Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1924, Page 4

4 x PALMER DENOUNCES MEANS’ TESTIMONY, Former Alien Property Custodian | Declares Charges Are | Ridiculous. 5 i | | CITES ACTION OF COURT Justice Department Scored for Chemical Foundation Suit. ihe Associated Pres ATLANTIC CITY J.. April 1y A Mite I former alien property lian. has issued a statement referring to the testimony of Gast B. Means before the Daugherty investigating committee. “The lurid tale of a plot on the part of Attorney General Daugherty to blackmail me into using my influ- ence with Congress on his behalf is « tissue of falsehood from begin- ning to end,” says the statement It is an ng thing that committee of United ate would allow itself to medium of broadcasting to the worlc the false and ridiculous charges of & Witness of the character of Gaston E. Means. designed to blacken the roputation of h and conscien- tions public officials Means In Seored. To allow a witness like repeat his unfounded long since disproved, is well ‘calculated to discount the sincerity of the presen vestigation and to justifx the wid pread critielsm of the Senate foi becoming & mere distributor of slinger of mud. Por eighteen months after the Hard- adminisiration came into power {he of Justice was investigat- perations of the alien prop- under the administra- icis P, Garvan and myseif. the "complaints of Ger- property we had lawfully the war, their attack hiefly at the sales of eto Company and the to the Chemical imilar charges were o both. b ve no longer t the Che 1 Foundation, case the government final- and the United States district of Delaware, decision, confirmed | all n property custodian had | administered & sting . the Department of suit upon f Means to| charges, Refued to Indic o indictment was fo Magneto case was not and _abs plot _of hiackmail that Means describes. but because there was no evidence of wrong doing. In the case was presented to two g juries, one in Washington and one in New York when tbe department offered ail of | the evidence that vindicative and prejudiced agents of were able to produce sries refused to indict There are some irreg the administration of vrop- | .cty in the Philippine Islands in the ‘arly months of our work. due chief- 1y ‘o lack of knowledse of the law cn the part of Gov. Gen Harrison be- | fore a copy of the trading with the cnemy ac uld reach him. When I| learned of these irregularities. prompt were taken to correct them, by executive by Harrison g Harrison ustod Doug to T mans | sTand ties in \nd second, by remo igent of the alien property and_sending a Moffat_of place him. ARMY FIRMLY BACKS® | new_agent, New York bar. the BERLIN FULFILLMENT OF EXPERTS’ TERMS| rom First Page.) (Continued plan is ready for actual operation. Some of the holders of these posts | have already been designated in the experts’ report, notably the director of the Reichsbank to be director of the bank of issue and the railway sxperts Sir William Acqorth and M. Leverve The reparation commission lays particular stress on the unanimity with with which the document was approved vesterday; they point out that their decision followed logically | the decision taken last Friday. Their sole desire, it is explained, is to get the big work u possible. putt any controve ain T un counter to sailles. It is considered most unlikely that the reparation commission can find ansthing in the Dawes report of an anti-treaty nature, but, as one mem- ber expressed it:' “1f Germany and the allies agree on a common Solution, what does it matter if it is outside the treaty?” As a special courtesy, Dr. Ruppel, the new president of the war burdens commission, and other German mem- bers attended yesterday's session. PRESS OPTIMISTIC. Reparations Body Decision Seen Paving Way to Settlement. of the treaty experts of Ver- By the Associated Press PARIS, April 18—The Paris eve- ning newspapers today comment fa- 's decision of the eparations commission * o proceed with the preliminary work necessary before the conclusion of the 1epara- | heart, 111, attached to Wood headquar- | Gen | Gen. Glenn said: | had stu | the governor himself decided to with- [point in PENROSE PROPOSAL SPURNED BY WO0D, OIL PROBERS TOLD (Continued from tor Capper is the only one T re- call_right now. “The headquarters were open gen- erally to people, as were others?” asked nator Spencer, Republican, Missouri. es. but usually they were accom: panied by some one, For instance, Gov. Sproul (of Pennsylvania) brought a large number in at different times.” T. A. Harmon of Indlanapolis was calied to tell of a conversation he had | with Dr. Jumes L. Himrod of Moose- | ters at the convention. Senator Walsh explained that Himrod himself had tele- graphed he could not appear because of his