the cancella- tion of oil Jeases. The government will ask raceive to take charge of Teapot Dome Wyoming and Naval Reserve No. 1 in California, pending the outcome of annulment suits in the federal dis- trict courts in the two stutes. Ths action of government counsel in Wy- omimg, however, will differ from that be followed in Californfa in that the courts in Chevenne will be re- quested to issue a temporary injunc- ion to prevent further extraction of oil in the Wyoming reservc. where ihe wells already have been shut down. In California the courts will be asked to restrain the Pan-American I"etroleum Comany from drilling any new wells and to impound the royalty oil revenue while litigation is in prog- ress. No injunction to prevent pro- duction of oil from the California regerve will be asked. as it is not possible to stop “gusher” wells from producing. The government's bill for cancel- lation of the Doheny leases in re- serve No. 1 will allege that they were made in consideration of “promise of great reward.” and it is understood that “there will be allegations of fraud in the case of all of the leases. Both the Sinclair and Doheny in- terests will vigorously contest the Rovernment's annuiment suits. Harry F. Sinclair and six attorneys left Chicago yesterday for Cheyenne to join issue with government counsel, ‘Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Rob- €ms at the initiation of the litiga- tion. Agreement With Doheny. Preliminary steps in the litigation against the Doheny interests at Los -Angeles probably will be unopposed, an “arrangement having been made between counsel for the government and the Pan-American _Petroleum Company for the request for the im- | TDounding royalty revenue and a re- «<eivership. "Also, the request for an injunction to prevent the drilling of new wells probably will be uncon- lested. The Doheny company will fight the annulment suit. however, and will tuke the ground that the executive order issued by President Harding transferring the reserves from the control of the Navy Department to the Interior Department is not in issue; that ample authorization for the leases was contained in the act of June 4, 1920, spongored by former Secretary Daniels. The litigation will not serve to stop work on the No. 2 naval fuel station &t Pearl Harbor, Hawali, being con- structed under the lease of December 11, 1822. ¥. L. Doheny, through his counsel, Frank J. Hogan, advised Fresident Coolidge yesterday that Since the government has stopped futher payments on this project he lly has guaranteed his com- gainst loss for continuing this This project, similar to No. 1 storage plant ‘at Pearl Harbor, which was completed and accepted by the gov- ernment last month, is now estimated to be 70 per cent completed and ex- perts for the Doheny companies have reported that because of the pe- cullar nature of the construction work it probably would be a total loss If it were to be abandoned at tals time. . In & statement issued here last night on behalf of the Pan-American Pe- troleum Company reiteration is made of the testimony of E, L. Doheny be- fore the oil committee that the gov- ernment is $3,627,100 in arrears in payments on the two.projects. Of this sum, $1,590,991 is on account of the completed plant. Under the terms of the contract be- tween the government and the Pan- American Company the company performing the tank construction at cost and without profit, subject to government supervision. It receives its pay in royalty oil from the Cali- fornia reserve. There is now in plant No. 1. at Pearl Harbor, 1,500,000 bar- rels of naval fuel ofl'and an addi- tional 2.700.000 barrels of oil would be placed in plant No. 2, under the terms of the contract. is ¢ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, . Jake Hamon's Daughter Here; r - Seeks to Clear Father’s Ndmé Committee to Answer Wood’s Charges {Sixleeu-l"ear-Old Girl WTmld Appear Before Senate ] v | { i | Otive Bell Hamon, daughter of the {late Jake L. Hamon, the nutional com- jm eman from Oklahoma whom {who hud offered his futher votes in fthe lust republican national conven- {tion in return for the secrataryship of ithe interior. arrived in Wasaington toduy. { Miss. Hamon ! fore the Wh hopes to testify be- r committee investi- | Bating Attorney Generul Daugherty as a result of young Wood's state- ment, but no subpoena has vel been irsued for her appewiance und the ‘rnmm\\v\u- has taken official cognizance of her pr According to dispatches from Chi- | cago. Miss Hamon, who is only six- COLLEGE STAR DENIES PART IN OIL CONCERN Bo McMillan Ordered to Produce Records of Alleged Operations. i | | By tie Assoviated Prass. | SHREVEPORT, le, March 11.