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Evening star., 1924-02-07
.DOHENY CORRECTS
M'ADOOPAY FIGURE
Former Secretary's Firm and
Himself Got $15O,OOO, Not
$250,000, Says Letter.

T.. IL. Doheny, the California oil
operator, has notified the Senate oil
committee that instead of the $3.50, 900
he recently estimated his interests
mad paid William G. McAdoo's law
Ilrm' the amount actually paid so far
is Sl5o,o00, including an annual fee
or s25,0o0 to Mr.. McAdoo himself.
III a letter on the subject sent to
Chairman Lenroot, Mr.. Doheny added
that mono Of the money. or any other
payments, ever had been given the
McAdoo firm with regard to "an>
matter relating TO the contracts and
leases which have been under i'll
Vestigation by yous committee"
Letter Of Correction.
The letter follows:
on the 1st instant, while testify
ing pefore your committee as wit
ness uhoer subpoena, l was questioned
ny the chairman on the subject of
the employment by companies in
winch l am interested of persons
VINO prior To such employment held
publlc Office, and speaking entirely
from memory, [ testified that Mr..
William G. McAdoo and his New York
Hrm mad, L thought, received a total
of $3.50, 900 as compensation for serv-
ices as attorneys and counsel. tha l,
sum being made up of the amount
paid the firm of which Mr.. McAdon
was member in New York. and, as
! thought and then stated. the sum oi
$4,000 as a yearly retainer to Nj.
McAdoo at Los Angeles.
BY telegraph Mr.. McAdoo called
my attention TO the fact that 1 was in
error in regard to these amounts and
l have had the records looked up and
vember 20. 1919, there was paid TO
the law. firm of NIcAdoo. Cotton X.
FRANKLIN, the sum Of 100000.
'Beginning March 1. 1922. Mr.. Nc
Adoo mas been in receipt of an an
nual retainer at the rate of S25 900
per year, on account of which the fol-
lowing payments have been made: e..
Amounts Paid McAdoo.
March 1, 1922, s12,500.
August 1, 1922. $12,500.
February /. 1923, $4,000
July 81, 1929, s12,5Oo.
ut will thus be seen that the total
paid to the firm of which Mr.. McAdoo is
nemoer In New York, and paid him
600, instead of S250,000, as errone-
ously stated by me; and that Mr. Nc
Adoos annual fee is $4,000 instead
of $4,000, as also erroneously testi-
fled by me. l request that my testi-
mony be considered as corrected ac-
cordingly.
Permit me to add that, as already
testified to by me, neither Mr.. Nc
Adoo's New York firm nor himself
personally was ever employed in any
way in connection with any matter
relating to the contracts and leases
which have been under investigation
by your committee"
Evening star., 1924-02-07
REHEARING DENIED.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill, February T.
The supreme court today denied a re-
hearing of the case Of Julia Ann
Morton VS.. Frank s. Goodwine, in
which the plaintiff sought to invali-
date a will because it was not signed
by witnesses.
At the December session of the
court the will was declared valid. :.
Evening star., 1924-02-07
BRITISH EXPRESS REGRET.
Macdonald Defends Ministry j,
Note to France, Is Report.

By the Associated Press
PARIS, February Prime Minis
ter Macdonald of Great Britain has
written to Premier Poincare, express
ing regret for the incident caused by
the Lloyd George interview asserting
the discovery of an agreement at
the Paris peace conference between
Woodrow Wilson and Premier Glenn
enceau reEarding the occupation of
the Rhineland, says a dispatch to the
semi official Havas Agency from Lon
don this afternoon. The letter points
out that the fault is not Mr.. Mac
IF Lloyd George will produce a
secret agreement between Wilson and
me. I will pay the reparations" said
former Premier Clemenceau today,
after reading the text OF the state
ments ascribed to David Lloyd George
concerning a secret pact between
Clemenceau and woodrow Wilson in
regard to the occupation of the
Rhineland.
Text OF Tardieu Denial.
Andre Tardieu's denial. made dur
ing the session of the chamber of
deputies yesterday and amplified
later and approved by Clemenceau,
says:
"rhe text that Mr.. Wilson accepted
on April 20 at pm. in conversation
with M. Clemenceau and myself had
been in the hands Of Mr.. Lloyd
George as we'll as those Of Mr.. Wilson
text that Mr.. Lloyd George, absent
from Paris on the goth, accepted on
the morning Of the 22d after a last
resistance. The clauses in question
became articles 428 to 432 of the
treaty of Versailles.
"If Mr.. Wilson were still living his
denial would be added to that which
Evening star., 1924-02-07

I regret being obliged to inf1ict upon
the former British prime minister.
The vital guarantees we obtained for
France on the Rhine were acquired
only after months of terrible strug-
gle, but 1t is our pride that we OBJ
tanned them with the loyalty Of all
our allies
Evening star., 1924-02-07
FLU SWEEPS BRITAIN.
Endemic Causes 367 Deaths 1
United Kingdom.

