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The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-02-13
May Refuse
toCiveO.K.
to Lawyers
Move OH to Vote Against Con.
firming Appointments of
Strawn and Pomerene
as Prosecutors.
Urge Sweeping Probe

Washington, Feb. 12.-An organized
fight in the senate against confirma-
tion of Silas H. Strawn and Atlee
Pomerene as special government coun-
sci IN the oil cases promises to fur
nlsh another dramatic chapter to the
rapidly unfolding story Of the naval
oil leases.
Definite indications that Senator
Walsh, democrat, Montana, dominant
figure in pressing the inquiry, is op-
posed to the lawyers selected by
President Coolidge provided the chief
development of the day In the oil in.
vestigation.
The oil committee considered the
nominations at two executive sessions,
but without reaching a decision. Be-
tween times it heard six witnesses at
public sessions in efforts to obtain
more light on the circumstances sur
rounding the leasing of the Teapot
Dome reserve to Harry F. Sinclair
and the California Elk Hills reserve
to e. l.. Doheny.
Coolidge on Top.
Members of all senatorial groups
showed q disposition today to treat as
a closed incident the refusal of Presi-
dent Coolidge to entertain the senate's
request that he demand Immediate
ly'' the resignation of Secretary DENLY
for his part in the leases.
Senator Wheeler, democrat, Mon
tana, announced that on Thursday he
would introduce a resolution propos-
ing a full Investigation Of all Of the
official acts of Attorney General
Daugherty and Of all branches of the
Department of Justice under the
stewardship of Mr.. Daugherty.
George Creel. former chairman Of
the committee on public information.
told the oil committee he had been
&mpl ed by Doheny as publicity
consultant' five months after he left
the government service. but had re-
signed after three months because
of a disagreement with his chief.
His salary was at the rate OF $lo,-
900 a year. He also disclosed that he
had interested himself in obtaining a
lease for offset wells in Teapot Dome
and had taken the matter up sue
cessfully with Secretary Daniels.
Operator Scents Fraud.
J. Leo Stack, Denver oil man. with
whom Creel was associated, and who
had contractural rights In claims in
Teapot Dome. testified that he had
become convinced soon after Sinclair
obtained the lease that there had been
bad faith, fraud and secret dealings"
The committee sought, but with
little success, to establish definitely
who supplied the 100000 for the pur-
chase of the Albuquerque IN. Nd
Journal by Sidney Well from Carl c.
Magee In May, 1922, but It was In
evidence that Joshua Reynolds, chair
man of the board of the First Nation
al bank of Albuquerque, had taken 1t
over from We'll after 80 days.
Magee told of attacks he was max
ing on Albert Il. Fall in his paper
and of efforts he made to sell the
plant. lie said he received an offer
from the Los Angeles Herald. which
he asserted. represented Doheny
money" and also that Frederick G..
Bonfils and II. ii. Tammen OF the
Denver Post had sent man to see
him but he refused to deal with them.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-02-13
Ellsworth Womn Badly
Scratched as Cat Runs Amuck

Ellsworth. Neb.. Feb. is.-With a
feline ferociousness seldom Witnessed,
strange cat attacked Mrs. +. j.
Ellsbury, wife of local merchant
Mrs. E.llsbury suffered badly
scratched arm. lacerated from the
elbow 10 the wrist. In an effort to
thrust the cat away with the free
arm, the apparently deranged animal
bit into the palm of the hand. tearing
out small bits OF flesh. The attack
occurred when Mrs. Ellsbury reached
down to pet the cat.
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-02-13

Washington Correspondent The Omaha Bee
Washington, Feb. 12.-One need go
back only few months to find an
experience in the life of Senator r.
3. Howell, which he admits had much
to do with his vote against unquali'
fiedly demanding the resignation OF
Secretary DENLY before the latter
was given a trial or the president
was given an opportunity for thor.
ough Investigation.
That experience had to do with the
muddy water episode in Omaha. In
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-02-13
Hercsy Charge on Ex-Bishop,

New York. Feb. 1s.-Chargos OF ex'
treme heresy have been preferred
against Rev. William Montgomery
Brown OF Gallon. q. former bishop
of Arkansas and member OF the
house Of bishops OF the Protestant
Episcopal church, by Bishops A. c. A.
Hall of Vermont Joseph NJ. Francis
" Indianapolis and William l.. Grav'
att Of West Virginia, II was revealed
TODAY
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Shark Lit Shanktown Blast.

