New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 20, 1924, Page 5

TEX RICKARD SAYS * HE WAS FLEECED (Continued From First Page.) was replaced, because weren't delivering the goods. When did Muma. first take the Jicture to Washington?” asked Sena- U \Wheeler, Was it to promote legislation?" o, he said it was for a party.” Did you make & practice of let- these out to parties?” did to soldiers in hospitals and tier places.” Senator Wheeler] asked if that sort! of showing wasn't 't of the scheme | by which the exhjbitors in each state| were arrested and fined once, Ilick- ard said he didn’t know of that. Advised To, “Go Ahead.” After paying Bis fine for showing the picture befofe soldiers on Staten Island, Rickard said he was advised by his la: r that he could “go ahead” elsewhere in N. the gross reccipts, Rickard said, $63.000 and the expenses $82,784. “Why should vou give up 15 per ent to Muma &nd Martin and 20 per cent to Orr?* asked Senator Wheeler. “You got bunked, didn't you?" “Yes, 1 was,” he answered. Muma and Martin told him, Rick- d said, that they could get a bill through in two weeks to legalize the ilm exhibitions. But Rickard denied shag he was told Muma had some in- tinence with the Attorney General. After we got by New York so easy we thought ,we could exhibit in other ates,” said Rickard. " Senator Wheeler asked if “the ex- penses in Chicago were very large.” Quimby said they were.” “’nsnl there $35,000 or so paid to [t torneys? “T dom't see how there was that much—the sale there was for $25,- 160,” Rickard said. "Quimby said there was a loss there of $5,600.” Senator Wheeler examined some records, remarking: “T see you got $25,000 in Califor- pia.” LS they ing were Violated Taw RKnowingly. “You knew there had been no legis- ation passed to allow these pictures| interstate?” Senator Wheeler resumed, “and notwithstand- ing that you went ahead, shipping these all over the country and gave )re 20 per cent of the net, Muma 15 er cent and Martin 15 per cent?” Admits Getting “Bunked.” Senator Wheeler read from the rec- ord that $82,78¢ had been spent in New York on the film expense, fines &nd all, “Why should you give up 16 pe cent to Jap Muma and these others demanded Senator Wheeler. got bunked, that's all."” “Yet you made a second contract with thess men?" “Yes—we got afraid of the censor- ship board in New York, got Orr to work on it, and got past the board In August, 1921, “You don't want to tell us, that with your experience, you fell for %heir story, that these men were go- ing to get A law passed in a few days?” suggested Senator Wheeler, “They talked to me as though they :nuld get it through in two weeks." to be shown DID YOU cver hear that a- musing ditty? When you ‘‘peepoutthru theliftingmilt of sleep’’ what vou thinkof first? ! No, not always the fthings of work or play, When the delicious aro= ma of Putnam Coffee says morning!” you think of the refreshing cup that follows. And now that you have 'utnam in the house—or will have after today—you will know its distinctively rich color and flavor, its outstanding character and and exclaim, what may,zest- ful Putnam savestheda; g to the effect that Putnam pleases you Just as it did the experts vhn say it is the “best ever!” Putnam comes in sealed” tins. You can have a number of tins on hand and know it will al- ways be as fresh as when ground. Make the ac- quaintance of delicious Putnam today. William Boardman & Sons Company— since 1841, Hartt ord, Connecticut. | ence Hmd influence with the Attorney Gen- | | outside w York, where | EW BRITAIN, BABY CARRIAGES GO-CARTS AND STROLLERS He added that Muma, Orr and Mar- tin “got their money without doing ,anything.” He denied that Quimby ever fuld him that Muma had influ- in Washington or “that lhey‘ An auditor's statement was prtsf,n(- ed showing that the entire profits| of New York was $34,000, This contradicted Quimby's statement that the profits were $125,000, 1 Orr received, Rickard said, $4,500.-| 02 and Muma and Martin $3,381 up| to October 1921, which was the last statement he ever got., Quimby des troyed or burned his account books, and never paid him his entire shares. Rickard reiterat:d that neither Orr ror Muma had pretended to have in- fluonce with Attorney General Daugh- erty. Wheeler dropped the examina- tion and Paul Howland, attorney for Mr. Daugherty, announced he had no cross-examination. Senator Jones, republican, YWash- ington, asked if Rickard got Orr to ‘fix"" the New York censorship board. To influence it “I'd like to make a statement,” Rickard went on. “I'd like to call the amounts actually given to Muma and Martin, The entire profite were $36,056 in the states outside of Jer- Quimhy went to Germany and burned up the books. Orr got about 24,000, Muma $3,381 and Martin 381." ! You are the same Rickard who said up in New York yvou'd bet a mil- lion dollars they didn't get Daugh- ‘Lrh"' remarked Senator