The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-14
MYSTERIOUS SHACK
 WAS HEADQUARTERS
Mutual Oil Company Official Alleged To Have Been
 Involved
WAS IN ENCOURAGE
 OF PRESIDENT HARDING
Committee To Join Oil Investi- gation In Bringing Darden
 To Light

nIgnly sensational naCure-au repre- sented as involving Attorney General Daugherty-were alleged today before the Senate investigating committee.
 Again Miss Roxie Stinson, accom- painted by bodyguards, divorced wife of the late Jesse W. Smith of Washing ton Courthouse, Ohio, the Attorney Generals bumper and friend" was the witness, relating, with accompanying insinuation and inference, stories which she said Smith had confided to her about deals" in which Smith and the Attorney General were engaged.
 These ''deals," according to Miss Stinson's testimony, ran the gamut from oil to shirts, and included prize fight films, whisky, various stocks and parole for federal convict.
 Smith Was GO-Between
 The most specific allegation, how ever, in Miss Stinson's testimony to- day was that Smith had told her he was acting as go-between for Attorney General Daugherty and certain motion picture companies which were seeking to exhibit the pictures of the Carpen- tier-Dempsey fight without incurring prosecution under the law which forbids transportation of such films in inter- state commerce. Smith told her, she testified, that the "deaf' proposed that Daugherty would see to it that there was no prosecution and in return "we'' (Daugherty and Smith) would receive $1S0,00O.
 Whether that was consummated or not, I do not know," she said.
 From that Miss Stinson's testimony jumped to another "deal' which Smith, she said, told her, was on between Daugherty and Col. James G. Darden, said to be president of the Mutual Oil company. Darden was one of a num- Der who were prominent in the Hard ing entourage when the late President came to office, but who disappeared from Washington. Darden's name also has figured in the Teapot Dome in- qniry. The Senate committee investi- gating that affair has been attempting for month to serve a summons on him without avail. .s,s <. 5A < - !. s,.,
 Darden, according to Miss Stinson's testimony today, had been, according to Smith, trying to get through some leases some way through Washington prior to this administrations" -
 Mysterious Shack Mentioned
 As a result of conferences at the mysterious little green house in K street" in Washington, and at the ''shack" near Washington Courthouse which was owned jointly by Smith, Daugherty and others, Smith and Daugherty each gave Darden $2, 400 for investment, according to the story which Miss Stinson said Smith related to her.
 Then, according to the same story, the details of which she did not know, ''they" dropped Darden, with whom, she testified, "they had a deal in an oil proposition out vest" Smith, she tes- tifed, had told her: 'If this in's a pipe dream it may probably make us a lot of money"
 "What brought this about" said Miss Stinson, twas that Darden did not measure up."
 Measure up to what? demanded Senator Ashurst.
 'To them. They just dropped hin" "
 The committee decided to add its ef- forts to the oil committees in the at- tempt to subpoena Darden.
 Parole Hinted
 From that point the testimony jumped to an alleged Ideal" to get a p.. role for ''Mr. Solomon" brother in-law of Joe Weber, the actor.
 Miss Stinson testified that she was in New York with Smith when they met Weber. Smith and the actor, she said, discussed the possibilities of get ting a parole for Solomon. The conver- sation, she said, was about fixing it with Daugherty.
 '"Was there any reference to any money transaction in it?" asked Sena- tor Wheeler.
 .He (Smith) said," testified Miss Stinson, "he (Weber) is awfully cheap. He wants something for nothing. l don't know whether we will do anything for him or not"
 The witness focused her attention on NJ. S. Daugherty, the Attoreny Gen erals brother, who was sitting III the audience and recalled that she had warned him she intended to come to Washington and tell the truth.
 Isn't that so?" she demanded, hurl- ing her question at Daugherty.
 'Does the committee want me to answer that?" inquired Daugherty, but Senator Wheeler waved O gesture to the man indicating that he should remain silent and let the inquiry go on.
 Had $75,OOO
 From that Miss Stinson's testimony turned to meeting Smith at Washing LOH AOuGtuOuSC MhClC iO HoN JuoS OA rived from Washington with seventy live one thousand dollar bills in a belt around his waist Where he got it he didn't tell her, she said, and she couldn't fix the date.
 Did you ask him about tliem:'
 No. That was after l stopped want ing to know things"
 'Where had Smith come from when he brought the money with him:"
 Prom Washington"
 "He didn't bring it in Mack satchel?" suggested Senator Ashurst.
 The witness said Smith hadn't.
 Then, after attempting to illustrate the attention of Smith to Daugherty, how he had cried like a baby when Daugherty had refused to come to his side and finally had decided to be pres ent at Smiths operation for appendi- citis, the question of whisky came up.
 Senator Wheeler wanted to know if