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The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
NAME in OIL SCANDAL
may ELIMINATE HIS CANDIDACY
Doheny Testimony will be Felt by both
Parties, Says Observer.
Oil Operator Asserts He Paid
Former Cabinet Member
$250,00O

Westinghouse. L. Doheny's test
imony involving William G. McAdoo,
Thomas w. Gregory and other prom
inent democrats is regarded as one
of the most destructive political
bombshells in years.
It's effect, the political observers
here predict, will be reflected alike
in the republican and democrat presi-
Dental situations.
Democratic politicians SHE'D away
from open comment, though every
where the question was heard what
will Doheny's testimony do to Nc
Adoo's candidacy?"
Doheny testified he had employed
McAdoo as attorney; had paid him a
total of about $25O,00O, and that Nc
Adoo is now on the Doheny payroll
at $4,000 a year. He said Thomas
w. Gregory, one of the special coun-
sci President Coolidge selected to
prosecute the oil lease cases had been
employed in connection with oil deals.
Anti-McAdoo democrats at once
hailed this as definitely eliminating
McAdoo from the presidential con-
test. They said he would not be able
to explain away his connection with
magnate who figured so prominent
ly in the oil scandal.
McAdoo's friends took the view
that Once McAdoo has fairly explain
ed his employment, the sting will be
taken out of Doheny's testimony.
Senator J. A. Reed of Missouri,
who few days ago announced his
candidacy for the democratic nomina-
tion, is blamed by McAdoo's friends
for steering the inquiry in McAdoo's
direction. It was Reed who asked
that Doheny be summoned by the
senate committee. Reed said he
wanted to ask Doheny whether he
ever gave or loaned any money to
former government officials besides
Fall.
McAdoo is to appear before the
senate investigating committee to tell
what he did for Doheny to earn the
$250,000. He and his friends feel it
was unfair to drag him into the scan-
day that way, and while they expect,
they say, to counteract to a great de-
gree the harm done, they admit it will
be impossible to remove entirely the
impression created by Doheny's test
imony that McAdoo was one of his
chief advisers on oil matters.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
xxx

Chicago, Ill.-Plans for the state
wide convention to be held at Spring
field this month are rapidly being
completed and it is expected that the
date will be announced next week.
The convention is called at this time
to give all Klansmen in the state an
opportunity to have a voice in map
ping out program for the coming
year.
An educational and inspirational
program is being worked out, and
officials in charge say that each of
the sessions will be highly profitable
and interesting. Special trains will
be operated from all parts of the
state and arrangements are being
made to care for over $4,000 visitors.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
SCHALL LAUNCHED IN
SENATORIAL RACE At
MILL CITY Dinner
xxx
Blind Representative Announces In
tention to File for C. o. p.
Nomination.


Representative Thomas D. Schall
of the Tenth Minnesota Congression-
al district was launched formally as a
candidate for the Republican nomina-
ton for United States Senator at a
dinner attended by 400 Minnesota Re-
publicans at the Curtis hotel, Mime
spolis, Saturday night.
Representative Schall announced
at the dinner that he expects soon to
file for the nomination. 49,
Magnus Now Holds Post
The office now is held by Senator
Magnus Johnson, Farmer-Labor,
elected at the special Senatorial cleo
ton in July, 1928.
Speakers at the Schall dinner ex-
tolled the virtues of the "Blind Con-
gresham from Minnesota"
Otto Sobotka of Pine City presided,
introducing Curtis M. Johnson of
Rush City as POSTMASTER. The latter
is president of the Minnesota Agri-
cultural society.
Many Speak
Other speakers included G. X. Kel-
ly, Ole Curtis, L. A. Lydiard, John
Priebe and Nose Winthrop, all of
Minneapolis; Rev. Charles Fox Davis
and Rev. A. D. Stowe, both former
chaplains of the Minnesota State Sem
ate; William T. Coe, Minneapolis;
Robert w. Hargadine, st. Paul DEM
ocrat and candidate in 1920 for the
Democratic nomination for governor;
George D. Magnuson of st. Cloud,
manager of the Schall campaign in
1923; William Mellgren of st. Peter,
DR.. Charles Swenson of Braham and
others.
The dinner was described as
"Schall ratification gathering"
Schall ran third in the 1928 Republic
an election as a candidate for the
party's Endorsement, Governor Preus
having been first and Judge Oscar
Hallam of St. Paul, second. The lat
ter is expected to announce his can
didacy for the G.. o. P. senatorial
nomination at an early date.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
KOWBOY KONTEST
KLAN kARN|vAL
XXX
Big Sport Event-Monster Natural
ization Ceremony Will Be One
of the Features.
xxx