-— | Bo MeMittan, foot bull couch of Cen- tenary College, former star of the | Centre College gridiron team, dis- claimed knowledge of oil operations of Mickey Lyvers, former member of the Centenary College team. McMillan was ordered to produce relating to business interests {in which Lyvers was involved. He #aid he has no books or records, and denied having had any interest in the { operations of Lyvers. The federal court today ordered | that McMillan produee all records of the Harry Morris Guaranteed Gusher Syndicate. No. 3. and allied concerns, being investigated by the govern- ment, _This order was in connection with { €ivil action concurrent with eriminal prosecution of Morris for alleged use of the mails to defraud in promotion | of the concern. Morris when informed of the order declared he had no knowledge of any onnection of McMillan with the syn- cate or allied companies, for whom ¢y Lyvers, former foot ball play- is alleged to have worked. The courts today enjoined local banks from disposing of property of the Morris oil interests — g MAN BURNED TO DEATH. Believed to Have Been Stricken While Fighting ,Fire. Special Dispatch to The Star, "REDERICKSBURG, Va., March 11. —The charred remains of Thomas (. [Purkl‘ sixty-six, were found near the tracks of the Richmond, Fredericks- burg and Potomac railroad, near Woodbridge, by Charles Dabney, a farmer. The body was in the center of a burnt area of broomstraw. It is belleved that Purks was stricken with heart trouble while fighting a broomstraw fire along the railroad which had presumably caught from the spark of a passing locomo- tive. About $85 in paper currency in his pocketbook was destroyed. SR ST famous for its black cat- Wales is le. ' Flies and buntterflies can distin- guish betweein most of the colors. onard Wood, jr., numed ax the man | of Attempted Bribe. teen years old, left her home in Chicago without her mother’s knowl- edge yesterday (o come to Washing- ton and beg the Senate for permis- slon to clear her father's name. { boarded a train without any baggag or personat effects .other than a vio- Hn. Miss Hamon left the following note for her mother: “Dear Mothe: “T've gone to tell the Senate about | daddy. 1 think ||1"1duko e, to: Don't . Tl be & good girl. Ve BeLLE” In his statement. which was printed |in The Star last iriday, young Wood soid that he believed the votes Hamon, { who, himself, was a big_oil operator, offered his father, now (overnor Gen: eral of the Philippine Isiands, would | have resulted in his nomination s re- | publican presideritial candidate. Gen. | Woud, (he son decired, declined to ue- | cept the offer. } LAUREL BOND ISSUE Measures Introduced at Annapolis Provide for Water, Sewerpge and Other Improvements. Disnatch to The ¥ NNAPOLIS, Md, Three bills authorizing and council of Laurel, Prince Georges county, to issue bonds, in- crease the tax rate und relating to the sinking fund for electric light bonds were introduced in the Mary- land general assembly last night by Delegate George J. Hess of that county, . A bond issue of $3,000 for repairs and extensions to the water and sew- erage systems of the town and for street fmprovements is provided Ly the first measure. The bonds will be issued in $500 denominations, bear interest at 5 per cent and mature after a term of not over thirty years from date of flotation. ‘Taxes for the payment of the interest and the creation jof & ginking fund to retire the principal will be levied on the town. The bond Issue is subject to referendum and if approved takes effect on June 1. 1924. The levying of a tax of 15 cents on each $100 of assessable property, in addition to the rate now existing, js provided by another bill. The levy will be to meet general expenses and will be effective in 1925 and each year thereafter. By the terms of the third measure the mayor and council are required to apply all annual payments re- ceived by the town from the An- napolis and Chesapeaks Bay Power Company to the redemption of the electric light bond fesue. Eight hun- dred dollars of each payment will be applied to the sinking fund and the remainder for payment of in- terest on the bonds. Thesa bonds werc issued to pay for the construc- tion of a municipal electric light plant which has since been sold to the power company for $62,500. to be paid for in twenty-five annual installments of $2.500 each. Pay- ments are made on July 1, 1924, and this instaliment {s covertu by the bill. March il— the mayor 3. A. Frye Asks Absolate Divorce, John A. Frye has filed suit in the District Supreme Court for an ab. solute divorce from Ela Frye. They were married Janwary 10, 1916, and have two children. Miscond is alleged and a correspondent named. Attorney T. I'. Regan appears for the husband. DEALERS 1423-25-27 L Street N.W.. R. McReynolds & Son K BLAME WEAK HEART BOTLERDEATH Chemists: Fail Thus Far to Establish Gas as Killing Agency. i While District Chemist T. M. Price, in the health department laboratory, | was seeking for &vidence of the cause of death of }ylrs. Alicé T. H. Botler, conflicting theories were being de- veloped today by those interested {in the prosecution and in the defense of James H. Windsor, who is under 00.bond in conmection with the case: Inveptigators have ulmost the conclusion that the death was caused by a weak heart. This theory runs to the effect that when Windsor awoke in one room of the apartment Iol Mrs. Botler, at 217 F street, early i Sunday merning, he went to the [lilu-h-n and found Mrs. Botler dead. Lucian H. Van Doren, attorney for Windsor, today expressed implicit faith in the story told at the inquest yesterday by his client. This was to the effect that he had arisen to find Mrs. Boteler out of her room and had discovered her prostrate form in the kitchen with gas escaping from burn- ers in the stove, » reached Jury Delays Verdiet. At the inquest yesterday the coro: ner's jury decided to withhold a ver- dict until 4 report could be made by Dr. Price, the chemist, on the symp- toms of death which Dr. Herbert Mar- tyn, deputy coroner, in his report of examination of the body, indicated were present. Dr. Price has made e of potassium and tests for cyanid. S | the case, announced that regardl | nus hydrocyanic acid pdisoning, 'and has not discovered pasitive evidence of the presence of either of these polsons as yet. Still more exhaustive tests are being made, with only faint expectations at most of disclosing the presence of either of these poisons. Likewise carbon monoxide gas has not been found to have caused mal death nor has jllumniating gas pois- oning been indicated to the chemist. | These four possible causes of death were pointed out by Dr. Martym. It was said to be easily possible that Dr. Price would not have complete his examination by tomorrow when the inquest will be resumed. Will Present Facts. Meanwhile Assistant District Attor- ney Arthur N. Presmont, in charge of 3 of the outcome of the actlon of the coro- ner's jury, the facts in the case al- leged to implicate Windsor will be placed before the grand jury. This is why bond of §2,500 was set for Wind- sor's release, Headquarters Detectives James A. Springmann ‘and George Darnall are centering their investigation on cir- cumstance antedating the discovery of the body in the J* street house kitchen. They already have learned that M Boteler had recelved treatment for a weak heiart and that she had medicine constantly on hand for emergency. ALEXANDRIA. ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 11 (Spe- cial).—Of 159 ballots cast for the nomination of twenty-two men for the board of directors of the chamber | of commerce 103 men were named. The twenty-two receivin, he highest ber of votes were declared nom nated, and J. T. Preston, secretary, will tonight forward these lists to members of the organization to be The election wiil close at noon Friday and resulty will be an- the annual meeting Fri- Those whose names were placed in nomination are: Robert . Jones, | Carroll_Pierce, Jullan Y. Williams, Harry Hammond, O. H. Kirk, Charles W. King, E,_A. Feldtkeller, W. H Thomas, J. Willlam May, Benedict Weil, Robert E. Knight, W. A. ir. S. Jackson, Arthur L. Re PINDLER 607 12th St. N.W.-M. 2704 lean and Press all and Deliver Ladies’ Suits $1.50 [ wan, George H. Bvans, Bryant, W, C. Drewry. Shoes That Will Satisfy tion. In rendering such Shoe service as we aim to give—there are three considerations— The Shoe must fit the foot. - It must be the shape YOU should have. And it must be of standard quality. The sum total of the three is Burt satisfac- the death | Lynch, was eet for March 21 when it D. C, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1924 Nicholson, Urban ton Knight ‘Trial in 8. Lambert, ¥. 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