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Of
SHOALS
Minority Report Opposes Deal
With Ford or Others for
Private Operation.

Formidable opposition to the sale
of the Governments nitrate and
power aplauta a.akl ASRselA. .0haAlss Ala,
to Henry Ford dsvelOped In Con.
gress today when six members Of
the House Military Affairs Com
mittee submitted a minority report
on the Ford offer.
The minority report was signed
by Congressman Harry E. Hull
(RepD Of Iowa, John NJ. NORM
(RepJ of Pennsylvania, Harry r.
Ransley (Rep.) OF Pennsylvania.
John Philip Hill Rep) Of Mary
land. Louis A. Frothingham Rep.)
OF Massachusetts and J. Mayhem
Wainwright Rep) OF New York.
Reasons For Opposition.
They said they were against the
Ford offer because:
/. "In our opinion 1t amounts to
gift of enormous property and
Industrial advantage to a private
citizen from the resources Of the
United States. No government, and
especially no democracy, can single
out for special favor any individual
or group of individuals without
grave wrong, injustice and scandal.
2. I'VE do not think it just, or
wise, or proper, for a government
TO bestow largess upon individuals,
no matter how great, or good, or
beneficient or efficient they may
be-"
The Government, says the report
II 1t wants to part with the steam
II q. A. - Il
lty attached to nitrate plant No. q
known as the Sheffield steam plant
Is offered hy one Of the bidders
other than Ford s4,50O, 900 spot cash
for this unit alone.
Bids Are Compared.
A comparison Of the offer Of the
associated Southern power com
panies with that of Ford is made ir
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Every boy who secures ten new
subscribers to The Times by that
date will be given a $40 certificate
payable at the expiration of six
months, provided he has delivered
The Times to all of his ten sub
scribers for that period of time.
All of the boys who secure ten
new subscribers each month from
now until August / will be given
certificates having a total value OF
$76. All OF these certificates will
be payable after December 20, so
that they will have the money for
their Christmas expenses.
Approved by Rudolph.
Immediately after the announce.
ment OF the plan District Commits.
sioners 'Cuno H. Rudolph and
James F. Oyster gave their hearty
endorsement to It. In giving their
approval the Commissioners urged
the parents of local boys to see
that their children take advantage
Of this attractive offer.
AT time when the whole world
is 30 sorely In need Of thrift encour.
agement any campaign or drive
which has as it's aim the install
ltaion of the spirit Of thrift into
the minds Of our people is highly
Continued on Page .. Column s.
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FIVE DEPUTIES,
SUSPENDED,
TOF|GHT
Attorney, Retained by Them,
Calls Case Another Depart
ment of Justice Fiasco.

Summary suspension without
pay of the five United States
deputy marshals was character
ICED as another Department of
Justice fiasco, similar to the
Bureau of Engraving and Print
ing incident, today by William
Leahy, attorney with offices in
the Columbian building, who has
been retained by the suspended
officers as their legal advisor.
Calls for Charges.
'These men have been summarily
suspended from duty with all the
odium Of being implicated in some
kind of a plot" Leahy said. THE
officials who are responsible for
that action should either immediate.
ly prefer charges against the for
mer deputies or reinstate them"
That the five have been suspended
without having had q chance to face
the charges which are presumably
placed against them was the asser.
ton Of Mr.. Leahy.
$50 far as any Of the five know.
there is not a scintilla Of evidence
against any one Of them. They are
in total ignorance of what they have
been suspended for"
At the same time, United States
Marshal Edgar c. Snyder professed
to believe that his men would be ex
onerated of whatever they are &C
cused.
IT have every confidence in the
Innocence of my men," he said.
Gordon Not SO Sure.
On the other hand, MAJOR Peytor
Gordon, United States Attorney
whose advice was sought before tie
men were suspended, gruffly stated
that they've got something or
those men," they" referring to the
special officers OF the Treasury De
partment.
That the five deputies are vir
tually helpless was charged by
Leahy today.
1.-THE United States Marshal hat
the power Of suspending, and ever
that Of dismissal, of any of his
deputies, for any reason or no rea
son at ALL" Leahy declared.
The men have no recourse at law
to get their names vindicated ol
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ADM|RER
HUNTED AS
SLAYER
Police Get New Clue in Kill.
ing of Louise Lawson, Beau
tifuI Broadway Butterfly.
By JACK CARBERRY.
International News Service.

