The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-13
OIL DEALS TINTED Mrs. StinsOn Tells Com mittee Husband Lived
 In Constant Fear MADE MUCH MONEY WHILE IN CAPITAL Dempsey Carpentier Films Were To Be Part Of Big Thing It Is Said
 BLIND STOCK ACCOUNT,
 REPORTED CARRIED Story Of Lifelong Devotion To Attorney General Unfolded By Suicides Confidant
BLIND STOCK ACCOUNT,
 REPORTED CARRIED

WASHINGTON, March 12.-(By Associated Press. With an amazing tale, replete with insinuation, infer ences and charges, the Senate investi- gation of Attorney General Daugherty got under way today with a cyclonic start.
 Roxie Stinson, of Columbus, Ohio, divorced wife of Jesse W. Smith. of Washington Courthouse, O., bumper and friend" confidant of the Attorney General, who committed suicide in the latter's apartment here a year ago, was the first and only witness.
 From behind the crumpled folds of tear-soaked handkerchief, she sobbed and murmured sensational story that ranged from stock transactions to mo- tion pictures of the Carpenter Demp- sey prize fight, all of which she insisted were connected with profits for her late husband and the Attorney General.
 In all the accounts of his doings in Washington, which Smith confided to her, the divorced wife contended against all cross examination that when Smith said i've" he meant himself and Daugherty and that when she said 'they" she meant the same two men.
 Received Shares Of Stock
 Specifically, Miss Stinson testified that Smith had given her p shares of White Motors stock, which was a part of what "they" had obtained without any cost; that Smith told her i've" looked forward to profits approximat- ing $18O,000 if it could be arranged to ks kIxo .<sa 1E Al pentier-Dempsey fight; that Smith had come into possession of large amount of stock of the Pure Oil company of Ohio, and that Smith, proprietor of small-town store in Ohio, worth ap- proximately $175,000 when he came to Washington in 1921, soon increased his fortune to approximately $250, GOO < All this, Miss StifiSon nasaid. Was done by Eve" and 'they" and she persisted that the second man of the combination always was Attorney General Daugh- erty, because, she declared that in all their condolences Smith never meant anybody else and that furthermore when he did, he mentioned the person specifically by name.
 Having gone two nights without sleep, Miss Stinson said she had ex- acted a promise from Senator Wheeler, democrat, of Montana, the committees prosecutor to keep her on the stand only an hour today. She will return and finish her story if possible tomor- row. She was just getting down to questioning about "a mysterious green house on K street." when the commit tee excused her.
 Counsel Objects
 But in the short time she occupied the witness chair the events of the ses- sion resembled a car load of ammuni- tion going off. Senator Wheeler had a row with Paul Rowland. Mir. Daugh- erty's chief counsel; sparks flew from both sides of the table and Senator Wheeler launched into a machine gun fusillade of questioning in which the questions and the answers flew so fast and covered so wide a ground that a rOOmful of veteran newspaper cor respondents hardened to the rattle and fire of congressional rushes, simply couldn't keep up with the proceedings.
 Smith told her, Mrs. Stinson said, of many transactions in which MT. Daugh- erty was joined although she said Mfr. Daugherty's name was not mentioned specifically. She professed inability to state from whom or for what service such stock was received but promised tomorrow upon arrival of papers from Ohio. to support her testimony with documentary evidence. The committee also subpOenaed Columbus Stock brok- CTS records and telegrams to and from Smith.
 No "BulldOzing'
 When Mir. Rowland sought to inter- vene in Miss Stinson's examination, Senator Wheeler rushed to the limits of the committee table declaring he would not be ''bulldozed." There was a stormy scene over presentation of a prepared statement of the Attorney General. It finally was received but only after the committee twice, by vote of 3 to 2 and with Senator Brook hart. of Iowa insurgent republican voting with the democratic members,
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