Harrlsburg, Pa. Feb. lI.-An CLEO
trlc spark caused by the "arcing OF
n mining machine In an atmosphere
charged with dust and explosive gas
was given as the cause OF the eNplo-
sion at the ShanktoHn mine OF the
Barnes & Tucker Coal Co.
january -. which resulted In 3b
dcaths. the report of the investlsa'
tors, filed today, showed
The Omaha morning bee. [volume] (Omaha [Neb.]) 1922-1927, 1924-02-13
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY.

There Is no man so ffiendless but
what he can find friend sincere
enough TO tell him disagreeable
truths.
-Balser Lytfon.
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Married i'm Council Bluffs.

The following persons obtained mar
Lare llcanaea in cnuncil nluffs ycetoroay:
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Van Found Living Chicken Coop With Lamp As Only Sor
RESUME OIL PROBE
THURSDAY MORNING
Senate Committee to Demand More
Power to Examine Former
Secretary Fall.

Washington, D. C. Preparations
for the active resumption of the oil
inquiry were pressed forward today
while accountants searched books of
stock brokerage houses to determine
for the senate investigating commit
tee whether government officials had
dealings in the shares of companies
formed to take-ov over the naval reserve
leases.
The committee was prepared to
press in the senate tomorrow for re-
adoption of the resolution under which
it is proceeding so that it may recall
Albert B. Fall, who as secretary Of
the interior arranged the leases for
questioning with a renewal of the au-
thority challenged by him last week.
Senator Walsh, Democrat, Montana,
also is planning to seek action by
the senate tomorrow on his resolu-
ton looking to annullment of the
lease held by the Standard Oil COM
pany of California on section SO in the
Elk Hills, Cal, reserves. Oscar Sutro,
counsel for the company, conferred
yesterday with Mr.. Walsh and Silas
H. Strawn of Chicago and former SEN
ator Pomerene of Ohio, the counsel
selected by President Coolidge to rep
resent the government in the oil
cases.
After Fall is again called upon by
the committee to submit to examina-
ton, William G. McAdoo, candidate
for the Democratic presidential NOM
ination, Josephus Daniels, secretary
of the navy during the Wilson admin
istration, and George Creel, chairman
of the committee on public informa-
ton during the war, are expected to
be given a hearing with reference to
statements made by E. L. Doheny,
holder of the California naval reserve
lease. .
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
EI,X'I'I] F.!
PLANT ''OLD GLORY"
AT GERMAN EMBASSY
Patriots Rolled at Action of German
Government, Plant Flag
on the Lawn.

Washington, D. C.-Some time be-
tween dark and daylight this morning
an American flag on slender flagstaff,
was planted on the lawn of the Ger
man embassy, which on instructions
from Berlin, has failed so far to
half mast it's German colors for
Woodrow Wilson.
This morning the Stars and Stripes
had been removed again from the en-
bassy grounds, but both the manner
of the flags appearance there and the
exact story of it's removal remained
somewhat of a mystery.
The police reported that they re-
ceived telephone complaint regarding
the invasion of the embassy property,
which technically is German soil.
They did not know from whom the
complaint came. Embassy officials
said they made no such complaint and
refused to discuss the subject further.
Whether any member of the police
force had taken the flag away was
not clearly established,
The situation had been noised about
and created something of sensation
and today the embassy announced that
after 1880 p. m. today it would raise
it's flags to half mast.
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NAME DELEGATES TO
BACK LAFOLLET'TE
Lafollette Delegates at Large for
Republican Convention Are
Named Today.

Madison, Wis. The seven LaFol-
1ette Progressive candidates for dele
gates at-large to the Republican Ma
tional convention, were announced to-
day by Robert M. lLaFollette, Jr., state
Republican chairman. The list in
cludes the four major state officials
1t follows: Governor John J. Blaine,
Secretary of State Fred R. thinner
man, Attorney General Herman L,
Ekern, State Treasurer Solomon Levi
tan, Miss Lillia E. Johnson, Eau Claire,
Edward Voight, Sheboygan, and Clough
Gates, Superior.
Miss Johnson is the only woman in
cluded in the delegate-at-large list
Miss Johnson is county superintend-
ent of schools of Eau Claire county and
has taken an active part in teacher ac-
tivities throughout the state.
The selection of the four major Of
fcials, including Secretary of State
Zimmerman, as delegate candidates is
understood to have been a compromise
measure to prevent objection to the
LaFollette program. 1t has been re
ported that because of friction between
Governor Blaine and Secretary Zim-
norman, the latter would not be IN
cluded in the list.
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WILL REORGANIZE
CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES
Greater Predominance of Friends of
Premier Mussolini is
Promised.