NEW YORK, Feb. 9.-Police
today held one slender thread
by which they hoped to unravel
the tangled skein of mystery
surrounding the murder of
beautiful, blond Louisa Lawson,
Golden Butterfly, and music stu
dent Of Texas.
The man who killed her was
q "friend," Detective Inspector
John D. Coughlin, declared-one
Of the many men who danced
about the flame Of her charm in
the six years since she came
from Walnut Springs, Texas.
hopeful and ambitious.
Gems And Stocks Gone.
In a corner Of her bijou apart
ment, Coughlin found the kit bag
she had carried to New York. It
with everything else in the place
had ben ransacked. Her jewels
$4,000 In stock certificates In the
Brooklyn. Manhattan Transit Com
pany and her, cash was missing.
Despite this apparent robbery
Coughlin today expressed doubt that
theft furnished the motive for the
crime. Coughlin, grizzled veteran Of
the dot King case and almost
countless Broadway girl murders,
believed he knew the name Of the
slayer.
Coughlin's theory was hased or
the statement Of Miss Peggy
Tompkins, friend Of Miss Lawson
and resident Of the adjoining apart
ment.
IT was awake yesterday morning
about 8 o'clock, just lying In bed,
Miss TomplIins told Coughlin. 81
heard a rapping on Miss Lawson'i
door.
"'Who is it?' I heard her call.
"A voice answered the express
man.
Gives Name to Police.
Miss Tomplxins told Coughlin the
name of the man she believed
raped on Miss Lawson's door.
"I heard Miss Lawson call out
J CONTINUED on Page .. Column 50
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% MEN GIVE WOMAN
ON COT LONG PORTAGE

PARKERSBURG, w. Va, Feb.
9.-Twenty-eight men. working in
relays, were required to carry Mrs.
Ray Prunty on cot from Oxford,
a remote section of Richie county,
to the railroad station at Toll Gate,
in order that she might be brought
to a hospital here.
impossible roads over mountains
and through valleys made the Jour.
ney necessary, after the village doc.
tor had decided she needed hos.
pital treatment. Mrs. Prunty suf.
fered from exposure, but hospital
physicians said that she would re.
cover,
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Your Wallpaper May
Make You Thin Or
Fat, Experts Say

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., Feb.
o. The color Of your wall paper
may determine your weight and
the number of children you will
have, according to H. A. Gardi-
ner, a researcher Of the Smith
sonian Institution, who addressed
the annual convention Of the In
ternational Association Of House
Painters and Decorators in the
Hotel Ambassador.
Shades of wall covering have
an effect on avoirdupois," said
Gardiner. "Guinea pigs placed
in light colored compartments
become fat and those in dark col
ored boxes become thin. Light
colors of high reflective values
appear to favor rapid growth Of
animals, while colors of low lumi-
Mostly retard development. In
compartments painted dark
colors no young were born in a
period Of four months, while q
baby guinea pig was born in the
same time in each white, tan and
pale blue compartment"
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TIA IS
KLAN MD
IN WAR
Troops Try to Capture Depu-
ties Barricaded in Herrin
Hospital.

