Evening Star Newspaper, March 16, 1924, Page 6

HAMON GIRL PROUD OF WOOD'S APOLOGY Returiis-'toChicago With Type- written Letter Obtained From General’s Son. DECLARES SHE RAN AWAY Says Father Made Harding Presi- dent for Mother’s Sake. By the Amosiated Press. +CHICAGO, March 15.—Olive Bell Hamon, sixteen-year-old dsughter of the late Jake Hamon, Oklahoma oil man .apd. republican . politician, Te- tarned to_Chicago today from Wash- ington, proudly bearing what she termed U'a letter of apology” Trom Leopard . Wood, jr. Wood recently cherged that Homon offered to secure the republican presidential nomination for, Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood in 1820 in.exchange for appointment as Scc- retary of the Interior. Miss Ha “ran away Washington in an ef- fort to lay her father's case before the Benate committee investigallng al,oi} Teserves. I met Leonard Wood, jr., outside a theater in Washingion and told him I wanted an .apology, sald, told me he would give me cue.” Shows Weod's Letters. She displaved a typewritten letter signed Leonard Wood, jr., as follo “I am only too glad to write you about what 1 sald in my interview to the press. I meant in no way to cast any personal reflections upon your father under whom I worked in Texas. I was merely asked several questions relative to the convention in Chicago, and I stated the as Y recalled it to a reporte as wy personal feelings toward Jake Hamon, all I can say is that they ‘were the pleasantest. I hope you feel better after’ reading this. _“My ‘father made Harding Presi- dent,” Miss Hamon declared, “and ht did it for my mother’s sake. Father controlled votes enough to swing the convention when the end came. He wanted to have Harry Daugherty nominated, for Mr. Daugherty was a £ood friend of his, but mother per- suaded father to use his influence for Mr. Harding, who was her cousin. DOUBT SINCLAIR WILL GET SAGHALIEN LAND Observers -Believe Japanese Will Exploit Rich 0il Terri- tory Eventually. By the Associated Press. TOXIO. March 15.—Barring of sur- veyors representing Sinclair ofl in- terests from the Island of Saghalien has focused official and public atten- tion on the contest between the Sin- clair éorporation and the Japanese for rich oil lands in what nominally 18 the Russian half of the island. The opinion is general in officlal circles - that eventual exploitation will be by Japanese, The government recognizes Russia Sovereignty im northeen Saghalien, where the oll fields are situated. but continues military occapation, which is described as comparable to French rule in the Ruhr, as a guarantee for satisfaction’ for the massacre by the soviet of 700 Japanese at Nikolaievsk in 1920. Japamese Are Active. Influential Japanese companies. in- cluding Mitsul interests, three years ago formed the Hokushin Kabushiki Kaishg, -or North Star Company, to exploit the Saghalien. firlds. The or- ganization was capitalized at 3,000.000 yen, and was subsidized for more tha 2,000,000 yen by the navy. Sur were carried on two years. achinery tecently was shipped to Saghallen. It is unlikely that these powerful Japanese interests ever will consent ‘to abandonment of their project. It is fo secret that Japan desires possession of the whole island. In- formal overtures for _its purchase were nmiade by A. A. Joffre, soviet en- voy, in Tokio last summer. however, declared the figure quoted was too high and negotiations ceased. Possession of Saghalien is certaln to be 3 vital issue in eventual Russo- Japanese negotiations. Should Jap- anese relinquish-military control it probably would be on_condition that concession for-the oil flelds be grant- ed to Japanese interests. Americans Brayed Perils. Further -defails disclosed . today concerning J. P. MeCullough -and L. F. MacLoughlin, ‘American siwveyofs for the clair company, who were denied entrance to Saghaiien, (ndlc:z. ©d their trip Up to the time they were halted was perilous. They