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way engineer. wl.n the Cnairmau
handling the executive work OF the
department. In reality tho chairmau
VIII be the actual head and gov-rninc
director OF the entire highway d.
partmcnt, and as such his importauc.
10 the state Will be probably second
10 II" one cmploye of the Common
wealth.
Governor Trinkle feels that SIR.
Shirley will demonstrate almost a.
once the wisdom of his choice. Ic
Is In the very prime of life aud com
bines with every natural advantage.
wealth of diversified experience.
Mr.. Shirley saw service on the high
CT! of National Defense. during the
World War. He Is secretary and
treasurer OF the Federal Highway
Council. Interested in the promotion
Uf highways and roads throughout
the country
IL mn Engineer Of Note.
In addition To road building. Mr..
Shirley IS an engineer OF note For
two years he was engaged in i'm
portant engineering work 10y the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad. after which he served the
same length uf time in the engineer
Ing department Of roads and Scwcrn
FOR the District OF Columbia Mr..
shirley directed surveys for extern
sion work on the West Virginia Gem
tIal from Durbin, w. Va. TO Scwclls
Point for the handling of coal and
iron ore. For four years he served
as assistant engineer Of the Balti-
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-28
EX-GOVERNOR DAVIS
TO BE FINALS SPEAKER

Especial 10 Inc Times Dispatch
PURCELLEILLE. VA, May -
Rev. 6 Peytou Craighil. rector o:
81. James. Episcopal Church. Lees
burg. is TO deliver the baccalaurcat
s'rmon TO graduates OF the L.inco!,
High school IN the auditorium OF IN.
school on Sunday, May 2S Tn,
graduating exercises VIII Ice held
Thursday morning, June / The adj
dress viii be delivered by Tx COY.
ern"r Westmoreland Davis. OF Wiz.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-05-28
TRUTH HAS NOT BEEN
TOLD, SENATOR SAYS
Attempt Being Made to Intim-
ida,e Critics Of Attor-
ncy.Gencral.
Ashs As TO rue EXPENDITURES
Watsen. 90 Georgia. Ass~rt. Frnud
In Morse Case ..
Known.
TRy Associated Press.l

WASil NriTON, May c7.-Attorncy
Genera! pauGhcrty today was asain
pwt~updev ere In the Senate. Senator
CA-away, Democrat. Arkansas, Ella ho-
rating charges tina; the Department
81 Justice had assigned Secrc, Scr,
vice men To shadow" Senators and
Representatives aud commenting
further GA the Attorney Generals
letter 10 Senator Watson, Hcpuhii,
can, 1nI!ana, To Sir. DauSherty's
connection with the Morse pardon
case,
Sraa,w Caraway presented te,e-
gram received from Little Rock
f'iead. whose name WAS not d.srio$
cd. advising Mr., Caraway tina; a Dc.
partTsent OF Justic. agent named
Mathcrs WAS in Arkansas making
an extensive and confidential hives
':EaEon Of Senator Caraway."
Has No Objection to neinE Prohed.
The Arkansas Senator said he did
not object personally To such cs.
n!oaaSe and added:
Blu; would like TO have IN, At
toTney-Gcneral tell Congress how
much % the 100000 he was xivcn
by Congress 10 investigate wa.
frauds, he Is employing To invcsu-
sate members OF 10th houses OF Con-
gr>ss,"
Senator Caravan deplorcd attempts
10 "intimidate" members OF Congress
and made statement that * was
Significant that the attorney had not
replied TO charges made May > In tho
Congressional Record that secret
service agents were shadowing mem
bers OF the House.
Referring 10 Mr.. Daughcr,y's let
ter TO Senator Watson. Mr.. Caraw,y
said.
Georgian Joins In.
The Attorney General in order ia
Shield himself. undertook to put IN.
brand OF Ananias on tho brow OF
Senator Watson. ! don't know how
senator Watson vii! submit; 10 a.; |
don't doubt that the senator told
the Gods truth"
Senator Caraway reiterated ,hot
Mr. Daugherty had not told the truth
ABOUT his connection with the Morse
pardon case and presented an alleg-
ed Statement; by Nj. Daugherty in
1912. denying that he was counse!
for Mr. Morse.
Senator Watson. Democrat. .Georriu
interviewed TO say that he was told
Yesterday that a retired Brunswick
Ga. physician knew how the fraud
II NJ! Daugherty and Thomas -.
Fielder" secured The Communication OF,
the Aors- sentence.
Many Sought Heiease OF Morse.
Naming scores OF members of the
senate and Hous-. both Democrats
and Republicans. and others prou!nen,
N oa.cia! lie at Tx time, as hap.ng
pe'luoHed :or ike .-ejease Ia Is,.
rom the Atlanta p-niten,iary OF
charles W. Morse. the Department o.
Justice late TO-DAY made public the
record in The Morse case, "as ais
closed In The official fGes" which IN
dicAtes. the statement said. ".keytnI
any question, that Nj Morse Vas re-
easet upon the report O.. reputahl.
physicians and United States army
surgeons, showing him to be suffer
ing from serious illness
The release came" the statcTncn,
continued. AS ~. elimination o,I
probably The most remarkable nun
lie demonstrations on N.half o, an
Fedora! prisoner ever convicted IN
he courts OF tho United States.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
BOY PONz| SAYS
MILLIONS WERE
FORCED ON HIM
Bishoff Says Hundreds of
Foreigners Insisted That
He Invest Savings