One of the greatest coming sport
events for the United States as a
whole and all Klansmen in particular
was to be held in San Antonio, Texas,
Thursday, Friday and Saturday, jan
uary "a, 25 and 26 under the auspices
of San Antonio Klan No. 81. It was
the third annual Cowboy Contest and
Klan Karnival at which was seen the
worlds greatest bronco busters, bull
doggers, ropers, etc. Cowboys and
cowgirls from all over the nation
took part in the rodeo held
ch .fternoon from 2:30 to $3.50.
This was not wild west show, but a
pure and unadulterated contest of
cowboy sports.
On Friday night, January 25, a
monster public naturalization cere-
mony was held by the San Antonio
Klan and it was expected to be one
of the largest ever held in that Sec
ton. Approximately one thousand
candidates were expected to be nat
uralized. The local degree team had
charge Of the ceremony. -
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
MAYO NOT A CAND|-
DATE FOR PRESIDENT
XXX
Rochester Physician Says He Will
Not Seek Presidency.

Rochester, Minn.-Dr. Charles H.
Mayo, who, according to newspaper
story, is being doomed as possible
candidate for President on the DEM
ocratic ticket declared definitely to-
day that he is not candidate for the
honor.
DR.. Mayo chuckled and appeared
amused when informed announce
ment had been made that his
Rochester friends had started the
boom.
81 suppose some of my enthusiastic
friends started the story" he
chuckled. 81 have not been consulted
in the matter. I cannot be a candi-
date. My work is in Rochester. Yes,
you may say definitely that I am not
a candidate"
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
KLAN MARCHES 1870 TO JAIL IN RUM RAID
Young, With Machine Gun and Pistols, Chap.
erones Procession from Bloody
williamson"
xxx
xxx

Benton, Ill.-T Twelve hundred
Klansmen, deputies" of s. Glenn
Young, today marched 130 prisoners
seized in liquor raids in Bloody Will
Ii mson county" through the streets
of Benton to the county Jail.
The alleged liquor law violators
were seized in Williamson and Frank
lin counties, February 1, when Young
and his Klan "army" combed Egypt"
for bootleggers, "blind tigers" and
moorlshiners.
It was Young's first "job" since his
previous activities caused Governor
Len Small to send troops to William.
son county to preserve order.
Miners and farmers in the two
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
BILLY SUNDAY PRAISES
KLAN At MEETING
Famous Evangelist Undertands Why
Catholics Are Barred From
Order.
xxx

Charleston, S. Cat the closing
of the Billy Sunday meetings here
the Charleston Klan presented Rev.
Sunday with $400, and the Women of
the Ku Klux Klan also presented Mr..
Sunday with a donation.
"You know some people can't under
stand why they exclude Catholics
from this organization" said Mr..
Sunday in accepting the gifts. 81
suppose the reason is that Catholics
won't take Protestants into some of
their organizations. Pm not a men,
Der, but I've never heard of them
molesting anybody who minds his own
business" His tribute to the Klan
brought much applause.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08

counties lined the streets Of Benton
as Young, with a special train hired
to bring prisoners and raiders here
from Johnstown City, pulled in at the
station.
Young, carrying a portable machine
gun and pistols, led the procession
through town. The prisoners march,
ed down the streets, some smiling
nervously and others staring fixedly
ahead.
The arrest were made on federal
warrants sworn out by Young, who,
in addition to being q Klan leader, Ii
a federal prohibition agent. The
raiders operated from Johnstown
City.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
NOTHING BUT RANK POLITICS

Des Moines, Ia.-Politics, nothing
but rank politics, are behind the
Verbal battle now being waged in
the Des Moines daily newspapers
over the alleged inactivities of the
police department in putting a stop
to the crime wave, said to be sweep
ing the city. -,
Certain elements seek to have
Chief of Police John B. Hammond re-
moved from Office, and an emergency
safety director" placed in charge of
the law-enforcement forces of Des
Moines and Polk county. This was
a political move. The attorney gen.
eral Of Iowa, Ben Gibson, refused to
take action.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
DENY WALTON
HEARING IN APPEAL
XXX
U. S. Supreme Court Refuses to Grant
Him Review.
xxx

