ACTION OF SECRETARY FALL IN
TRANSFERRING MATANUSKA
COAL FIELDS LOOKED INTO
LEADERS CHARGE CONSPIRACY
Ballnine’s Charges that Road Is Being
Throttled Taken Up By
Unions
"WASHINGTON, Fob. 12.—Represen
tatives of the I3ig Four railway unions
today announced they are preparing
to press President Coolidge for action
cu fheir t'quest for a cleanup in -\i
aska railroad matters, charging in ef
fect a conspiiacy to throttle govern
ment owneisliip of the Alaska rail
way.
The investigation demanded of the j
^ President by ftie leaders of the rail-!
way labor unions, would also include
investigating rates of the Alaska
steamship lines, and also the action
of Secretary Fall in causing the trans
fer of the Matanuska coal fields, which
was a naval reserve, from the navy to
the department of the interior, by the
signing of the order by Secretary
Denby. Immediately after the trans
fer it is charged that Secretary Fall
ordered work at the mine stopped de
spite the fact that money had been
appropriated for its development.
The action of the union heads is in
line with the policy of John E. Bal
laine, who charged practically the
same thing in a pamphlet several
months ago in Washington.
t
HERRIN, 111-, Feb. 12.—Former Ma
yor Pace was arrested today on the
charge of murder in connection with
the killing of Constable Caesar Ca
gle, a prohibition officer in a dry raid.
Pace was arrested at the coroner’s in
quest over the death of Cagle the tes
timony showing that Pace was instru
mental in the death of the officer.
GRAND IGLOO PIONEERS
WILL BE HELD IN MARCH
The Grand Igloo of Pioneers will be
held in Fairbanks some time the lat
ter part of March, and will be attend
ed by delegates from all over the ter
ritory. It is said that one of the im
portant matters taken up by Grand Ig
loo will be the securing of sufficient
appropriation to take care of the pen
sions to aged pioneers. Much busi
ness will be transacted of interest to
the organization.
JUDGE CUSH
MAKES RULING I
SEATTLE GASES
SEATTLE, Feb. 15.—Federal Judge
Cushman this afternoon instructed
a jury that it was not unlawful for one
to have intoxicating liquor in one’s
private dwelling for the use of one’s
family or one’s bona fide guests.
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$82,000 SAVED ON
PAYROLL IN DECEMBER
General Manager Lee H. Landis
states that he saved $82,000 on the
railway payroll during the month of
December, by the recent discharge of
surplus labor. This saving was made
by virtually abolishing the engineer
ing department, superintendent of
maintenance, bridge engineer, super
intendent of bridges, one resident en
gineer and three assistants assistant
superintendent of transportation, wa
ter division, the same position on the
railway, and chief filing clerk and two
draftsmen. A further reduction in
the force is planned until the road
meets the annual deficit.
H Of KING Till
TO
LUXOR. Egypt, Feb. 12..—The lid
of King Tutenkliamen’s sarcophagus
was raised far enough today to prove
that the body of the ancient monarch
was resting within. The lid was then
lowered. The remains of the King
were said to be in pertect condition.
FORMER VALDEZ COUPLE
ARRESTED FOR SWINDLE
With their preliminary hearing
scheduled for January 23 in Justice
Hanby’s court, Los Angeles, R. H. L.
Noaks, accused of an oil swindling
scheme growing out of “occult oil
finds” on the J. J. Mueller orange
grove near this city, were today plac
ed under $2,500 bail each.. Both were
being held in jail in Los Angeles. No
aks was the leading figure and his
wife an alleged accomplice in oil pro
motion activities, which formed the
' basis of a grand larceny complaint by
1 Hilla Vachs, Hindo woman, who com
plained that Noaks had swindled her
out of $4,000, says the Santa Ana
Dailv Register.
“Dick” Noaks was a former serg
eant in the Signal Corps at Valdez,
and later at Cordova. He and his
wife left for the states aDout four
vears ago.
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arrives too late
SEATTLE, Feb. 11—In a race
against death, Robert Guest, a mer-1
chant of Seward, Alaska arrived here ,
Saturday from the north in response |
to a telegram announcing the critical
illness of his 11-year-old son Robert ,a
student at the Indian school, Chemawa
Oregon. The boy died Tuesday.