CHICAGO, Feb. 14.-Investigation
of the operations of Raymond ].
Bischoff, 25-year-old promoter. today
revealed that more than $7.0OO,OOO
had been borrowed" from poor per-
sons, mostly of foreign extraction,
during the past two years by three
men who held out the lure of rich re-
turns.
ranged from a few dollars up 70 one
loan of $4,000. The average was ap-
proximately 5000.
OF the 100000 total, Bischoff was
declared to have obtained approx
mately $4,500,000, while Leslie har-
rington and M. P. West, whom Bis
choff accused of initiating his meth
ods of business, were said to have
obtained the remainder.
Warrants charging Bischoff and
two of his aids with obtaining money
under false pretenses were issued yes
terday and the police are now search
ing for Harrington, who was declared
to have left the city. West was
taken today in raid on the offices
Of Western Land Operators Company.
At hearing before referee IN
bankruptcy. Bischoff revealed more of
his operations today. 81 never made
any direct promises to pay more than
per cent interest except once"
Bischoff said. That was one month
when | found it difficult to get re-
newals from the notes. Then, at that
time, never offered 100 per cent in
| terest."
He said, however, that he frequently
called his creditors together and told
them what he expected he could
make. He declared that he lost S2,-
| 100000 in wild" oil dea;s IN rre
south.
Last month, he asserted, he found
it difficult to get renewals on hrs
notes and decided to re-organiZe a
$5.000.O0O corporation.
| His original borrowing amounted 70
| s1,000,000, Bischoff said. and the
other s3,500,000 he obtained through
''pyramiding."
Upon questioning, he declared that
the only Fly in his ointment" was
when Harrington and West appeared
with a similar proposition.
Just before he left the stand, B.s-
choff remarked that il there is any
guilt. he alone is guilty and he alone
should bear the guilt. He also said
! that had il not been for the bankrupt
cy proceedings. he would have been
able to tide over his present embar-
RAISING situation with the aid of
prominent Chicago and New York fl
nanciers. Who those men are, he
said he would say
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
WALLACE LOOKS
WITH FAVOR ON
FORD PROPOSAL
To Make Sure That Plant Will
Operate Continually Upon
Fertilizer Manufacture
EXPLOSIVES IF NEEDED
Ford's Representative States
Complete Fertilizer Would
Be Made at Lowest Cost

