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MISS STINSON STORY DENIED BY BANK HEAD Columbus Man Explains Ascsunt Catried by Jesse Emith for Divorced Wife. liam R. A. Hayes No. 3" jumped to: the conclusion that there must be a number 2 account. Nothing like that is true. “The omly account we ever had with Mr. Smith was the one carried | indictments pending aghinst them at i New York. AT {_The letter was laid befope the com- m'ttes, but some mem| W dis- sed te imeist vpon. he: eane and KeMer. Lhes ais umdor {dict- ment: in cona »ith 8lass casket stock marketing case, and their testimony is desired in connec- tion with transactions of Jess Smith. The Attorney General's statement follow; “I am adhering .to my policy of saying nothing for publication for the Dresent reguluiuk tue auveed inve tigation: of the official action of the Attorney General and the Department of Justice. I-have satd notdring for publication upom that subject simce leaving for Chicago on February 27. “My attorneys are giving theif at- tention to the matter to the extent that they are permitted to partici- pate in the. alleged hearing. “If pertinent inquiries regarding the Department of Justice and the official acts of the Attorney General only were made and competent testi- munyu;lkcn‘ the whole matier could be fully and finally disposed of in' & week or ten days at the farthest. Anything regarding the investigation must be given out by my attorneys, as 1 am 'occupied constantly with Wy duties here.” . 'Divorced Wife Says Jess Smith Killed Himself .to Save Daugherty Roxie Stinson's opening testimony before the Senate committee late yes- terday afternoon was ah amazing tale, charging and inginuiting deals of various kinds to the Attorney Gen- eral in company with the late Jesse | W. Smith, ner former husband. She | @escribed Jesse Smith as “bumper and friend” and confidant of the Attorney ;General, saying that Smith committed | suicide in the apartments of the At- torney General here a year ago. Her appearance before the committee was a surprise, the hearing being called at the last moment and without any pub- lication of the fact that Miss Stin son would be heard. MDeLiciours LuncHeon 65¢ | WonoerruL Coursz Dnenfie? § Gafé Fleetwood | 1760 Pea St.,N.W. 1 Franklin 5206 Also ala Carte JService J | ~—made of your own matcrial at $5.00. ] They will be just as‘stylish and good-look- | By the Associated Press, - 1ag a5 & new oe, - .COLUMBUS. - Ohlo, . March 13, FURRIER, | 355 J000.0, ay carriea by Sease Smith with his fem was made last ; odie night by W. Rufus A. Hayes, mana- A ger of the Columbus branch of It's a Hard Thing to || vneercider & Company, following testimony yesterday of Roxie Stin- Save and PayRent, Too! | om. Tormer wite of Jese S, per: But You Can Save By e eaer Alfornes Gz Buying One of Our “The ‘Willilam R. A. Haves N NEw HOMES account,” said Mr. Hayes, “was in !no way related to Jesse Smith or 1456 Ogden St. N.W. ||/ sre. Roxie Stinson Smith. 1t is very Exhil Home probable that Mrs. BSmith, knowing F’:“_ hed b, that the account maintained for her THE I-:ECCHT),CO by Mr. Smith was known as ‘Wil- $10,950 : i $1,000 Cash i, bironn e ond S22 Easy Payments 5735;‘*:‘ "g;fi:"’}m rZ-ofl;EyHm u?)' See This Week Lorearly in hea U late dn 18 Between 4—9 P.M. SRS LY V. T. H. BIEN, INC SMITH GOT PLEDGE . 1. H. s o 3118 11th St. N.W. OF PROTECTION BY e inCol. g::a DAUGHERTY, SAYS venings 6063-J WOMAN, ON STAND (Continued from First Page.) gotten an “insult delivered last night here” by- Howland. Fallx to Locate House. Miss Stinson's testimony started with reference to the “little green houge on K street.” She said she was not familiar with Washington and | would rather not answer questions about i “It was purely personal,” she said. “It i8 absolutely of no consequence. She said she did not know of the pur- pose of the conference there, but Smith had told her the house was used for private conference, where they would not be disturbed. “Do you know who occupied it?” asked Senator Moses. ‘I think it was one of Mr. McLean's. T'm not sure about that.'” She reiterated, however, that Smith |had told her of meeting the Attorney General there, Could Meet Privately. Smith had told her the Attorney General and himself met in the “greenhouse” because they could meet “privately.” She said “different sen- ators and important people” had con- ferences fn the house. Department of Justice appoint- ments were considered there she said, and people making appointments went there, she was told. Senator Ashurst referred to Col {James G. Darden and Miss Stinson said she met him in the “shack” near Washington Court House, which the Attorney Geheral, Smith and others maintained. The pleasure of the first ride in the V-63 is en- hanced by its superb performance during ¥ears of ownership Space 25 Auto Show The Washington Cadillac Company 1138-1140 Connecticut Avenue CADILLAC Hesitating, Miss Stinson said she ould “tell better later” of the con- B S S ) | fcrences between Darden and others, Unmarred by BUNIONS ' | Stinson answered “Yes” when he asked if Bmith was a partner “in these vari- F ous deals.” B v Bindhat fect Bt onugly | Of that, she said, her chief knowl- Tny, ‘Ther mist be o Lump | edEe came from Smith. She daid she mar shapely fect—go rack: | e (0 upset comfort ASHION and comfort de- t feet fit snugly knew of a “deal” between Daugherty ary ard {and Darden. remove | She said Smith gave Darden $2,400, o ata%- jand he told her Daugherty gave the Pedodshe. | Pedodyae | S2Mme amount to Darden. ~tops paiu almest fnstantly, ban.| “They had a deal in an oil proposi ishes the disfigiring hump, snd | tion out west,” she said, < elleves the swollen.” burning sea- | “Harry Daugherty and Jess Smith pit sation. : in $2,400 apiece,” she reiterated. “There Write fanr o AL adly | W8S Something' wrong somewhere,” she Pedudyne Solvent for you to try. {den.” mply write and -say * Daugherty was in There is no obligation. said, when she saw Col. “the shack.” ’ 1 know they had something that they were considering.” \ _“What brought this about was that Darden did not measure up” Miss Stinson said.” “Measure up to what?" solvent, Columbus, she Darden at demanded HANDS SOFT free from winter chaps with ENTHOLATUM It heals, smooths, softens Just rub it on freely BEODOBUGS Bee™ Brand N INSECT Asks About Fight Films. Senator Wheeler went back to the {Carpentier-Dempsey fight films. Miss nson said the proposition was that itransportation of the films was a {1exal violation, and if the films could ibe transported without prosecution ‘they” were to receive $180,000. “Whether that was ever consum- mated, I do mot know.” Mr. Smith told her that Daugherty { wouid see there was no prosecution. { “That was the deal,” she said. { Certain “picture companies,” un- Inamed, she said, were to be in nego- tiation with Smith, he told her. In reply to questions she said Smith was | the ~*go-between’ for the Attorney { General and picture companies. o1l Stoeks Brought Up. A transaction in Pacific Oil stock was the ught up by Senator Wheeler. Stinson said it was in the fall of . “Pacific Oil, Sinclair Oil and Man- hattan Shirt shares were placed with Smith's _bankers and afterward taken away, she said. Smith withdrew the stocks “sud- denly” from the brokers, e denie Boa Brand tasect Powder wen't staln—et that Smith eaid the stock was given arm anyth xcept > 1to m, ss Stinson did not know e dragyist of grocer, " ronocand#LB@ | how Smith got the stock. She thought CORMICK & Eo " there were 200 shares of Pacific Oil 1and 300 of Sinclair. Smith told her, she said, that the iexpenses of the Smith-Daugherty apartment in Washington were “con- siderably over $50,000.” * Tells of Blind Aecount. “They were interested in things jointly, and he thousht he could pay his part from the remunerations,” she continued. Reverting to a “blind” account of :Smith's with the Ungerleider stock {firm, Smith told her, she said that he kept a blind account “because of his connectlons with Harry Daugh- | Alkali in Shampoos erty In New York after the Dempsey | - K | Bad for Washing Hair|| sci, Mise Stinson saia ‘Bmitn e’ | duged her to Joe Weber, the actor. | she_ovi | Many soaps and prepared sham. || tion %:!.weln Smith ::d V’amvr‘z?n‘l Poos contain too much free alkall, | ing to a “Mr. Solomon,” whom she be- | which s very injurious, as it dries|| lieved was Weber's brother-in-law. }3.: scalp and makes the hair brit- courhers was discussion of how they 3 N a pasole for him,” she sa (Jhe best thing to use is Mulsi B e fied cocoanut oil shampoo, for this ‘ ‘It is inexpensive and beats any- || Nontana, the committee prosecitor. ay. thing else all to pieces. You can|l nounced he would call Edward B, Mo | get this at any drug store, and a|| Lean, publisher of the Washington Post, ew ounces Ww! as! e whole A | tamily for months. D e Dauenety of ‘OBlo,(the Aittar ‘Two or three teaspoonfuls is all Among other things, committeemen that is required. Simply moisten (| want to know whether there was any our halr with water and rub it|| attempt on the part of friends of the !in. It makes an abundance of|| Attorney Genoral, as has been sug- | rich creamy lather, which cleases gested in information rmhln; the | thoroughly, and rinses out easily.