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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
CALLS CHICAGO SCHOOL
PUPILS UNDERNOuRlsHED

CHICAGO, Jan. 90. - Asserting
that between IS and 40 per cent Of
the children attending Chicago's
public schools are undernourishcd,
committee from the Physicians
Fellowship Club has taken steps
by which It hopes to bring about
the adoption of corrective meas
ures for this condition.
Conditions in the schools have
reached a point which necessitates
immediate action" DR.. Ritter, a
member Of the club, explained.
THE physical and mental develop
ment Of many children is being
seriously retarded.
Few parents know how to feed
their children or care for their
health. Education alone will eradi-
cate this condition. Our plans will
not conflict with any action now
being contemplated by the Board
of Education"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
Criminal Probe and
Action BY u. S. Is Well
Justified. Saws DOheny

NEW YORK. Jan. 28.-Edward
l.. Doheny. here to search for the
note which Albert B. Fall gave
him for a 100000 loan, declared to-
day II was fright and proper that
the Government should investigate
the possibility of criminal action in
the leasing, Of naval reserve oil
lands, and prosecute IL any crimes
have been committed.
$50 far as ! and the Pan Ameri-
can Petroleum and Transport Com
pany are concerned there Is nothing
70 fear.W he added. "Our leases
were regular and proper. There was
nothing criminal about our transac-
tlon."
This was IN answer to President
COolidge's statement that the pres
emit Congressional investigations
may lead to criminal prosecutions.
Commenting on the possibility Of
Ohe Government instituting civil
suits to recover the le9sed lands,
Doheny said such . course was not
necessary"
II doubt that such suits win be
RYleA," he said. $50 far as our
Snaacs are concerned, / have offered
% turn them back to the Govern
nAent Il an impartial investigation
shows any Irregularities"
Doheny arrived from washington
last night and IL stopping at the
home Of his son, Edward L. Do.
heny, r., who IL In California
He 0aid ho had not yet had en-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
LEG|ONBANQUET
HAS THREE
AIMS
Will Commemorate Lincoln,
Celebrate Freedom From
Debt, and Receive Flag.

An elaborate banquet for the
threefold purpose Of commemorate
ing the birthday Of Abraham Lin
coin, celebrating the wiping out Of
the debts of Stuart Walcott Post.
American Legion, and for permit.
ting fitting exercises for the preseTl.
tation Of a silk American flag TO
the post by Henry Lansburgh, viii
be held February IL at LAiglon
by members Of the post.
Already q large number OF promi-
nent persons have accepted invita-
lions to the banquet which will be
limited to 800 persons. Among
those who have accepted are Senator
Royal s. Copeland, New York: Con
gressmen John j. McSwain. South
Carolina; John M. Nelson. WiscOm-
sin; Charles l., Alternately, North
Carolina: Florian Lampert. Wis.
cousin; Thomas Blanton. Texas, ana
Charles r. Davis, Minnesota; Anton
Stephan, Paul McGahan, depart.
mental commander Of the Ameri-
can Legion; Gen. John L. Le1eulle'
U. s. M. c.; q. Logan Payne, Justice
Robert r. Mattingly. Henry Lana.
burgh, Capt. John r. Craig. u. 8.
M. c.; A.. o. Ollie, vice president Of
the North Capitol Savings Bank;
George White. president OF the
Metropolitan National Bank. and
William T. Pierson, Of the Chesa-
peake and Potomac Talsphone Com
pany.
Charles b. Riemer, commander
of the Stuart Wolcott Post, who
will preside at the banquet, an
nounced today that whereas the
post was more than $4,000 in debt
In 1919, this indebtedness has been
paid In fun and there IL now q
surplus Of about $500 In the treas
ury OF the organization.
Among the entertainment features
OF the program will be Happy Wal
ker's Golden Pheasant Orchestra,
the Columbian Male Quartet. 1.-THE
International Four" Ambrose Dur.
kin. Jack Bowie, Lew Levy, Jacque
Heidenheimer, George O'Connor and
Edwin Horn. Other numbers viii
be announced later
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
NOVA scoTIAN MINES IDLE
AS 10000 MEN STRIKE

