The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 13, 1924, Page 7

WEDNESDAY, FEBRI FITZGERALD 1S DENVER OIL MAN { »: ARY 13, 1924, G. 0, P, LEADER FACES PROBERS Wenatchee Picked as ention City ommittor ed Tuesday y smmittee the the ted Wenatchee ax 1 had set ty date for ade a strong bid for and Bremer fhe final vo! » Walla Wal ton three pot Dome oil mess will in 19324, in that be made by ash thelr hands” of r in Such & manner that it to them, was Indl: of the spe mittee meeting. Reed told th lal m a 15 vote: a8u i r 1 sca Li announcer: And so did M Voe of Tacoma, y ¢ committee. In told the committee to riot act to the Inde same other Smith De man of t Gov read pendent: words, HERE’S MORE ABOUT FLOOD STARTS ON PAGE 1 service on the Great Northern has prevented anyone reaching the plant or coming from it. The Northern Pacific to Darring ton has also been bi ed by high water, it was reported. Three bridges are out on the Stil laguamish, one between Silvana and Darrington, one at Cicero and one| at Fortson, Roads ccording to reports. around Fall City, North party | [to leasing Con- |Charges Conspiracy Between Standard and Sinclair WASHING? D could b n saw fit legality vdia erday repc > pay th uing from n tho 80 r its hear ver, ot said! day Doheny SAYS CREEL KNEW ABOUT DOHE NY addition, “I wanted M me to the offic government dep 4 him to} ry of the Navy I Stack 1 to prevail on Daniel naval reserves, but Daniels flatly | refused. | Stack said his plan was not aban-/ Joned, however, because “the incom, ing administration of Pres’ Harding was practically comm he lands Stack said in the spring of 1920 ! led a party of Denver geologists into| Teapot Dome. A map was ma |showing conclusively that ing wells were draining the 8 Bend and Tolt have been blocked, | he testified interrupting stage traffic, County sineer Thomas Beeman declared ednesday. The Duwamish valley was com- paratively free from flood damage, Beeman reported. Green river ts three feet below extreme high watr mark, and none of the valley high- ways have been flooded. HERE'S MORE ABOUT GAS STARTS ON PAGE 1 at the refineries, “We cannot compete with them because we have no pri- vate source from which to pur- chase. “When I sold gasoline before, the increase was caused by a combination of retailers. Now all oll-producing agencies seen: to have combined and are fore- ing the price upward and goug- ing the public.” @Pore Indisposed; Remains in Room ROME, Feb. 13—The pope has been tndisposed for several days, the newspaper Epoca says. He insisted upon participating in yesterday's ceremonies incident to the anniver- sary of his coronation, but returned to his room immediately afterward. STACK SAYS HE CONSULTED D Then Stack said b Secretary of the Navy Dent tempting to convince him the leases should be made. Denby refused to commit himself, Stack said, The Pioneer O!l company had been secretly pressing to get tho leases. Pioneer had the advantage, Stack | sald, because of certain alleged claims to sections In the Dome. Doheny became disheartened then and withdrew But in order to reward Stack for| his work Doheny had the Pioneer—| a Standard Oil subsidiary—give Stack a contract. This contract gave Stack 5 per cent of any profits if the leases were obtained. As a preliminary ad- vance to Stack for his work, the Pio- neer gave him $14,000. he sald. QUESTIONED ABOUT SINCLAIR MILLION Lenroot questioned Stack about the settlement he and Fred G. Bonfils, | publisher of the Denver Post, made | with Sinclair by which Sinclair promised to pay them $1,000,000. | “The only claim you had was based on a charge of fraud against the Pioneer, wasn't it?’ “Well, yes.” Asked by Lenroot about this charge} that there was conspiracy in connec- tion with the lease to Sinclair, Stack sald: “I thought that the Ploneer con- spired with Sinclair to ‘cyp' me out of my interest. The Pioneer said they got $1,000,000 In oil from Sin. jaald would Ss MORE ABOUT OIL PROBE STARTS ON PAGE HERE'S MORE ABOUT vi ANDE RL IP nold vot worth half tinued Two young men of no fina tanding purchase t Hard! r approx: Vanderlip, h) Everybody nows this. but no one wants edge of the shroud a th 4 that paper, (F 1 his Ma tar iy the sum mentioned shortly before his Washington to look mi “Wher ? Where did it go? of public interpst.” SAYS COOLIDGE NEEDS COURAGE In his speech today, the f uted the pl cleaning Wasttngton. “The last administration, said, “stands challenged. cannot walt for congress or the courts, especially when we re- member that Mr. Daugherty ts attorney general. Lack of cour- age and leadership Is the under- lying evil in American life to- day. Coolidgo has a great opportunity, but he needs suffi. clent courage to go to the bot- tom, regardless of which party he hits.” Striking out at different individ- | uals who have figured in the senate Teapot Dome probe, Vanderlip said William G. 