Washington, D. C.-Jack Walton,
impeached governor of Oklahoma,
suffered another defeat this week
when the United States Supreme
Court denied his petition to review
his trial and removal from Office. The
court gave no opinion in the case. Its
action in effect upholds the impeach-
ment of Walton. Walton's petition to
the Supreme Court blamed the Klan
for his impeachment and said that the
organization controlled the legisla-
ture that removed him from Office.
The Supreme Courts decision
against Walton proved beyond a
doubt the falsity of his charge against
the Klan. 1t proves that his i'm
peachment was brought about by his
own tyrannical methods. It also
proves that America is no place for
corrupt despotism.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
BUTLER DRIVES BAD
CITIZENS OUT OF
PHILADELPHIA
General Butler Puts Picked Men on
Bandit Chasing Duty With
Motor Units.
xxx


Philadelphia.-"Shoot to KILL is the
order given police of the bandit
chasing squad by Brig. Gen. Smedley
D. Butler, Director of Public Safety,
in the weekend drive against all
forms of banditry.
The new fleet of armored bandit
chasing cars went into commission
today and the streets were patrolled
by them, supported by other police
automobiles and scores Of high-speed
motorcycles. In each unit were men
picked after tests in the pistol ranges
of the various stations who have
shown themselves to be dead shots" ."
"We're not going to play with the
bandits" said Director Butler, in is
suing his orders. "If they show fight
We'll make it hot for them"
Another phase of this weeks po-
lice activities will be closing of
dances of all kinds on Sundays. Ten
hotel men were called before Direc-
tor Butler today and told to inform
their patrons that dances must vol
UNFAIRLY cease at midnight Saturday
Even the most exclusive private
dances came under the ban.
Not to Run for Mayor
Later in the day at a luncheon
General Butler emphatically denied
he would be a candidate for the
MAJORITY here in 1927.
81 have no political aspirations
he declared. "All I want to do is
live long enough to get home"
The recent cleanup of this city, he
asserted, was due to $500 men ir
the force of 1900. "About 1000 ot
the 4,9Oo," he added, "are incapac,
itated and are unable to keep the
rapid pace. We must find places foa
them"
Aiming of all policemen with .4E
calibre automatic pistols to do away
with the present lack of uniformity
in weapons on the force was an,
nounced today by General Butler.
The announcement followed the
Generals inspection of policemen's
revolvers. Every size shape anc
make of weapons was displayed. Off.
cials explained that each policeman
purchased his own revolver.
Getting Their Guns
Pathetic" said the Director
"From the way those policemen haul
ed up their skirts you'd have thought
they were looking for a box ot
matches. It was tragic A bandit
could have riddled those men whil.
they were trying to find their guns
One man had the muzzle Of his re
volver plugged-to keep it clean. I.
he had fired it he'd probably hav'
killed himself"
II A check-up Of the police record.
for the second crime drive showed /.
total of more than 800 arrests fo'
various alleged offenses, including
sixty-seven for traffic violations
Nearly 200 prisoners were taken il
raids on billiards and pool rooms
speakeasies and stores said to hav,
been operating as blinds for gamb
lers.
Ten men were taken from a poo
and billiard rooms in the center Of tn
city owned by Lew Tender, Phil
adelphia's well-known Lightweight
boxer.
Sergeant John F. Mullin, one o
the Acting Lieutenants recently sus
pended by General Butler, was re
stored to duty in the rank of ser
geant by the Director. He will b
transferred to a different station
however, General Butler said.
-K-K-K-
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08
xxx

Freeport, Ill.-With the announced
intention of cleaning up the town,
members of the Ku Klux Klan and
town officers of Stockton, ILL.,, this
week raided hotel and cheese fac
tory, seizing ten barrels Of wine at
the latter place and arresting five
persons in the hotel. Those arrest
ed were booked on disorderly conduct
charges.
The call of the North. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1923-1924, 1924-02-08

The Daughters Of the American Re-
vclution Buena Visit county, Iowa,
will present three medals to the
junior high school pupils Of that coun-
ty. who are most proficient the COM
ing semester In American history.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
WOmen's Clubs
What Club Women Are
Planning and Ac-
cOmplishing.