Rome-New blood will predominant
IN the next Italian chamber of depu-
ties. In the opinion of followers of
Premier Mussolini, the indications at
present point to an avalanche of new
fascist deputies which will sweep out
of the chamber many of the old mem
bers and that still other new faces
will be seen through the retirement
from the campaign of former Premier
Orlando, Enrico de Nicolo, president
of the chamber of deputies; Signor
Ferra, former president for the col
onies and probably Giuseppe de Nava
former minister of commerce and labor
all of whom have figured in the parlia-
mentary life of Italy for two decades
Former Premier Salandra, will re
main in the fight on Mussolini's list.
Most of the new deputies, it is as
serted, will be men who have been
prominent in the fascist movement
The fascists in the last chamber had
only SO deputies. In the next chamber
.hey expect to have $50.
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Sons Co.; w. P. OFT, 1863 Lyman ave-
ter Hartman, American Brass Co.; and
Mrs. William Threinen, 313 Lake ave-
nue..
The following body was reelected to
serve on the board for a three year
term: Joseph N. Funck, Merchants
and Savings Bank, w. J. Frost, Frost
Manufacturing Co.; Mrs. C. H. Gep-
hart, sos Park avenue; R. S. Kings
ley, Kenosha Evening News; and w
D. Martin, American Brass Co.
Adopt Amendments.
The amendments to the constitution
which were adopted are:
Article 1-Section 2-add (G To
provide a proper fund to care for 9TH
er worthy causes to which Kenosha
as community might be morally obli-
gated which fund is not to exceed
5f6 of the budget for any year.
Article 2-Section (a) to read as
follows: This Association shall con-
sist of all persons, firms and corpora
tions who contribute to the support
of the Community Chest, and shall be
under the management or governing
board to be composed of Is members
elected by the association from its
membership.
Article 4(a) The Executive Com.
mittee. This committee shall consist
of the chairman, the first vice-chair-
man, the nd-vice-chairman, he
secretary and the treasurer and two
additional members to be appointed
by the chairman. This committee shall
be charged with the duty of conduct,
ing the affairs of the organization be-
tween regular meetings of the govern
ing board.
To be added - Article 8-Sectior
Fiscal Year. The fiscal year OF
this association shall be the calendar
year, and the annual reports of the
executive secretary and the treasurer
shall cover the period from January
1st., to December 31st, inclusive.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
NAME CLARK JUDD
ABANK DIRECTOR
Well Known Manufacturer
Joins Directorate of
First National.
OFFICERS REELECTED

Clark S. Judd was elected a director
of the First National bank of Kenosha
ut the annual meeting of the bank,
Geld on Tuesday afternoon. The new
director is the managing head for the
American Brass and Anaconda Cop
9er company in Kenosha and he has
been very active in the industrial and
financial life of Kenosha for a number
IF years. The election of Mr., Judd
was the only change made in the list
II directors of the bank. The list
.ollows:
C. C. Allen, Charles w. Nash, A. H
lance, Clark S. Judd, Charles H.
ofennig, Richard Howe and Charles
J. Brown.
Officers Are Reelected.
At the annual meeting of the board
f directors the following officers were
e-elected for the new year:
President Charles c. Brown.
Vice president C. c. Allen.
Cashier w. H. Purnell.
Assistant Cashier-M. G. Boerner.
Assistant Cashier - j. w. Blair.
Assistant Cashier-Bruce Eastman.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
GUNS BOOM SORROW
FOR DEATH OF WILSON
Great Lakes Naval Station Artillery
Kec. 5snnona 800
During Da.

Waukegan, H. Cannons are
booming at the Great Lakes naval
training station at half hour inter
walls from sunrise to sunset today in
honor Of the dead former commander
in chief of the army and navy, Wood
row Wilson, whose funeral is being
held today. This is in accordance with
the order of Secretary of the Navy
DENLY received from Washington late
yesterday. All officers in uniform will
wear mourning bands for thirty days.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
HIJSHED CITY is TRIBUTE
TO WILSON.