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Jan. 26.--
All the coal mines Of Cape Breton
and the Nova Scotia mainland are
idle. The 10000 members Of Dis
trict 90. United Mine Workers
OF America, suspended work be-
cause their contract expired and
negotiators failed to agree on a
new one. The British Empire Steel
Corporation Topped 20 per cent from
the wage Of 5000 Of its men.
Whether the suspension shall be-
come Q strike awaits the decision of
John L. Lewis, president of United
Mine Workers Of America, to whom
Silby Barrett, provisional president
of the district, submitted the
miners side of the case. The gov.
eminent also has been advised Of
the situation.
Steel corporation officials de-
clared that the miners demanded
increases of 55 cents an hour for
day men and 20 per cent for con.
tract miners.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
Fall Was Removed AS
Judge By Cleveland
For Killing 8 Lawyer
BY JOHN II. I.AMBERT.
Cosm0pOlltan News Serylce.


Former Secretary of the Interior
Alert B. FAN was removed from of.
flee as territorial judge in Mex
Mexico in the days when justice
was dealt out from the end Of a
six-gun.
He was accused of killing a man.
The records of hts removal have
themselves been secretly removed
from the files OF the Department OF
Justice here.
lished v a secret Investigation Of
Falls life record under direction, Of
Senator Walsh of Montana.
FAN, born in Kentucky, went to
New Mexico as a young man and
practised law. He was q Democrat
then. President Cleveland appointed
him a federal judge Of the territory.
FAN Hard Fighter.
Fan had the reputation Of being
a hard-ffghter who took partisan
sides quickly and aggresively. His
enemies charged that he became
the head of one Of the pioneer
frontier groups of hard.riding, hard
drinking hard-fighting frontiersmen
and used his office arbitrarily to
break up the opposing gang.
He was specifically accused Of
leading posse in at least one in.
stance. The charges against rim
said he, while presiding 8 Judge,
got into a quarrel with a lawyer
trying a case before him and, as
they were leaving the room, both
drew and Fall beat the lawyer to
1t. The lawyer was killed. Those
instances were set up against Fall
as indicating only that he was tenn
peramentally unfit to be Judge.
Was Asked to Resign.
On the bases Of those and other
charges. President Cleveland asked
him to resign.
Attorney General Daugherty will
be summoned back from the South
to take the witness stand. Daugh-
erty, 1t 10 said, not only approved
the leases Of the naval oil, reserves
to Doheny and Sinclair as legal
form but he made 1t possible for
Doheny to get large adjacent tracts
which were not included In the
original lease.
It is said that one Custer. one
MacMurray, and others had made
claim to the oil reserves. Their suit
was pending. Daugherty's office
was handling the case.
Doheny is said to have made set
tlemen with the claimants, and
Daugherty then sent the papers In
the case back to Fall. The case
was dropped. Fall then leased the
formerly disputed land to Doheny.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
CHICAGO STEALS
STATE WATER, !.
He SAYS
Michigan's Attorney General
Charges Drainage Canal Is
Destroying Harbors.

NEW YORK. Jan. 26.-Michigan
Is going on with its legal campaign
against the use Of the waters Of
the Great Lakes by Chicago for ITS
drainage canal system, Attorney
General Andrew M. Daugherty,, Of
the Wolverine State, declared at
the Michigan Society's annual ban
quet here.
I'VE are going to stop It," he
said, after outlining the history Of
what he called the larceny Of
water" by Chicago.
cided 1t would clean up and Rp-
this purpose. This commission de-
cided to build.a drainage canal and
wanted 100000 gallons Of water q
minute from Lake Michigan.
"The commission went to Alger,
then Secretary Of War, for per-
mission. He told them they could
take the water provided - they
gained the sanction Of Congress.
This they have never been able
to do.
Six States Protest.
Nevertheless, Chicago has drawn
water from Lake Michigan, grad.
ually increasing the quantity and
now the city is taking 1900 cubic
feet per second and there's no tell
Ing where 1t will stop. In addition
to using the water for the canal
they have built a dam that gives
them $4,000 hydraulic horsepower.
The situation IL intOlerable.
NNHtNhieRoA Wf0anWUAva NffAAaa0$0
Ohio, Pennsylvania and New York
as the province Of Ontario, which
makes 1t an international question.
They have all joined to protest
against the larceny Of the water by
Chicago.
THE Wisconsin suit IL now pend
ing as we'll a. the suit Of the
Federal Government to restrict the
use Of the waters. Judge Lands
retired without entering decree,
Judge Carpenter, succeeded him,
granted this decree, and 1t is now
up to the United States Supreme
Court. Michigan has also filed
briefs to assist the Government.
HarbOrs Arc Injured.
"The harbor mouths Of Wisconsin
have been lowered by the with
drawal Of water from the Great
Lakes and require dredging. Every
inch OF water stolen means 100
tons Of freight, the superintendent
Of the 500 canal told me. Mich
igan's shores are barren. Rocks
hitherto hidden are now prominent;
streams formerly navigable are now
Of no use; dock property has been
destroyed.
II do not believe the highest court
Of the land will say we cannot stop
this larceny of the water"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
80 DEAD, 8 HURT
IN GOAL NINE
EXPLOSION
Serious Injuries Expected to
Increase Death Toll in
Illinois Disaster.
lcOntlnued frorn E1rst Paee.l