LITTLE WREATH OF
WllttO FLOWERS
LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 14.—A little
crown of withered flowers encircled
the golden headdress of King Tut
ankh-Amen, when his tomb was open
ed Tuesday by Howard Carter, explor
er and Egyptologist. It is said the
mummy case enclosing the remains of
the former Pharoah was about three
yards long, and bore the effigy of the
king, wearing a golden headdress like
that of a Sphinx, decorated with a
serpent and hawk’s head of beaten
gold. The hands were crossed, one
bearing a golden sceptre and the oth
er a golden frail.
Mr. Carter today stated that work
was stopped on the excavation and the
tomb recovered because the Egyptian
government was harassing his work
in every manner possible. A recent
law passed bv the Egyptian govern
ment prohibits the removal of any
mummied remains of any antiques un
covered by explorers, which will cause
much w'ork in ancient ruins to be
abandoned.
BY VOTE OF 47 TO 34 SENATE DE
MANDS RESIGNATION OF
SECRETARY DENBY
RIGHT IS NOT RECOGNIZED
President Declares That Act Is Not
Official and That Denby Will .. |
Remain
WASHINGTON, Fob. 12.—The Sen
ate at 6 o’clock yesterday by a vote j
of 47 to 34, passed the resolution of
fered by Senator Joseph T. Robin
son, democrat, of Arkansas, calling
upon President Coolidge to demand
the resignation of Secretary of the
Navy^ Edwin Denby. Ten republicans
including Hiram Johnson, and the
two Farmer-Laborites, Sheepstead
and Magnus Johnson, voted with the
Democrats for ousting Secretary Den
by.
Secretary Weeks, following a three
hour conference with the President,
stated that the President intended to
retain Secretary Denby, and later the
White House issued a statement re
fusing o recognize the Senate resol
ution as official, and, stating that Sec
retary Denby would be retained.
“I do not propose to sacrifice any
innocent man for my welfare, nor do
I propose to retain in office an unfit
man for my welfare ” Coolidge said
in the statement dealing with his re
fusal to oust Denby at this time.
Senator LaFollette, 111 a speech said;
that President Coolidge must bear a
full measure of the responsibility for;
the oil leases, as he was aware of the j
policies of both Secretary Denby and i
Fall, in the Teapot Dome and other J
leases long before the Senate investi
gation called attention to them, add
ing that Coolidge was in the Senate
as vice-president, when the Teapot
Dome lease was denounced as a piece
of political corruption.
Party leaders stated that the resol
ution 'was a Democratic measure de
signed to embarrass the administra
tion, and to influence voters at the
November elections.
F
IE ICE
QUEBEC Feb. 11.—Fourteen per
sons are adrift in the St. Lawrence
river on Boating ice cakes, and all ef
forts to reach them have so far been
futilte. The victims are part of a par
ty of 17 who were standing on an ice
bridge between Quebec and Levis
when it broke away with them. Three
were rescued, the others going adiiit.
As the weather is bitterly cold it is
feared that the party will perish of
cold before they can be reached.
NO QUESTION BUT
THAT JAPANESE
BILL BE PASSED
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Secretary
Hughes in a letter to Representative
Albert Johnson, of Hoquiam, Wash.,
author of the bill to exclude Japanese
from the United States says that
there is no question that such statu
tory exclusion will be resented by the
Japanese people.
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OVER-SUBSCRIBED
BF 0. S. BAIEBS
CHICAGO, 111., Feb. 15.—Funds for
ihe ten million dollar relief corpora
tion was over-subscribed today when
bankers of the nation met with Secre
tary Hoover.
RESOLUTION OF FAITH
IN PRESIDENT COOLIDGE
BISMARCK, S. D., Feb. 15.—The re
publican state convention passed a re
solution today declaring unbounded
faith in President Coolidge.
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EXPERT INQUIRY INTO WISDOM,
OF THE FALL OIL LEASE
SOUGHT BY COOLIDGE
Says He Would Cancel His Oil Lease
On Certain Conditions—Gov’t
Must Reimburse
WASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 13.—An
order by President Coolidge for an ex
pert inquiry into the wisdom of the
Fall oil leasing policy was followed
today by an offer of E. L. Doheny to
cancel conditionally his lease to the
oil reserve in California.