LONDON, February 7-There Is no
sign as yet Of an abatement Of the
epidemic of influenza which Is sweep
Ing over the United Kingdom.
The deaths reported from influenza
last week numbered 367
Evening star., 1924-02-07
SUGAR SHIP CLEARS BAR.

CHATHAM, Mass, February 7.--The'
steamer Panuco, with a cargo Of
sugar from Cuban ports. which went
aground on q sand bar OF Old Harbor
early today, was floated at IL o'clAok.
She was apparently undamaged.
Evening star., 1924-02-07

Continued from First Page.)
dence that during his absence In
London President Wilson and NJ.
conference in Paris secret COM
pact regarding military occupation
Of the Rhfneland.
Says Plea Ii Too Late.
"The interview continues: I have
always been attacked by many people
in England as the villain Of that
piece. ] have just received the docu-
ments from the foreign office. The
French now wish to publish the
agreement between Wilson and
Clemenceau and desire me to agree.
1t is a little late to ask my consent;
I have never seen the documents be-
FORE"
The statement proceeds:
These assertions should be read
in conjunction with the following
facts: The foreign office has been
notified that the French government
intends to prepare a yellow (blue)
book concerning certain documents
connected with the drafting of ar
ticles 42S to AL of the treaty of Yer
government to the publication of
these documents Is necessary, in view
OF the agreement reached by the
peace conference under which the
official records of the proceedings of
the conference were not to be pub
lished.
"On January % the foreign office
decided that before replying to the
French government it would be only
courteous to acquatne pnnnas.i ME- :,roa LLOYD ;d
conjunction with President Wilson
and NJ. Clemenceau, he had been con-
cerned in the discussion of the mat
ter.
Asked Lloyd Georges o. X.
"a letter was written on January 25
by a foreign Office official to Mr..
secretary. asking him
to ascertain whether Mr.. Lloyd
George had any objection to the pub
Ilication Of the documents, and inclos-
ling the proof sheets.
There could be no doubt of the
purpose OF the foreign office, nor of
the nature of the communication, as
the following sentences from it show {:
We feel that before replying to the
Lloyd George, who was one Of the
parties to the discussion at the peace
conference from which these docu-
| ments took shape. / have consequently
been directed to ascertain through
iyou as soon as possible whether he
sees any objection from a personal
viewpoint to their inclusion in the
|yellow book, provided presumably
that the other governments interested
likewise raise no objection. Please
return proof sheets with your an
swer'
mo answer has been received, the
proof sheets have not been returned
and the first indication of the letter
having reached Mr.. Lloyd Georges 8
hands comes from this alleged inter-
view. 1t will be seen from the above
that in one or two respects the In
terview as reported is not accurate"
Evening star., 1924-02-07
TAX BILL REPORTED
WITH rs PCT. CUT
IN INCOME LEVIES

CONTINUED from First Page. }
Evening star., 1924-02-07
GRAVE SITUATION
SEEN IN CHARGES
BY LLOYD GEORGE

Continued from First Page.)
Evening star., 1924-02-07

'tYou know that individuals hold
ing these securities would have to
pay income taxes. Why do you not
recommend L remedy for this dis
elimination? Your policy has mada
it more difficult for industry to get
money at reasonable rates than all
the state and municipal bonds in
existence"
Evening star., 1924-02-07


