The Tomahawk., 1924-04-10
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Washington-Captain H. L. Schaife,
aircraft expert, tells committee that
department of justice blocked prose
cution OF 100000 graft.
Observation-Disclosures OF the house
bonus bill providing 20 year endow-
ment insurance by the senate finance
committe Is indicated as probable.
Observation-Disclosures bids for
purchase Of various types Of ships in
the government feet, under the new
terms announced in a recent adver-
tisement By the shipping board. have
been rejected.
Washington-Democratic members
Of the senate finance committee find
1t difficult to agree on a surtax sched-
ule and decide not to present program
until after republicans report tax bill
to the senate.
Washington-The democratic ma
tional committee announced it had Or
ganized series Of meetings for wo-
men throughout the country in the
next two weeks Tor discussing the
tariff.
Washington-Teapot Dome commit
tee in row over Senator Spencer's
statement that late Secretary Frank
lin X. Lane duplicated Fall leases.
Spencer issues subpoena for Doheny,
John Walsh, brother of Senator Walsh
and democratic committee officials.
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Franklin ID. Roosevelt of New York as
chairman Of an advisory committee Of
democratic women to draw up planks
on social welfare legislation for the
democratic platform, was announced
by Chairman Cordell Hull Of the DEM
ocratic national committee.
Washington-Presid Coolidge has
written letter of congratulations to
Carl B. Eielson, air mail pilot who, af-
ter being lost at night over the wilds
Of Alaska with no guiding lights, sue
ceeded in completing the first expert
mental air mail trip between Fair
| banks and McGrath.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. trophies will
be given by Mrs. Coolidge az the White
House on June IA, Flag day, to girls
and young women essayists who best
describe the reasons why young men,
they know should attend the citizens
military training camps conducted
each summer by the war department.
Washington-Daugherty committee
will try to put Nal 8. Daugherty in
Jail for refusing to testify. Case was
to be taken to senate floor. Attorney
General H. M. Daugherty declares Cas-
ton B. Means is making price of his
testimony the aid of committee in
keeping him from trial in New York.
Misunderstanding and navy re-
cords were studied by the senate
finance committee in an effort to de-
termine the exact number of veterans
entitled to q bonus and their average
length of service as a means Of end
ing out Of the huge differences in es-
Inmates as to the cost of the bonus
bill parsed by the house.
Washington-An invitation Is being
conducted into the administration Of
the district office of the Veterans bu-
reau at San Francisco, in charge Of
Major Louis T. Grant, Director Hines
announced. The director said certain
newspaper articles rejecting on the
reputation Of Grant in connection with
alleged Smuggling operations" had
been looked into and it has been found
he had been given an unconditional
pardon" for certain offenses.
Domestic
New York-Mrs. Edith Roosevelt,
widow Of the late president, returned
from Europe aboard the steamship
Conte Rosso, completing a world tour.
New neutrality-suspicious. were re-
ported under way for the establish
ment Of a credit Of between $25,00O,-
900 and $50,000,0 900 for the government
of Belgium to be used in stabilizing it's
exchange.
Chicago - Safeblowers entering
through coal chute, tunneling
through brick wall and then frustrat-
ing burglar alarm after it started to
ring, obtained $4,000 from the safe Of
the Madigan Brothers department
| store.
Los Angeles-A request for esti-
mates Of the cost of erecting an eight
foot wire fence along the international
boundary line between Mexico and
California has been received here by
Collector Of Customs l.. H. Schwaebe
from Mckenzie Moss, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury. 5,
Sacramento. Calif.-A. C. Olney,
state elementary school commissioner
has addressed letters to appointment
secretaries of the University Of Cali
fornia and Stanford university, asking
them II they have any information as
to the danger Of teacher shortage
due to a ban on bobbed hair teachers
and IL they knew Of any boycott move
meut inaugurated against teachers
with shortened dresses. ....