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The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

DuU as ne was III, SJareK, ASKED NC
Lean to call him on the long distance
telephone.
Major was also in communication
with Mclean, the telegram shows,
over the departure of Wilton Lam
bert, McLean'S attorney, for New
York and the delivery of a message
from Mclean to Lambert there.
Another telegram mentioned the
name "McAdoo," saying Major would
deliver message re McAdoo." An
other said, Talked over long dis
lance with McAdoo."
A message from Major dated Dec.
% stated:
"After talking with Dunphy over
the telephone tonight I again talked
with J. w. Zevely. He said that the
matter would be attended to in a
manner which would fleet with your
approval.
(Signed) "MAJOR."
Telegram dated December &c and
signed by Major follows:
Palmer and his associate named
Zevely told me tonight that under no
circumstances should you send a
message to the chairman of the COM
mittee. They both said to assure
you that your interests would be
fully taken care of and at this time
the chances Of you being called
were very slight. Both declared that
after the man at Wardman Park
Hotel testified that if the committee
Showed any indication that you were
to be summoned that they could take
care of it. From the present outlook
| personally believe that everything
is well in hand from your standpoint.
Sinclair is to testify tomorrow. He
is going TO issue a statement to the
committee before he goes on the
stand. The high spots in it are that
he is going to refuse to discuss his
private affairs concerning his friends
who are not in any way connected
with the transaction. will have
the statement in full on the wire to
you before noon Thursday. Fred
Starek is anxious to get in touch with
you on what he says is important.
/ do not believe that il is in connection
with the main issue on this wire.
but believe that it has something to
do with New York transaction. He
said that 1t was important enough
for him to take a trip South to see
you, but on account Of not being
well, requested that you telephone
him.
(Signed) Major"
Another message to Mclean was
dated 1.-THE White House." II said:
Telegram received. Have wired
Wilkens Mt Hopxinsville, XIV.
(Signed) "E. w. STARLING.D
Startling is White House secret
service man.
Make Wires Public Thursday.
II saw the secretary and he said
the whole matter would be dropped
after Sinclair had been questioned
perfunctorily," another message TO
Mclean from Major said.
On January Major wired Mclean
that Palmer said he had "other
people working on Walsh"
The committee adjourned until to-
morrow when the remainder of the
kilograms will be read. They will not
be made public until then.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

mas placed prosecution Oh the
cases, were taking exceptional
palms," it was stated, to be
ready to fight out the major
issues of the case at an early
stage of the battle. This, it
was said at their Offices, ex-
plains the delay in taking defn-
lite action.
Pomerene and Roberts believe that
the defendant oil companies will
force the government to show its
hand almost Immediately after suit
is filed to check further oil losses
from the reserves. As soon as tenn
porary injunctions are asked, the
counsel anticipate that Sinclair and
Doheny will ask the courts for i'm
mediate hearings on making the in
functions permanent, forcing the
government into the open.
Criminal Action Later.
This applies only to civil suits.
Whatever criminal action may be
contemplated will be taken later,
with the converting Of a special
grand jury. .
The task Of Pomerene and Roberts,
1t was explained today, is difficult be-
cause Of mountains Of documents
and testimony to be examined on the
one hand and the unavailability Of
much Of 1t for court use on the other.
With six assistants, they are hold
ing daily conferences, sitting the
turned over to them by the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28
tombstone Speaks at
Detroit Open Forum
on Sunday, March 2

DETROIT. Mich, Feb. 27.-Jack
tombstone, Of Chicago, will be the
speaker Of the Labor Forum in the
House Of the Masses, 2101 Gratiot
Ave, Detroit, Sunday, March End, at
3 D. m. His topic will be "The Role
of the Trade Union Educational
League in the Labor Movement"
The T. u. K. L. has come in for
a great deal of attention in the Trade
Union Movement. II is "sworn by"
by it's friends, and "sworn at" by It's
enemies.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