Wheeler. “T didn't make any million dollar remark,” Rickard said. Wheeler Reads Receipts Senator Wheeler read a record of $131,000 gross receipts from the pic- (ture in New York. Expenses includ. | led $2,500 as attorney fees to Alfred | 8. Urion, a man named Dickerson got $2,500 and “Sanborn $5,000," Senator ‘Wheeler proceeded. “These all marked as attorney fees,” | he commented. “Sanborn isn’t an aftorney, nor fs | Dickerson,” Rickard returned. “These | were men who took the films to other states,” | “You entered into an agreement on June 30 for transportation of these films in violation of the law?" “No, sir, it was an evidence of good New 1924 Models of at guarantee. Blue and Coffee. B. C. PORTER SONS CONNECTICUT, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1924. Heywood - Wakefield Carts and Carriages on Every Wheel " The prices are low at Porter S, (amages for any pockethool\ faith,” Put no law was passed ?" *No, sir,” “Why did you insist that Orr be put in?" “Because T thought {weren't doing any good." “Yet you were willing to give them 30 per cent, and you went ahead and | shipped them-—and you've never been indicted for this consipracy?” | “I haven't. T was threatened with it.” | | Rickard asserted he had not met Attorney General Daugherty, | “How did Urlon, the attorney gen- eral's friend, come to be your attor- | ney in this matter?” ‘ “He wasn't, except in Nebraska or + Minnesota.” Senator Wheeler cited the payment to Urion in New York, “Quimby was the men who made all the arrangemen said Rickard. “Don’t you know the reason why your expenses were so hig was be. | cause he (Quimby) was paying out a | lot to fix things?" “1 don't know that,” said Rickard. | “Quimby paid out a lot of money he didn’t account for, but T think it was | | from one pocket to another." CARRIAGES Full Size these men | $2,500 amined, but Senator Wheeler insisted examination. No decision was reached and Ar- thur Robb, chief file clerk of the de- partment of justice, was called, - None of the departmental mail ever ,‘:::,,:3‘.‘,,,:,",',‘ ,r::,: ,",',','n":n',"r 30! went to Jess Smith, Robb testified, | “No, to pass censorship up in New | telling of Smith baving an office near | york.” | Mr. Daugherty | “Rickard said he never had been | . M ma MF:;-!; s ahle to get a final mccounting from | Jap Muma was called to the stand |Quimhy or details of the large ex. | *fter Rtobb. penses in New York. Muma and Martin, “Who broached this matter of a 50| per cent diviston in the first place?” | d¢ }::rrtor;::n‘!":"m:"‘fh"n"“‘\"l':",M ohalr, Senator Jones asked, | - " Robb testified that he never sent any “Muma and Martin,” said Rickard N “They thought they could get this law ‘depnrtmenul mail to Howard M nington, beretofore identified as ha passed and that it would be wor(h| ", . something.” ing a desk in the “little green hous g very {n. | OB K street,” and belng involved in Muma, he thought, was “a very in | the whiskey “deals” testified to by orr. b | the call of Senator Wheeler, who then fluential fellow™ with “a lot of mnr\dl1 in the senate” “And all the showing of power and | influence Muma made to you was his| statement he knew @ few senators? asked Chairman Brookhart. “He w®aid he knew some,” Rickard, “But you got by with the show- ing?” persisted Senator Wheeler, “We made the government some money with the 10 per cent amuse- ment tax,” remarked Rickard. “Quimby testified here that Hayward, district attorney in York, suggsstel you lay low for days,” Mr, Howland put in. “All Mr. Hayward said to me was, 0 o1 d med 8, oy all of you ought to be in jail; you've | Ustice agent, had named Spellacy as already committed & crime and you've | ffi RIS 1 W, investigation of e vt hened ampone M stay. | The Washington Courthouss tefe. ward's office, as testified by qmmh'y,""')m' Nr, Taff gave the committee were sent during the months of that that further eshibitions should N 3 ! N 23, Previous be delayed & while, until “things| March, April and May, 1923, Previou Qvisted down.” exchanges have been destroved, he Rickard was excused s Permission Refused The question of examining the books of the Midland National bank of Washington Courthouse, Ohio, in connection with testimony of Roxie Stinson was brought up by Senator Wheeler, who said that M. 8, Daugh- erly, brother of the atterney general and president of the bank, had re- fused to allow examination, Attorney Howland said it had been agreed that only Jess W. Smith's ac- count with the bank were to be ex- END RHEUMATISM WITH BUHLER ‘DIL When rheumatie suffering seems unbearable try Buhler Ol and you will | find quick rellef. Within a few min- utes after you apply this new German | Aiscovery you feel remarkable reljef from pain. Tt penetrates, helps neu- tralize the paing that come with | theumatism and the torture is quickly relieved, Buhler Oil is a new discovery of erman scicnce which has given to world many remarkable