San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1924-03-18
Two Secretaries 70 y
o., tioned Abel Air-
craft Contract.
HAYNES ALSO CALLED
Commissioner Blair. Law
yer, and Prison 0i:.',a!
TO Testify.
Washington. u. C., March ts-Sub-

General Daugherty.
The two secretaries are TO be ques-
toned about the government contract
with the Standard Aircraft Corpora
ton. in connection with CASTOR T.
| Means testimony that he had ac-
ccptcd 100000 for thS late jess W.
! Smith to stop further legal action.
Prohibition Commissioner HAYNES
and Internal Revenue Commissioners
Blair also wee SUNNI 1utd presumably
= for questioning about Means assertion
that he "got secretary Mellon in an
investigation of the Issue of permit,
fo, Withdrawals of whiSkey."
/ Alfred X. Urion. a lawyer named il
the alleged film deal also was sub
uopan6d as was ii. ii. NOtaw., super
: irtendcnt of federal prisons. and a re-
lative by marriage of the late Presi-
dent Harding.
Among other subpoenacd We're: As
sistant Attorney General Grim. An
dcrson and Johnson: James Finch
pardon attorney Of tho Department Of
Justice. and Elmer Dover. former as
sistant secretary of treasury.
William 4. Orr. former secretary
To Ex-Governor Whitman, one of the
alleged parties to The fight film
deal" underwent a rigid crosS-eN
animation from the Department o.
Justice proberS in connection with his
part in the deal
Orr First on Stand.
William 4. Orr. one of the ALLEGED
parties to the fight film deal" wa
The first witness today in the Daugh
erty investigation.
Orr said he was "sore" because G
q. Holdridge. former Department
| of Justice agent. yesterdays witness
had classified everybody connected
with the film deal as a crook. Ill
denied that he (OrfD represented tn
| late Jess w. Smith in the deal am
denied that Smith had any interest II
the picture.
Orr testified he owned 20 per cen
| Of the picture contract in return 10
his Services" Tex Richard asked 10
his help in getting the films show
as Richard knew of Orr'S previous at
tempts to get films past the New lor
state censors and also of his poll1ca
connections. His part was to help over
come difficulties of censorship an
also in publicity.
Orr told of knowing Daugherty
| Uri0n and others named in the film
case. He had been associated with VI"
Daugherty and jess Smith during thu
| Harding campaign in Ohio. He ire
| auently visited Mr.. Daugherty here
he sSid, and had met Howard Man
| nington at the little green house OF
X street" He had never met PreSl
dent Harding and had not attended thu
exhibition of the fight pictures here IL
Washington, as testified by Means.
Never Saw Daugherty.
Orr said he had never met Daugh
erty in the little green house on Is
street." repudiating a statement tina
he had met him there.
Orr said he had been paid Tin thu
neighborhood of $500 in the flu
deal" but denied having talked will
Jess Smith about the film or abou
the money
Did you talk over the possibilit,
! that the pictures would be coufiscat
ed?" asked Senator Jones.
Something was said to the effec
| the confiscation wouldn't be possible.
You and Muma. and Ike Martin
were together?" Chairman Brookhart
put in.
"No-that's one of the things you
| listened to that isn't true Orr re
piled. Martin was n real person. too.
Holdridge had testified that Martin
was a dummy. really Muma himself
Senator Wheeler pressed Orr vigor
ously for details of exactly what h,
did and he told of seeing the New York
lcensOrs and discussing "uplifters' who
| opposed certain films.
"Nou raised some money. S3J,OOO OF
| $4,000 for the front porch campaign
at Marion?" asked Senator Wheeler
Il raised some"
Gave Daugherty No Cash.
Orr suggested that Senator Wheeler
should go TO William Boyce Thompson
of the Republican national committed
to find out his campaign fund raising
efforts.
You raised some money yourself
and turned it over to Daugherty?
Not one cent"
Did you ever meet Daugherty at
the little green house on X street:'
Yes"
"And you met President Harding
there?"
Il never did in my life"
"But you did meet Daugherty and
Warrington there:"
II never did meet Daugherty
there"
The discrepancy was seized instant
~.
(Which time did you tell the truth:
demanded Senator AshurSt.
Orr. to correct the record. said ne
had never met Daugherty Mt the *
street house. but had seen Daugherty
and Smith together on occasions.
His contract with Quimby. Orr said,
was made after he had arranged with
the New York film commission that
the pictures would not be interfered
with if shown prior to August /, 1921.
when the censorship law became eff
fective.
You told the commissioners that
you said you could get the picture
across before any real opposition came
into the field?' Senator Wheeler
asked
No" Orr objected. Il told them
from knowledge of the law that the
picture had been gotten ready before
August !. 1921. and couldn't be inter-
fcrred with"
Talk Gets Rough.
After an interchange of questions,
senator Wheeler summed up:
You saw no nowspapers-you got
out no Stories-you placed no news
papermcn-tell us anything You did,