traveled from Viadivestok‘to the mouth of the Amur river in: deepest winter and crossed the 'Partar-straits, separating Saghalien from the, mainland, on ice by_sledges. The American pair's reception by the Japanese commiandeér was most courteous. They were entertained at dinner,.dut firmly told that while the Japariese army was in supreme com- mand of. the administration of Sag- halien, inciuding. the island mining rights, - Americans would be forbid- den to invade the island. Conces sions granted by Russia, they pointe: out, are worthless since Russian au- thority is.not recognized by the Jap- anese. s ASK MORE STRINGENT REGULATION OF OIL (Continued rrom First Page.) agreements between .dominant fac- tors in the industry. The statément also demanded “con- servation legislation” and that the powers of the Federal Trade Commis. sion “be enlarged, to the end that there may be no doubt as to its power to aceomplish the results sought.” The statement .was signed by eight members ‘of .the executlve committée, includipg. Attormey General Jay B. Benton of Masssachusetts: E Attorney General ‘Eckern of, Wis consin ‘announced that another meet- ing of ;thé cmmittes will be held in Washimgton April 22 to consider fur-. ther ‘actlfen’in: connection with' the program suggested today. The attorneys geuersal conference is composed of the forty-eight state at- torneys. generak . ¢ 7 “We suggest that ill in -authority, either in the. states, or”in the federal government,” the committee’s state- ment gald, “give-consideration to this question .of prites”of gasoline and other petroleum products. Petroleur and its products have beeome neces- sitiesof ‘lite. " They aré 'essential to the welfars ‘of our’ pacple. Nature has supplied -an abundapt of petrolewm’ which geologists “inform us will provide for a long period of time. It s & matural resource. - The Boring | Japan, } |Daugherty Unhurt, Adams Asserts, by ... Probe Testimony Belief that “mothing discredit- able to Attorney Genpral Daugherty has heen shewn in the Senate in-: vestigation” was expressed yesterdny by Chairman Adams of the re- publican national committee in a formal statement. - “A great deal that is iscredit- able to his Senate ussailants has happened, however,” the state- ment added. “The American people have a sense of justice and fair play that is dangerous for even | Sspators to disregard.” DAUGHERTY SAVES AMMUNITION TO HIT HARD AT ACCUSERS (Continued from First Page.) | New York, and Tke Martin, seid to be | of Cincinnati. Qufmby said there was | an arrangement that men who were sold state exhibition rights received small filnes and then were allowed to proceed unmolested with exhibitions. He identified some of the men named in w list given out by Daugherty last night as having been fined, as these | s0ld state rights. Divisien of Prefits, The selling syndicate, according to Quimby, included himself, “Tex" Rickard, ight promoter, and the Jack | Kearns-Jack =_Dempsey Amusement Jorporation. ' The contract with,Mu- ma and his associates provided for a 50-50 division of profits, he said, and he testified to payment of $65,600 to Muma., | Deuwils of the arrangements were {drawn from Quimby with much dif- ficulty at times, and he was excused to submit his transaction. This will be gone into further tomorrow by the committee, with G. 0. Holdbridge of Baltimore, former Department of Justice ngent, Wwho Yeste,day was summoned hur- riedly while QUimby was_testifying. Senator Wheeler, demccrat, Montana, conducting the development of the testimony, read fragments from what purported to be a report by Hold- bridge to the Department of Justice regarding an investigation of the film “dmal” This report, presumably in the de- partment's films, mentioned .Muma and others named in the transaction. Assured of Satety. Quimby said he was told b Rickard ' that Muma was & *-.EZ‘ {friend’ of Mr. Daugherty, Bdward B. {McLexn and William J." Burns, chief of