TO tell the whole truth. Still
the secretary to the President
asked no questions. And he did
not report to Mr.. Coolidge on
the confessions Of the former
cabinet member and the owner
of the Washington Post that
they had deliberately lied to
the Senate committee.
The Innocent Slemp.
He was just an innocent
tourist, and an old friend of
McLeanI
Word had run about the capitol
that the foxy Slemp was to be ques-
toned as to certain kilograms of
warning, from leading Republican
senators on the committee, to pros
pective witnesses. There had been
'1eak" of information that sub
poenas were to be issued, and the
men wanted had had private infor-
nation that they would be sum-
moned. Slemp was not asked direct
ly as to whether he had heard of
these private tips to witnesses, but
Sen. Walsh did ask him how long
before Walsh arrived in Palm Beach
the McLean-Fall house-party had
been informed of his coming. Slemp
thought they learned it first from
the newspapers. Really, they had
been thinking of other things, talk
ing about the Volstead law and the
weather, senator's, and the oil case
had not been much discussed
Worthless Checks.
When Mr.. Coolidge's confidential
man was asked how it happened that
he could meet and talk with Fall in
Palm Beach, while Senator Walsh,
representing the committee, could
not get at the ex-cabinet member,
Slemp replied that he was mot Mr..
Falls or Mr.. McLean's keeper. He
had never had anything to do with
the oil leases, and did not care to
ask questions.
In the hope of locating the hidden
funds against which Mclean drew
the alleged checks for 800 900
which he claims in his last story he
gave to Fall-and then received back
and destroyed-the committee cues
toned officers of the three local
banks in which Mclean had fluids in
netnhe- ard SaHamber, 1921 He
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

from hour to hour, at the head
of that vital department-the
most important of all the ex-
ecutive departments of the
government-when the country
is aghast at wholesale viola
tons Of law.
There is lot of senatorial cour-
tesy and lodging of hard words,
in any discussion of a cabinet
member by prominent leader of
the same party, even when that
cabinet member is Harry Daugh-
erty and that leader is BOrah. But
the meaning of the Idaho senator's
talk was quite clear; he was
warning Coolidge that Coolidge
himself would soon be considered
to be "oiled' and politically ruined
if he did not kick Daugherty out
and put a responsible and capable
man into his place.
National Chairman Adams might
try to bolster up Daugherty with
what Senator Robinson called "a
wild cry of rage" at Lodge and Pep
per and the republican member
ship Of the senate, who had asked
Coolidge to get rid Of the attorney
general. Adams might claim that
"blackguards and scandal-mongers"
in the ser2ts had conspired to ruin
Harding's friend. Yet, Robinson said,
the county was aware that the only
activity to which the agencies and
resources of the department had yet
been devoted in this .gravest Of all
national scandals was to organize
for defense of Daugherty. This fact
Of stubborn failure to uphold the
law against lawbreakers, known to
the people, would amply justify the
instant removal Of such an officer
while official inquiry into the details
Of his official conduct was being ar
ranged. Daugherty was entitled to
fair trial, but he was not entitled
TO the privilege Of blocking the
enforcement of law while this in
CURRY into his past offense should be
in progress.
Editors all over the country who
have hastily guessed that the oil
scandal is dying out, merely be-
cause Il Is embarrassing TO Calvin
Coolidge. must revise their opin-
ions. Denunciations Of Senator
Wheeler and crocodile tears for
the physical collapse Of Senator
Walsh are premature. The two
senator's. from Montana are get
ting mt the stock gamblers names,
and winnings or losses are being
uncovered. and every day further
names are being added TO the list
Of politicians or public officials
here who have been parties 20 the
oil graft Orgy. Doheny Is lust now
attacking Wheeler for saying that
Doheny went TO Daugherty's apart.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