rem Spellacy #lso failed to respond, so Henry ¥, Taff, Western Union Tel | graph company manager, took the | stand and produced telegrams of the | late Jess Smith, here and at Washing | ton Courthouse, Ohio, Smith's former home, The telegrams were reeelved by ! Chairman Brookhart, subject to ex- amination in exccutive session before they are made public. Some from Han Antonio were in the lot, spellacy Testifies, later was located and took replicd Mr, New 30 Spellacy the stand. Previously Gerald O, Beaks Up Holdridge. Spellacy confirmed that he signed the statement previously submitted by Holdridge, eharacterizi lutely true.” In that Muma quoted Attorney | Daugherty as having said to him, relative to the fight film deal, that if it were put over, he (Muma) “ought to get a big cut, not legs than 50 per cent.” “There few o changes 1 would like to make,” said Spellacy, however, referring to the statement. He first met Jap Muma several years ago. Spellacy said Muma showed him a letter from Attorney General Daugh- erty, promising aid in securing an ap- pointment in the department of jus tice and al=o told him of baing a triend of William J. Burna, chief of the burean of investigation, as well as| Mr. Daugherty's Spéllacy corroborated testimony of Holdridge that Muma had told him of the fight film exhibition at the Mc- Lean home and had mentioned Presi- dent Harding and Mr. Daugherty as among those present. Another statement of Ho corroborated by Spellacy was that Muma had told of a eonversation with dies for relief of pain and may be had | Mr. Daugherty and George Christian at any drug store. Get a bottle today. | former secretary to President Hard- You can have quick relief it you suf-| ing fer from rheumatiem, lumbago, feuri-| “1f 1 recall, Mr. Daugherty said it tis or neuralgia. Be sure to get vhv‘ was against the law to transport the genuine with the red seal and the | pictures from one state to another, but written money-back guarantes at-|he thought the law was made for a tached to every bottle. On sale at:|nigger.” sald Spefacy. quoting Muma The ¥ z(r Store, Malinowski & O'Brien,| Muma also t61d him [The Clark & Brainerd Co., Milier. | sald, of his acquaintance with Attor Hanson Drug Co., The Dickinson Drug | ney 1'rion Co. Muma alse had Daugherty's auto 1it the witness Newest Styles and Colors $19.75 $24.00 - $13.50 $14.75 the subpoena called for mueh wider | Muma, however, did not answer to | called for Thomas G. Spellacy, former | Hold- | ridge, agother former department of | irrl;’-" S took GO-CARTS REED AND FIBER | in TR T T Cream, Blue or Cafe FURNITURE See the display in our big front window and on our Third Floor “Connecticut's Best I' rniture rush "y wes did make in Holdridge's statement?” Howland tnquired Well, as 1 graphed picture, Spellacy said, The letters, Spellacy added, showed Muma got some sort of a position for an old gentleman through Mr | Dangherty, | “To be frank with yon,” said the witness, “I had a great admiration for |t Muma, and belloved in the HI”II‘V"“ I he had. I wanted him to get a promo- tion for my chief, beligving the chief would take care of me when he went up in that department, “Muma told you of the fight pletures in Washington to Prysi- dent Marding, to Mr. Daugherty, to several members of tho cabinet?” enator Wheeler asked “Yes sir,” Rpellacy said, “and that time my breath was gone,” Makes Correction One of the changes Speilacy said |he wanted to make in Holdridge's statement was that he understood Muma to quote Attornty General Daugherty as having.sald to Muma |"“that he ought to zet in on it (the film deal) and get a eut himself.” Ho'dridge quoted Muma as having said the attorney general said that he | (Muma) ought to get at least 30 per cent, | Muma also spoke raid, of |the plan for exhibition of the pic tures | |atter small initial fines on “goats.” Spellacy said he had never met Joss Smith nor “heard his name mention- ed.” He recalled taat Muma spoke of visiting McLean and Burns here, jand discussing the possibility of being prosccuted Muma told him of Mclean having | “called up” the attorney general, who |referred it to Burns, Speliacy said. an |confirmed the testimony of ridge. who said Burns deel | was no use interceding on behal { Rickard, Muma, Spellacy said that was “pretty throne,” Muma showed him fight 4Im contract Spellacy remembered some of Hold ige's reports on other details, “I rememher Muma saying |and Dauvgherty were associate in some Chicago case “Remember that Muma sa g0 to Urion?" “Yes; that often.” “And at these meeti plan ned how to send the pictures around | the country ? “Ssmething to that “And that there was to be a in each state to be fined > “1 don’t remember just as to that to conneet up that goat word—they ysed some characteristic language.’ Senator Wheeler read from Hold ridga's report t presenting Muma as calting himael? “t} aster mind,” he friend of President Harding, who calls me “Jap.” { Spellacy Has Faulty Memory., Spellacy never met Quimby and un der cross-examination could not recall Muma waying that Mr. Daugherty had .-uggn-'m a 50 per cent cut. He couldn’t recall then, that fifty per ned. He understond Muma was “pleading” with Mr.| Daugherty in behalf of Rickard, and told the Attorney General that he Muma, already was a partner in the fitm deal “Did you ment 7 “Ye to Mr. you want remember Muma's statement,” § cy began, "It wasn't Mr. Daugherty suggested a fifty ser cent cut, but that he though Mu- wa was interceding for Tex Rickard and that Daugherty said Muma ought to get an interest for that, Mur aid 'he told Dangherty he was going to ket an interest” He thought his amount to much Cross-examination ¢ 1 said he had never Muma's statements, Explains Resignation. Spellacy said he was asked to send in his resignation after the row at Sunset Inn, near Troy, N, Y. “My conscience is clear about that," Epellacy 1. "I didn’t want to be removed under a cloud--1 wanted to Le reinstated and then resign. Spellacy agreed that he “faked polite way of getting the gate.” “You didn't attend any patties down on K street Attorney General either?” Whealer shot in “I object” said Mr. showing chances “didn't when { 8pel “cheeked up” oy on by a of those with the Senator Spellacy Howland and his I him up 1o the anvine he well a copy of the Urion counsel 4 he did he saw Lrion quite g8 they effect goat required. You are called upe No man lives for himself alone cont was menti THE DAY NURSERY THE BOY SCOUTS THE VISITING NURSES resign from the depart- in 1923, 1 was in sign by Mr. Burns. 1 had the reputa- tion of being a democrat and when Mr. Harding was elected and Burns| off: 1 expected to get the ' ited to re- | immediately enables you 1o have a part in the worthy charities of the « when it is needed to carey on the work properly. no organization getting more or only once cach year and one contribution from you covers your share in all. We are all b fort must do something for those whom fate has dented even the bare necessities of life. Chest affords you a chance to discharg vertain that New Britain's charitable work will be conducted in 8 way that is a credit to ns all New 1924 Models of LLOYD Carts and Carriages B.C. This year we have a finer and larger display of Baby Carriages, Go-Carts and Strollers than ever before. These Carriages were selected for their known qualities. They are recognized makes and carry our own Come early and select whatever design or color you wish. We have all sizes and styles in Cream, STROLLERS With Hood and Adjustable Back Store” hot argu- ment, You'll object and 'l ask the ques- retorted Wb if this is the this examination is going to at- tack and besmirch every witness,' When the uproar qguicted down, Senator Wheeler recalled Holdrides and cited William J, Burns, public statementto newspapers referring 1o Mrs. Holdridg letter asking rein statement to newspapers referring to “After you were reinstated did Mr. Burns dircet you to go on a trip with the president of the United Sates Senator Whecler, "He way ‘s did Calls Burns a Liar, Burns has said 1 wept exploded Holdridge, a lar' may Ay child" Burns is on Wheeler hat's enough,” Howland the adjourned like eross examine” retorted sorsion until OLD STAMPS SOLD, Haven, March 20Uy ne their value variously collectors ar from $100 to invent 1 $4,000 Referee C. K. Hoadley ank today ¥. The m nd ther by common sour obligation cacils. fully These are the organizations the Chest supporis— UNIOR ACHIEVEMENT " BOYS cLrp WELFARE ASSOCIATION to- at PORTER SONS Cafe, CARRIAGES with Finest Reversible Bodies $19.00 $23 00 $33.00 $39.oo B. C. PORTER SONS' ;u‘nmunml a public sale of a cartload old stamps, among other assets of the bankrupt Edgewood Stamp Co, of Miltord. When the stamps are sold the sattiement of the stamp company vstate will be made. ‘The sale will be eld April 3 in this eity, ON THE POLICE BLOTTER. Wailter Schidel of the Hart & hison Co. reported to the police that two tool boxes had n stolen from the factory last night. Grorge Park hotel that his 1 and part Tre roomer the reported to the police was entered and $18 vamera were stolen, Walter | 18 of 406 Main street reported Gleutenant Samuel Bame forth that a black bag containing a suit of clothes and three shirts had been from his room. at stolen It Looked Real New York—Carl Toost, sanitary cngineer, slipped on a banana peel in Iighth avenue, and the bottle he was carrying smashed to the sidewalk. The erowd that immediately colleeted wallied away disgustedly when mi- nute examination revealed that the bottle contained vinegar, THE COMMUNITY CHEST wney Is given out just where and less than s actually need. and those who live in com- The Community fairly and ccomomically and makes BERCULOSIS RELIEF SOCIETY GIRL SCOUTS SALVATION ARMY As you have prospered—GIVE!! $50,000—March 24th to 31st.