WASHINGTON. Feb. l4.-Henry c.
Wallace, secretary of agriculture,
"looks with favor" upon Henry Ford's
offer for purchase and lease of the
governments nitrate and water pro-
,jects at Muscle Shoals. Ala. ''if its
terms are sufficiently definite and
binding to make sure the plant would
be operated continually for the man.
ufacture of fertilizer"
DR.. Richard c. Tclman, director of
the fixed nitrogen research labora-
tory of the department, announced
the secretarv's position with regard
to the Ford offer. in an authorized
statement which he read today before
the house military committee. The
secretary's views. as EXPRESSED by the
witness, were that if the terms were
as he had outlined. the proposal
would result in making available a
considerably increased supply of fer
tilizer in time of peace and give as
assurance of adequate supplies of ex-
plosives in case of need"
The statement was read bv DR.. Toll
man after the committee had COM
pleted an examination lasting more
than five hours, of W. p. Mayo, chief
engineer and personal representative
of Henry Ford. Mayo's testimony in
cluded repeated statements that Ford
intended to manufacture fertilizers
in their completed forms at the max.
imum production capacity of the Mus
Gle Shoals plants. and would make
every effort to manufacture them at
a minimum cost to the farmers.
Mayo took Issue several times with
committee members who called at
tention to the section Of the offer re-
garding fertilizer manufacture, say
ing there was no provision in the Of
fer to compel the manufacture of the
fertilizers but only Of some necessary
ingredients. In each instance, the
witness declared 1t was Ford's inten-
tion to execute the contract. in the
event congress accepted it, in good
faith and that included the produc-
l,tion OF fertilizers.
I At one point, Mayo said the Detroit
manufacturer had been invited by the
government to make the offer and
congress could take 1t or leave it at
its face value" AS the hearings pro-
gressed, Kahn said it appeared that
! the committee would not be able to
conclude its Investigations this week
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
GREENWAY Gets
RESERVE POST
Local Veteran Will Command
409th and Al 9th Infantry
Regiments in Future

DENVER, Feb. 14.-Colonel John
c. Greenway, mining man Of Bisbee,
Ariz., and we'll known former Rough
Rider and member of the American
Expeditionary Forces, has been ap-
pointed brigadier general in the
United States Army Reserve Corps,
according to word received here to-
night.
The appointment was made on rec
ommendation of Colonel Harry r. Lee,
commanding the One Hundred and
Third reserve division, which en-
braces Colorado and three other west
ern states.
General Gleenway will have com
mand of the Four Hundred and Ninth
and Four Hundred and Tenth infantry
units, which comprise one of the in
fantry brigades in the reserve divi-
sion.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
Congress Defended By Senator Lodge
Investors Soak Mere Pittance Of
$40, 600, 600 In Fake Stock; Cases
Swamp Dockets Of Federal Courts
Would Take One Judge Working Every Month in Year. One
Million Years to Clean Up Dockets, Says Attorney
General Most Cases Are Fake Oil Stocks

that in his opinion the matter was
cne for state action.
Quoting from his reports, Daugh-
erty said that the northern district
of Missouri led in the amount in
volved in pending stock fake cases
with a total of $31,792, 900, while the
northern district of Illinois had the
greatest number of cases with 43, the
northern district of Texas stood sec
ond with AZ cases, and the southern
district of New York had 80 cases.
AS an instance of schemes nppesf-
ing to credulous investors, Daugherty
cited "the famous Everglades case, in
which $750,000 had been obtained on
the stock of a company formed to
drain and farm rich Florida lands and
sold on the argument that there was
no frost in Florida" After the stocs
had been disposed of, he added, the
frost came.
This case, he said. had been pend
ing in Chicago several years and had
already cost the government about
100000. but he was studying the ad
visibility of pressing it.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
LOVE LETTERS
Of MADALYNNE
READ To JURY
We Will Soon Be Eating Our
Shredded Wheat Biscuits
Together - Bolton
DEFENSE IS SURPRISED
DEFENSE IS SURPRISED
kilograms Not Admitted Into
Evidence; Advance Theory
That Burch Rented Car