|| committee, to avert Miss Stinson's ap- | The hair dries quickly and evenly, pearance on the witness stand. and is soft, fresh looking, bright. flufty, wavy and easy to manage, New Daugherty Statement. Besides, it loosens and takes out Before the committee met today | every particle of dust, dirt an Gandruff—Advertisement. Attorney General Daugherty issued another statement, declaring the in- vestigation “could be fully and finally PISO’S / disposed of in a week or ten days" orCOu prescription it only “pertinent, inquiries” were made. . The' Attorney General also wrote Chairman Brookhart protesting against issuance of committee sub- poenas for Gaston B, Means and Thomas B. Felder, on the ground that they would recelve Immunity under pleasant syrup. No opiates. A nd 0t sices sl everywhere. L Sobs Sensational Story. From behind the crumpled folds of 2 tear-soaked handkerchlef, she sob- |bed and murmured a sensational story that ranged from stock transactions § to motion pictures of the Carpentier- Dempsey prize fight, all of which she insisted were connected with profits for her late husband and the Atiorney General. in all the accounts of his doings in her, the divorced wiie contende agdinst all cross-examination that when Smith said “we" he meant him- lself and Daugherty and that when she said “they” she meant the same two men. o Specifically, Miss Stinson testified tha. Smich had given ber twenty-five {shares of White Motors stock, which | was a part of what “they” had ob- tained without any co. that Smith told her “we” looked forward to profits approximating $180,000 if it {could be arranged to exhibil the mo- tion pictures of the Carpentler-Demp- jeey fight; that Smith had come into possession of an amount of the s K of the Pure Oil Company of Ohlo, and that Smith, proprictor of a smal town store in Ohio, Worth approx mately $175,000 when he came to Washington in 1921, soon increased his fortune to approximately $256,000. Meant Attormey Gemeral. All this, Miss Stinson said, was done by “we” and “they.” and she persisted that the second man of the lcnmbmullun always was Attorney | General Daugherty, because, she de {clared, that in all their confidences Smith never meant anybody eise, and that furthermore when he did, he mentioned the person specifically by name. Having gone two nights without sleep, Miss Stinson said she had exacted o promise from Senator Wheeler, demo- crat. of Montana, the committee's prosecutor, to keep her on th stand only an hour today. She will return and finish her story, if possible, to- morrow. She was just getting down to questioning about “a mysterious green house on K _street,” when the committee let her off. Row With Howland. But in the short time she occupied the witness chair the events of the session resembled @ carload of ammunition go- ing off. Senator Wheeler had a row with Paul Howland, Mr. Daugherty's chief counsel; sparks flew from both sides of the table, and Senator Wheeler launched into a machine-gun fusillade of questioning in which the questions and the answers flew so fast and covered so wide a ground, that a roomful of veteran newspaper cor- {and fire of congressional investiga- tion, simpl- couldn't keep up with { the proceedings. , 13 Smith told her. Miss Stinson said, of many transactions in which Mr. Daugherty was joined although, she said, Mr. Daugherty’s name was not mentioned specificall She professed inability to state from whom or for what service such stock was received, but promised tomorrow, upon arrival of papers from Ohio, to support her testimony _with documentary evi- dence. The committee also sub- poenaed Columbus stock brokers' rec- Washington which Smith confided to | respondents. hardened to the rattle! ords and telegrams to and from Smith. . When Mr. Howland sought to inter- vene In Miss Stinson’s examination Senator Wheeler rushed to the limits of the commitice table, declaring he would not be “bulldozed.” There was another stormy scene over presenta- tion of a prepared statement by the Attorney Genersl. It finally was re- ceived, but only after the committee twice, by a vote of 3 to 2 and with Senator Brookhart of lowa, insurgent republican, voting with the dema cratic members, turned downa Te- quests of defense attorneys. Miss Stinson said Smith and she had ret trading accounts, Known, re- tively, as William R. A. es, Nos. 2 and 3, with Sonnie, Ufider- { leider & Co., 'a Columbus brokerage firm, whose records were today sub-: | poetined. — The White Motor stock, twenty-five shares, was sold under orders from Smith, she said, to “put it on the market quickly and quietly.” 