NANSA~AAe
HERRIN, H., Feb. 9.-Eigh
heavily armed men. led by Or.
Thomas, said to be a member o..
the St. Louis "Egan Rats,
today were barricaded in the
Herrin hospital, surrounded by
members of Company K, 130th
Illinois National Guard, deter
mined to resist all attempts to
place them under arrest on a
charge of shooting to death Con-
stable Caesar eagle last night,
according to S. Glenn Young,
leader of recent liquor raids in
the county, who early today laid
siege to the hospital with a
party of klansmen until the
troops arrived.
Policemen Kidnapped.
Patrolman Frank Stephens, kid.
naped yesterday with Chief of Pc.
llCe + OIu d1lO <A0OkSkdlt SlACL NA oAAAI
returned to Herrin today and told a
story of how he and his companion
officers had been seized, thrown into
an automobile by Sheriff George
Galligan and several deputies and
driven out Of town.
Stephens was badly battered and
claimed that the sheriff and deputies
had beaten him.
More than seventy-five shots were
exchanged between the men in the
hospital and the besiegers early
today
When national guard troops ar
rived they surrounded the hospital
and allowed no one to leave Oh
enter.
Young charged the killing of Con
stable eagle, whom he termed ar
efficient, law-enforcing officer, twas
most cold.blooded murder"
Shot From Ambush.
eagle was summoned to come t.
town, and was shot down from am
bush, Young said. In the melee
that followed John Layman wal
shot by mistake.
The men who shot eagle tool
Layman to the hospital, and while
they were there the building wal
surrounded by klansmen, according
to Young, who is a paid emissary
Of the khan, which has been active
in law enforcement in the county.
"We secured warrants charging
| the men who were in the hospita
with first degree murder" Young
| said, "but when officers started L
serve them they were fired upon
More than seventy-five shots wert
fired"
Young explained that Sheriff
George Galligan, who was not IL
sympathy with the klan's raids, ha(
deputized more than 200 men in tn
county and that the eight men, in
| cluding Layman, who were in tn,
hospital, were among these specia
deputies.
Stephens had been released b,
Sheriff Galligan. He showed the eff
fects Of a severe beating, according
to Young. No charges were Hlet
against him, however.
Sheriff's story.
Sheriff Galligan, however, main
Ftained that eagle was killed ii
disturbances which grew out Of I
police attempt to break up a meet
Ing of anti-klan forces.
Young stated that the sheriff
Ihad kidnapped Chief Of Police Johr
Ford, Assistant Chief Grain anC
lPatrolman Frank Stephens Of the
Herrin force, and taken them t
a nearby county, whore they ar,
held in Jail. The sheriff statet
, they were spirited out of thu
county to avert a lynching.
Deputy Sheriff John Layton wal
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the report, and It is much to the
advantage of the power companies.
It sums up with the statement
that the power companies offer
would effect a saving to the Gov.
ernment in fifty years of $S4.21S. 900,
and in 100 years of $75,66O.000.
The turning over Of a possible
900. 900 horsepower to Ford. free
from Federal control, is scored.
No individual and no corporation
in the United States has anything
remotely approaching that figure,
it is stated. Ford has prospered in
industry without becoming a mo-
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
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shot and probably fatally wounded
in the melee in which eagle was
killed. Lyman was under treat
ment in the hospital where the
nine deputies were barricaded
when the troops arrived.
eagle was prominently identified
with the khan and had figured in a
sensational series of rafGs led by
s. Glenn Young, khan raider, whose
activities among foreign born resi-
dents of Williamson county led to
a protest to Ambassador JusSerand
at Washington, asking protection
for French citizens whose homes, 1t
was charged, have been wantonly
despoiled by raiders under guise OF
search for liquor.
Sheriff Asks For Militia.
Sheriff Galligan, whose request
to Governor Small, led to ordering
| Of State troops q month ago, again
requested militia protection. Gov
ernor Small ordered Adjutant Gen
eral Black of Springfield to rush all
necessary guardsmen to Herrin.
The appointment of policemen In
| Herrin to further reform move
/ ments in the fervid little town was
| brought about as one of the condi'
tions Of removal Of State troops
sent into Williamson county follow
ing trouble growing out of whole
sale dry raids several weeks ago.
Herrin was the scene Of the kill
! Ing Of q score of miners during
strike troubles two years ago.
Clashes between dry officers, klans-
| men who volunteered as assistants,
and residents whose homes were
raided were the basis Of the recent
troubles.
Police Held I'm Jail.
MURPHYSBORO, Ill, Feb. a.
Chief Of Police John Ford, Assist
ant Chief of Police Grain, and Pa
trolman Frank Stephens, of the Her
rim police department, jailed hers
early today on charges of inciting q
riot, following their arrest after the
shooting of Constable Caesar Cagley
and Deputy Sheriff John Layman
win probably be taken at once tt
the jail at Belleville, Sheriff George
Galligan, of Williamson county, de
clared. A jail delivery Is fearet
here.
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to be reinstated in their positions.
he said.
No warrants for the arrest Of any
of the five have been issued. Such
was learned when a search or the
only officers empowered to ISSUE
the warrants allied to divulge their
names on the lists.
Liquor Deal Hinted.
Grave rumors of illicit liquor
operations were afloat in and around
the courthouse, but no one in au'
thorirty would say that there was
any truth in them. Attorney
Leahy vainly tried all morning tO
get into touch with District Attor
ney Gordon to see what the men
were charged with.
The five deputies will have q con
ference with Leahy this afternoon
1t was indicated that at that gath
ering they would lay plans foI
clearing their names Of attempting
to force the charges against them
The fact that no warrants have
been issued is taken to mean that
the cases will b taken before the
grand jury for indictment without
the formality of having warrants
issued, with the attending prelimi
nary hearing. This step will bC
takn by the Government as a move
ito keep the men in the dark as
ito the nature Of the charges, be
cause the grand jury keeps no min
utes, and all testimony is oral. The
men will then have to go into
court, IL they are indicted, without
knowing what thte nature of the
evidence against them is.
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THE WEATHER

