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ident of the Pacific Oil Co. and vice
president of the Tidewater and Asso.
ciated Oil Companies. All the letters
and kilograms involved the Interior
Department, the Navy Department
and several private concerns relative
to the contracts and leases.
Reading Finished Yesterday.
The reading Of the Doheny testi-
mony was completed yesterday after
noon at o'clock by Mr.. Pomerene,
who had succeeded Mr.. Roberts in
the task. While the jury had been
informed in opening statements of
counsel that Mr.. Doheny had loaned
Mr.. Fall the 500, 900, which the latter
at first denied, the IL men also were
permitted to hear the grilling cross
tected to by Senators Walsh. Adams,
Pittman and other. In this cross
examination the witness was charged
with having misled the committee and
not having told "the whole truth" re-
garding the note which Fall gave in
return for the loan. Mr.. Doheny
denied he deliberately deceived the
committee or had any intentions to
that end.
The Government did not lose min
ute in getting it's first witness on the
stand in several days. Just as Mr..
Pomerene concluded the reading of
the testimony, MIR. Roberts called for
+. K. Hill, secretary of the Senate
oil investigating committee, who
identified the note Fall gave to Do
heny. This note was intact except
that portion bearing the signature
had haen torn off and given to Mrs.
Doheny.
Cancelled Check Shown.
Then Mr.. Roberts examined Gra-
ham Youngs, treasurer of Blair & Co.,
Inc, Of New York, bankers for Do
heny, who produced the check on the
First National Bank which the COM
pany employed to procure the 100000
in cash for Mr.. Doheny. jr. Young
Doheny then brought the money to
Washington and turned 1t over to
Fall in his apartments at the Ward
man Park Hotel.
Eldred Mahoney Of the controller
generals office followed Mr.. Youngs
on the stand and produced travei
vouchers to show that Mr.. Fall had
gone to New Mexico, stopping off at
Ell Paso, Tex, where he entered into
the contract of purchase Of the Harris
ranch.
When the hour for adjournment ar
rived. Justice Hoehling announced his
WILLINGNESS to hear counsel on the
question Of night sessions, and after
a conference at the bench 1t was
a agreed to hold an experimental ses-
sion" from 8 to 10 o'clock tonight.
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THE WEATHER

District-Fair and colder, with low
est temperature about 81 degrees TO-
night; tomorrow increasing cloudiness,
with rising temperature.
Maryland-Fair and colder tonight;
tomorrow increasing cloudiness. with
rising temperature; light rain In ex-
sreme west portion tomorrow AFTER
noon; colder tomorrow night.
Virginia-Fair and colder tonlght;
tomorrow increasing cloudineSs, with
rising temperature.
a West Virginia-Fair, colder In east
portion tonight; tomorrow cloudy and
warmer, followed by light rain In
north portion.
Records for "a Hours.
Thermometer-4 pm. 81; p.m.,
SO; II midnight, 81; 4 am, AT; am,
"A; noon, 49.
Barometer- pm, 30.12; pm,
5000: IL midnight, 30.O8; am. o0.01'
am. 30.14; noon, 30.14.
Highest temperature, b5, occurred
at S:45 pm. yesterday.
Lowest temperature, "A, occurred at
T3O am. today.
Temperature same date last year
Highest, 81; lowest, q.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast and
Geodetic SurveyD
Today-Low tide, 10:49 am. and
1925 pm; high tide, 4:05 am. and
ABS pm.
Tomorrow tide, 11.33 am;
high tide, ASS am. and 5:19 pm.
The Sun and Moon.
Today-Sun rose am; sun sets.
A:47 pm.
Tomorrow-Sun rises 1907 am; sun
sets, 447 pm.
Moon rises, PIG am; sets, 2:34 pm.
Automobile lamps to be lighted one
half hour after sunset.
Condition of the Water.
Temperature and condition Of the
water at Great Falls at 8 am: Tenn
perature, 40; condition very muddy.
Weather in Various Cities.
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LEGION OYSTER ROAST.