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 1.-THE pros
ecution began today reading into the
court record that love story of NADIA
lyme Obenchain and J. Belton Ken.
nedy, the man she is charged with
having murdered.
The state offered the first surprise
of the trial when it produced Ken
nedy's letters to the woman. Defense
counsel had expected her letters, but
were not prepared for his.
Dating back to March 4, 1917. the
letters proved. according to the prose.
cution. a complete record Of the de-
cline of the romance.
In letters written to Mrs. Obenchain
while she was in the east, Kennedy
said: 81 think of you every day, dear,
and when I have the glooms I wonder
il you have them too" I'VE will soon
be eating our SW.B (Shredded Wheat
Biscuit) together" do not relinquish
YOUR sentiments" and 81 hope you
have a good time and think of me
often. much love-"
Repeatedly in her letters, Mrs.
Obenchain wrote Kennedy that his
friendship means more to me than
ANYTHING else in the world"
From Rochester, Mimi. in 1917, she
wrote:
"Belton: My heart feels so good
when I talk to you even in cold pen
and ink"
AS the date OF the letters advanced.
the state claimed it would show by
them that as Madalynne realized Ken
nedy's regard had failed and that he
did not intend to marry her, she grew
to hate him.
Telegrams exchanged between Mrs.
Obenchain and Arthur Burch. her co
defendant. while she was in Los An.
geles and he was in Chicago, were Of
fered for Identification during the
early session of the trial. through tes-
timony of William Laughlin, CONNER
cial agent here for a telegraph com.
pany. These messages were not read
into the record, nor admitted in evi
dence
According to the prosecution, these
messages were used as evidence al
the recent trial of Burch, which term
mated in a disagreement of the jury
and included among others telegram
In which Mrs Obenchain urged Burch
to hurry to Los Angeles.
Signatures on the messages, read
during the offer for Identification, in
clude Goddess" which the state con
tended represented Mrs. Obenchain
and Jeff" which the prosecutor said
was Burch's assumed name.
Milton Carlson, handwriting ex
pert, testified in Identification OF the
handwriting in the messages as thai
of Burch and Mrs. Obenchain.. He al
so identified a signature IN. c. Oben
chain" as having been penned by
Burch.
This signature was on an automo
bile rent receipt. The states theory
is that Burch rented this automobile
a few nights before Kennedy was
killed on the steps Of his summer cot
tage in Beverly Glen, and drove to the
house, looking over the roads.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-Dockets
of the federal courts throughout the
country are swamped with fake stock
swindling cases in which more than
$140,00O0 900 has been taken from in
cautious investors, Attorney General
Daugherty said tonight. There are, he
said, total of 4S0 of these cases in
the federal courts, in which S74 per-
sons have been arrested or indicted.
1T would take one judge. working
~ months a year. 100000 years to
clean up the dockets," Daugherty said,
Most of the cases, he explained,
were fake oil stocks, a1tnousn
the swindling schemes ranged from
bucket shops and mining stocks. to
patent elephant catcher" promotions.
Rich harvests are reaped by swind-
lers, he asserted, because people co
not take pains to investigate what
they put their money into.
The department of justice, Daugh-
erty continued. comes into the prose
cution of such cases through vio,a-
tion of the postal laws in the use of
the mails to defraud, but, he declared
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
HARDING OPPOSES BONUS BONDS AND TAXES
WILL ATTEMPT CROSS
COUNTRY FLIGHT IN
600 FOOT BLIMP

