The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-03-19


Burns and Daugherty got rid Of all
sleuths who could not be bribed, or
compromised with prostitutes, and
had them transferred to distant
countries where they could not in
terfere with the illegal transporta-
ton Of the fight films which were
owned by Jap Muma working under
Ed. Mclean, Jess Smith, Harry
Daugherty and William j. Burns.
William A. Orr, former secretary
o ex-governor Whitman Of New
York. Muma's partner in tile con-
piracy, took the witness stand to-
'ay. He testified that he had 20
er cent interest in the pictures but
Z denied he was crook.
Muma's friends are advising him
. spill the beans and hold nothing
cock. He is stated to have informed
;. o. Holdridge that Harry M.
Dauzherty, encouragement, was
head Of the fight film conspiracy.
Believe Coolidge Saw Films.
The investigators are said to be
-unning down report that Calvin
Coolidge, then vice-president, was
present in McLean's house on July
:, when the Dempsey-C Carpenter
fight films were shown in violation
IF law. The present incumbent OF
the White House, won whatever lit
lie reputation he has for his devo-
ton to law and order, in helping to
Freak a strike of policemen in the
,ity of Boston in the year 1919. II
vas already stated on the witness
tand that the late Harding, Daugh.
ity Of Boston in the year 1918. 1t
7ere there. It was said they en-
Dyed the picture immensely and
bought it was shame that the
people of the United States could
lot see a splendid picture Of Ameri-
can manhood pummeling Frenchman
into Inconsistencies. The law passed
prohibiting the interstate transpor-
tation of films, Daugherty declared
at the "show" was direced against
the Jeffries-Johnson fight films
which showed a black man beating
a white pug. This was bad for the
white race, the Encouragement is
alleged TO nave SAID.
Bunch of SubpOenaes Issued.
Among those for whom subpoenaes
were issued besides Secretary Of the
Treasury, Andrew Mellon and Sec
rotary of War John Weeks are: Pro-
hibition Commissioner Haynes; John
w. H. Grim, special assistant attor-
ney-general; Arthur Sixsmith, secre-
tary to Secretary Mellon; David H.
Blair, Commissioner of internal Re-
venue; Elmer Dover, former assistant
secretary of the treasury; Alfred r.
Urion and Henry X. Urion, Wash
ington attorneys; Adner r. Johnson,
jr., assistant attorney general; H. H.
Votaw, superintendent o. prisons and
head of the parole board of the de-
partment of justice, whose wife is
sister of the late President Harding;
James A. Finch, pardon clerk, depart
ment of justice; Arthur Robb, chief
file clerk, department of justice;
Henry w. Anderson, special assistant
attorney-general and trustee pending
dissolution of the packers associa-
ton; Alan j. Pickering, army air
service, and Ernest C. Steward,
Washington.
William Orr told story of large
totalling sometimes $685.
900 at time, to Howard Warrington,
close friend of Daugherty. These
payments Orr said, were in connec-
ton with "liquor deals".
Orr, the witness who told Of the
alleged liquor deals, said that "vari-
GUS people" gave him money in con-
nection with liquor Withdrawals, and
that he always turned it over to Man
nington. Senator Wheeler asked him
IL the total did not reach 100000,
but Orr said he could not tell the
exact figure.
Previously Orr was asked about
his connection with the plan to dis
tribute the Dempsey-c Carpenter fight
films and disclosed that he acted as
cam paiVn fund COLLECTOR for the Re- |