The government would be called
upon, however, to reimburse the
Pan-American Petroleum and Trans
port Company for its actual expendi
ture under the contract.
This is a modification of Doheny’s
original offer to cancel if a board of
experts decided that the contracts
were not advantageous to the gov
ernment.
Mr. Doheny’s otter was made by
his counsel, Gavin McNabb, but no
immediate action was taken on it.
The president asked the depart
ment to furnish him at the earliest
possible moment a report on the ques
tion of whether the leases protect the
interests of the government. This in
quiry is separate from the instruc
tions given the department of justice,
which is studying the evidence to de
termine whether there has been proof
of fraud, but both actions are direct
ed toward the same end. The purpose
is to ascertain definitely whether the
leases should be canceled.
Public Statement Likely.
Mr. Coolidge may make a public
statement of the government’s in
tentions, both as to criminal and
civil proceedings, as soon as the de
partmental investigations are con
cluded and as soon as Mr. Fall has
been given an opportunity to present
his side of the matter to the senate
committee.
The president beileves the evidence
produced before the committee is too
srious to warrant much delay in delin
eating the government’s course. lie
does not think it should be postponed
until the committee makes its report.
The disclosures before the senate
committee were Lalktu over by the
president today with John T. Adams,
chairman of the republican commit
tee. Mr. Adams declined to discuss
the nature of the conference, but indi
cated that his views on the matter had
ben set forth in an editorial appear
ing in the current number of the Na
tional Republican, which says:
“The disclosures in the Fall case
are in a sense discreditable to the
United States senate and to the
Harding administration for Senator
Fall was a member of both. They do
not, however, involve the integrity of
the senate or the Harding administra
tion as a whole.
"Guilt is personal and dishonesty
is a characteristic that has been not
ed in men of all parties; there will
never be a political party in which all
of its members charged witn respon
sibly may be depended upon not to
betray their trust.
“Every act committed by an official
in violation of the laws he has sworn
to uphold, every betrawral of trust by
whomsoever committed, should be
prosecuted with a view to punishment
of the guilty.’
Will Purge Scandal.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—A promise to
purge the country of the oil lease
scandal, marked the opening here to
night of President Coolidge’s cam
paign. He told the National Republi
can Club he would remove every cor
rupt official.
McAdoo Leaves It To Voters
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—William
G. McAdoo announced tonight that he
would leave it to the leaders of his
campaign in each state whether his
employment as counsel for Doheny
had made him ineligible as a candi
date for the Democratic Presidential
Nomination at a conference held in
Chicago a few days ago.
Will Reject Nominations.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Senate
leaders indicated tonight that they
will reject the nominations of Strawn
and Pomerene as counsel in the oil
prosecutions. Strawn is declared in
eligible on account of his connections
with the Standard Oil, and Pomerene
is unacceptable on account of his cor
poration connections.
Will Require Evidence.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13..—Senator
Reed of Missouri declared today that
it would require more than the certi
ficate of confidence by Coolidge to re
store Secretary Denby to the confi
dence of the American people.
Sinclair On Way Home.
SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., Feb. 13.—
Harry Sinclair sailed today for New
York on the liner President Harding.
Has Definite Promise.
NEW YORK, Feb. 13.—The metro
politan press in reviewing his last
night’s speech says the country now
has a definite promise from President
Coolidge if immediate, adequate an-1
unshrinking prosecutions of the crim
inals in the oil land leasing disclos
cres.
separatists
PI ACTIVE
1GE11Y
BERLIN, Feb. 14.—Fighting be
tween the Separatists and inhabitants
of Parmase, in Bavarian Paatinate
last night resulted in the killing of 17
and wounding of 20. The casualties
occurred during the fighting for pos
session of the government building,
which was eventually set on fire.