Business WOmen's Council,
Church Of Covenant, 1880 D. m.
WOman's Club Of KensingtoIl,
Mrs. G. E. ROnsadiIIe. Kensing-
ton. 2 p. m.
Current Comment Club. Miss L.
Engle, Forest Glen, p. m.
Halloween Party, Chevy Chase
Recreation Club, 8 D. m.
American War Mothers Bazaar.
1904 Fourteenth street northwest.
Washington Chapter, Mary
Baldwin Seminary. Raleigh Hotel,
$3.50 p. m.
Baby Lover Circle No. OF the
Florence Crittenden Home met
yesterday at the home OF Mrs. II,
y. Carter, S724 New Hampshire
avenue.
Plans were discussed for the
coming bazaar at the washington
Hotel November "A and rs. and the
afternoon was spent in sewing on
articles for, the baby table.
The Associate members Of the
Women's Club Of Rockville, enter.
tanned the active workersc at the
Rockville Club yesterday.
Members Of the Caleb O'Connor
Dramatic School presented several
scenes and sketches, Reports OF
committee chairmen were heard and
Mrs. Clara Humphrey Of the Clar9
Barton Club, - Glen Echo gave
a. report on the. Montgomery Fed
GRAFTON meeting held week ago.
&M
Mrs. Thomas w. Pyle read q
paper on Heroic Women OF Mod
ern times at the meeting OF the
Poolesville Women's1 Club at &
meeting at her home yesterday.
Vocal selections were given b.
Mrs. Geneiye Bordeaux, and piano
selections by Mrs. Pyle.
At the business meeting the ciul
voted SIS be used for social servic,
work Of the club.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
ATLANTIC CITY TONG
BLAMED FOR FIRE

ATLANTIC CITY, Oct. 31.-Police
sought evidence Of tong vengeance,
following the weird experiences Of
Wong Sing, proprietor of laundry
at Sic Madison avenue.
A few nights ago Sing found
dagger marks on his bedroom door
with some strange inscriptions, He
was afraid to go to the police, but
wrote his will and asked one of
his patrons to keep it because he
expected trouble.
It came. The laundry was found
In flames. 1t was destroyed.
Sing was found with a knife in
either hand dancing around the
flames seeking the devils" respon-
sible for his misfortune. 1t took
three policemen to subdue him.
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tant 70 the Attorney General and
Republican national committeeman
for Mississippi, predicted today. Mr..
Howard asserts that more than 30
per cent Of the colored electorate
will vote the Republican ticket.
Mr.. Howard has Just returned
from 4 speaking tour through tile
east and middle west. =
"The rank and file of the colored
people have faith in Coolidge" ne
declared.
THE belief in the President is in
spired by the Cohen appointment, the
placing Of coIored personnel in
charge Of the United States Hospital
at Tuskegee, Ala, and the letter Of
the President in which he stated
that af colored man has the same
right to aspire for party nomination
and election to office as other citi-
zenS.t
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I 0
RETAIN HIS
POST
Delays Resignation Until
Soviet Note Inquiry Has
Been Concluded
tconti6ued from FIrst Pagel

CONTINUED from First Pagel
by the great strength we showed
in the total poll even though we
lost seats"
Macdonald took a long walk in
st. James park. He looked happy
and smiled as he greeted passersDy
who saluted him.
A small crowd assembled in
Downing street and cheered as the
cabinet members gathered today.
Are we downhearted7" shouted
one of the group standing in front
Of the premiers residence, as J. III.
Thomas, secretary of state for
colonies put in his appearance.
.sagoA no! no" replied Thomas EN-
phaticalIy to the approval Of the
crowd.
The great Tory strength is caus.
ing apprehension in one section Of
the conservative party based on
fear that it will lead Stanley Bald
win, Tory leader, to rest on his
oars and let the reactionaries OF the
party have their way.
Tory Fears Reused.
Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Elk.
press, which has been violently
kpro-Tory, today says:
I'VE are confronted with an era
that may tend toward class war
fare without any alternative govern.
ment between extreme Toryism and
extreme socialism. Here will be a
tendency to drift towards the right.
It Is certain the revulsion OF the
people against extreme socialism
does not indicate their desire Tor
four wears Of extreme die hardism
or mindless lethargy and ease.
Liberalism will not die, despite
Its crushing defeat, according to
the London Chronicle, the Lloyd
A leader of the shattered ranks
of his party, Lloyd George still
will have the chance to show
whether he can bring back its old
prestige.
"The Liberals will fight on
the Chronicle says. "The Tory ma
jority will lead to warfare between
fextreme reaction and radical direct
action and the Liberals will come
nto power as the middle party
The Liberal London Daily News
predicts that the victory will mean
/ renewal of Competitive arma
ments, international distrust and
uspicion."
The Daily Herald, labor organ
prints Premier MacDonald's state
ment declaring that Labor fought
against all the interests-the press
the peers and the wealth of Eng
land" yet polled an increased
popular vote.
The Tories polled 7,597,S04, while
labor polled 5,536,S28 and the Lib
erals 2,44,581. The Liberal figures
fell off almost 100000 from las
years totals.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
MAIL CARRIER IS TRAPPED
WITH MARKED BILL

WILMINGTON, Del. Oct. S1.-
George C. Peters. mail carrier at
tached to the Wilmington postof-
flee, is under $500 bail, charged
with the embezzlement Of money
from letters. He was arrested by
a postal inspector who is said to
have trapped him with a marked
IS note inclosed in a letter address.
ed to a firm in business in the
Equitable Trust building.
Numerous complaints had been
received by the postal department
from tenants of this building, and
the investigation followed. It de.
veloped that the amounts taken
extended over period Of MANY
months, but the total was less than
500.
Peters has Abeen in the postal
service for more than eighteen
years and was well and favorabIy
known to- many OF the persons
who lodged the complaints.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
Copies Of Tong Truce
Are Sent to Principal
Cities in United States
national News Service.