WASHINGTON, Feb. IA. - A
transcontinental flight by the 600
foot dirigible Roma, via the south
ern end of the Rocky mountains to
San Francisco is contem plated by
army air service officials, they an
nounced today.
The Roma has been equipped
with Liberty engine motive power
since her trip from Langley Field.
Va, to Washington to be chris
tened, and formally commissioned.
Within two or thre months, air
service officials expect to fly the
Roma from Langley Field to New
York, and to operate her between
New York and Chicago for a num-
Der of trips as a test Of the com
mercial possibilities OF dirigibles OF
the Zeppelin type.
II the results of these tests war
rant it, it is expected that Se
transcontinental flight will be at
tempted The probable route will
be by way Of st. Louis. thence
southwest to avoid the necessity OF
climbing to high attitudes in cross
ing the mountains.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
WANTS SOLDIER
MEASURE VOTED
BUT REJECTS Z
|. FINANCE PLANS
Executive Trying to Uphold
and Fight Compensation
in Same Statement
MAY DELAY MEASURE
Attitude of White House Is
Taken as Putting Veteran
Legislation Back Again

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.-President
Harding thinks it is impracticable to
raise, by bond issue at this time,
large sum Of money to finance the
soldier bonus, it was stated today at
the White House, and he is unalter-
ably opposed to the suggested eight
point tax program or to return &c
any of the taxes that have been re-
pealed.
The executive was represented as
being favorably disposed toward the
bonus legislation, and it was empha-
sized that when he appeared before
the senate last July to ask that its
enactment be deferred, he had nct
taken a position of hostility. 1t also
was stated that promises mate =
Republicans in the 1920 primaries ns..
not been lost sight of. but il was
pointed out that no exact time had
been fixed for the passage OF an ad-
justed compensation bill.
The attitude of the execu.--e, ic
was added, had to be that of finding
a sane and defensible condition for
the fulfillment of the promises made,
on one hand, and having regard for
restored stability, on the other. Hold
ing that there was question whether
there was the same sweeping deter
mination at this time that there was
during wars responsibility. when the
government could have raised almost
any sum, the president was said to
doubt the possibility of obtaising now.
through a bond issue. the sum re-
Quired for the soldier bonus without
an advance in interest rates and the
disturbing of the financial tranquility
of the country.
Must Pay Billions.
In this connection, attention was
again called that in the next 30
months the government must refund
some $500 900 OF pledges in the
shape OF Victory notes and ce.::;,-
Gates of Indebtedness. Secretary Mel
Ion and other fiscal officers of the
government have taken the position
that these refunding operations would
be handicapped by any additional is
sue of bonds or short-time notes IN
connection with the soldier bonus.
1t was said at the White House that
the presidents views as to the bonus
would be transmitted in writing 10
the chairman of the senate and house
committees dealing with the legisIa-
tion. The majority members of these
committees met this afternoon with
the expectation that the executives
letter might be ready for them but af
ter a session of an hour, members
said the communication was expected
tomorrow.
The presidents proposition, as out
lined at the White House. was given
informally to the committee members
who withheld comment pending re-
ceipt OF the official letter. sr-u- ~
them did say, however, that on che
basis of the informal information they
had. the bonus would be rested just
where 1t \did before the house ways
and means subcommittee drew up
the tentative eight-point tax sugges-
ton.
May Mean New Delay.
Harding's objection to the suggest
ed bond issue and tax proposals was
regarded in some quarters as presag
ing a delay in the enactment of the
bonus legislation until a subsequent
session of congress. but so far as was
Continued on Page Four
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
Four Bandits Given
Joy Ride; Then Shot

SHANGHAI, January 19.-Four con
victed bandits recently were executed
on the main street ofShanghaiathig
on the main street of Shanghai at
high noon as a warning to others who
have been plundering in the two for
eign concessions of the city.
Under orders from General Ho
'Feng Lin, Chinese defense commits
sioner here, the four condemned men
first were given ride about the city
in rickshas. They were then placed
in front of pile of sand bags, blind
folded and shot to death by four sol
diers drawn up across the street.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
CRAzED
MAN M0RTALLY
WOUNDSPR|EsT
Father Is Shot Down During
Attempt to Intercede in
Neighborhood Affray