SIIEE MARION STM
NOW (IDEA PROBE
frank a. vanderlip called
BEFORE COMMITTEE TO TELL
WHAT HE KNOWS
Million Dollar Slush Fund Sent to the
Capital by Oil Interests to In
fluence Officials.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—As a re
sult of his Ossining', New \ork, speech
in which he intimated that the sale bj
President Harding of the Marion Stai
for one million dollars, when the papei
was not worth half that sum, should
be investigated as to the source of the
money paid, Frank A. Vanderlip, pro
moter and publicist, has been subpoe
naed to appear before the Senate in
vestigating committee.
It is also reported that the commit
tee has information that a million dol
lar slush fund was sent to the Nation
al capital by the Sinclair oil interests
for the purpose of influencing persons
high in the nation’s councils .
Mr. Vanderlip’s charges have caused
a sensation among friends and adher
ents of the former President, who de
clare the sale of the Star was a bona
fide one, and that the paper was worth
all that was received for it.
Vanderlip Charges Fraud
In his speech at Ossining, N. Y., in
the course of an arraignment of pub
lic officials, Frank A. Vanderlip last
night said: “A certain newspaper was
sold for $550,000 when it was well
knon to every one that it as not worth
half that sum. Two young men of no
financial standing purchased it. Every
body in Washington, including news
paper correspondents, knows this, but
no one wants to look under the edge
of a shroud to expose corruption.
Where did the money come from to
buy this paper, and where did the
money received for it go? The last
administration stands unchallenged in
rottenness and graft.”
CLEVELAND, O., Feb. 14.—Louis
H. Brush, who with Roy R. Moore,
i purchased the Marion Star from the
late President Harding replying to the
insinuation made by Frank Vanderlip,
in his Ossining speech, said the pur
chase price of the Marion Star was
but $370,000, and that the contract
wit hHarding was signed two days be
fore he left Washington on his trip
to Alaska. A payment of $50,000 in
cash was made. Of the purchase price
of $370,000, Harding was to receive
$263,000. The President was to re
ceive $163,000 in cash, including the
$50 000 turned over to him when the
pap^r was taken over, and was to re
tain ttrefei red stock in the newly or
ganized Harding Publishing company,
amounting to $100,000. The sale was
a bona fide one in every way, and was
made on account of the late presi
dents ill health.
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CHARGES MADE AGAINST DEMO
CRATIC CANDIDATE MAY
CAUSE WITHDRAWAL
Campaign Managers of the Different
States Will Meet in Chicago on
February 22.
| CHICAGO, Feb. 14—David I. Rock
[well, general director of William G.
| McAtloo’s campaign for the presiden
cy announced tonight that a National
! Conference of Democrats and friends
^ of McAdoo would be held here F< bru
j ary 22, to decide whether he would
I continue with his presidential cam
paign in view of the recent scandals
arising over the naval oil leases, in
which it has been shown that McAdoo
was counsel for the Doheny interests.
BRITISH CRUISER WILL COME TO
ALASKAN PORTS ESTABLISH
LANDING POSTS
VICTORIA, B. C., Feb. 14.—In prep
aration for the round-the-world flight
by British aviators, the Canadian pa
trol ship Theipval will soon establish
depots for fliers aong aong the Pa
cific Coast of Canada and across the
Pacific on the Aeautian isands. It
was announced that the Thiepval will
immediately prepare for the voyage,
going from here to Alaska and thence
across to Japan.
EXCAVATION WORK STOPS
ON TOMB OF KING TUT
LUXOR, Egypt, Feb. 14.—Howard
Carter today said that he had stopped
excavation work and closed King Tu
tankhamen’s tomb owing to a refusal
of the Egyptian government to permit
the wives of excavators to visit the
tomb.
SEATTLE HARDWARE HEAD
DIES IN SANTA BARBARA
SEATTLE, Wn„ Feb. 14.—C. A.
Black, president of the Seattle Hard
ware company, died today at his home
in Santa Barbara, Calif.
ADM. iisoms
SEWARD, WAY POSTS
SEATTLE. Feb. 14.—The steamship
Admiral Watson of the Pacific Steam
ship company sailed north this morn
ing for Seward with the following pas
senger^
For Seward.—S. K. Sharpless, Mrs.
Bolton,^Frank L. Freidle. Seventy-one
passengers comprise her list sailing
from Seattle.
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