1n: telling her of his plans for a concession to display the prize fight pictures, Miss Stinson aaid Smith told ber that whom “we" referred to, she answere We never discussed anybody: cise but Mr. Daugherty. Questioncd by Jomes. Pressed furthpr by Senator Jones, republican, Washington, Miss Stinson said she couldn't say whether Mr. Daugherty’s name was or was mot | mentioned specifically, but added: | "It was clear in my mind who he $e (Smith) meant.” All of the transactions mentioned, Miss Stinson said, were some time {after Smith had come to Washington ! with Mr. Daugherty after President | Harding took office. Although di- vorced from Smith only a year and a alf after their marriage in 1908, Miss inson said that her relations sub- equently with Smith were “most [ friendly,” although “perfectly con- ventional.” He wrote or telcgraphed her almost daily and visited her fre iquently at her home at Washingto | Court House, Ohio, where Smith's | body now lles. Harding Was Partmer. | The names of President Harding and Edward B. McLean, Washington publisher, who . n a prominent \figure in the ‘0il investigation, were ymentioned in the woman's ecital. !She said that Mr. Harding was her | partner at a Christmas dinncr party jat the sanitarium of Dr. Sawyer, Mr. Harding's physician, The name of Mr. McLean, she add- »d by Smith in dis- cussing the “deals” he told her of having, as she understood, with Mr. Daughérty. She also said Smith had teld her that when the Attorney Gen- eral d he first came to Washington they occupied Mclean's home here rent-free, Senator Ashurst, demo- crat, Arizona, drew from her the statément that she knew of a “green i house on K street, where Mr. Daugh- jerty, Smith and others were maid to 'have gathered for discussions. ' Died for Dauxherty. | _“Jegs Smith gave his life for Harry Daugherty,” she said. “He abmsolutely adored him. I would not have come |here voluntarily: yet I have always told Mal Daugherty (the Attorney .General's brather) I would come if {ever sent for. 1 told him months ago before this thing was started because i1 knew it would have to come. when 1 knew what Jess was going through for months. “What 4o you mean ‘what he was going through? " persisted Senator { Wheeler. - | ‘‘Tortures of pressure being brought lon him by different people to try to betray Harry Daugherty. which he ‘would not do.” was the answer. He 'wanted to whield him in every possi- ble way. He lived for him: he loved him. He had not been here in Wash- !ington for three or four months until | he said: ‘I'm not made for this. . This lintrigue is setting crazy. It 1 jcould just come home, but I am in imow and T have to stand by Harry." | That is what he always said” led, was mentio; Daugherty Files Reply to All Charges Brought Out in Senate A prepared statement in behalf of Attorney General Daugherty, included in the record after the Senate Inves- tigating committee had passed upon it, said that he was glad to learn that the “proceeding is an Investigation and not a trial.” “Counsel for the Attorney General have been under the impression for some time that he was about to be placed on trial,” it added. “H-adlines in the newspapers have carried cer- tain serious, but general and inde nite, charges against him in his offi- | cial capacity. The assumption was expressed that the committee. in_stating that the proceeding would be “in a summary manner,” intended this as “advice to every one” that the investigation wouid be pressed to a speedy deter- mination, which. the statement as- se ted, would “demonstrate at the earliest possible date that these charges, general and indefinite, have no foundation in fact Replies to Statementx. Reaffirming that “no definite and concise charges” were stated in the resolution. the statement took up the first_statement of the resolution, as to alleged failure to prosecute prop- erly violators of the Sherman anti- trust act and the Clayton act. The Attorney General denies. that he failed in the respect above al- leged and avers the fact to be that All with | 1920 Nichols DEVOE PAINT AND hatve to do is to refinish it colers. BECKER H 1339 Wiscomsin Ave.' N.W. Phone, West €7. GEO. 409 10th St. N, he has prosecuted vigorously and with_gratifylng success violators of the Sherman anti-trust act and the Clayton act,” the statement dedlared, citing the report submitted January 21 of this r in response to a Sen- ate resolution. A copy of the report was attached, and the statement commented that a study of its con- tents by the committee would pro. duce the conclusion “that these fac nullify and disprove any allegation” as to failure to prosecute under the two acts named. In connection with the charge in the resolution that the Attorne: eral had failed to prosecute “Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sintlair, E. L. Do- heny, C. R Forbes and their co- conspirators,” the statement quoted Mr. Daugherty’s published letter to President Coolidge urging him to ap. point “twd outstanding lawvers” to deal with the oil lease matters, noted the appointment of former Senator Pomerene ami Owen J. Roberts for this purpose and sald that the entire matter, with the consent and proval of the Attorney General, the President and the Senate, had been “taken out of the hands ‘of the De- partment of Justice.” The fact that Mr. Daugheriy on February 19 had formally tendered to the two lawyers the full co-operation of the depart- ment also was noted. In connection with the Forbes mat- ter, the: statement recited the ap- pointment of a wpecial assistant to the Attorney General to carry for- Winm Smith’s Car * Passes Yours Itis: o {8 selfdevelling which s BT sos oot and even without or brush marks; and ‘with a brilliant, durable gless. 