Fair and not so cold to-
night; lowest temperature
about 25 degrees. Sunday
increasing cloudiness and
warmer. Variable winds, be-
coming moderate.
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IN
DEALS To
DEFRA(JD
OWNER
BonfiIs. Publisher OF Denver.
So Testifies, Barring New
Teapot Sensations.

Harry F. Sinclair, the Teapot
Dome oil king, joined with the
Pioneer, the Midwest, and the
Standard Oil Company Of Indiana
to defraud Leo Stack, wealthy oil
man and politician, of his lease in
the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve,
according to testimony Of Fred
J. Bonfils, publisher of the Dem
yer Post, today before the Senate
Public Lands Committee.
When Bonfils took the stand, the
committee went into an examina-
ton of the contracts and documents
relating to the claims Of the Mid
West Refining Company and Allied.
Oil companies, upon Teapot Dome.
The bill of complaint in the suit
by John Leo Stack, Denver oil man,
against Harry F. Sinclair, the
Pioneer and Belgo OIL companies.
to recover on a contract whereby
Stack agreed to secure leases TO
Teapot Dome for the companies, was
read to the committee.
| In the bill, Stack charged that
the Pioneer and Belgo companies
surrendered all claims they had as
serted to Teapot Dome in order to
permit Sinclair to obtain a lease
for the entire reserve.
This was a conspiracy to de-
fraud the plaintiff" the bill said.
Stack further alleged the attor-
neys for the companies represented
to ex-Secretary Of Interior Albert
B. Fall that Sinclair had acquired
all private claims upon Teapot
Dome, resulting directly in the leas-
ing Of the reserve.
Valued at $500, 900, 900.
Stack charged the lease was made
without competitive bidding, and
that Teapot Dome had a total OF
900 ,O00, 900 barrels Of oil. valued at
$500, ,000, 900.
Stack also alleged the Pioneer
and allied companies entered into
a conspiracy with Sinclair to with
draw their applications for claims
and leases in order to allow Sinclair
| to lease the reserve. Questioned
about Stacks suit, Bonfils de-
clared:
There may have been friendly
| cooperation between Sinclair, Do
heny and other allied oil interests
to turn Teapot Dome over to Sin
clair"
Complaint Shown Zevely.
Bonfils said that the complaint.
i alleging fraud to deprive Stack Of
rights in Teapot Dome, had prob
ablv" been shown to Sinclair as 1t
was taken to New York when Bon
ills. Stack and their attorneys Wis
tied the oil magnate in his offices
there.
Bonfils was positive that the com.
plant had been shown to Col. j. w.
Zevely, Sinclair's counsel.
What reason do you have -
believing that Sinclair Joined y
the Pioneer, the Midwest and
Standard Oil Company Of
to defraud Stack of his
Teapot Dome? Walsh
"Only what Stack 4
Bonfils. "He said Dc
the Standard Oil am
group agreed to
Teapot Dome, q
had no interest
were willing
the naval Il
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Boys Hurry to Enter
Times Savings Club