UutsuuSo rum h9t Go6CJ
CIinch Coal Ccmpany's east mine,
the scene Of yesterdays disaster
was operating
There were no tears. no Mysteries,
az the men filed back again. Nor
last night, when the bodies were
being taken from the rOped off
mouth Of the mine, was there any
Of the eObbing grief, which had
dominated many mine disasters.
Seven UndertaIteTs Work.
Seven undertakers worked through
the zero night caring for the dead
Of the second largest mine disaster
in the history of Williamson county.
In 1918, at the Royalton mine,
fifty-two lives were sacrificed in a
similar explosion.
AS the men filed down the street
at dawn, swinging their aluminium
dinner pals, they talked Of John
Reeves. Reeves, they agreed, was
the hero Of the blast yesterday. He
is fIfty.seven, q miner for thirty
seven years, bent and withered with
the years Of underground track
laying.
He had never mined a pound Of
coal. but he knew mines. Danics
and near panics, they were an old
story to him. Seated today on the
side Of his cot. he knocked the
ashes from his pipe and told or his
experiences yesterday.
Warned Men Not 70 Run.
There was rumbling, as I re-
member it," he said, rubbing his
tired face with q scanned hand. IT
dropped my tools. Men ran by me
crying, shrieking. / knew the
black death was coming up.
But 1t IL bad to run. called
to the fleeing men as they sped by:
Take it easy, the fans are work.
ing"
These simple words are credited
with saving many lives from the
panic that followed the blast. Many
of the men that dashed headlong
through the mine dropped dead, but
Reeves walked to safety and many
followed the old-timer's example.
Hundreds Wait Through Night.
Hundreds Of weeping women and
mine workers pressed about the
mouth Of the 360-foOt shaft during
the night, awaiting the bringing
up Of the dead and injured.
A mile and a half along the tun-
nels leading away from the bot
tom of the shaft, rescue teams
from Herrin and Benton extricated
the bodies from the debris and
moved the wounded toward the
elevator shaft.
Other workers with picks and
shovels hacked at the barrier near
the explosion scene behind which
most Of the bodies were found.
The rescue workers; in communi-
cation with the surface by tele-
phone, reported that quantities Of
gas filled the tunnel.
Three Of the injured, Benny SUIT
ton, Pat Farmer and Berry, Morgan
are so badly burned that they are
expected to die.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
LEV||V WILL Be.
ON VIEW FOR
YEARS
Reds Decide to Preserve His
5odyBad Break in Conn
Enunist Ranks.
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where Lenin lived and worked for
four years.
"This mausoleum," said President
Kalenin, will be erected amidst
the graves OF our comrades who
fell in the revolutionary struggle .
Despite the general grief over
the passing Of the Red leader the
political controversy Is forcing its
way to the front. g. s. Zinoviev,
head of the Petrograd Soviet and
member If the executive committee
Of the Third Internationale, pub
lished an article In the official
Bolshevism newspaper, Pravda, con-
tanning a report Of the communist
leaders conference.
Opposed to Concessions.
The report espouses the policy of
tn 3 communist "old guard which
opposes excessive CONCESSIONS in
order to gain recognition by out.
side powers. This faction repre-
sents the radicals In the BOIshevist
party.
'It would be the greatest folly
to make excessive concessions In
view Of the growing complications
In the camp Of the international
bourgeois" said Zinoviev. Mean
while, ~ are growing stronger and
stronger. even II 1t IL slowly"
Zinoviev criticised Leonid Krassin
and Karl Radek for their willing
ness to make concessions to Great
Britain, America, France and
Italy In order to gain recognition
by those governments.
Len1n's body remained In view
throughout the day in Trades Union
Hall where thousands passed before
the Red bier. Madame Lenin Is
living In Geclusion.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
Detective at Teapot
Hearing But Matter
OF Police Formally