For five minutes today starting at
two o'clock this afternoon, all Ke-
nosha observed a tribute of silence
in a tribute to the late Woodrow
Wilson, former president of the
United States, whose funeral was
held today at Washington. In ans
wer to statement sent out by city
officials, factories of the city order
ad all wheels of industry in Keno
sha to be halted at two O'clock for
the period of silence and workmen
stood with barred heads and paid
tribute to the dead leader. SINH
larly in many places of business
and offices of the city the tribute
of silence was observed
At the city hall, the court house,
the post Office and other public
buildings, the five minute silence
was also observed.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
HOan Vents Spleen
But WithhOlds Veto

lwaukee.-Declaring that Woodrow
Wilson was mot a good American"
Mayor Daniel Hoan, Socialist, late yes
terday announced that he would not
sign a resolution expressing sympathy
to Mrs. Wilson over the death of the
former president, passed by the COM
mon council. He said, however, that he
would not veto the measure so the
message will be forwarded to Wash
ington without the mayors signature.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
CHICAGO AVIATORS
in THRILLING ESCAPE
Spend Entire Night in the Air Fear
ing That They Had Drifted
Over Lake.

Chicago, III. - Jack Speed, Mime
apolis aviator, and Jack Cope, local
pilot, missing since late yesterday in
an airplane, after :. narrowing expert
ence amid blizzardyN conditions, landed
uninjured ten miles frol Hammond,
Ind, they telephoned to friends here
today. Although they escaped injury
their plane was damaged.
Flying in the snow and darkness, the
flyers became obsessed with the belief
that they were over Lake Michigan.
Unable to sight a light they decided
to take their chances with water or
land and landed in open country to
their relief
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07

(, Take a silver dollar and put it on
he map to cover square mile of ter
ritory of the state of Wisconsin, an
other silver dollar to cover another
square mile, and by the time have
covered the entire state with silver you
will have the total amount of fines col
Iected during the year 1923 by the
municipal court of Kenosha county.
There were $56,558.50 fines collected
in Judge Skaters court in 1928 and
Lewis Powell, the assistant district
attorney, says that there are 56,040
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
SAVING SEEN IN
CITY CHARITIES
"Chest" Report Shows Dis
bursement Expense Less
Than 5 Per Cent.
DIRECTORS ELECTED

1t has cost Kenosha less to dis
burse her charities through the activ-
tiles of the Community Chest Asso-
citation, than any other city in the
state. This fact was brought out
last night when Joseph n. Funck,
treasurer of the organization, made
his report at the first annual meeting,
which was held in the council cham
Der of the city hall.
Expenses of all kinds, including
costs of raising the money, for office
rent and equipment, salaries and other
incidentals, amounted to S4,913.53,
while funds amounting to $90,991.36
were collected Disbursements to char
tiles ran, SOS, 1859, while there was
a balance on hand on January 81, of
$16,3 01.34.
C. B. Voorhis, president, told Of
the work which had been done through
the Community Chest during the year.
He also pointed out how numerous
conflicts and Implications, which ex-
listed in the distribution of funds to
worthy charity, had been eliminated
through handling all of the funds
through one central source. Mr. Vocr-
his also traced the machinery Of the
organization and showed how it had
been modelled on a plan similar to
that of the old Patriotic funl which
operated during the war.
Name New Directors.
Ten new directors were named, who
will meet in the near future TO elect
the officers of the organization for
the coming year. Several changes
were also made in the constitution of
the organization.
The new directors who We're named
are, Howard Dennis, and Walter Ward
of the Simmons Co.; Andrew Mexican
MacWhyte Co.; A. L. Klemme, Nash
Motors; and Mrs. John Coney. 412
Alleman avenue. This group will serve
for two years. The following new
members viii serve with the one year
group: Theodore West. N. r. Allen
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
Socialists Vote
Bill of Economies

Paris.-The chamber of deputies to-
NY voted unanimously in principal the
i'll for economies in the governmental
expenses for 1924, amounting to one
illion francs. The Socialists, adopt
1g new tactics, began movement to
blige the government to effect these
economies in military and naval expcn-
itures alone.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
Would Settle Trouble
In Canadian Mines

Montreal--Negotiatio between rep
resentatives of the British Empire
Steel Corporation and the United Mine
Workers of America looking toward d
settlement Of the controversy in the
Nova Scotia coal industry will be con-
tlnued today. Sessions were held yes
terday, but it was stated that the ne
gotiations had not reached stage
where any public statement could be
made
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
Japanese Adopt
"Watchful Waiting