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Then, jFuptly, “The presi got to say something to make us continue to! jbelleve in the great integrity and ert courage, which we all think |he has.” was the ab. H «4 Want No | Hue and Cry;) No Mingling of Innocent” | MAY WITHDRAW STRAWN'S NAME Leaders Advise Coolidge of | Opposition Trend NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—President! Coolidge left with New Yorkers to- day—the 2,000 who could get into| the republican club here and the} thousands who heard him by radio —some emphatic opinions on cur- rent subjects. The president's visit. was brief and without great ado. Ho arrived| late yesterday afternoon and was) 2 siven wares wat ome, visited ee WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—Stead-| ‘omens Republican Club, rested) iy growing opposition to the ap-| | briefly at his hotel, dined and spok9| pointments made by President Coo! at the Mer’s Republican club, and idge gained such headway tod: FRANK HUGHES with bey left on a late train for Wash-|that rejection of the nomination of ington. | Silas H. Strawn as one of the preal- DOROTHY MERRITT | Prime interest in his speech cen- shea abe dential oil counsel nominations SHERMAN, VAN and HYMAN | tered In ged he ght eri? to ney |e emed. inevitable. regarding the ofl scandals. The| wy Pp tC ED DA NS DELL “si me hen re mn! ‘oolidge came! ee ee. es high spot of his discourse on this|}teck from New York this morning CLIFF GREEN ‘was: Mariah: “aut: ts Seficsodlate | the situation was placed before him _ re nediate, by administration senators, who ad mkt reat quate, unshirking prosecution, crim-| vised him to withdraw Strawn's ons PANTAGESCOPE jisal and civil, to punish the euilty| ination | TREE On RH PORE TL) and to protect every national in- ‘awn's connection as a director INGA ND DESERT jterest. In this there will be nolo¢ the First National and First Trust | | Dolitics, no partisanship, It will be! @ Savings banks of Chicago—admit-| speedy, it will be just. |tedly Standard Oil banks—is the ba-| } “I want no hue and cry, n0/ sis for opposition to him. mingling of innocent and guilty in| 5 unthinking condemnation. Of the soldier bonus, “it would mean the indefinite postponement Jot any reduction; another increase | in the cost of living.” ‘The Mellon tax bill: “It is not be- cause I wish to relieve the wealthy, but because I wish to relieve the country. I urge the public to fur- ther manifest their approval of the r measure.” It’s gettin’ so that one of the | The democratic tax counter pro-| | first things the modern girl puts | poi It is political in theory; it is| | in her hope chest is a whisky | impossible In practice.” |} flask Disarmament: “The United States | y— stands ready to join with other} | great powers whenever there ap-| The Star is running a pears reasonable prospect of agree-|on the mayoralty campaign ment-in a further limitation of|hereby cast our vote for competitive armaments.” Hoople Farmers: “What I am anxious to impress upon the prosperous part of | our country is the utmost necessity | that they should be willing to make | sacrifices for the assistance of the Mg eae g part.” Home Brew | keaton ested Sarna “CHIC” ‘SALE Bare! character stedies taken from (Starts on Page 1) YRANKER SAM WwooD LEWIS nd and SAM DODY Helis ete, BUNER, WYDE in “AN Right, Eady” “straw vote” We} Major | GEORGE MacFA ANE “In Song Vantasies” Acsop’s Tetieo—Fopies of the Day Pathe News ile, 25e, Be, mri Ibe, 25, 500 The printer used This in a pinch He needed exactly Another inch, A. 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Scientists Gaze on Mummy Undisturbed | for 33 Centuries; LONDON, Feb, 13- “Central | tims News dispatch from Luxor declares that Howard Carter, head of the ex- pedition digzing In the tombs of the Pharaohs, has announced he ts clos- ing the tomb of Tutankhamen and discontinuing his sclentific investiga tions owing to the Egyptian govern- ment's discourtesies and restrictions. eee LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 13—A pa- thetic little wreath of flowers was crumbling into gray, discolored dust today beside the gold and glitter e that contains the body of Egypt's once most pompous pharaoh, Tutankha- men. These flowers were fresh and fra- grant 33 centuries ago, when they wero placed upon the golden, jeweled headplece of the dead mon arch ag the final tribute, it is be lieved, of his wife, Queen Ankh- Scenes on the painted casket walls, dome in the weird, unre lieved lines of ancient Egyptian art, tell of the ful queen for her great lord. SIMPLE WREATH WAS QUEE: OFFERING Her simple flowers, until exposed to the outer alr, persisted in tribute to the ancient king as defiant of affection of this beauti-| Intruders Awed | time as the tiaeses of gold and Jewelry that banked his tomb. | Preparations were continuing