More than one hundred boys enrolled yesterday in the
Savings Club of The Washington Times according reports
submitted last night by the main and branch offices of the
Circulation Department Of the paper
Many of the boys had secured Of their first ten
subscribers before enrolling All of them said they could
easv secure their ouota of ten subscribers by March
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Buried Together.

SHEFFIELD. Eng, Feb. 9.-Mrs.
Cordelia Biddles. eighty-two, and
her daughter, Mrs. Gertrude Need.
ham. sixty-two. died on the same
day and were buried together.
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Count Salm's own story Of "HOw
I WOOcd and Won the $4,000, 600
Rogers Heiress" win appear exclu.
sively In The Washington Herald.
beginning Tomorrow.
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Notas de la Isla

pilla que esta emplazada en- la Gina
de una montana desde donde parece
convidar los moradores del barrio
que acudan ella. Este fiesta tuvo
grande importancia por la numerosa
concurrencia que asistio al acto de La
communion bendici6n de la imagen de
La virgen del P. Socorros, ofici6 ell Edo.
Padre Elias Besalduc, Ell cual pronun-
clio I'm elocuente y bello sermon. La
aglomeraci6n de gente era tan grande
que todos los alrededores de la Capilla
estaban llenos calculandose en- mas de
mil doscientas personas que asistie-
ron. Al terminar Ell acto religioso e.,
pezo una conferencia escolar en- un te-
reno cerca de la Capilla en- donde esta
emplazada una escuela dirigida por la
Srta. Rita ARIZONA Juan Miranda,
tomando parte como oradores Ell Sr. j..
Miranda que abrio ell acto, Ell professor
Sr. Hernandez, Ell Rdo. Elias Besalduc
que trato del deber de los padres para
con sus hijas ell Inspector de Agrl
cultura, Sr. Reyes.
Estas fiestas fueron llevadas cabo
por los esfuerzos del padre Elias que
parece incansable, con su labor con.
tinua de misiones por estos campos,
secundado por los Sres. nombradcs y
ell Sr. Juan Agosto propietario en- Ell
barrio, hombre altruista y dispuesto
siempre ayudar al projimo.
DE AGRICULTURA.- Tuvimos Ell
gusto de saludar en- esta al Sr. jaime
vasquez ARIZONA que esta actuando CO
mo Inspector auxiliar del Distrito acorn
pafiado del Sr. Villanueva agente de
Agriculture Ell cual esta hacienda una
labor Y un trabajo excelente con Ia
aprobaci6n de todos los agricultores.
CORRESPONSAL.
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20 debemos sentirnos orgullosos y de-
cir con todo Ell entusiasmo de nuestras
almas floor La Instruction. asi CO.
mo tambien i1soor al ilustre cuerpo de
profesores que tan sabiamente dirigido
por las autoridades escolares han sa-
bido colocar muy alto ell glorioso es-
tandarte de la Instruction.
Y terminamos esta cr6nica felici-
tando cordialmente todos los profe.
sores de esta locaidad por el gran
exito que en- este curse han obtenido
especialmente La Srta. Principal Car
men Prado y Ell Sr. Inspector Jose
Vazquez Ortiz, de este distrito escolar
quienes supieron organizar esta fiesta
que ha resultado una de las mas bri-
1antes de las que Sc han celebrado en-
esta ciudad; y que los So alumnos que
fueron graduados reciban de mi parte
un abrazo tan puro y efusivo como Ell
gu lie he dado a mi querida hija Rosa
Maria que Sc gradu6 esa noche para
mi imborrable como 10 sera indudable-
mente para los demas padres que tu-
vieron la dicha de presenciar la gra-
duaci6n de sus hijos, los cuales tam
bien felicito con todo ell afecto de mi
alma.
Saturnino SANTIAGO.
Bayam6n, JUNO 81, 1924.
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trabajos artisticos en- flores naturales
Lame al telefono 800 Santurce. (Stor
-. Martin Peila) y sera atendido Dor
a a~S,ora TSARET. pApST
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PARIS, JUNO %. (Cable frances).-
A pesar de las protestas de los Gobier-
nos extranjeros y de las companias que
tienen invertido grandes capitales en-
aquella nacion en- los campos petroleros,
ell senado ha aprobado ell proyecto de
Ley autorizando a las companies ru-
manas y corporaciones a adquirir ell
control de propiedades petroleras ex-
trajeras.
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la planta alta de la casa de la
caIIe del Mercado No. S. Aqua
permanente todas horas.
Casa moderna, atractiva y
saludable.
Informes: Luis GarofaIo. Te-
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MUNDo CoNsTRUIDo ExPRESA-
MENTE PARA LOS EsTADoS UNI
DOS EN- LOS TALLERES ZEPE-
LIN, HARA LOS WAVES DE PRUE-
BA Ell 4 DE JULIO

