The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-03-15
STINSON STORY
 BRANDED FALSE
(csntInuod from Vaus on.)


 to make a general reply while her state ments are fresh in the public mind.
 ''She is a disappointed woman who planes me because her divorced huS- band did not make her sole legatee under his will; an angry woman be- cause tn ecourts have decided against her in litigation over the estate of her divorced husband; a malicious woman because the friends of the Attorney General have brushed aside and disre- garded all her tentative efforts to capi- talize her silence.
 II positively deny that had any in- terest whatever with Colonel Darden in his promotion of some western oil com pany and knew nothing about any such promotion or interest therein on the part of Jess W. Smith. The inference attempted to be drawn from the state ments of Miss Roxie Stinson that I, as Attorney General of the United States, or personally, was a party to any spec ulation to make money out of violation of the law and permit the showing of prize-fight films contrary to law, is false and untrue.
 Has Filed Report
 Senator Wheeler has in his posses sion a full report of the activities of the department of justice showing that the law was enforced most Strenuously, and he also has a list of the parties ar rested, prosecuted and fined, furnished him under date of February 19, 1924, at his request, which he has withheld since that time. The department is today releasing the full report for the first time.
 Certain statements made by Miss RoXie Stinson to the effect that there was a large amount of money from the east deposited in the bank at Wash ington Court House as the result of my illegal connection with prize fight films is' absolutely false. I had no connec- tion herewith, directly or indirectly, except as an officer of the law, strictly enforcing the same.
 "As an illustration of the unfair in- ference which can be drawn from gen. eral statements by persons wishing to do so, it is perfectly apparent that this whole fabric of alleged illegal collec- tions grows out of the simple fact that the alien property custodian of the United States, in order to have inactive funds in circulation and earning for the government a reasonable rate of interest, had atl different times caused to be de posted certain sums Ol money Tn the bank of which my brother is president at Washington Courthouse, O., this being one of the banks. some 300 odd throughout the United States. that were used as Repositories for public funds.
 With reference to the intimation that the late Jess W. Smith was col lecting moneys for his influence in securing pardons, and in which I was  active in investigations in oils in Mex ico."
 "Who told you that?" asked Senator Wheeler
 ''The Attorney General told me that afternoon, and that cabinet officer had requested it. He never would be specific-just said a cabinet officer had requested my suspension. That was when he reinstated me. When l asked the Attorney General why l was sus- pended he said: Well. now, cant tell you that. I was not responsible for it. Your suspension was a request from a fellow cabinet member, but didn't control ,it' That is all he said and he wouldn't tell me"