the bureau of investigation. Muma also told him of his friendship with Jees Smith, and it was under these circumstances that Quimby went in- to the affair, with assurances, he said, that “evervthing would be all right,” and that those Interested would not be “disturbed.” “And_he (Rickard) toild you that Muma was the close friend of Harry M. Daugherty, Kdward B. McLean and that it could be fixed to show them all over the countrr?' Quimby was asked. Yo " he_ replied. Alfred R. Urion, & lotal lawyer, sald to be a friend of the Attorney General, also figured prominently in the d velopment of the film. story. The tes- timony was that Urion, with Muma, arranged to have attorneys in dif- ferent states select men to whom the films should be sold. Quimby re- iterated that his part only was in making and selling the films and not in their transportation. He de- sisted entirely from showing the films, he said, in December, 1921, after being told by Ralph Navarro, a New York agent of the Department of Justice, that he would be subject to | prosecution for conspiracy. Was Told to Wait. Meantime, for exhibiting the fiims in New York state, Quimby asserted. he had been prosecuted and fined $1.000, but told by ofélals in the lofMce of District Attorney Hayward |and in Hayward's presence that he | {should “wait a little while" before | giving further exhibitions. He sald he { waited about thirty days, and them resumed showing the pictures, and finally made about $75,000. After Quimby's testimony, commit- tee pursuit of the subject was de- ferred until tomorrow, in order to hear witnesses on gun-running and other subjects from men. who had been waiting_ here several days. Baldwin, whose home is at San An- tonio, testified that he had resigned as Department of Justice agent on the Texas border after being, as he believed, “too active” to suit officlals at Washington in his investigations of border gun-running to Mesican revolutionists, bootlegging and ather cases involving District Attorneys Zweifel and Hartman of Texas and their friends. Left Border Unguarded. ‘With. gun-running rampant on:the border, he said, h¥ was ordered ta close his office at Del Rio and go to Dallas, leaving a 200-mile ‘stretch of border unprotected, so far as the partment of Justice was concerned. His testimony, Senator Wheeler ‘8- sured the committee, was but “a link in a chaln” of evidence by which he expects {o demonstrate that Ameri- can 0il interests were behind revoe lutionary activities in Mexico. Other high spots of Capt. Baldwin's testimony were that he received or- ders, after. making a report on Dis- trict Attorney Zweifel, to cease in- veu}l‘nllng federal officers, and during the administration ‘of Attor- ney Genetal A. Mitchell Palmer the Department of Justice gave orders stopping its agents from prohibition enforcement work, an order which, he said, was still in force. ; Chinrges Against Zwelfél. * District . Attarney. Zweifel ‘was charged by Capt. Baldwin with fail- ing -to press prosecution of Jack Wi- ley, & friend, charged with imperson- ating & Tederal officer and securing $1,000. ' Baldwin also deelared that Zweifel, in_company with Joseph Kingsbury, identified as'a prominent republican leader in Texus, were in- terested in a preliminary inquiry into affairs of ofl stock promoters Iater in- dicted by -wholesale and- convicted. Baldwin sald “believed” that “blackmail” was their object. He said he conferred on_the matter with D. W. Dawkins, post office inspector at Fort Worth and that Hawkins came here and said later he had talked with Mr. Daugherty dnd Post Office. Depart. ment officials. > Baldwin added that Hawkins told Kim in._confidence what the" offielals here had sald and was excused from | dtvniging this information. Late to- day, however, the committee issued a subpoena for Hawkins. Di: western Téxas district by Capt Baldwin with the case of Harry Hamilton, former bootleggers to of though Baldwin said