New Britain herald., 1924-03-06
COOLIDGE WIRES SENT TO MILAN
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resolution and the New York speech" Lenroot Wires Reply.

resolution and the New York speech"
 Lenroot Wires Reply.
 Then an exchange of messages was read showing that on January 10. AL bert B. Fall. at Palm Beach. wired Chairman Lenroot of the oil commit tee asking If Walsh has authority to subpoena me to testify.'' and got re- sponse saying he had not.
 Chief Walsh. chief prosecutor of the oil inquiry. had gone to Florida 10 question Mclean, but committee rec ords show that he was empowered to summon such witnesses as he might desire.
 Gaston B. Means, widely known investigator, once employed by the department of justice. wired 10 Mo Leans secretary early in January that he was on the way to Palm Beach. Another Mary" Message. The telegrams read also included another Mary message, in which Mrs. Mary Duckstein. a,secret agent of the department of justice, in formed her husband, w. o. Duckstein, Mclean employe. that Burns was d I from Washington.
 Mrs. Duckstein was placed on the stand when the reading was conclud- | cd. She said that w. J. Burns, chief of the justice departments bureau Of | investigation. had changed previous | plans to go to Florida. because of a | belief that the oil committee might need his assistance. but asserted that other expressions in her messages had | been personal between herself and l husband.
 Operator "Iistcned In."
 Mary Quigley. telephone operator | for the Washington Post. mentioned in some of the tclegrams. was called John Major of the Post. wiring Me. | Lean, had asserted she had list ened on the lines while W. o. Ducksteir vas talking.
 "I repeated the conversations Duck. stein had with his wife in ans off hand way" she said, not expecting them to be printed in every paper 1T the land. I plugged in and out O the wire. heard him say:
 "y'm going down to Palm Beaci tonight: I've got them all lowing tt me now
 Then I heard Mrs. Duckstein say
 "'Now, Billy, you've got the righ idea at last"
 T didn't hear all the conversation He might have been talking about anything. I've repeated lot oi things to Mir. Major from the wire He has a sense Of humor." Throughout the long cross-exami, nation, she clung stubbornly to hei story. >
 Senator Walsh asked about long distance calls to Palm Beach. She said she supposed there was d record of such calls but didn't remem. Der when they took place. W. O. Duckstein testified he had used an obsolete department of jus. tice code in wire messages to his em. ployer. A new code had been put in. to the Mclean service during Janu, ary and February. he said.
 That Major telegram doesn't mear anything to me-" Duckstein said. q think it was the outcome of patho' logical complex. That's all can set out of it after several readings"
 "The stuff" which the telegram said he was turning over" he said consisted Of envelopes Mclean or. dered him to give to the publisher't attorney. Wilton J. Lambert. Duckstein said he had not the slightest recollection of the telephone conversation referred to in Major, message.
 He was asked about the Mary messages. He said he had turned them over to Mclean without com. ment. Each is claimed 10 carry a hint to Mclean to resign as a dollar a-year secret agent of the department of justice. .. Questioned about the special tele. graph wire between the post and Palm Beach, Duckstein said that E w. Smithers, chief of communication, at the White House, had asked foi the job of manning this end. Burns Gave Permission. Duckstein testified that W. ]. Burnt permitted him to use the department of justice code to decpher message; from Mclean. sz
 Explains Burns Connection
 "T was told to ask Smithers, who knew lots of operators, about work. ing the wire" he said, and Smith CTS, when l talked 10 him over the telephone, said he'd like to get tho job and make some extra money b. working overtime"
 Some of the messages about Burn.