Tokio-Japan's policy toward the
Russian Soviet government for the
present will be one of "watchful wait
ing" it was decided by the cabinet
today Among those well Informed on
governmental affairs it is believed
Japan will seek restoration of COM
mercial relations with Russia prior
to recognition. The progress of Anglo
Russian negotiations is being closely
watched by the cabinet.
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07

Washington, D. CAS- the nation
waited to pay it's last silent tribute
and respect today to Woodrow Will
son. the simple arrangements for the
funeral were completed and the ma
chinery of government stopped.
A few hours before the funeral
cortegc would leave the saddened homo
where he found peace after the tur-
MOL of eight years in the highest Of
flee his countrymen can give him, the
streets were filling along the way it
must pass. Congress was recessed in
honor to the dead; the great govern
ment departments set free swarming
thousands from Office routine that they
might share in the tribute. At spaced
intervals all the way up the wide
avenue to the cathedral, soldiers
and marines were in place to hold
open the road
There was little but respect for the
dead to draw these silent watchers
away from the busy thoroughfares of
the city into the quiet streets that the
short funeral procession would travel.
1t was to be a silent spectacle, with
out martial display or the mourning
Of great bands. They could not hear
the private services at the home and
only few could catch the echoes of
the more formal ceremony at the
chapel where the body of the fallen
leader would be entombed. Yet they
CAME to stand hour by hour just to
watch in silence as the easket was
carried swiftly by.
Small Gathering at Service.
Even before the small gathering Of
those who would join with the family
in the home service had begun to as
semble, the lines we're forming where
the carriages and motors waited to
bear them on later to the chapel For
The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
NATION STANDS
in SILENT TRIBUTE
Simple Services Mark Last
Rites i'm Honor of Form
er President.
CROWD CITY STREETS
Thousands Stand Uncovered
as Funeral COrtege Moves
to Bethlehem Chapel.

Washington, D. Woodrow Wilson
passed forever today from the world
stage where once be lowered a COM
handing figure.
In the sacred privacy, OF the home,
last rites were said-as simple as the
faith of the man himself in the good
ness of God Only the presence OF
the president and the few who were
Mr.. Wilson'S colleagues in days of
greatness and the quiet thousands
waiting outside under wintry skies Tor
humble share in the last leave
taking marked this as the funeral
of q great man.
There was more formal tone to the
cathedral service which followed.
There in the chapel that gives entrance
to the vault of entombment were gath
cred the dignitaries of government and
many men of place and power in
America. Organ note and the peallng
voices of the choir added touch OF
ceremony to the brief religious eXer-
cises But at the very last the dead
passed again into the keeping of his
nearest and dearest who alone might
watch over the entombment and hear
the resigned faith of the commltal
service uttered.
Nation Stands in Silence.
The nations share in that last mo-
rnent was only to stand in silent rcv-
efeN ou / @aile the tu..lb received
the keeping O. an honored Americas.
During the funeral service the busy
life Of the nations capital stood at
pause as elsewhere over America men
did last honor to the dead, The drum
ming guns Of sorrow echoed duly
from the distant hills where Fort
Meyer lies, guns that had heralded tho
dark, cloud-wrapped coming of day
with the sombre elamor of the salute
to dead commander Wherever the
fac few it was half masted in token OF
the nations loss, proclaiming the sor-
row of a great nations people.
Flowers in Profusion.
About the stricken home and at the
cathedral were massed the flowers and
wreaths that came pouring in today
from every nearby city and town.
There were formal pieces and many
clusters of the fragrant blossoms. A
story of the greatness of the man
whose last earthly moment they mark
ed was written on the cards There
were great names among them those
of kings and presidents and others
in whose keeping today is the destiny
of civilization.
Among the offerings were some from
comrades who served in the great war
under the fallen chieftain in the fight
ing ranks of the nation. They bore
such legends "to our comrade," "to our
chief" and from "his comrades"
The loftiness of the blooms will not
fade unnoted, for the grief bowed
widow has willed that these tributes to
Woodrow Wilson shall go out to the
Walter Reed hospital after the cere-
mony, to carry their message of hope
and cheer to the wounded men there
as last token of remembrance from
the chieftain who has passed on to
eternity