he had evidence with w two Shed meamwhile: Net Examined Fully. . Hartman told, him, Baldwin that he -had to ‘confer iwith. Unfted States Marshal Walker, a prother-in- law ©of Attorney -Gemeral : | Postmaster Lucas and other republi- 1;‘”‘ use milton, since’ re- {nis & source’ that :in 2 grand !into "the Hamilton case ‘been examined fully. and witnesses lind been ocalled 3 " 'The" committee " aleo had “on- the ':v.u\d for a few minutes yesterday F. O. Pendleton of New Orleans, an- Department of Ju: E he bad mot ‘none of hls | | Uentral figure: Semator Burto Baldwin, head of the Texas Rang terday for W. T. Underwood of Paim ! Beach, Fla., mamed by Gaston Means 23 an assoclate of Jess Smith In th receipt of money. Another subpoena ! went out for Thomas B. Felder, New | York attorney, who is indicted joint- | ly with Means for an alleged attempt | to bribe Mr. Daugherty 4nd other | officials. Means said that Felder was, his counsel apd advised him against | testifying here.’ Felder was asso- clated with Mr. Daugherty in secur- | ing ‘the Telease. from priton of Charles W. Morse, the shipping operator. Among the crowd of spectators | who struggled even for étanding room | at yesterday's hearing was Frank A. Vanderlip, former New York banker, | who furnished a sensation in the oil | inguiry. He sat all day behind Mr.| Daugherty's counsel, ‘After adjournment Mr. Vanderlip sought ,a conference with Senaiord | Wheeler, but the latter was unable to%see him, instead arranging to meet him within the mext few days, pos- | sibly today. . - EXPLAINS BALDWIN STORY. Fort Worth Official Denies Infer- ences Given Committee. By the Associated Press. FORT WORTH, Tex, March 15.— District - Attorney Henry Zweifel, shown reports of the Daugherty in- vestigation in Washington, made the following statement: “As to the M. L. Lide referred to, he came to me when under indictment jand sata if the government had s ¥ ‘way of paying him ehough jo live he pould put us.on the inaide of the biggeat group of automobile thieves in the middle west I told Agent B. C. Baldwin to listén to Lide's story and to_use his o judgment about -hiring him. “Since then I've never Heard from Baldwin about Lide, but 1 did prose- cute Lide for impersonating an offi- cer, and he s now in Leavenworth penitentiary -serving a sentemce of eighteen months. Status of Riley Case. “Regarding Riley anid the statement that ha coliected 31,000, T dectined to authorize & complaint against him because the investigation showed that Riley was acting ss & collector for some. oll company, and afterward he! Was_ employed as a_special deputy | FOR FARM AND GARDER. } Jersey Bisex Glants . "Barron'’ White Legbor: ‘Sandy’s’* Wi Eveppard'e’ Ancosss “Shepy r Rhode lsland Reds . Black ‘White W White Pl ndian - Rum: s3ensunE 3 232332338 # BES= Pekin Breeding stock and 1ot itter of [ (WHITE LEGHORN EGGS_Setting, . 'R. E. Lee, Kessiagton, Md. ton”14-M. BABY CHICKE—Doa't buy - oatil me. J Black Gia: 3 ; Barred, W jand Black s, | recers. ; biy batches:, vafe delive {alog free. E. Cooley, Frenchtown, N. J. % B Sanme: the way: NEAUTIFULLY FURNISHED GR BUNGA- . 4 lota, '$4,500; Brad- s SR M R Ty L R - 1-‘«"’»‘-’JJJJJJJJ!_&JJJJJJa'.i';\'JJ-!J&J.’JJJJ.&IJ.‘JJJJJJ&JJIJJ'J'J'J'JJ K, Upper insert: F. C. Quimby, 2 New York motion picture preducer and -maker and a former agent with United States marshal .during - the railroad strike, and after he was dis- charged this complaint came up. vestigation Showed. that the party parted with the $1,000 owed ‘s client the money; that Riley persuaded party to pay what It {s my-opinion that, re- who Riley simpl. he ow. lless of whatever representations Riley made, the same could not be made” the ‘basis of a lawful prosecu- tion because Riley gecured nothing of vahie wrongfully from the pafty. “With :reference to Baldwin's stateent that he was asked to in- vestigate ofl companies, ft was not Baldwin's duty to investigate viola- tions of