A meeting of a special committee
headed by Maj. D. j. Donovan 70 pan
an oyster roast for Vincent d. COs-
tello Post. American Legion. on De-
cember IL, will be held at the DIS
trict Building tonight.
The special committee will meet IN
Joint session with the entertainment
committee and the publicity commit
tee. to lay the plans for the roast.
Immediately after this meeting Two
other special meetings will be held
one to consider disputed claims as 10
indebtedness Of the post to the De-
partment of the District OF Columola
and the other to take up the Ques-
ton Of the relationship between tne
post and its auxiliary.
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ALIEN PROPERTY
PROBE COMPLETED
Report of McCar|'s Investiga-
tion, a voIuminous Docu-
ment, in Presidents Hands.

President Coolidge has received from
Controller General of the. United
States J. r. McCarl the long awaited
report on an investigation of the
Office Of Alien Property Custodian.
The report itself is voluminous af-
fair of almost the size of sandard
unabridged dictionary, but Is supple.
mented with supporting documents OF
such size and quantity that small
motor truck was necessary TO nave
It transported from the general ac'
counting Office to the White House.
Inquiry Asked by President.
Investigation of the Office was asked
of the Controller General by the
President and the work started IN
April. 1925. Since that time a large
force of accountants and experts from
The office of the Controller General
have been probing all affairs in connec-
tion with the Office back to the pegln-
ming.
Already. it is understood, certain re-
forms have been put into erect All
fbe office. as the result of the inquiry
What is contained in the huge re.
mort TO the President is kept veiled
n secrecy. 1t is stated, however,
that the controller general not only
tnade a thorough investigation OF the
facts in the case, but also In his
summary drew up some conclusions
and recommendations to the cnleI
executive.
Matter oS Special Interest.
What effect, if any. the report OF
She controller general may nave on
the impending new trial In January
of former Alien Property Custodian
THOMAS w. Miller and former At
tvrney General Harry M. Daugherty
in the New York Federal Court was
b matter of great interest today In
Government circles. -.
It is known that experts from the
General Accounting Office testified In
The first trial of Miller and Daugh-
ertv on charges of having conspired
TO defraud the Government, which
trial resulted in hung jury. There
was no indication available today as
10 what disposition President Coolidge
intends making of the facts and find
ings of McCarl.
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Boy Snatches Pocketbook.

Two colored boys, walking near
Fifteenth and Chaplin streets about
$50 last night, approached Elaine
Proctor, 1853 Belmont street, ana one
of them snatched her pocketbook con-
tanning $1.75 and keys. Descrlptlons
of the bows were furnished the police.
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Never Asked for Opinion.


Officially, Daugherty had none. He
said he had no recollection of ever
having been asked for a "curbstone
opinion" as he termed it. The former
Attorney General then went on to ex-
plain what he meant by "curbstone
| opinion" He said that at cabinet
meetings various topics were discuss
| ed and his opinion asked about them.
II made it a rule" he said, that
while 1 was willing to discuss these
matters, always told fellow-members
of the cabinet that, If they wanted an
opinion, they should put it up to the
department officially. Every official
opinion that have rendered is of rec
ord" He added that he made it a rule
never to be responsible for anything
except an official opinion over his sig
| nature.
Mr.. Hogan asked Daugherty If he
| had ever heard these oil leases dis
cussed at cabinet meetings. Pomerene
promptly objected for the Govern
ment.
Putting the question in another
way, Hogan asked the witness if he
remembered whether Fall had ever
shown him the act Of June 4, 1920,
under authority of which the leases
| were made, and whether Fall did
not ask him if the leases were valid,
and that Daugherty had replied that
| In his opinion the exchange policy was
| justified.
! Fails to Remember.
| "I have no recollection" Daugh-
erty said. THAT happened a long
time ago. Since that time consider
able water has gone over the dam.
| If 1t did take place at that time. as
YOU say, 1t was not an official opinion
| that I rendered. If later 1 did render
an opinion it would be found on rec
ord"
| Daugherty was excused from fur
| ther examination at this time. Be
fore leaving the courtroom he went
over and shook hands with the Gov
ernment counsel, Mr.. Fall and a few
other acquaintanceS.
After Mr.. Daugherty left the stand
the proceedings turned to the identi-
fication and production of almost 100
letters and kilograms by both sides.
| None of these papers was read. but
they form the foundation for the
whole story of the fuel tank contracts
and oil reserve leases, which opposing
counsel will give to the jury in their
own way. Interest dropped to its
lowest ebb as the documents We're
produced, marked for identification
time after time. Those who supplied
the papers were E. L. Mahoney of
the controller generals office. o. D.
Bennett, vice president Of the Pan
American Petroleum & Transport
Co; Harry n. Stuart, u. S. ~, and
John F.. Judson. vice president of
Ford, Bacon < Davis. engineers, Of
New York City; S. G. Henson of
Oakton. Calf, assistant secretary
Standard Oil Co. of California: Henry
G. Kennedy of New York, represent
ing the J. G. White Engineering Co.,
and P n. Shoup of Los Angeles, pres
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DIES BY ELECTR0CUTI0N.
Richard Whitby, Colored, Comes In
Contact With Live Wire.

