Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-03-02

Arkansas charged Attorney General
Daug he rty with responsibility for use
Of Department of Justice cipher in
II would like to ask the President
himself" said Senator Caraway,
whether he had any communication
with those people in Florida. He
owes an explanation to 100000, 900
right to a quick and easy access to
the White House
Major ON Stand.
The oil committee examined John
F. Major, author Of most Of the
Mclean kilograms, and John ].
Spurgeon, managing editor of the
private wire to Florida. but got little
additional information.
Closing the committee room doors,
the inv estigators examined new
oatch of kilograms and records Of the
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone
Company. 1t found additional code
messages and that three mysterious
telephone calls had been made to
Albert b. Fall at New Orleans from
the New willard here. Officials of
the telephone company will be asked
why the name OF the person or per-
sons making the calls do not appear
in the records.
Telegraph Heads Called.
After the committee had adjourned
until Tuesday. supoenas were issued
for the managers of the telegraph
offices at Three Rivers. N. NJ, Falls
home They will be required to bring
to Washington all messages sent or
received by Fall. Harry F. Sinclair,
IL.
standard Oil Company of Indiana.
and II. NJ. Blackmer of the Midwest
Oil Company.
With the issuing Of these SUBJ
poenas the committees dragnet for
kilograms exchanged between the
more important personages whose
names have been brought into the
oil scandal covers wide field.
Confidential Wires Destroyed.
But the Investigators probably never
will get trace of hundreds of mes
sages that it desired. particularly
hose that passed over the private
| wire Mclean had Installed to Palm
Beach at the time his representa-
lives Were seeking to keep him OFF
| the witness stand.
| Major told the committee yesterday
| hat he personally had destroyed the
! aopies of those sent from Washington
nd that the copies received at Palm
Beach also had been destroyed. 1t
! vas the practice to destroy each
| n: ght, he testified, adding that there
was nothing strange in this, as they
were private messages relating to
| .ItLean'S business.
| Senators said the kilograms fur
| lished yesterday by the Western
| onion company contained nothing
| sensational unless it be that mat
| ters of that character will be dis
| losed by the deciphering of the code
/ oil hnWavar
| hat some Of the kilograms had
! served to fill gaps left by some of
| the messages previously read into
! the record.
Scores of additional kilograms from
| the Washington Office of the Western
| tnion and Postal companies are
, looked for by the committee when
! he search of the files Of those offices
| aas been completed on the basis Of
| the new subpoenas calling for mes
! "a les sent to or received by Fall,
| larry +. Sinclair, f. l.. Doheny, Nc
| Lean and others from December l.,
1928, to February %, 1924.
The four calls put through to Fall
without the name of the persons
| making them has aroused the Curl
osity of the investigators, who eX-
pressed surprise that such tran
saction could be possible. Their be-
! Ilef is that whoever called Fail must
have been of much more than passing
1 prominence and influence.
| Not since the oil inquiry got under
way last October has there been a
larger array of witnesses on hand
: than was present yesterday in the