FRIEDRICHSHAFE JUNO 23. (Ca
BILE frances).- El primer viaje areo
del dirigible z r construido espe-
cialmente para ell departamento de la
guerra de los Estados Unidos va es-
ia completamente terminado.
Este dirigible que sera el mas gran
de del mundo ha sido construido en-
los famosos talleres de ZEPPELIN de es-
ia ciudad por orden del Departamen-
to de la Guerra del Gobierno de Esta-
dos Unidos. FL ZEPPELIN es del tipo de
dirigible rigido.
Los vuelos de prueba Sc llevaran a
cabo cubriendo las distancias entire
Berlin, Copenhaguen y Stockolmo, re.
gresando luego ell dirigible Erie
drichshafen desde donde partira para
Lakenhurst. New Jersey. FL viaje de
prueba Sc llevara cabo partiendo de
esta ciudad el dia de julio, dia dc
la Independence de Estados Unios.
LA CONFERENCIA INTERNACIO-
NAL DEL CoMERcIo Sc ABRIRA
EN- PARIS Ell Ola &c DE JUNO
BRUSELAS, JUNO %. (Cable fran
c6s).- Treinta naciones incluyendo
seis de Sud America han enviado re-
presentantes para la decima conferen
cia parlamentaria international del Co.
mercio que Sc llevara cabo en- esta
capital entire los dias % y 26 Ge
este mes.
Los problemas que Sc trataran de
resolver, comprenden los estudios de
Tarifas de acuerdos internacionales S
ell transporte aereo como medic mas
rapido para Ell comercio.
Los Estados Unidos no estaran re-
presentados en- estas conferenc1as. Ill
Rey Alberto abrira oficialmente las Sc
stones de la Conferencia.
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LOS RUMANOS ADQUIEREN Ell
CONTROL DE LAS PRoPIEDADES
PETRoLERAS ExTRANJERAS