New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1924, Page 3

WAHLBERG MISSING, HEARING IS CUT SHORT TODAY - TELL OF EMOTIONS Sinclair’s Secretary Being Sought—Trying to Link Oil Interests With Pay- ment of G, O. P. Deficit. The enate oil committee suffered a | temporary s::tback today when it un- dertook to Inquire into a story that Harry F. Sinclair had turned over a large batch of securities to Attorney General Daugherty and Will H. Hays, former chairman of the republican national committee, to help wipe out the heavy deficit incurred by the party treasury in the campaign of 1 Process s2rvers reported that so far they had been unable to locate G. D. Wahlberg, former private secre- tary to Sinclair, who was to have taken the stand teday as the first wit- ness In the new line of investigaton. Mr. Hays has been subpoenaed to appear later, will be questioned tomorrow, When he was before the committee some weeks ago, Wahlberg testified that Sinztair turned over $25,000 in Liberty bonds to “Mr. Hays.” He did not identity the man named and the committee did not foliow up his state- ment, Debt Was Liquidated. The republican national committee camne out of the 1920 campaign with @ deficit estimated at §1,500,000, but announcement was made mer that it had been liquidated. What part, if any of that sum was paid ofi through the sale of Sinclair stook is not quite clear in the story that has teached the committee. While the search for Wahlberg con- tinued, the committee turned its at- tention to other ramifications of ils inquiry, fiyan Makes Denial. [Former Representative Thomas R. Ryan of New York voluntarily took the witness stand to deny that he was the man referred to in records of oil stock transactions laid before committee, and Louis F, Bond, the committee's {nvestigator, followed him to explain how the identification had been made and to further ex- pand his report on the stock transac- tions of others, Questioned again about Attorney General Daugherty's stock account, Lond said the first transaction was the sale of 500 ghares of Sinclair Con- #olidated and t next was an outright purchase of t same number of shares. Details of the oll stock transactions ot Jess W, Smith, confidant of the at- torney general, as fiven by Bond, showed a net profit of $1,531 in 1922, Records of Deals, The Smith account, Bond sald, was Listed as "W, W, 8pald No. 3", while 1 Paugherty had an accoun . Spald No 4" Spald 18 a member of the Washing- fon brokerage firm of Hibbs & Co. Fmith's ofl stock transactions were tead into the record as follows: July 24, 1022, Lought 200 shares Mexlean Seaboard for $6,430; July 25, Lought 100 ghares Mexican Petroleum for $16,420; July 27, bought Angust 4 schl 100 shares Mexican Pe- troleum for $16,076; August 9, bought 200 shares Sinclalr Consolidated for £6,130; Scptember 26, bought 300 thares Sinclair Consolidated for $18,. En; yable Comfort at ¢ Reduced Price “Quality 1s more important than i Truly satd. But when the rame quality is accompanied by a lower price leval, and when to both 1% added the comfort and good looks of Cantilever Rhoes, then you have the f4ral eombination Cantilever Shoes are so comfortable and so nice to wear because they harmonize with the foot delightfully. In repese, the shoe fits the foot pre- cisely but #asily, because the lines and contour of both are go alike, (Step ints our store and examine this har- mony of form.) n action, the Cantilever Shoe Agrees with the foot becanse the arch of each Is flexible—~not rigld as in #o many shoes but in no human foot! The fine workmanship and mater]- #ls 1o be had in Cantilever Ehoes re- *ult in long, satisfactory service. The #tyles are splendid for the tailored | £owns and suits, and the sport clothes, | of the coming season. No wonder the rapld growth of the Cantllever busi- ness has enabled a lower pries level without reduction in wages or any change in quality! SLOAN BROS. 185 MAIN SI'R-EET and Sinclair probably | last sum- | the | 200 | shares Mexican Seaboard for $4,580; | SO TEAPOT : 282; September 29, bought 200 shares Sinclair Consolidated for $6,640; Oc- tober 4, sold 700 shares Sinclair Con- solidated for $24,017; October 20, bought 800 shares Sinclair Consolidat- ed for $10,245; October 27, bought 200 shares Sinclair Consolidated for [ 8,630, account in oll shares 400 Mexican | Seaboard and 500 Sinclair Consolidat- ed. | “What explanation did Hibbs and |Company make of carrying an account |in the name of some other than the |actual dealer?” asken Senator Walsh. Made No Explanations “They gave no ‘explanation,” re- plied Bond. “I was informed that I must ask Mr. Spaid. I saw there were a number of actual deliveries of stock, and I called for the receipts. On the receipts appeared the name of Jess W. Emith.” In his explanation of the appear- tative Ryan in his report, Bond said |that the brokerage books showed only “T. J. Ryan,” but that the clerk at |Hibbs and Company said it was “Thomas Jefferson Ryan,” a ‘“man of means who travelled around.” A man at the federal trade commission, he said, had told him Thomas Jeffer- son Ryan at onme time lived on Six- |teenth street, at another time at the |Wardman Park hotel and then for a {time at the Willard. | "I Jooked in the 1922 city directory |and saw there Thomas Jefferson |Ryan who lived on Sixteenth street” |the witness continued. “"We looked |into a congressional record and' there {was a Thomas Jefferson Ryan. An examination of Mr. Ryamis bank ac- count showed he had dealings with |New York bankers and brokers, |and company who knew who T. J. Ryan was and did not disclose it." Without hearing any other wit- nesses, the committee adjourned until |10 a. m. tomorrow. | May Be In Havana Senator Walsh sald today he had information that Wahlberg was in Havana. 1If this is the case the com- | mittee is without power to compel his attendance, and since Mr. Hays has been subpocnaed for Saturday, it s probable no further effort will be made to find Wahlberg, | There will'be further inquiry, Sen- ator Walsh sald, into the stock tran- sactlons of Attorney-general Daugh- erty. The senator regards it is sig- nificant that the first recorded trans- action of the attorney general was a |sale of 500 shares of Sinclair Con- |solldated in 1922, about the time of the lease of Teapot Dome, Whether Mr. Daugherty will be }ullrd before the committee has not |yet been determined, | Congressman Eaplains | Former Representative |koontz of West Virginia, tloned in Bond's report as having |dealt 1n ol while he was a member of the house, issued a statement to- day saying that his transactions took place before the lease of Teapot Dome and resulted in a loss of $172, “My record In this matter is not open to question,” he sald. “At the tima T bought and sold Sinclair stock T had never heard of the Teapot Dome,"” | | Goody- also men. O YOU | On December 7 there was left in the | ance of the name of former Represen— “The primary fault was with Hibbs | the perplexing problem NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924, DYING MENIN'SUB Japanese Sailors, Imprisoned Be- | low, Phone to Surface | Br the Agsoclated Press. Tokio, March 20.—Graphic deserip- tions of the motions of the 18 men facing a slow death from suffocation are being received by underwater tele- | phone from members of the crew | trapped within the Japanese navy sub- marine 43, resting on the sea bottom off Sasebo Harbor, according to dis- patches today, to the navy office here from Sasebo naval base, communication which has been estab- lished it was determined that 24 men and two officers, one of them Com- mander Kuwasima, perished when the forward compartment was flooded as a result of the shattering of the con- ning tower in a collision yesterday }wl!h the warship Tatsuta. Two en- | gineer officers and 16 men still are alive, and by means of the telephone vivid stories of their sufferings are b {ing heard by rescue workers on war- | ships standing by. Ten divers were striving to attach chains by which the submarine could be pulled up with heavy winches, The collision which sent the craft to {the bottom in 26 fathoms of water occurred just as the submarine was coming to the surface with her per- iscope showing. X ROTARY CLUB MEETS Hears Music, Welcomes New Mem- bers and Nominates Officers for Coming Year—Election April 18; Misses Mary Hopkins Emerson, so- prano, and Ethel Lyman Mackey, planist, entertained members of the New Britain Rotary oclub today when |that organization observed *“Ladies’ Day" at the Burritt hotel. Dr. Richard W. Pullen, health su- perintendent, and Dr. M. J. Kinsella | welcoming Dr. Pullen, President Fred O. Rackliffe sald he was glad to have him come in at this time since the Rotary club is back of him in his fight against smalpox. | The nominating committes re. | ported Hartwell Taylor, as a candi- date for president, Frank H. Shield for vice president, Gardner Weld for |secretary, A. A. Mills for treasurer land B. F. Gaffney and Leon A. Sprague for directors. Officers will be elected April 19. Among the guests present were a number of wives of the members. {Dr, Stanley H. Osborne of Hartford, state commis®oner of health, also was A guest, G Her Time Rastus—Ah wants a divorce, Dat |®et mo rest and dat talk am drivin’ me erazy, Young Lawyer—What does she talk about? Rastus—8he doan’ say.—Life, An asier Way to Pay Your Bills “Paying all at once is hard~ paying a little every week is sometimes face year,and Through the underwater telephone | were admitted to membership, In| woman jes’' talk, talk, talk, Ah can't | becomes a burden. REPUBLICANS FILE (THREE NOW HELD IN THEIR PETITIONS, ~ KANSAS CITY CASE Tonight as Time Limit | Murder Tangle Eight o'clock tonight is the “dead | | Kansas City, March 20.