preseYCe Ot PeaN1I1arterS Va
tective Arthur scrivener, at the
Teapot Dome hearing yesterday,
which aroused considerable COM
Ment, was merely Iormality, ac-
OOrding to Inspector Clifford L.
Grant, head of local detectives.
Denying that any EeQuest had
been made for the man, Inspector
GIANT declared he had always
a ken the precaution assigning
O detective to all the hearings at
the House and Senate to guard
against trouble"
Intimation had been made that
the detective was sent there to pro-
tect one Of the men conducting the
investigation into the Teapot Dome
deal.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
FALL GOT POST
IN 'BARCA|N,'
CHARGE
Democrats Want Daugherty to
Explain Politics at 40
Convention.
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incident and whether or not he can
give the names Of the persons who
took part in it. The theory IL COM
ing to be widely held that part Of the
burden that weighed President Hard
ing down while In the White House
was that he found himself surround
ed with arrangements and bargains
which he could not control.
It is regarded now as significant
that Mr.. Fall. just as soon as he
took office, devoted himself to the
furtherance of the welfare Of the
American oil industry, even in mat
ters lying outside his own depart
ment. The very first large public
act Of the Harding Administration
was to pass the treaty with Colon.
bia, giving that country $25 ,00O. 600
for the alleged wrong committed
upon 1t by President Roosevelt at
the time Of the setting up Of tho Re
public Of Panama on Colombian ter,
ritory.
This treaty was pushed through
the Senate directly by Mr.. Fall. He
transmitted to the Senate the maps
and charts and arguments on which
the treaty was passed, and these ar
gumentS were to the effect that 1t
was necessary TO pass the treaty In
order to get concessions on the pub
lie domain Of Colombia for American
oil companies. Such concessions
were soon thereafter granted.
In Defense Of Fall.
II 10 urged In defense OF Mr.. Falls
policies that while he was q Senator
he always frankly let it be known
that he was opposed to the conserve
ton idea ana that he believed in
transferring the public domain as
rapidly a. possible into private
hands for effective business develop.
ment. His appointment to be head
Of the Interior Department, which
handles the Federal public domain,
was naturally taken by him to indi'
cate that his ideas, and not the
previous idea of conservation, were
now to dominate the views and the
policies Of the Government.
1t 10 thereupon claimed BY his
adveraaries that there must have
been some inside political reason for
appointing to the position Of Secre-
tary, OF the Interior an anti-conserva-
ZIONIST whose well-known convictions
and purposes would be bound to lead
him to reverse the whole recent con.
servation efforts Of Congress and Of
the country.
1t Is now alleged that this inside
political reason goes hack to an.
obligation incurred through q
promise delivered by somebody to
somebody In the Republican national
convention Of 1920. The desire to put
Attorney General Daugherty on the
stand Is felt by Democrats because
they think he may know about that
promise, and 1t is felt by various
Republicans because they think that
Daugherty can deny and disprove
the existence Of the promise and 80
head off the Democrats from their
new threatened political move about
1t.
copyright 1884. washington Press
GarvicO.l
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
SAVED FROM PRISON, WIFE
LEAPS oFLOoRS TO DEATH

NEW YORK, Jan, 2e.--Mrs. Wei
don Westerfield, forty years old,
wife Of a paint dealer, early today
jumped from the window of her
ninth-floor Riverside drive apart
ment. She was dead when passera-
by reached her. According to police,
Mrs. Westerfield has been in III
health for several months.
Before the woman leaped, her
husband said, he struggled with her
as she tried to drink a dose Oe
poison. He succeeded In getting
the glass of poison from her, but
she broke from his arms and leaped
through the window.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
COST OF LIVING STILL
GOING UP IN BRITAIN

LONDON, Jan. 26.--The high cost
Of living problem Is still on the
tapis In England.
The Ministry of Labor Gazette
announces that the average level
of retail prices of commodities, in.
GLIDING fuel, feed. rent and clothing,
Is still " per cent above that OF
1914 and has increased per cent
In the last month.
Food prices alone have increased
8 per cent In the last month.
A distinct upward trend In living
costs is shown by Ministry OF La.
Dor statistics, the upward move
rnent starting In June and pro-
crossing rapidly throughout the
autumn months.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
JOHN D. JR., STILL HOPEFUL
OF LEARNING TO PLAY GOLF