the postal laws. Baldwin was never called upon to make &n investigation. X 5 Postal Law Cases. . “On August 3, 1922, 1 requested the Attorney. General's départment to furrish me assigtants to make an in- igation of the violattons of the porial daw Many inspectors, ac- countants 'and _massistant attorneys wero furnished and 300 indietmients, 111 convictions, $270,000 in fines, rgnety-five years in prison sentences withoit a single acquittal is an an- ;wer whether I have done my full o & n 1928, when ¥ ‘began to round up those ' under' investigation to progest ¢ the grand jury for indict- ment, I decided that Mr. Baldwin was not in aécord with the efforts I was putting ‘forth, was not loyal, and 1 requestéd ‘the departmant $o send a special agent to 1ok over ghe situ- ation” with a view of transferring Baldwin to ‘some other district until the mail fraud prosecutions were over. B. C. Walden ‘and another agent of this district were transfer- red to Montana and Minnesota, re- spectively, and thercupon Baldwin resigned his post.” DENIES SMITH IN FILM CASE. Orr’ Scores “Throwing Dirt at Tombstone.” By the Asociated Press. 3 NEW YORK March-15.—Referring to testimony before the Senate in- vestigating committes In Washing- ton today, Willlam A. ‘Orr denied to- HAARASASSSSAASASASASARSSSS SIS AR R SL “They’ll All Be Here to— Dine and Dance —io the strains of— NAPPY AND JAZZY YNCOPATING GANG! Monday, March 17th St. Patrick’s Day Dance and Dinner ¢ Cover Charge, 75¢ Schneider’s Cafe The Remodeled “Herald” Building ° " Sea Foods a Specialty szt S?eeil_ml)inner,fl.oo,éw9pn 3 “DANCING . FROM 10 P.M. TO 1 AM. - FELF XS LLEL RSP IELN ELLRLCEFF L DECLARES COOLIDGE FILES SUIT FOR HOUSING WILL BRAND GUILTY Secretary Davis, in Baltimore Talk, Says Tuh'npny_ll Misconstrued in !nmt_imiom Here. Speetal Diepateh to The Star. BALTIMORE, Md., March 15.—Prest- dent Coolidge will see that no one actuafly guilty escapes punishment connection with present ln‘lfllll&. hin Becretary of La- bor James J. Davis declared today be- | tors the City Club at the Hotel Cas- j wel When men being.investigated are not aliowed to presentlegal defense, and when testimdny is misconstrued. any one may appesr gullty in the eyes of the public, he said. “Any business man can be made to appear Ruilty through examination of ‘his baoks and pubifcation of cer- tain findings without explanation be- ing made of the facts” Secretary Davls sald. “Thorough analysis of all testimony and the character of those testifying |1s needed to determine the real truth in such investigations,” thé Secretary declared. 7 “An analysls of the immigration question Is needed,” Mr. Davis said. “America needs common workmen | who, under the Watson bill, now fn Congress, coulk be, admitted freely when needed %nd restricted during timés of unemployment.” TEXAN'S TESTIMONY. HERE BRANDED LIES’ IN STATE +‘Dirty, Conhmp!lbfe"’ Says U. S. District Attorney of Baldwin ‘Words in Justice Inquiry. +{ By the Associated Press. witnesnes. ight films, Lower Inset: Capt B. C. night that Jesse Smith, friend of At- torney’ Gereral Daugherty, had any business dealings. with him. in con- sction with moying pletures of the Dempsey-Carpentier fight. ‘If the Senateé committee will call witnesses. who knaw facts, instead of fairy stories he sald. “"this aston- ishing_attempt to besmirch a live man's reputation by throwing dirt at & tompstone will come to. & sudden stop.” Orr sald he had a business arrange- ment by which he was to receive a 20 per cent 4nterest in.the Demp- sey-Carpentier fight pictures - for services” which he performed, but the payment had not yet been completed. ‘Tex Rickard, probably the first time since he became prominently known in the sport world, today had nothing to" BAy concerning something he was finapelally interested in—~the Demp- sey-Carpentier fight -film: P Then approached by newsyaper men on Quimby's testimony the pro- moter refused to talk. % SEEK