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Senator Lenroot Says Harding Was
Without Legal Authority In
Transferring Oil Lands
FALL UNDER IS SURVEILLANCE
Sinclair Wires Will Appear Before
Committee a Soon as Business
In Europe Completed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—That
President Cooiidge lias requested
the immediate resignation ol
Attorney General Daugherty, be
cause Mr. Daugherty has lost the
confidence of the President, ot
Congress and the people of the
United Stales, was asked in a
resolution introduced by Senator
Wheeler today.
Senator Lenroot, in a speech
absolved President Cooiidge from
any blame in connection with the
Teapot Dome scandal, becauthe
bluntly declared former President
Harding was without legal au
thority in issuing an executive
order transferring to the ring
control of the reserves from the
navy to the interior department.
Senator Wiliis announced in
the Senate late this afternoon
that Albert B. Fall and Tom
Johnson, his ranch foreman, had
been under surveillance by the
Department of Justice agents
since January 20, and that the
Governor of Louisiana was in
structed to have Mr. Fall under
coil tant guard while in New Or
leans on a recent visit.
Denby Refuses to Resign
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Secre
tary of the Navy Denby announced
after yesterday’s cabinet meeting, at
which the oil lease investigation was
considered, that he had no intention
of resigning at the (present time.
Will Forego Inspection
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Secre
tary of the Naval Denby announced
today that as a result of the Teapot
Dome scandal he would forego his
inspection trip to the fleet, now in
Panama, but that 115 editors, invited
to go as his guests, would make the
trip.
Sinclair to Appear
PARIS, Jan. 30.—Harry Sinclair,
the oil magnate, cabled to Senator
Lenroot to<iay that he would return
to America as soon as his business
in Europe is completed, and would ap
pear before the Senate committee as
requested. Sinclair stated that he
had nothing to hide from the public
in connection with the oil leases.
Prosecution Appointed
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.— Presi
dent Cooiidge announced today the
appointment of Silas H. Strawn, of
Chicago, republican, and Thomas W.
Gregory of Texas, democrat, and for
mer U. S. Attorney General to be
special counsel in conducting the
prosecution in the transfer and lease
of the naval oil reserves. The House
has summoned Denby before the na
val affairs committee in a probe of
the oil leases.
Republicans Sitting Over Fire
FORT WORTH, Jan. 30.—William
J. Bryan said today: “I hope Albert
B. Fall is not guilty, but I have no
doubt of the guilt of the Republican
party which is sitting over an oil fire
in the Teapot Dome case, and there
is no telling whom the fire will
scorch or where it will spread.”
Doheny Wrants to Testify
WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—E. L.
Doheny appeared unexpectedly at the
Senate office building today and ask
ed permission to be heard by the oil
lease investigation committee.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29.—Senator
Walsh of Montana, reviewing the
work of the Senate committee in the
Fall Tt 'ot Dome leases, declared to
day that ecretary of the Navy Denby
must resign immediately or face Sen
ate impeachment proceedings.
The House today appropriated one
hundred thousand dollars for use by
President Cooiidge in prosecuting the
Teapot Dome plunderers^
Senators Lodge, Lenroot and Curtis
are in conference with the President
at the latter’s invitation, at the White
House tonight to help solve the prob
lem of the administration's policy in
the lease scandal.
The Senate passed much of the aft
ernoon debating Senator Walsh’s res
1 o’ulion to annuli the Teapot Dome
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leases.
Fal! Gambled Heavily
NEW YOIEv, Jan. 29. Formei Sec
retary Fall is declared to have gam
bled heavily in Sinclair oil stocks in
the New York stock exchange.
i WASHINGTON, Jan. .29.—Albert
B. Fall is on the verge of a nervous
breakdown, the Senate Committee was
told today by his counsel.
WASHINGTON. Jan. .27.—’The na
val affairs House committee began an
investigation today to determine by
what authority Secretary Denby of
the Navy department turned over the
naval oil reserves in Myoming to Al
bert B. Fall. The latter's appear
ance before the Senate committee has
been postponed until Tuesday on ac
count of h>s alleged serious dlness.
It is declared that Secretaiy Denby
and Attorney General Daugherty will
both resign from the cabinet as a re
sult of the Teapot Dome scandal.
President Coolidge has ordered the
j employment of special counsel to en
gage in the prosecutions of all found
: guilty of fraud in the leases.