Iotan Ssrrtsponuenr of The rederated PFessl
SACRAMENTO, Calf, Feb. 27.-
Futher light on the exact nature Of
the arrest and conviction of Tom
Connors, secretary, California Branch
General Defense Committee, on
charge of jury tampering, is given
as an investigation of Judge c. o.
Busick, the condemning judge, con-
tinues in the fight for appealing Con-
nors' case.
The circular which formed the
basis of Connors' conviction was one
of 10000 sent broadcast thru the
state in favor of the repeal bill
against the criminal syndicalism law
introduced in the state assembly last
year by Assemblyman Roy FELTON,.
The juryman, H. d. Arnold, whom
Connors has accused of influencing"
Connors himself never saw. Arnold
was not even actually juryman in
any criminal syndicalism case, but
simply on the venire. The circulars
in question were sent out not only
from defense headquarters, but also
from several other organizations in
terested in repeating the bill. There
is no evidence whatever that the
particular leafet in question was
ever sent out by Connors.
If this conviction stands it means
that any agitation against a law af-
fecting court procedure may make its
opponents responsible for suborning
a jury if by the merest chance some
of their propaganda should fall into
the hands Of man or woman who
has been, is, or may be on a jury
trying a case of the nature concern
ed, and who takes it upon himself
to pass the appeal on to the prose-
cutting attorney, as Arnold did.
1t is direct blow to the refer
endum in California.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

below $4,000 in any of them. The
checks he says he gave seem to have
been worthless if they ever existed.
Doheny New Leader.
At the White House, the flag Of
loyalty to Daugherty still flew, and
much satisfaction was taken in the
fact that Doheny had come to the
political support Of the president and
Daugherty and DENLY. But on the
Senate floor the daily offering Of at
tacks on the Senate committee and
on the Wheeler resolution aimed at
Daugherty's misuse Of the Depart
ment of Justice, in McLean's news
paper, was torn to tatters by Walsh
and by Helm of Alabama.
Hefiin pointed to Doheny's new
leadership Of the Republican party,
and to Doheny's admission that he
talked European oil, at the mil
lionaire Metropolitan Club here, with
five members Of the Harding Cool
idge cabinet. He remarked that
Doheny could not be expected to see
anything but prosperity under Re-
publican rule, since "he has got his,
at the hands of this party, and the
bankruptcy and despair of the farm
ers and small business men does not
touch him.
The Ghost at the Feast.
Walsh of Massachusetts inter-
rupted him by reading a telegram
from Fall River, begging for federal
aid because the cotton mills are all
closed down, and suffering has fol-
lowed general unemployment.
H. Foster Balm, chief of the Bureau
Of Mines by appointment under Fall,
was grilled by the committee as to
the meaning of his letter, previously
put in evidence, urging that Daugher-
ty be asked to give a favorable
opinion on the tankage contract
deals, since Standard Oil and other
big interests had refused to bid be-
cause they were illegal. Walsh asked
him why he had not insisted on get
ting the opinion before the contracts
were let, and why he had considered
it yvlwise to seek an opinion after
ward.
Balm, who proved adroit, stubborn
and ingenious in protecting the game
of Fall and Doheny and Sinclair, ad-
mitted at last that he did not-altho
a federal officer sworn to protect
public interests--want to run the risk
of getting Sc opinion on the
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28
Only a Barber Shop Fire.

PEWAUKEE, Wis, Feb. 27-Fire
which started from an unknown cause
in the Christoferson barber shop
here late yesterday, destroyed three
buildings in the heart Of the down
town district here and seriously inn
periled other business structures.
The loss is estimated at $4,000.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28
Scab Coal Baron, Slemp, Private
Secretary to Coolidge, Makes
PitifuL Witness in Oil Scandal
By LAURENCE TODD

N
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.-President Cooldge's private
secretary Bascom Semp millionaire non-unon coal operator
was pitfuy evasive witness when he before the
mtee investigating the oil scandal Feb &C. to explain his
meetings with Edward B. Mclean Albert Fall and Falls
lawyer Glasgow at Palm Beach in December and January
He could remember that Mclean walking with him the
sand had said Pm going to tell EN- ALL but he had not asked
any questions.
He remembered that Fall, after dinner at McLeans
house where they all met daily said that he also going
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

Palmer, without a light, turned
over $500,000,000 of oil lands
from our public domain to the
Southern Pacific railroad.
"Palmer refused to appeal to the
United States Supreme Court from
the decision Of a lower federal court
favorable. to the Southern Pacific"
Former Secretary of the Interior
Fall, chief figure in the oil lease in
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
BY LAURENCE TODD.
(Stan Correspondent Of The Federated Press)

crTNrCTNRr
CAST CUaSts aflTr
stoned talk to the Senate Daugherv scandal the
are dsustfu OF the head of the Department Justice
Ihey have no confidence in either competence or the
cleanliness of method of of the highest officials in their
government For the continuance of this situation only Calvin
Coolidge be held responsible president of the limited
States he has sole responsibility for Daughertys continuing
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28
Injunction Suits Will Decide
Government Right to DUN Oil