NEW York, Jan. 2e.-"If my
money holds out" John D. Rookie
teller, jr., told the members Of the
mems Bible class of the Park Av-
enue Baptist Church, Il eventually
will learn to play a pretty good
game of golf"
All he has learned Of the game SO
far, Mr.. Rockefeller said, IL "to
hit the ball once in ten times" and
never to pick up q lost ball until
II has stopped rolling" Another
necessity, he finds, 10 to wear a
snappy, suit that gives the proper
atmosphere and never to appear in
q gymnasium suit.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
WALLACE FAVORs FUND
TO AID AGRICULTURE

Appearing before the Senate Ag-
riculture Committee, Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace today gave bis
Endorsement to the McNary bill to
create q $200,000,000 Government
corporation to finance the exporta-
ton of surplus American farm
products. a
Wallace said he regarded the hill
as a proper remedy for reelief
Of the agricultural industry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
ASH To
CALL FOR
ACTION
Continued from First Pagel
when the Administration is sure Of
it, ground.


Wu0H the ADMINISTRATION 1S SURF VI
it, ground.
Work Starts Probe.
At the direction of the President,
Secretary OF the Interior Work to-
day started an investigation OF the
legal and technical aspects of the
Teapot Dome and California oil
leases.
Il was also learned that an off.
cial statement Of the President 6
views concerning the leases prob.
ably would be issued by the White
House following the testimony Of
former Secretary Fall before the
Senate Investigating Committee.
Fall himself, broken and i'll. will
be accorded an opportunity to tell
his story Monday before action Is
begun either towards criminal pros.
ecution or toward cancellation of
the leases he negotiated to the Sin.
clair and Doheny interests. He Dor.
rOwCd sums ranging from $40, 900 to
100000 from both, according to the
evidence.
Meanwhile the Public Lands Com.
n1ittee itself went back to work to.
day to try to straighten out the
mass Of conflicting testimony and
charges before it.
Unsigned Note Found.
Interest Of the committee CEN
torod around an unsigned memoran-
dunn which was found in. the com.
mlttee's files. Clerks in charge of
the file declared they do not know
how 1t got there. The memoran-
dunn denied Fall ever obtained
money from Sinclair or e. L.
DOheny, president Of the Pan
American Petroleum Company,
lessee Of the Elk Hills, California,
reserve, and assailed the investlga-
ton into Falls private financial
affairs ''as an attack upon de-
cency."
Senator Walsh said today C. c.
Chase, FANS son-in-law, or Senator
Smoot, may be called to the stand
to tell If they know anything about
the memorandum.
Testimony Of Fred G. Dezendorf,
former eInplOye Of the Land Office.
that the Government failed to act
upon his adverse report on the
acquisition by Standard Oil Com.
pany Of California Of sections 16
and SO In Elk Hills started the
committee into q thorough inveHti.
cation Of the California leases.
Leslie @. Garnett, former special
assistant attorney general, pre-
vlously charged Attorney General
Daugherty failed to act upon his
recommendation that proceedings
be launched to recover the land
which In records of the Land
Office was said to be mineral bear
ing and thus not open to entry.
Garrett said he was told by
Daugherty In q note delivered to
him by q counsel for the Standard
company not to take any action
''until you save heard from me. !"
"I have not heard from Daugh-
erty yet" Garnett testified.
Roosevelt Summoned.
Archie Roosevelt and e. D.
Wahlberg, both Of whom resigned
from Sinclair's company because
Of ''guspicions," were summoned
by Senator Smoot, Rep.), of Utah,
to explain differences concerning
4 payment Of $6S 900 to Tom
johnson, foreman of Falls New
Mexico ranch. Roosevelt previous
~ testified Wahlberg had told him
about Cancelled checks for this
amount which aroused his suspi-
cions. Wahlberg later said Roose-
welt was mistaken, that he made
no mention of $68 900, but had re-
terred to "six or eight cattle"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-01-26
HINDU SOCIALISTS GET
MACD0NALD'S GREETING

MADRAS, Jan. 2e.--The news
paper Hindu published q goodwill
message from Premier Ramsay
Macdonald of England.
The message, however, warned
the Indian Socialists that the Lon
don government would not be
cowed BY threats Of force"