WASHINGTON Feb. 1.—President
Coolidge in a conference today re
quested that Senator Walsh and oth
er Democratic Senators desist in their
assaults, and let the court clear up
the oil lease mess. The solons in the
Senate declined to do so and Senator
Pittman declared Secretary of the Na
vy Denby a constant and continuing
danger to the United States. Duriug
the Senate’s debate on Denby, Presi
dent Coolidge and Theodore Roose
velt walked about town for three quar
ters of an hour. Denby himself ini
tiated a move to transfer the control
of the Navy reserve oil lands from the
Navy to the Department of the Interi
or, Rear Admiral Latimer, judge ad
vocate general of the navy told the
House Naval Affairs committee.
Legality Question Is Up
WASHINGTON, D. C„ Feb. 1.—Sec
retary ot' State Hughes issued a for
mal statement declaring that the ques
tion of legality of the Naval oil leases
and of the policy of leasing the re
serves was never brought up in any
meeting of the Harding Cabinet.
Fall Able to Appear
WASHINGTON Feb. 1—Ex-Secre
tary Albert B. Fall is in condition to
appear for examination in the Senate
oil inquiry, the investigation commit
tee was told today by a special medi
cal committee which was appointed
yesterday to examine him. The chair
man announced a subjoena for Fall,
requiring his presence before the in
vestigating committee at ten o’clock
tomorrow'. The Senate concentrated
their attention upon Denby while the
House took up the Walsh oil lease
annulment resolution which was pass
ed by the Senate yesterday.
Pass Walsh Resolution
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—The House
passed the Walsh resolution as it
passed the Senate.
Gregory Will Not Prosecute Case
WASHINGTON Feb. 1.—Gregory
will not be employed to prosecute the
Naval oil leasing cases it was offi
cially announced from the White
House today after E. L. Doheny told
the Senate Committee that Gregory
had been in his employ some time ago.
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Doheny also testified that his com
pany employed McAdoo on Mexican
affairs. McAdoo was then out of the
cabinet and received fees of a quar
ter of a million dollars and Doheny
also stated that the late Franklin K.
Lane was employed by his company
at fifty thousand a year.
SELECTED POINT
TO START FLIGHT
Original Plans Called for Seattle as
Place to Start World Flight,
But Are Changed
SEWARD IS ON ITINERARY
this City Picked as Landing Place1
for Naval Planes on Account of
Standard Oil Tanks
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Los An
| geles has been selected by the Army
! Air Service as a starting point for
the attempted flight around the world,
instead of Seattle, as originally j
planned. Four planes will be used j
in the flight and landings will be j
made in Alaska at Wrangell, Katalla.
Seward, Kodiak, Unalaska, Attu and
thence to Japan.
Large quantities of highly refined
gasoline will be placed at all these
points, as well as engine and plane
parts to guard against break-downs.
REED TO ACCEPT AS
COOLIDGE MANAGER
TACOMA, Jan. 31.—Mark E. Reed,
of Shelton, speaker of the lower house
of the Washington legislature and
long prominent in politics, announced
over the long distance telephone to
the Tacoma News-Tribune Saturday
that he had decided to accept the ap
pointment as manager of the Coolidge
campaign in the State of Washington.
Mr. Reed announced that he had
sent a telegram today to William M.
Butler, national manager of the C-ool
idge campaign, in Chicago stating his
acceptance. He said that he would
start work at once toward getting a
Coolidge delegation from this state to
the Cleveland convention next June, j
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WASHINGTON, Tan. SI.— Presi
dent Coolidge today »eiterated his op
ocsipion to the st-Micr bonus when a
delegation representing the Ex-Serv
ice Men’s Anti-Bonus League called
upon him.
GOVERNOR BONE PROMISES
AID TO BRITISH AVIATORS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The ter
ritorial government of Alaska will
render any aid ossible in facilitating
squadron leader A. S. C. MacLaren
of the British Royal Air Force in fly-!
ing over Alaska during the spring of j
1924, it was stated at the interior de
partment today.
The British aviator wall attempt
from April to June to fly around the
world and his proposed itinerary will
carry him over Alaska, land and wa
ter. In a recent communication to
the Secreetary of the Interior, Gov
ernor Scott C. Bone announced any
seivice that can be reasonably ren
dered to facilitate the flight over the
Territory will be freely granted.
SENATOR REED WILL TRY
TO CAPTURE NOMINATION
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 31.—Senator James
A. Reed, Democrat, of Missouri, has
announced that he will enter the race
for the Democratic nomination for
Presidential honors.