WASHINGTON, Feb 27.--The governments case for cam
collation. of the oil leases granted by former Secretary of In
terror Fall and Secretary of the Navy DENLY to Edward
Doheny and Harry Sinclair will virtually stand or fall by
the outcome of injunction suits shortly be instituted to halt
withdrawal of oil from the reserves.
Because of this, Atlee Pomerene and Owen j. Roberts
special presidential counsel in hands President Coolidge
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

vestigation, "was also involved in
the last and most dangerous attack
on the national forests" Pinchot
said.
'He tried to get them transferred
from the department of agriculture
to the department of the interior so
that he could give them away to pri-
vate interests, as he did the oil
lands"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

MT. VERNON, N. Y, Feb. 27.--
"smugglod in from King Tut's tomb"
said two suave men in fur lined over
coats, peddling pearl necklaces from
limousine. Stanley Robinson took
NJ string to a jeweler for inspection
W learned 1t came from five and
Nesnt shop. 4
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28
Pinchot Says Palmer Aided
S. P. in $500, 900, 900 Steal

NEW YORK; Feb. 27.-The Of former attorney gem
eral a. Mitchell Palmer has been brought naval oil
lease controversy by Governor Clifford Pnchot
sylvania.
Pinchot speaking before the Survey Associates nc
last night said that "in 1920 Attorney General A. Mitchell
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28
Daugherty and Burns Desperate
AS Investigation Heads Their Way
Bv JAY LOVESTONE

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27-Everything in Washington is
done in oil today You can't talk to anybody for few
minutes without stepping into some oil cesspoo
The of oil everywhere and it has irrtated and
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

senate investigating committee and
searching the books for applicable
laws.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

How many Of your shop-mstes read
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Finnish Workers Pledge Their
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never nau more tili..; .-S05e =. "a.
of these banks in that perioo, and
most Of this time his balance was
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1924-02-28

secrvs osa an ~ ss'srS1, gra-ssa.=-c-
ter. Hence he helped to cover it
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Fight on to Appeal
Conviction of l. w. W.
Defense Secretary

By MIRIAM ALLEN deFoRp.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-01-11
FAVORS TAX BILL
Borah Urges Relief TO Burden
ed People.

Favoring 1ax reduction and op-
posing the soldier bonus and de-
claring the issue could not be side
stepped, Senator William E. Borah
OF Idaho made a speech in New
York Jan. S, in which he said in
part:
"One is either for tax reduction
or he is against it. One has right
to be for the bonus or he has a
right to be for tax reduction. But
he can not be for both.
"You can not take off tempor-
ary burden of $40, 900, 900 or
$I5o, 600, 600 and lay on perma-
nent burden or obligation of $4,-
600, 900, 900 to $5, 900. 900, 900 and
call it tax reduction. 1t would be
dangerous political experiment. 1t
would defeat any party that would
undertake it,"
Senator Borah quoted figures
indicating the rate of increase Of
taxes in the last eight or ten years,
declaring they represented the
most searching tragedy of Ameri-
can life." In eastern industrial
centcrs the situation was serious
enough, he asserted, but in the
agricultural regions of the west,
'sthey are losing faith in the gov
eminent" because of unbearable
taxes and 'the mad saturnalia Of
spending" in which the speaker
declared the government continu-
ed to indulge.
"The great obstacle to tax re-
duction, it appears, is the proposal
for bonus for ex service men. If
we consider the bonus purely in
the light of material or financial
aid, and if our real purpose is TO
assist the soldier in that way, can
think Of no greater benefit for these
men than that which would be de-
rived from a betterment of the
economic condition throughout the
country"
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-01-11
To Boost Northwest.