to-| day for the removal of the three delicate and intricate layers of cc erings that surround the body. All so far seen by the scientists itself a sight never before known by modern man—is the mummy casket, an affair of gold and jewels, | the most marvelous and lavish thing | of its kind ever unearthed. | this, a “series of swathings, , the| body that once ruled all the then | known world, is contained. | With breath bated awe, with] something even of fear at their in- trusion upon a death that had brooded in the valley of kings for more than 10 centurles before Christ, the scientists tiptoed into the tomb yesterday and set in motion] specially devised machinery — that | lifted tho great stone lid from the golden couch where Tutankhamen has remained undisturbed so long. MUMMY CASI RESEMBLES MONARCIT There may have been some shud- |dering, even among cold and ab stract men of science, of that |ful curse of old, said to have been placed by men of magic in a day | when magic was mighty, upon all who should affront the pharaohs, The golden mummy case was in |Policeman Shot in Age-Old Floral Tributes | Crumble in Tut’s Tomb jis believed to be Attempted Holdup AD WHS, Feb. 13.—Officer Clare Walmsley, member of Police Chief Vollmer’s crime crushers, is in} the hospital, seriously wounded, as |the result of an attack upon him jearly today by two holdup men. When the | throw up his hands, tled with the pair and in the strug- gle was shot three times. Police are searching the south part | of the city today for trace of the two} men. the form of the king himself. The| face, crowned with precious stones, an excellent like- of King Tutankhamen. The are folded upon the breast, the “sacred serpent,” the vulture and the “crown of justification,” graven representations of olive ness arms the bier and upon the case. Aside from the unprecedented | splendor of the sight, the scientists sald the lore to be deciphered from this disclosure will contribute vastly to knowledge of ancient Egypt. SP) Will the passengers who saw lady get caught door when boarding street car at Fifth and Pine streets at 5:05 P. M. Friday, Feb. 8th, 1924, Kindly call MA in- 3774, Room No. at onee. robbers demanded he} Walmsley bat-| HERE’S MORE ABOUT || GERMANS STARTS ON PAGE 1 |fired heavy volleys, wounding many of the attackers who were armed. | with rifles, picks, shovels and axes, Tho separatists barricaded them. selves in the city hall, a grim, fort- ress-like old castle. They held off the attackers until the citizenry, | heavily reinforced with city guards, | renewed the attack with vicious en- jersey. | CLIMB LADDERS TO RAID CITY HALL Firemen flung ladders against the city hall and climbed up*in the face of separatist fire, fighting as they Within |Sranches, are worked in gold about |™OURted. ‘The attackers could make |little progress against the almost im: pregnable positions, therefore they |set fire to the entire building. As the dense smoke clouds settled smotheringly thru the building, many of the separatists fled from the death trap, but 20, remaining inside, were burned to death. | While the separatist funeral pyre |that had been a ci |flaming, the mob, now lost to blood |lust, launched a citywide hunt for | separatists—rooting them out of beds and houses to meet sharp punish- |ment or death wherever found. | Later reports from Pirmasens said Schwab, after being beaten almost to {death by the mob, “died in the | flames.” | COMMISSAR DRIVEN Tor \ DEATH | Bvidently the government commis. sar, who fell into the hands of the lard from a stove onto his head vex y hall was stil!| mob during the murderous orgy, was manhandled fearfully and then | driven back into the furnace-like city |hall, where his comrades had taken refuge and were roasting, there to die himself. The citizens’ guard lost three killed and more than 20 wounded. The mob soaked the floors and lower walls of the city hall with benzine to start the fire. Agonized appeals for merey came from the trapped separatists as the flames surrounded them. Desperate hand-to-hand fighting in the midst of flames ensued. A dispatch late this afternoon said fighting between loyal citizens |and separatists also had broken out in Kaiserlautern, Many were reported wounded on both sides. | French Moroccan troops inter- |vened to protect the French dele- gate. . Allied Troops to Guard German Zone COBLENZ, Feb. 13.— The inter- allied commission has sent two com- panies of infantry to restore order In Pirmasens. A state of siege has been declared lin the city and vicinity. Advices here said German nation- alists attacked the separatists, later | setting fire to the city hall, and that | 14 persons were dead, including eight separatists, Infant Dies After Scalding in Lard ENE, Ore, Feb. 12—-Rebert 18-month-old baby, died hands pulled a pot of scalding hot here from burns after his Rig ay