The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-19
HUGHES AND NEW . MAY BE CALLED
 IN SENATE QUIZ
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.7 Quimby, the New York film producer, gave similar testimony Saturday.
 Development of the fight film case by other witnesses is postponing the reappearance on the stand of Roxie Stinson, divorced wife of Jess Smith, and Gaston B. Means. There were no replies from the committee today to the |. charge by Attorney General Daugherty that Miss Stinson was involved in a u scheme to secure $150,OOO from him in k payment for her silence" Chairman = Brookhart received Mir. Daugherty's let ter making the charge, but did not place " it in the record and declined to com ment upon it.
 Testimony Tallies
 Orr's testimony of the fight film 'dear' in many respects tallied with that of previous witnesses and ill others Orr flatly and emphatically contra dicted previous testimony. He denied that Jess Smith was interested in the deal or had talked to him about it or that he represented Smith, as Gaston Means had testified. He admitted that < there had been contract with Jap = Muma, and a man named Martin, on { one side, and Tex Richard on the 7 other. "Rickard," Orr stated, brought him into the affair by asking him to ' take over the publicity and censorship features"
 Orr told of getting the pictures passed by the New York censors, but could recall little other services" he per formed. Weekly statements of receipts from the film exhibitions were made to Ia n~,, but L4 sAl AhaA F., had helped in the exhibitions outside of New York.
 | Mannington Enters
 Howard Mannington for the first time was brought sharply into the in- vestigation by Orr when he told of N-"t turning over money" to Mannington in liquor cases. He said he arranged with New York and Brooklyn drug compa. nies-a half dozen or so-for Manning ton to act as their attorney in liquor cases here before the government de. partments. The witness insisted he did not reeve "a cent" but that all the liquor money went to Mannington
 Mir. Daugherty, Orr said, introduced him to Mannington, as we'll as to Jess Smith, and Mannington, whose law of flee was a desk in "the little green house on K street" was in frequent conference with him and Daugherty
 The money payments to Manning ton, Orr said, were ''in most cases to prevent going into court, to avoid litigation" Orr denied, in replying te questions, that he had told Howard Rice, secretary to Miles Poindexter, for merly a senator from Washington, and now American ambass" dor to Peru, that the payments to Ma dhington amounted to $200,000. He Ialso denied having stated that MapTIhgton was compelled to refund $40 zoo.
 Denies Seeing Harding
 Orr said lte first had met Manning ton at the {"Iittle green house on K street." bat denied that this also was where hSs had met MT. Daugherty and President Harding. He said he had never me: MT. Harding although he had been active in Ohio during the campaign, and also had aided William Boyce Thompson in the office of the republican national treasurer, in obtain ing campaign funds. Orr also told of recommending appointment of United States District Attorney Haywood oi T. New York in whose office, Fred Quinn by testified, Quimby was told to wait "a little while before showing the fight pictures"
 In what Senator Wheeler referred tc as the whisky deals," Orr said he had participated only in liquor and not mar cotic drug or other cases. He also denied having made claim on Jess Smith estate. but said the matter had been broached to him by Howard Rice.
 Hayes And Mellon
 More testimony regarding liquor cases is expected from Prohibition Com missioner Haynes. Secretary Mellon also may be quizzed on this line, Gas ton Means having testified that Mel lon once Slipped through" his fingers but finally was caught" in a liquor investigation.
 The cabinet officers and other higt officials summoned probably will not be heard before next week. Secretaries Weeks and Mellon, committee mem bers said, were to be asked primarily about their method of exchanging con fidental information with the depart ment of justice. MT. Weeks may also be asked about the Standard Aircraft case, in which Gaston Means told ol receiving $10O,000 for Jess Smith.
 Commenting today on the subpoens seryed on him; Secretary Weeks saiC he Assumed it was the committees in tention to ask him about the govern ment's contract in the aircraft case He indicated belief that if the $100, GOO was paid for the purpose of stopping prosecution of the Standard Corpora tion, it was paid through q misunder standing as to the exact status oi the case. The papers in the case, Mir Weeks said, had been transmitted tc the justice department by the war de pertinent only last week. after theil audit by air service officials.
 Grim Slated
 Former Assistant Attorney General Grim, who is in charge of the veterans bureau graft cases, is to be asked about the fight film affair and many other criminal cases touched upon in the investigation. MT. Votaw and Mir Finch are to be questioned in connection with Roxe Stinson's testimony relative to al leged efforts of Jess Smith to secure q pardon for a relative of Joe Weber the actor, Other reported deals in pardOns also have been reported to the committee and are being investigated
 The department of justice adminis tratiO nof the packers case and possibly the Chemical Foundation and other wal contract cases are expected to be gone into with Mir. Anderson. Committeeman will not reveal what questions are tC be asked Elmer Dover, who has been prominent for years in high repub lican circles, and who resigned from thu treasury after difficulties with Secretary Mellon and Commissioner Blair.
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 WOMAN BADLY BRUISED Miss Esther Shelton Injured In Crasl
 Of Automobiles