This was after the discharges at
the bureau of engraving.
Brewer yesterday submitted some
Of his alleged duplicate securities to
members Of Congress. and It is ex-
pected the matter will be carried to
the floor Of the House. Meanwhile
Treasury officials insist that Brewer
has failed to prove his case and that
investigation has shown there was
no dishonesty; that no bonds not au-
thorized were issued. The discharged
! employees have been ordered rein
stated.
The dismissed employees told Sena-
tor Caraway that Secretary Mellon
was very indefinite in his statement
to the former employees as to what he
could do or would do In the matter
of restoring them to their old places
| sponsibility and pay.
Caraway Gives View.
Senator Caraway said today that
| he thought the government should
file reply as quickly as possible In
! the Brewer suit; that IL such reply
was not filed 1t would Indicate the
! government did not intend to proceed
with the bureau affair. but to let the
matter slide along az 1t has in the
past, in "a manner extremely detri-
mental to the ousted employees.
The Arkansas senator said that II
what Mr.. Brewer contended was true
then the administration officials were
guilty of helping to conceal gigantic
frauds, that they should have pro-
ceeded against the ousted employees OF
the bureau. He added that he Gid not
| put credence in the charges made by
Brewer.
to watch the situation closely and
will be guided in his future action
by what the administration does in
the matter.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
Women Urge People to
Exercise Right to Vote

The League OF Women Voters has
thrown It's energies into tho campaign
to induce women to vote, says the Sc.
attic post.Intelligcncer
Having worked for the ballot for
many years and against obstinate OPP
position, women have failed to real
iae upon the results of their victory.
Election days come and election days
go, and the new voters avoid the polls.
At the presidential election OF 1920
only a little over half the registered
voters actually cast their ballots.
Great as was President Hardlng's ma
jority, II was only the majority OF n
bare majority of reg!strants,
This condition carries with 1t plen.
ty of danger,
Nothing - not even anarchism -
could undermine American instltu-
tions more eiiectually than the fail
ure to vote.
Americans make plenty of com
plant, in conversation, about the way
our governmental affairs are run, in
cities, counties, states and the nation
itself.
II the people don't express their
will on the only days when they have
the chance, who is to blame II the
governments are mrepresentative?
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
ONCE HUMBLE COTTON SEED
NOW is FOOD PRODUCT

Millions of dollars have been made
in the past few years from the seeds
of cotton, formerly thrown away in
such quantities that streams became
stopped up and legislation governing
the disposal of this waste" had to be
enacted.
This is but another Of the romances
of American business, which is con
tinually proving that there is no such
thing as waste product. The dis
covery is the most interesting to PEG.
pie at large in the case of cotton
seed, because the products of the
once discarded seed are food PROT
ucts-and enter in one form or an
other-shortenings, compounds or sal
ad oils-into probably every Amer,
can home.
For every ton of cotton there are
approximately two tons of seed, and
each ton of seed yields between 40
and As gallons of oil, so it can be
seen of what a tremendous impor,
lance the utilization Of the seed is.
There is very little waste now in
the cotton seed" says NJ. B. Graft
chemist with the Proctor & Gamble
Company
The base of practically all com
pounds is cottonseed oil 1t also
makes a splendid salad oil. 1t is
used largely in oleomargarine manu-
facture. 1t makes very desirable
frying fat. AS shortening by itself
it is excellent. 1t gives delicate fla
vor and fine texture to cake, pie, COOK
les, biscuits, crackers, and other pas
try. In short, this one product of TIE
cotton seed is serving multitude OF
food uses today, where only a few
year sage the entire seed was an un
known treasure, tossed into Southern
streams.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
SILK MILL STRIKES STILL
CONTINUE IN NEW JERSEY

Efforts of the Paterson mill owners
to use the police and injunctions to
break the strike of 5000 workers
mark the strike developments in their
eighth week Arrests of over 300
pickets, injunctions against picketing
secured by four mills and the action
of the chief of police in closing the
strikers hall to meetings addressed
by Outside agitators" are the out
standing features, The strike is be-
ing conducted by the Associated Silk
Workers, local union in Paterson,
which amalgamated the groups for
merly organized in several separate
unions. OF the 5000 strikers from
$50 shops about 1000 have returned
to work on the strikers conditions,
t13 shops having signed. up on their
terms. Mass picketing has been con
Quoted since the beginning of the
strike and has not been broken by
the action of the courts and the po-
lice.
The American Civil Liberties Union
which went to the strikers defense at
their request when it appeared that
their rights we're being violated, is
furnishing legal advice and speakers.
Plans are being made to test the in
functions if they are made permanent.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24

