Evening star., 1924-03-03
, j. s. CODE EXPERTS
To Be HEARD IN OIL
INQUIRY TOMORROW
Burns and Mrs. Duckstein
Also to Be GrilIed Regard
ing Use of Cipher.
PUBLISHER FACES CALL
TO APPEAR THIS WEEK
Doheny Declares Probe Issue Lost
in Maze of Political
Maneuvering.

Cipher experts Of the War De-
partment who have been translatins
code messages found in the Mclean
felegrams will be called first tomor-
row when the Senate oil committee
: resumes it's public hearings.
= Senator Walsh, democrat. Mon
1ana chief prosecutor in the inquiry,
said today translations of the tele-
grams by the government experts
did not differ materially from the
raraphrases furnished the committee
last week and arrived at by the use
OF an old code Of the Department of
Justice.
Burns to he Grilied.
William ]. Burns, chief of the de-
partment's bureau of investigation,
will be questioned By the committee
tomorrow as to how employees of f.
E Mclean came into possession of
this code and whether Mclean is on
III, roll of the special agents of the
bureau at a salary of 81 Il month.
Burns also will be asked about the
MARY" code messages sent to one of
<McLean's confidential men at Palm
TO Burns and to "the Mclean inves-
tigation.' Mrs. Mary Duckstein,
former private secretary to Burns
and now an operative in the Justice
Department, who sent the MARY"
telegram to her husband. W. o.
Duckstefn, probably will follow
Eurns on the stand.
Mclean may be called before the
committee before the end of the
week. He returned from Florida
II
summons. but. unlike other persons
under subpoena. he has not been re-
CURED to make daily appearance at
the hearings.
Telegrams Sought.
Edward Is. Mclean. publisher of the
Washington Post, and his employees
arc being sought in the files of the
Western Union aud Postal Telegraph
companies here, along with messages
received by or sent to Albert B. Fall,
+. l.. Doheny, Harry F. Sinclair and
j. W. Zevely. Sinclairs personal at
torney. In addition the committee
has subpoenaed kilograms to and
from Fall. Sinclair, Zevely, Robe TT
stewart of the Standard Oil Company
of Indiana. and HI. NJ. Blackmer of the
Midwest Refining Company, on record
between January /, 1921 and March /
1924. at Three Rivers. n. NJ, where
Falls ranch is situated:
Preparations neareG conclusion to-
day for the first step in the oil suits
TO be instituted by special govern
ment counsel, as result Of the SEN
ate committees disclosures. Some
announcement Is expected tomorrow
or Wednesday, but meantime those
preparing the suits will make no
statement as to their precise inten-
tions.
civil proceedings looking to the
prevention of further extraction of
oil from the naval reserves In Cali
fornta and Wyoming and annulment
or the leases held by Doheny and Sin
clair will form the first activities
of the special counsel. criminal action
being withheld pending Independent
investigation and a more detailed
study of evidence adduced by the Sem
ate committee.
Counsel Considered.
President Coolidge also is consider
ing the names of attorneys especially
rersed in land laws for appointment
as special counsel to institute pro-
reedings for recovery to the federal
government from the Standard Oil
Company of California of sections l6
and SO In the Elk Hills reserve in
that state.
Hit Walsh Attackers.
Senator Wheeler, democrat, Mon
tdna, presented to the Senate today,
two letters for the purpose, he said.
of showing the extent to which some
of "the vested interests of the country
were going in an effort ito besmirch the
character Senator Walsh.
One letter dated February Is ann
signed by Fred r. Marvin. editor of
the Searchlight department of the
New York Commercial. was addressed
TO +. {. Shields of. Billings. Mont, and
said the writer wanted to get "the
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