The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-01
BURNS UTILIzES
 SECRET SERVICE CODE TO MILAN
Secret Messages Revealed
 In Startling Oil Probe , Development
(c,ntInrsd from Paas onel

Jan. II, 1924, Edward Mclean, Palm. Beach -Cravingly in dxewoux re- surge ledgment aliment fastidious tuck skewered suckled scrag emerse vethosl punctators gob. Virgin lectionary ,jangler highlander kelder hobgoblin roguery sawbuck hosier bonka gob saline dismounted renominated torso.- w. o. D.
 a. Paraphrase-According to Lambert's instructions, the papers have been put in the. safe deposit box belonging to you and Fraser in the commercial bank. Wcald you like to have them where they viii be available to me? I will be all day at the office of the post-Wil- liam o. Duckstein.
 Mir. W. O.. Duckstein, Palm Beach Haxpw sent oyerbuy bonka and house. holder bonka sultry tkvouop prozoics shepelt- goal hocusing this pouted pro- T ponent-Mary.
 Paraphrase-Sentf for by Burns, who told me to say (McLean) investigation is under way by special agents of jus tice department. He believes informa- tion is important.-Mary (Quigley, chief telephone operator in office of Washington post).
 May Affect Daugherty
 Arrival tomorrow morning in Wash ington of the exact translations and their examination by the public lands committee will probably have an i'm portant effect on the question of the kontinuance of Harry M. Daugherty in President Coolidge's cabinet.
 The intimate connection now shown 10 exist between the Attorneys Gen. eral department and Mclean during the Teapot Dome inquiry will increase the growing demand for his resignation, and failing in that his forced retirement. The Burns message alone, it is thought, will prove sufficient ground.
 One defense likely to be offered by he department officials, it was re- ported tonight, is that Mclean has cen for some time secret agent Though for what purpose has sever Seen disclosed. He wears an agents badge under his coat, according to re- ports, and has the regular credentials. But even this, it is pointed out, would not justify the use of a department Eode for private messages nor would It account for the code being in the bands of Duckstein and Miss Quigley.
 Grounds For Prosecution | Another aspect of the situation which
 II probably figure in the further in-
 etiga ton of these messages, is the { t that the Burnst Quigley message z37=| E parently disclosed the fact that an
 yestigation had been started by the apartment. One authority on federal
 w informed the World tonight that he disclosure of any official secret this nature furnished grounds for
 prosecution on a charge of con. niracy. All parties tai king part in the Disclosure of a confidential department Pf justice matter woS Suld probably be nyolved in the same charge, it was That the senders a iI receivers of % he messages translated were aware of he danger involved in the use of their 4 ;ode is indicated by the fact that they used It only ill four messages out of the 30 or more exchaBged between the Mclean camps duriAg the course of the investigation. The alleged de. pertinent of justice code was dropped after January II.
 Chris" Uses Dif&erent Code
 A message signed f'Chris" on Jan- uary 2 is in a different code. Then follows a series of Undated messages Tn which the terfminology of the n orchard replaces the heavy phrase. ology. of the previous code. and the meanings are conveyed by references to Il apples," "peaches," "apricots" and cherries" The Fruit messages have not been decoded bE anyone outside Of the x Mclean circles' so far as could be learn \ ed tonight.
 One explanation of the sudden change Tn codes iS ip the telegram from John AiaJor tY Mclean, dated January 23, winch the Senate committee made pub a xeSterday. This message shows that # ssteln, known as "the duck" was
 Fer suspicion. Major telegraphed
 After you telephoned this morning
 attractions to Lambert the duck
 once telephoned his wife, and ac.
 Prding to Mary Quigley, who listened
 on the line, said. You have them DIV where 1 want them. I will make
 em bow to me before I am through.
 am turning over this stuff without Aceipt, but you know my intentions Mary Quigley, whom I trust with any secrets you or I may have, in forms me that Mrs. Duckstein said : Billy. you have the right idea at last Y"
 Duckstein's alleged exclamation: "I have them now where I want them 5 may. it is pointed out, have referred to the illegal use of the code-a con clusion further borne out by another caution from Major to Mclean:
 My advice to you is not to acquaint the latter party (the duck) with our new code system. How. eyer. use your own judgment about that"
 Burns Daugherty'S Selection
 William J. Burns was appointed di rector of the bureau of investigation of the United States department of jus tie by Attorney General Daugherty ir Wg1. He succeeded William J. Flynn .t former chief of the United States 'Asecret service.
 Burns appointment caused q protest from various quarters. Both former Attorney General Wickersham and Samuel Gompers were among those active in opposing Burns appointment
 At the time of his appointment, Burns was the directing head of the William J. Burns international private detective agency, with q principal office in the Woolworth building. Burns, following his appointment as head of the depart ment of justice, announced that he had Nlthdrawn from his private agency ana turned the business over to his sons YN1iaymond and Sherman Burns.
 shortly after Burns took office. he appointed Gaston R. Means as a spc cial agent of the government. Means s had previously been employed as a private detective in the Burns agency Gaston B. Means had been under in vestigation by the United States mili l tary intelligence for his alleged pro. l German activities during the World war. He had also been tried and ac \ quilted on the charge of the murder oi Mrs. Maud King, in Concord, \. C., ir 1918