LIMA, o., Feb. 14.-Father Richard
Schwiderman, Catholic priest, of Min
lister, was shot and fatally wounded
early tonight by Charles Priening, a
horse trader, at Priening's home in
Minister.
Father Schwiderman went to Prien-
ing's home to intercede after the lat
ter, intoxicated. had terrorized the
neighborhood. Priening fired a charge
from shotgun into the priests chest
as he entered the house with Prien-
ing's brother, Rev. Schwiderman dy.
ing two hours later Previously,
Priening had fired a revolver at his
brother. the bullet being deflected
when it struck his watch.
AS crowd which had gathered had
made threats of violence, Priening
was removed to the county Jail
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15

ers' Association here tonight.
"While the national organization Is
cognizant of the charges made
against a few of the leading stars and
directors of the producing end of the
industry" he said, yet the apparent
reflection which seems to be cast up
on the entire motion picture industry
because of these charges, demands
that the organization in emphatic
terms declare that it has lost none
of the sublime confidence it has al
ways manifested in the laws of our
government and the integrity of its
various prosecuting officers
This organization" he continued,
knows that those at fault will be
prosecuted, as they have been, by the
same methods and under the same
Jaws that the humblest citizen in any
state would be dealt with"
He believed, however, that judg
ment should be reserved until Jury
verdict has been returned
I'VE do not need the ias dious aid
of the professional reformer who
smiles at evil and gloats over wrong
while pretending horror declared
President Copen. because of the not
oriety 1t gives him in the ATTEMPTED
reform. No, we can handle this. Let
us serve notice on the elements re
sponsible that no picture containing
the face. form or name of any per
sons involved in these tragic anC
scandalous procedures shall be showr
on our screens. Let us be our owr
censors in this regard"
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15

Carranza regime. At every village,
the governor addressed the inhabit-
ants. appealing to them not to heed
the stories and the promises made
them by the revolutionists.
Among the towns visited by the
governor were Guerrero, La Junta,
Temosaciac, San Antonio and San
Geronimo, all OF them on the line of
march of General Pershing's expedi-
tion into Mexico I'm 1916. At San Ger.
onimo, Jose NJ. Amada, and his son,
Leopold. regarded as the leaders of
the revolt in that section, surrendered
to the home guard. Governor Enri-
quez returned to Chihuahua City to.
day. the entire flight being made
without mishap or delay.
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15

When questioned, however, the man
said this was only the story told him
by another party and thet he ca NJ
hear the shot himself or see any one
leave the Taylor place. The district AT
torney said. He promised to help ce
tectives locate the person he said tod
the story.
The Famous layersLasky Copper
alton, in whose studios Taylor was
director-in-chief, announced through
the district attorney late today it
would pay a reward of S2,500 to the
person or persons furnishing infor
nation resulting in the arrest and con-
viction of the slayer of Taylor. 1t
was requested that all conmunica-
tions and all information Oh tGia sub
Bisbee daily review., 1922-02-15
BOOZE SELLERS
WARNED BY Kk.
To LEAVE: YUMA
Ultimatum, Purported to Be
Issued by Ku Klux, Says
800 Members in State

YUMA, AriZ., Feb. IA commun-
ication purporting to be warning to
gamblers and bootleggers to leave
the county and exhorting peace offic-
ers to do their duty" was received
tonight by the Yuma Sun, morning
newspaper 1t was signed knights
of the Ku Klux Klan, Yuma county
and declared the organ
izatioa to be more than 500 strong"
in this county The newspaper was
asked ''as an exponent of good gov
ernment," to publish the communities
tion.
Blood won Americas freedom and
public institutions and blood will pre-
serve them if necessary" concludes
the letter.