SENATOR REED CANDIDATE
ST. LOUIS, Jan. 27.—Senator Reed
announced today his candidacy for
president on the democratic ticket.
httW YORK, Jan. 31—The World’s
Washington dispatches says that Her
bert Hoover will be made Secretary
of the Interior following the removal
of Secretary Work, and that his re
moval will be folio vved by the resig
nation of both Denby and Daugherty.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Warships
recently on duty at Vera Cruz have
been ordered to return. an<£ remain
there.
keystone view
PARIS FLOOD SHUTS TRAFFIC AND ALARMS CITY
Again history repeats itself. Paris is once more filled wtih the angry
waters of the Seine River. All the city is alarmed, the railway stations
are shut and traffic is at a standstill while the water continues to rise.
In he suburbs of he French capial small boats are being used, and there
is reason to believe that the flood will rise above the high mark of 1920
The damage is estimated in millions of francs.
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OF FRAUDS I
WAS HINT GTON T n. 27.—Charges
were made today that B W. Cioag r.
repubi < an national c mimitteernan for
TrXE:s, has exercised a political pull
w't!. the attorney g >r.eral and post
mastci general to sti'le an inquiry in
end frauds,in Texas, were made to
day in r resolution introdueed by
Senatoi Heflin.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30.—Mabel
Normand and Edna Purviance, who
figured in the shooting affray at the
apartments of Courtland Dines, weal
thy oil promotor, New Year’s eve,
will be forced to get out of the mo
vies, if the plans of Will Hays, the
“overland of the screen,” are carried
out. Mr. Hays had nothing to say
in regard to the affray other than that
hue movies must be kept clean at all
costs and that actors and actresses
must behave themselves if they ex
pect to remain in the business.
MOSCOW, Jan. 27.—Nikolai Lenine j
was entombed Sunday in the Red
Square in this city. Leon Trotzky
was absent from the funeral of his
chief owing to a severe illness. Half
a million BoLsheviki passed the bier,
while the body lay in state in the big
government building. The funeral ser
vice was short and several hundred
thousand persons shivered in the cold
while the interment was going on.
The mercury registered 30 below
zero.
TWO LETTERS WRITTEN
BY PRESIDENT LINCOLN
SOLD FOR $1,250 EACH
PHILADELPHIA Jan. 31.—'Iwo let
ters written by Abraham Lincoln to
his secretary of navy, Gideon Welles,
brought $1,250 each here yesterday at
a public auction of Civil war docu
ments.
In one of the letters, relating to the
gunboat Monitor, Lincoln said that he
was : .decidedly of the opinion that
she should not go sky larking up to
Norfolk,” for he wrote , Lieutenant
Worden had told him the Monitor
could be easily boarded and captured.
In the other letter, dated August 23,
1864, President Lincoln said that he
would be defeated for re-election by
McClellan.
A letter in which he asked for a
“war steamer ’ to cruise the Potomac
and pvoiect 'he approaches to Wash
ington brout,i t $47?.
AMERICAN SHIPS MEET OFF
PANAMA FOR PRACTICE
PANAMA, Jan. 30.—The first units
of the American Pacific fleet which is
to engage in maneuvers with the At
lantic squadron, in a test of the effec
tiveness of the Panama canal arrived
off Balboa this week.
The entire fleet comprising ten bat
tleships, 32 destroyers, 10 submarines
one light cruiser and 14 auxiliaries
would be here tonight.
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WIFE OF ASSAM
Veteran of Two WarU Dangerously
Wounded When Husband Finds
Two Alone in Cafe Box
SOUGHT TO TEACH A LESSON
SEATLE, Jan. 29.—Major William
J. Muirhead, a veteran of the world
and Spanish-American wars, and for
mer traffic manager and port com
missioner, was shot and dangerously
wounded last night while in a cafe
dining with Mrs. Derby, wife of a
tiaveling salesman. Derby took live
shots at Muirhead, whom he said he
wished to teach a lesson. Two took
effect, one in the lung. Derby is in
jail.
BLOW PROVES hATAL
CHICAGO, 111., Jan. 31.—Henry R.
Harris, father of Mildred divorced
wife of Charlie Chaplin, died here
this week as the result of a blow' on
the head, administered by a taxi dri
vel'.
1TNMLY Kill
SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—Dr. J. Allen
Smith, a nationally known political
economist writer, and member of the
University of Washington faculty for
27 years, died today.
STATE SENATOR SINCLAIR
CHEHALIS, Wn., Jan. 30.—State
Senator Sinclair was today sentenced
to 18 months in the penitentiary for
altering the records in his Ilwaco
bank now defunct.
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