: gkss
NEW YORK, Oct. 31.--Copies Of
an agreement declaring fo6rteen-
day armistice between the Hip Sing
and On Leong tongs were on their
way to every city in the United
States where Chinese Of the war
ring factions have been shot, MUIR
dered, stabbed or beaten in recent
weeks.
The truce terms were written in
Oriental characters and put up on.
a bulletin board in Chinatown here,
where no Chinese has ventured Of
late to be seen on the streets I'M.
less absolutely necessary.
Terms Of Truce.
Frank Moy, business representa-.
tive and interpreter o: the on
Leongs. said his tong agreed:
Ito withdraw all guns and gum
men.
2-The Chinese Benevolent Asso.
citation. which arranged the armis.
'tice, will be responsible and pay in
demnity IL the Hig Sing tong fails
to keep its agreement.
2-The Hip Sings must move. bag
and baggage. out OF Washington,
d. c., and Pittsburgh. md conduct
no business in these cities.
ALI On Leongs, who were ex-
PEELED from that tong AMI taken in
by the Hip Sings, must be expelled
from the Hip Sing tong.
Crank said the Hip Sings had
lifted $4,000 price placed on mis-
head when the agreement was
signed. He said the On Leongs had
s5,0O0,00O in their treasury, which
they would spend to the last cent
to get what they are after. What
they are after Frank did not say.
Cost $685.
He said the tong war had cost the
On Lsongs $4,000 thus far. The
Hip Sings, Frank explained, con.
Quoted their end of the war at har
gain prices, spending only SIS, 900 OF
the $4,000 in their treasury.
1t was largely through the offices
of representatives of the benevolent
association from Chicago, Boston
and Philadelphia that hostilitlet
were called off-for fourteen days.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
Tire BUGS
PROVE To Be
WOMEN
Pyromaniacs Have Methods
Difficult to Understand,
Says Expert

NEW YORK, Oct. 81 Pity the
pyromaniac.
But protect the public from him.
That is the policy OF Fire Mar
shall Thomas p. Brophy regarding
those unfortunates whose passion
for flames leads them to destroy
property and imperil life.
Few Women.
Few women are pyronaaniacs.
Keeping home fires burning. and
not burning up other peoples
homes, is usually womaTl's work.
But once in a while furtive
feminine creature is seen crouched
over in q tenement hallway, to all
appearances tying together broken
shoe lace, or pinning up the torn
hem OF her skirt, then hurrying
away-and pretty soon the alarm
rings out, engines dash to the
burning building. And In the crowd
that gathers is the same furtive
creature with strange glistening
eyes, the pyromaniac who set the
blaze in the dark hallway, her
mania appeased for a time.
Such woman, Jennie Latimer,
designer Of dress patterns, herself
always somberly gowned in black,
set ablaze five tenement houses on
a recent Sunday morning while
most Of the tenants were at serv-
ices at st. Colombo's Roman Cath
Ole Church in West Twenty ninth
street. Miss Latimer told Fire Mar
shall Brophy that she had to do
it." Like most pyroTnaniacg she
was acting under a lcompulsion she
could not resist.
"A pyromaniac." says Marshal
Brophy, who has seen many and
understands them, is a person with
an irresistible desire for fires. In
order to satisfy that craving he win
set fires. usually acting on an UNI
lcontrollable impulse.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
MANIcURIsT IS BLAMED
FOR hoy RoRs" OF MEN

GREENWICH, Conn, Oct. 81
The appearance Of many men about
town with pronounced hoy bot.s,s
instead of the regulation male hair
cut, was explained when Mrs.
Theresa Allen, nanicurist, IF Green.
witch avenue, was arrested for bar
bering without a State license.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-10-31
TO BE EREcKLED is
TO BE FASHIONABLE

LONDON, Oct. 31.-"Befreckled
to be fashionable" is Dame Fash.
ions latest edict.
Formerlyya freckle on woman's
face was flaw to be vigorously
excided. Today It is an asset, and
artificial freckles are the latest Is.
sential to the modern wo,nan's
complexion, ousting the beauty
spot in popularity.