-—A mystery {line” for republicans who aspire to|woman was introduced today into the clty office. At that hour all petitions | aening murder of Dr. Zoe Wilkins, for nominations must be filed with! marital adventuress and osteopath, | the town committee. | Chairman William H. Judd said | While police pursued other avenue of | thig moon that the following petitions | investigation opened by statements by have already been filed: (three men held for investigation. The For mayor-—Benjamin W. Alling. three held are Charles Wilkins, For city clerk—Alfred L. Thomp- | brother of the slain woman, who had 1 son. often quarrelled with her, he says, For treasurer—Curtis L. Sheldon. over her gay ufe: B. F. Tarpley, who For controller—Hanford L. Curtis. | 3¥s he was a patient but who others | For tax collector — Bernadotte (%3¥ was her intimate; - and Dillard | Loomis. Davis, negro janitor, who is declared For selectman-—L. W, Lawyer, Al | bert Anderson, Bolislaw Karpinski. | For board of relief—William Schaeffer, Burton C. Morey. | faded today, investigation indicating For registrar—William Ziegler. ith:t she had disposed of most of the For board of education—Morris D. | $300,000 or so that she obtained sev. Saxe, Mrs. Effle G. Kimball. cral years ago by her marriage to For councilman, first ward—Na-|Thomas W. Cunningham, wealthy | than Avery, D. L. Nair, William Joy, | Joplin, Mo., banker. | Henry W. Rice, Jealousy, robbery, a violent quar- For alderman, second ward—Wal. | rel with one of her many admirers, or | ter R. Falk, Arthur N. Rutherford;|a dispute over her tangled financial for councilmen, John G. Buckley, | affairs are the motives being develop- Frank Bosco. | ed by the police. For councilmen, third ward—Ed-| There were unusual happenings at ward Christ, Spaulding Warner,|the Wilkins home Sunday night, a | Frank 8. Cadwell. tamale peddler, who knew Dr. Wil- For alderman fourth ward—George | kins as a customer, told the police, It Molander, J. Gustave Johnson; for|was he who introduced the story of counciimen, Garfield Gibney, C.| the mystery woman, The peddler said Adrian Carlson, Henry Robertson. he saw an automobile stop in front of For councilmen, fifth ward—F. G.|the house and a woman enter, rejoin Ronka, a male companion in a few minutes For alderman, sixth ward—Ken- | and drive away. Shortly after another neth H. Walther; for councilman, M.| man walked from the rear of the A. Dahlstrom. Wilkins home, the peddler told the | It is expected that Clifford Hellberg | police. | will file a petition for nomination as| Dr. Wilkins was beaten and slashed councilman from the third ward and | to death between Saturday and Tues- | Fred Murphy for councilman from |day, when she last was seen and when the fifth ward. the murder was discovered, At a primary last night the follow. ing delegates to the state convention ’v\ere elected: B. W, Alling, Ernest W. Christ, Theodore Johnson, Queenie S.| | Nowland, Edward E. Ogren and Mary | Special Corps May Be Organized From L. Stone. Older Reserves ~ S Parle, March 20.~The chamber of Clty [tems deputies today passed article 21 of a | Big hit! “It's a Man Every Time, bill relating to army organization, pro- viding for the mobilization of pe- It's a Man." Vocal. Columbia record. John A. Andrews & Co.—advt. woman. NEW FRENCH ARMY PLAN cial corps from among the reserves past military age, “to serve because of their professions in civil lite,” The National Stamping Co., of this| Socialists and communists opposed city through Judge F. B. Hungerford | the article as too sweeplng, declaring has brought suit for $400 against the | that it authorized the mobilization of Welker-Hoop Co. of Middleton, The [the entire nation, including women, writ is returnable In the city court the | Minister of War Maginot, declared the fourth Monday of March, bill was Intended to iInsure raliroad, Hear "Al Jolson" on Brunswick |telephone and telegraph service, records at John A. Andrews & Co.— | When the soclallsts insisted that advt, imnhll!rnllon be authorized only in Let John A. Andrews & Co,, wash | coan hational safety was threat. your clothes with a "Maytag."—Adv. ened from the outside, the war min- | Mrs. J. L. Doyle of 29 Washington | (v deciated this was not enough, street underwent a suecessful opera- [adding: “We must also be prepared tlon yesterday at the Chaerter (‘lk: inst the possibility of Internal in. hospital, Hartford, The operation fon,” was performed by Dr. T. Weston! 7 wocialist amendment was then Chester, giving It absolute power to decree | Dancing and entertainment mobllization, was voted, (THRIFTY) easy” payment at one time iTm;m Committee Sets 8 o'Clock%Mystery Woman Also Enfers Belief that Dr. Wilkins was wealthy | [to have attempted once to‘attack the | | | 1007 refurn %4N the . chasing Agent of a big concern signs an order for coal, you may be sure that he has first had careful laboratory tests made —so that his company will be sur=s to get the last cent’s worth of value from every dollar spent. Are you anywhere near as careful? 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