Spokane, Wash. Establishment
of a general publicity director fer
tha five Pacific northwestern states,
fer the purp ,sc of establishing
point of contact with the three
transcontinental railroads that
have planned million dollar sd-
vertisins campaign during the next
three years, to attract settlers 10
this section. vas advocated in q
resolution passed Thursday altef-
noon, Jan. 8, by representatives OF
,ivic organizations in conference
here.
Represented in Thursdays meet
ings were chambers Of commerce
and similar organisations in Wash
Iington, Oregon, Idaho. Montasa
and Wyoming, which had senf
about 100 delegates. Railroads
interested in the proposed cam :
paisn arc the Northern Pacific,
Great No sihern and Chicago, Bur
lipgton 4 Quincy.
Il was suggested that the pro-
posed publicity director establish
an Office with a suitable staff OF
!. .,sistants at either St. Paul OF
Chicago.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-01-11
STATE FUND GROWS
Return Surplus to Policy Hold
trs, Says Yager.

Boise, Idahe. Idaho state
insurance fund paid compensation
for IS fatalities during the year
E973, more than 100 per cent more
than was ever before paid by tho
fund in any year of'its seven years
Of existence. The largest number
OF fatalities for which the fund paid
compensation in any year previous
toI923 was II. Details of the
funds operations were announced
Monday by w. B. Wager, manager.
Compensation in each Of the as
fatal cases amounted to an average
Of $4,000. Mr.. Yager said. so that
during the year the fund paid ont
tI25. 900 for fatal accidents-
The manager said that 1919 wac
bad year for fatalities in other
companies, he had heard, but could
offer DO explanation for the large
increase in deaths by accident
among workmcn.
Including the fund there are ~
companies writing industrial acei
dent insurance in Idaho, Nr. Yager
said, and the state insurance fund
is carrying so per cent Of the acci-
dent insurance written in Idaho.
In the seven years the fund has
been in existence a reserve OF more
than $3.50, 900 has been built up
aud the manager said that he
thinks it is time that the beneh S
which have come to the fund were
returned to the policy holderf.
Accordingly, he said, 4 schedule
Of reduced premium rates will soon
bo put into effect.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-01-11

veterans bureau and 1854 ,OOO,-
900 for pensions Smaller items
follow for oil departments.
Archaiologists under Howard
Carter, working in the tomb OF
King Tutankhamen at Luxor,
Egypt, last week came upon the
pink granite sarcophagus OF the
dead pharaoh in a nest OF four
wondrous golden shrines where
it was laid away more than
34oo years ago. The tomb was
discovered over a year ago IN
the valley OF the kings, after a
search OF more than 30 years.
1t is apparently the only one OF
many tombs OF the pharaohs
which has remained intact, un-
violated by tomb robbers.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-01-11
FROM OVER THE COUNTY
POST FALLS

A son was born Dec 81 to Mr.. and
Mrs. r. c. Hite.
Harry Peters has bought home in
Post Falls.
F. w. Jordan suffered a broken
ankle when a truck wheel rolled over
his foot.
The night watch fired two shot and
frightened away two men whom he
saw trying to gain entrance to two
stores at 1:30 O'Clock at night. The
bullets pierced the store windows.
Thomas P. O'Malley and Pauline
Hawthorne were married recently.
Miss Hazel G.. Lansing, primary
teacher In the East Greenacres school,
was married Christmas day to Harold
Read.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-01-11
SPIRIT LAKE

Coastilg and skating are being
enjoyed
Spirit Lake high school defeated
Post Falls % to 81, 10 the basket ball
glme Dec. 20. Newport defeated
Spirit Lake "a to 10.
M. E. Kadish, druggist 10 Spirit
Lake for Is years. has sold his store
to DR.. A. c. Spooner, who has also
purchased the DR.. E. S. Prlndle
:sidence property.
The temperature New Years morn
Ing was "a below zero.
Spirit Lake high schol defeated the
NillwoOd basket ball team at
Millwood Friday night; score, % to
20.
The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1924-01-11
HARRISON

The Harrison board or health has
closed the school and prohibited all
public gatherings for two weeks on
account Of small pox.
Bessie bennett is the newly elected
oracle of the Royal Neighbor camp
Ice 10 the ST. Joe river has stopped
boat traffic between St. Mares and
points down the lake.
e. o. Cathcart, recent cashier Of
the First bank of Harrison, has gone
to Occur d'Alene where be has been
elected cashier OF the new bank to be
opened there 5000.