health, und had no informatic of importance Harmon testified Himrod had told him of a_telephone conversation between ien. Wood and Senator Penrose about 4:30 o'clock on the night before Harding was nominated “Dr. Himrod told me.” Harmon said. “that he was a confidential worker for Gen. Wood—really & mouthpieca for Gen. Wood. At 9:30 o'clock the telephone bell rang and he answered it. A voice came over the telephone that Senator Penrose wanted to speak with Gen. Wood. “Wood told Himrod he would not speak himself, but authorize Himrod to take the answer. “Then the voice said: ‘Will you ask Wood if he is nominated tomor- row would he give us three cabinet officers” Himrod turned to Wood and told him “As 1 Glenn ons Glenn was would understand Himrod, Gen was there; only the three per- were there—Gen. Wood, Gen. and Himrod. While Himrod waiting for Wood to answer, | Now, general, one | word will make you President.’ Gen. Wood then turned to Himrod and said to tell Senator Penrose he had made no promises and would make none. “The answer came. back: 'Very well, I'm sorry. We intend to see that 2 Re- publican President is elected and we want the privilege of naming threo cabinet officers.’ " Scnator Spencer asked if the wit- ness knew that Penrose was too ill during the convention to talk over the telephone. Harmon had heard the senator was ill. but did not know how i I3 did you happen to here?’ asked Senator Spencer. “l wrote the committee about the conversation with Dr. Himrod. 1] thought that would be the last of it— that the principal would tell about it. Later I was summoned here.” William B. Nichols of New York, former police chief of Oklahoma City, Was the next witness. He said he had been an intimate friend of Jake Hamen, and that Hamon told him he i to Lowden at Chicago until come draw. A tew days before he was shot. the witness said, Hamon was talking with nim about Harding's inaugura- tion. 1 asked: ‘Jake, w to get out of this don t want anything. Place in the cabinet Did he say what enator Walsh. “The place that Fall afterward got.” Nichols said he was with Hamon from & few minutes after he was shot until he died some days later. Near the end, he testified. Hamon asked him to ‘deliver a note to President Harding, and he did so. | Nichols said he knew Hamon was| an honest man. | “Do you think he would have en- tered into any conspiracy to rob the government and people of the United | States™ asked Senator Stanfield, Re- publican, Oregon. “I know he would not.” The committee adjourned until to- morrow. t are you going | He replied: ‘I | I could get a place? asked | Bread From Yukon Wheat. | From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. } North Pacific coast flour mil have been advised that bread m from wheat grown within sov miles of Dawson, Yukon territory, is on sale in all restaurants of that city. Dawson. at 64 degrees latitude, is the mos. northerly wheat-producing | the British empire. Last | season's vield at the government ex- | perimental station at Swede Creek was thirty bushels to the acre, the wheat commanding a ready sale at $10 per 100 pounds. - | Anxious Angler. | From Judge. The man at the corner table in the restaurant last night had been waiting for a long time for the fulfillment of his order. Finally the waiter ap- proached and said, ‘“Your fish will be coming in a minute or two, sir. man looked interested, and id, me what bait are yvou using? tions experts committee can be made eflactive. The Temps say the commission has maintained unanimity between Ger- many’s creditors, and adds: “France can choose between two policies, the first consisting of hearty collaboration in the plan of the ex- perts, with a firm resolation to reach an agreement safeguarding, at the same time, the vital interests of the country. 'The second would be to oppose the experts’ recommendations in order to maintain the present sy tem of pledges and collections. The French government is ready to ap- prove and follow the recommenda- tions of the reparation commission by collaborating in the experts plan.” L'Intransigeant and La Liberte both praise the promptness of the repara- tion commission’s action. The for- mer says: “It is in an atmosphere of a; 2 ment and confidence that the nual stages of the settlement of the repa. ration problem are reached.” ““The new chamber of deputies.” says La Liberte, “will have for its first task the ratification of a final agreement between all concerned in the repara. on question.” The new mests June 1. SRmBEs HE MAJ. W. M. ROBERTS DEAD Retired Officer Died at Home, War Department Says. Maj. William M. Roberts, United States Army, retired, died at his resi- dence, in Ruxton, Md., Wednesday. ac- cording to advices to the War Depart- ment. He was a native of Maryland