30 oyn. Wo it ghve yom Prow - of amy v Paict 0nd Vormiah Prodect you' et ora seduction f 40 s am o erger som. Tore—— e M . M v pen. T bt O iy PAINT CO. one, Main 1786 SE PAINT Y ¥k Ave. S.E. Phene, 200 W ARNISH PRODUCTS - | i ward these matters and appended the indictments returned by a Chicago federal jury, . P! tions of the oriminal Bection with Veterans' Bureau affairs. As 10 the statement of the resolu- tion alleging fallure to prosecute or defend “all manner of civil and crim- inal actions” the statement called attention again to the “indeflnite” character of the accusation and e j tered a denial “Iin general and in par- tloular,” demanding at the same time “the titles of the cases” involved or the names of criminals referred to. Failure of the resolution to set out fic charges, the statement de- red, “demonstrates either one of two things: “First, that no information worth 10 be submitted an evidence was in the possession of any one upon which to base specific and definite charges, or, “Second, that these charges are made without evidence and with the hope and purpose that, without as- suming any responsibility for the same, “Irresponsible, discredited and blased witnesses may be placed upon the stand for a daily sensation in the newspapers, and disappointed Jiti- gants, discharged officeholders and employes, and possihly some person- al enemies of the Attorney General! and political adversaries in hix own i party. might be drugged Into the| limelight for a day in an effort to; poison the public mind and substan- tiate general and indefinite charges which are false in fact.” Criminal Divisien Work. As to activities of the criminal divi- o of the Department of Justice, the 'statemeat recalled the report made for the year ending June 30, 1923, during which more cases wer disposed of “than during any similar period of time in the division’s his. toi “The record is beyond criticism, the statement added. As to civil cases, attention was di- rected to proceedings before the court of claims in the same fiscal year, when ¢laims aggregating $46,416,000 had been defended with such success that judg- ments against the government amount- ing to “only $2,731,000" had been re- turned. Candid examination of this record disclosed, it was added, “that the public interest has been most suc- ully protected ® * ¢ in each and every instance. £ Record on Dry Law. As to prohibition enforcement viola- tions, the statement declared that conviction:, 4ad been obtained in 80 per cent of the 115000 criminal pro- ceedings already terminated and $1 726,000 in fines collected. It was als asserted as to other cases before the United States Supreme Court, briefs had been submitted in 313 cases be- | iween the beginning of the October, | 1621, term and the present date, the| government's stand being sustained in 211 cases, with fourteen still undecided. | Attention also was called to the report submitted to the Senate under & resolution on war fraud cases, as of February 5, this year. The commit- | tee was warned that confidential mat- ter on these cases, publication of i which would embarrass the legal pro- | céedings involved, was contained in ' this report, which it was asked to| safeguard. in thc “interests of the governmen! “The Attorney General has now an- swered every direct charge or criti cism contained in the resolution,” the | statement said in conclusion. He | has answered every indirect or in- ferential charge in the resolution. It at any time in the course of the § vestigation any matter or thing should come to the attention of the committee which, in your judgment, demands an explanation or warrants the formulation of an express charge against the Attorney General, he de- mands that it be formulated in di- rect and express terms by the com- mittee and opportunity at once given him to answer ®aid charge or criti- | cism, and hearing had thereon imme- diately. ‘The Attorney General resents and coridemns the indiscriminate broad- casting of unsubstantiated rumors, whispered ‘criticisms, and false and scandalous statements, for which no one is responsible, and welcomes thi opportunity. before this responsible committee of the Senate of the United States, 1o exposa falsehoed and scan- “dal and to establish truth.” i | | | | ! Roxie and Reception and . Tickets Are Limited Evening Dress Requsred z 12 Gen- { i