THE first Swiss Matchmaker was a
The maker of this
startling statement was Albert Aesch-
hacker, mechanical and electrical
engineer from Neuchatel, Switzerland,
who is a guest at Hotel Pennsylvania,
New York City.
In $780," continued MIR. Aesch-
bacher in explanation Of his first SEN
tence, AN English lord was travelling
through Switzerland His watch be-
gan to run badly, and the nearest APP
proach to a matchmaker he could find
was a young blacksmith named Dan
lei Jean Richard. This young man
undertook to repair the watch, and,
what is more, he was successful. Dur
ing his work he seized his opportun.
ity to take the watch apart, and as a
consequence learned SO much about
watches that he became the first
matchmaker in Switzerland.
"The watch was first made possible
by the invention by Peter Henlein of
Nuremburg in 1900 of the first port
able timepiece, or more exactly, the
first timepiece in which a handspring
instead of a pendulum supplied the
motive power
THAT Swiss watches became known
the world over for their beauty and
uelicacy of workmanship was partly
due to the climate and geographic con
ditions. Up in the mountains where
their world was buried in ice and
snow most of the year, men had little
with which to occupy themselves. For
that reason they would employ them
selves for years patiently construct
ing one fine watch.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
Just Another thunderstorm

The air is full of politics, and poll
tics is full of air. Soon the orators
will be laundering up and down the
land that their party will solve all our
problems, and that unless their candi-
dates are elected the nations future
is doomed The same old stuff!
If we all take citizens interest
and vote our unprecedented and unim-
passioned Judgment, the country may
make a little progress. A little is all
it ever makes at once. 1t seldom
loses ground once gained.
The same old political rant is heard
before every election, but our prob
lens have never all been solved, nor
has the nation ever entirely crumbled,
Some problems will be left long after
you and we have been forgotten
Farm and Fireside,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
Disarmament Must Be
Gradual, Says Hoover

SAN FRANCISCO. = The world
must disarm gradually and uniform
ly in order that no nation may gain
undue strength in the disarmament
process, Secretary CT Commerce Her
bert c. Hoover said recently in an ad.
dress before the Commonwealth Club.
To-day finds Europe still over.
armed" Secretary Hoover said, This
continues to menace the peace of the
world"
Concerning International debts, he
said:
1.-THE United States feels that the
other nations must pay their debts to
this country as they are regarded as
sacred contracts. And all of these
debts will be paid"
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
Old Floors Made New

No matter what treatment your
floors have had, you can make them
look like hardwood. This is the pro-
cess: Clean the floor thoroughly. Fill
the cracks with putty. Put on coac
of chrome yellow paint and let 1t dry
thoroughly, then put on any kind of
light oak stain and let this dry thor,
oughly. Follow this with coat Of
light oak varnish. AT the last, cover
all with a coat of good floor wax and
rub the wax in. The more rubbing
you give 1t the better will look, for
there is more virtue in the elbow
grease than in the wax. The better
the floor is waxed the longer It will
last.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
WAS THE FIRST SWISS
MATCHMAKER, SAYS WORLD TRAVELLER

Even today it is possible to find in
the isolated regions far up in the Alps
old men who will put in ten years
making a watch I meant that they
make the whole watch, They shape
the wheels and put them together and
they make the case and shape and
fit the crystal.
THE county OF Neuchatel produces
more watches than any other locality
in the world. In 1900 Neuchatel was
producing 10000 watches a year.
Since 1850 Switzerland has been
known as the home of watches,
"One famous Swiss masterpiece is
now in this country after being ex-
hibited abroad for some time. This
is the Ditisheim watch. This watch,
in addition to recording the time, also
indicates the day of the week, the
month, the year and the phases of the
moon. The calendar is a perpetual
one, for the watch automatically ad.
justs itself to leap year,
Mr.. Aeschbacher has invented sew
eral clock work devices, notably a
taximeter that cannot be induced to
cheat, as it is electrically operated
and no tampering by the sly hand OF
the chauffeur can make it bear false
witness. He is now in this country in
the interest of his invention.
"The United States is the land OF
opportunity for men of science" said
Mr.. Aeschbacher in conclusion. There
is no country where research and ex
detrimental laboratories are so well
equipped to further the cause of sci
J ence."
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
streams
Do You Know?