and entered the Medical Corps of the Army as an assistant surgeon in Feb- ruary, 1901. ~He reached the grade of major in November., 1909, and was retired in March, 1917. Most of his service was in the Philippines and in the south and west. He was a patient at Walter Reed General Hospital, this city, for several months in 1916. He held the degree of M. D. from the University of Maryland and the de- gree of A. B. from Johns Hopkins University SHOT DELIBERATELY, BY WIFE, DENTIST, DYING, TELLS FRIEND (Continued from ontinued from First Page) an operation, and was talking to Dr. Pflug, Dr. Mason said the latter told was standing at the labora- indow looking into the street fired upon from the rear and then again when 1 turned around.” The wound in Pflug's back, which showed the path of the bullet through | the kidney, confirmed his statement | in this respect, in the view of tte police. Two other wounds were in his lower left chest—one just a%ove the heart, the other perforating the left jung. Marks of a fourth bullet, which went wild, were found in the office. In a police patrol, rushed to Emergency operation was in_progreses died. Cause of the death is believed to have becn hemorrhages from the lung and from the Kidney Was Struck, Wife Says. Just before Mrs. PAug was being taken in custody by the police she stopped in the office of her husband and looked at his prostrate form, say- ing: “Boots, why did you strike me™ “Boots” was said by friends of the couple to have been a pet name. According to Mrs. Mason, Mrs. Pflug answered in response to a ques tion, that she had shot Dr. Pflug be- cause *“he slapped me.” For many months Dr. Pflug and Mrs. Plug have been separated. She attempted to get a divorce in Win- chester, Vi, it was stated by friends of the family, and dropped this action to institute annulment proceedings here. Dropping the annuiment pro- » sought a reconciliation ¢ this week, however, suit for divorce, a quarrel, arising from this development, resulted in an altercation yesterday afternoon Dr. Pflug was Mrs. Pllug Recent Heiress. A week ago Mrs. Pfluz wa viewed by a Star reporter regarding the report that she had received $20,000 from a woman whose house she decorated early last summer. She | was living at the Northumberiand | and it was here tbe interview took | place. She =aid that Mrs. Amelia Nagel, authoress, had shown much | intercst in her work and in her am- | bitions and that she had mentioned | her in a will. She named a firm of | New York attorneys as sending her | word. She said she was gettin, ready to 50 to New York to inquir into it. Police were a bit vague as place where Mrs. Pflug is aile have taken the tablets which condition. ‘apt. Doyl inct denied she 2 Murphy, detailed to patrol wagon duty, said that she did | not take any in his presen although she attempted to do so. She is be-| lieved to have taken the tablets be- | tween the time she left the apartm -r\‘»i house and the time e reached Ilmer- gency Hospital for the second time— | since she was taken there first in lh" patrol which brought Dr. Pflug to the | emergency room and later suffering | from the effects of the drug. | Once Suffered Breakdown. Mrs. Pfur herself sald that last spring she su’-red a nervous break- | down, and in discussing her prospects | with the inheritance recently, she (ALVERT COFFEE CELICIOUS WHOLESOML BUY FROM YOUR GROLIR For Over Fifty Easters “Loffler’s” hams, bacon have graced the tables of there, as on any other day and year out uniform high q by the name oi— , because of the year in and other meat products knowing housewives— uality and purity assured said that her state of health and ner- vousness might prevent her taking the trip abroad she contemplated for study of art. Capt. Doyle declared today that she had appealed to him two years ago for assistance #n marital difficulties. He said that she was known to be an habitual user of a drug, which is not listed under the Harrison anti-nar- cotic prohibitives, but is habit-form- ing nevertheless, In all the chaos in this case & human _interest element stands out with prominence. Its center is Bud, EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON ment this morning were ' bringing cream, fish and feline tid-bits (o the cat. Bud would not touch them. He sat’ glum and dazed, as if sensing tragedy. Finally friends of Dr. PAug sent the cat to Dr. Buckingham's vet- erinary institu n the hope that it could be forced (o eat. Bud scems to know his master has gone. Surviving Dr, Pllug are a sister and Grund Rapids, Mich., and J. F. Pflug Grand Rapids, Mich, and J ¥. Pfjlug of Kansas Cily, Mp. They will arfive hero Sunday. “Meanwhile the body Is at Gawler's chapel, walting orders of Coroner J. 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