MELLON OPPOSES CUT IN FUND FOR REDUCING U. S. DEBT (Continued from First Page.) ther that the proposal to lift the provision for reduction of this year's taxes from the enue bl and pass it as a joint resolution now “would be of practical benefit to only @ relatively small part of the taxpayers.” He added that it would be possible to institute this action later and Indicated that such action was planned if the the revenue bill met with delay in the Senate. Mr. Hull pointed out in his state- ment that democrats of the House had propossd a resolution last month to cut 1923 income taxes on the basis of the proposed democratic rates and that republicans then had prevented fmmediate action. “The President knew virtually as much about the condition of the Treasury on last December as he knows now.,” Mr. Hull declared. “De- spite this fact, he deliberately delays every utterance and action looking toward reduction of taxes for 1923 by joint resolution of Congress until the past day. or two when it is im- possible, for lack of time, to enact into law a separate joint resolution cutting down taxes for 1923 so that taxpayers may have the benefit of the DECLARES CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS SIMPLE Rev. Charles Wood Speaks at Mid- day Lenten Service at Keith’s Theater. “The Christian religion is a simple |one” declared the Rev. Dr. Charles | Wood of the Church of the Covenant, speaker at today's mid-Lenten serv- ice at Keith's Theater. “The apostle Puul speaks of it in the second letter to the Corinthians |wnen he refers to that “simplicity that 1s in Christ.” “Paul removed the veil from in front of the face of God. The peo- ple of his time saw God as a terrible, a wrathful being. Paul pointed out to them that God was a loving fat thinking of his children as they, t people, thought of theirs. He showed them—and can show us—that all w need is to give Christ the place in our hearts occupied by self. “Then the riddle of life is explained for us; then we really have the Christian religion. True, a great same in making their returns due on | church grew up to explain that which March 15. | was already simple, to administer “Obviously therefore, the only effect | that which needed no administration, the President’s belated proposal can | and sometimes the church grows so have is to make political capital ‘fur big and so complex that the Chris- out of a himself, not for his parfty, legislatively impossible situation. “If democratic leaders had engaged in the present Presidential tactic: every republican administration lead. er and every republican administra- tion paper would today be denouncing the democrats for dyplicity, double- dealing, politics, and bad faith to- ward the taxpayers of America.” HITS COOLIDGE ON TAX. Democrat Chairman Charges Presi- dent With Indecision. In a statement issued from demo- cratic national headquarters here, Cordell Hull, chairman of the demo- cratic national committee, says, in t is not unfair to say that the utterly belated tax message of Presi- dent Coolidge on yesterday is in j harmony with his pam record of de- {1ay when oonfronted either by an important problem or by an emer- gency situation. The President knew virtually as much about the condition of the Treasury on last December as he knows now. “Despite this fact, he deliberately delays every utterance and _action ipoking toward reduction of taxes for 1923 by joint re-olution of Con gress until the past day or two when it is impossible, for lack of time, to enact into law a separate joint resolution cutting down taxes for 1923 so that taxpayers may have the benefit of the same in_ making their returns due on March 15, Obvi- ously, therefore, the only effect the Pre ddent’s belated proposal can have is to make political capital for him- self, not for his party, out of a legislatively impossible situation.” $100,000,000 LOAN READY FOR FRANCE (Continued from First Page.) pressing all new expenditures which would not have its counterpart in corresponding receipts. 'Will Issue No Loans. s long as the financial situation will not have been seriously amelio- rated, the -government will make no appeal for credit except for the fund- g of the floating debt, and subse- uently it will issue no loan, even for the ccinpletion of the reconstruction of the liberated regions, without hav- ing mssured the service of the loan by normal budgetary receipts.” TR ‘His Gang Supper Dance Wardman Park Hotel Tuesday Evening, March 18th Starting 10 P.M. Mr. Rothafel and his Capitol Theater Radio Artssts awill be present and cntertain during the eveming Admission, $2.20, Including Cover Charge A large portion of this amount will be turned over to the com- miltec buying radio sets for the hospital. 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