How much feed does your team ca;
in year?
How much profit do you make
year on each of your cows?
What does it cost you to grow
litter OF pigs up to the 2oO-pound
mark?
How many eggs year does your
poultry flock average and what do
they cost?
What does each crop cost you per
acre, per bushel, or per ton to pro-
duce?
How much more, or less, are your
building equipment, livestock ami
crops on hand worth now than a year
ago?
The man who can answer these
questions is a good farmer. He can'l
very we'll help being a good farmer
if he knows that much about his bust
ness.-Farm and Fireside.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
MIndmIIIs Popular Farm Power

More than $6,OOO,OOO worth of wind.
mills were turned out by the 16 man.
ufacturers making this popular farm
power for pumping last year, accord.
ing to the United States Department
of Commerce. Sales everywhere In
dictate that the farmer was taking ad,
vantage of nature in doing the pump.
ing of his water more than ever be.
fore. The great improvements that
have practically eliminated tower
climating and caught the gentlest
breeze for turning Of the wheel have
also been added with practically no
increase In cost.
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24

the House Of Xiriball, There Is all
OF life in the annals of this one family,
the petty jcalousicS, the intrigue. and
the struggle of brother against brother
for the possession Of the land,
Isabelle Sandy has found In the
mountains Of France the tremendous
grandeur that Conrad found In the
sea, and the people OF these mountains
she has clothed in simplicity, dignity,
and passion. Knut Hanson, in the
person of his Wandcrer, once said
that he had learned to write simply
by hearing Mexican bandit tell Of
his first murder, and the tragedy OF
the House of Xiriball Is fraught with
something Of that fierce passion and
fercer restraint,
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
BULL ELK WRECKS HANDcAR

notwithstanding deer hunting
experiences pale to insignificance be-
side the thrilling narrative of the last
days and death of the widest of wild
bull elk up in the foothills of the Up
per SkoOkumchuck River country in
Thurston County as told by Harley
Post, chairman of the county game
commission.
Resenting the treatment of the
young bulls of the herd of nine elk
released in the county last year, who
drove him from the herd, the old bull
elk practically ran amuck.
He had timber cruisers climbing
trees for several days. Later he had
a regular field day in logging camp,
drove three men from handcar and
knocked the car into ditch. Later
he took after group OF loggers on
gasoline speeder and wrecked that.
Then he chased several children into
a schoolhouse and kept them there
several hours.
In the logging camp proper he Is
credited with having kept nine men
up trees from 5 until in the evening,
when he got wearied and wandered
off.
Then Game Commissioner Post was
appealed to, The commissioner found
him on a bald knoll bawling defiance
to the world. The commissioner won
and the carcass. which weighed about
600 pounds, was packed out of the
woods and is reposing in cold storage
in Olympia awaiting finad disposition.
The song of the hermit thrush, says
Nature Magazine, is exquisite in mod.
,lo tton op1 eryaatneaa pf tnna
Vashon Island news-record. [volume] (Vashon, Wash.) 1919-1954, 1924-10-24
5or .o,.
Health,
PUBLIC HEALTH IS PUBLIC WEALTH n
COMPLIED eY THE
PUBLIC HEALTH LEAGUE
OF WA StiiNGTON
MALIGNANT TUMoRs

A malignant tumor, really cancer,
is a growth which if left alone will
finally kill its victim, in this way diff
fering from benign tumor, which
usually does but little harm.
The cells of a malignant tumor run
wild and finally get into the blood
stream of the lymphatics, where they
are carried to different parts of the
body, finally massing in some place
where the vessels will not permit
them to get through, and forming an
other tumor.
After sufficient time has PASSED for
the cells to get away from the origi-
nal growth, the condition is danger
Gus, and only most skillful care on the
part of a competent physician can
bring about cure; if, indeed, the dis
ease has not progressed beyond the
durable state. This will show why
the earliest attention possible to any
kind of a growth is imperative. If
malignant the time wasted may allow
It to advance until the patient is def
nitely doomed.
While no age group is immune from
cancer, it more frequently develops
in those beyond middle age.
BY the combination Of surgery, X
ray and radium, the control of can
Ger, If located early, is now compare
lively easy If possible to get the x
rays and radium in proper connection
with the cancer cells, surgery is not
always necessary.
The following warnings should be
seriously considered by all who have
any kind of an abnormal growth.
Do not neglect to ascertain whether
1t is benign or malignant.
Do not attempt home treatment
the delay may cost you your life.
Do not be led to try any kind of
patent medicines, so-called cures" or
treatments by other than a competent
physician.
Do not forget that II the growth Is
cancerous, sufficiently early dag
nosis means complete and perma.
nent cure; but neglect, or resort to
cures" other than surgery, X-ray and.
radium, win certainly be fatal.