SCHOOL BOOKS. Children to Supply Institution for Mountaineers. Tamasses, a school for southern mountaineers, located in. ‘the foot- hilla of South Carolina, is.to be sup- plied with books bought by the Children of the American Revolution. Tamasses is & girls' school, founded and wholly maintained by the Daugh- ters' of the American Revolution, and now the younger auxiliary of that organization has undertaken to keep it supplied with books. Donations for that' purpose, it was announced, will be gratefully ac- cepted. Since the girls range in from twelve to twenty-five yeirs, a widé variety of literature could be used. Donatlons may be sent. care of Children of the American Revolu- tion, Memorial Continental Hall, or will be called for if & communisation is sent to Mrs. Amos A. Fries, vice président of the organization. —_— Germany takes -a census every five years: the United States and Great Britain every ten years. e T I A e o SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Ma: Statements made by Capt. B. C. Ball win of the Texas Rangers, who testi- fied before the committee Investigat- ing the Department of JuStloe, wefe brafided as lies today by two federal officials, Capt. W. M. Hanson. district director of immigration, and United States District Attorney John D. Haftman. Both men were mentioned by _the ranger captain. “My ussertion that Baldwin's re- ported statements are dirty, con- temptible lies is sufficient,” Mr. Hart- man said. t. Hanson, who was summoned to appear ‘before thc committee in Washington, declared trom his sick bed that Baldwin's statements were “lies of the whole cloth.” ) ‘Capt. Baldwin - is. guessing.” he said, “but he is guessing wrong.” Swedish Author Coming Here. STOCKHOLM, March 15.— Selma Lageriof, .8wedish, author, will be among the Swedish delegates to the women's congress to be held In Washiagton in May. She was sward- 9, the N W L bel prize for literature in OF WOOD DELEGATES ‘Woman Hotelkeeper Ash $3,854 of Col. Proctor for Furnish- ing Rooms to Negroes. > By the ‘*I.‘” Press. CINCINNATI, Ohlo, March 15— Suit was filed in common pleas court Here today against -Col, William Cooper Practer by Elizabeth Barnett, proprietor of the Hotel Vincennes, Chicago, to collect $3.854 alleged to be due for housing delegates during the campaign of Gen. heonard Woou for the republican presidential momi- nation in 1920, The plaintiff alleges that Col. Procter, as manager of the Gen. Wood campaign, enterod into a contruct w! her to furnish fifty rooms for the southern negro dele- gates to the national republican con- vention in Chicago. She charges that she furnished rooms for ninety-seven negro delegates at the rate of $612.50 . William Cooper Procter's office it was stated that he knew noth- whatever about the matter; with the plaintiff nor authorized any onc ¢lse to do so. B TR Theatrical Veteran NEW YORK, March Phelps, seventy-two, a theatrical manager for many yeafts, died of pneumonia today. He formerly lived in ‘Baltimore. 4 > . Dies. 15.~L. P. MEANS’ STORY GIVEN LAUGH BY JAPANESE Dr. Dan of Mitsni Interests Denies German Money Was Paid, as Told in Probe. By the Associated Press, TOKIO, March 15.—Dr. Takuma Dan, chief of the Mitsul Gomei Kaisha, the holding company for ail the Mitsul interests, told the Asso- ciated Press today that there was “not a morsel of truth” in any of the allegations of Gaston B. Means, regdrding the Mitusi concern mad« yesterday in testimony in the Daugh- erty inquiry. . Regarding Means' declaration that he, while acting as a German agent, had reccived payments from Ger- many through the Mitsult company, Dr. Dan_exclaimed, “Laughable!” Dr. Dan pointed out that Japan was Germany's enemy long before Amer- ica had entered the war, and sa that it would have been folly for the Germans to uge an enemy channe for payments in a neutral country where there were a million pro-Ger- mans. 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