Richard Whitby. colored. SIS years
old, 2264 Cleveland avenue, a Pepco
employe, was electrocuted when ne
tripped on a cable in a manhole at
Fourteenth and S streets at noon to-
day and came in contact with a live
wire.
A pulmotor was used without sue
cess.
He was taken from the hole by S.
Owens. his foreman, and sent to
Emergency Hospital, where he was
pronounced dead.
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FOREIGN.

In the first nine months of this year
nearly $1,000 900 tons of coal from
mines in the United States were
shipped abroad. this being 100000
more tone than in the same period of
Ast yaaEs
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D. C.. GOVERNOR AND CABINET
ADVOCATED BY MRS. HENDERSON

the District, Mrs. Henderson made
these other suggestions:
That citizens of the District have
at certain fixed times the privilege iof
the floor at the Municipal Building
for consideration of affairs of the
District.
That the governor of the District
have at certain fixed times the priv
ilege of the floor of Congress for
consideration of affairs concerning
the District.
That the Public Utilities Of the Dis
trict be as far as possible owned and
manipulated by residents and tax
payers of the District, thus giving
them fuller benefits or possible
profits.
Give the citizens of the District of
Columbia the privilege Of voting for
the election Of the President and
Vice President of the United States
The subcommittee expressed much
interest in Mrs. Henderson's assertion
that at present the two civilian Com
m1sSoners are not specially trained
Tor municipal management, are ap-
pointed from the District, receive
small pay and have too much work.
They have had generally merely COM
mercial experience and do not have
the proper vision for management of
the National Capital, Mrs. Henderson
said. She advocated that the District
organization should be patterned after
that Of the Federal Government.
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Man FINED In
STABBfNG CASE
Fight Said to Be Over Liquor
Tip to Police.

Harry Koviach, 3014 w. Tenth ST.,
poolroom proprietor, was fined 500
and sentenced to ninety days on the
Indiana State Farm today by Special
Judge John w. Hoffman, when
found guilty to a charge Of assault
and battery. Koviach, who faces
four charges Of liquor law violations,
is alleged to have cut John Klarich,
1888 Haugh ST., twice with a knife.
Klarich testified Koviach accused
him of tipping him off, to the
police, which resulted in his being
indicted for operating a still. Ko-
viach and his wife last week were
charged with blind tiger. The case
is pending in municipal court. Two
indictments and another municipal
court appeal are pending in Grim
inal Court.
Alvah j.. Rucker, city corpora
ton counsel, and defense attorney,
admitted his client was "a bad egg
and bootlegger," but denied Koviach
cut Klarich. Rucker said he prob
ably would appeal.
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fication came from her long observ-
ance of liquor cases before the
courts in her capacity as a newspa-
per reporter.
Miss White has reported police
and Circuit Court cases every day
since the enactment of the Volstead
Act and said she saw the futility
of enforcing the law as it stands.
II am a teacher" she said. 81
drink nothing stronger than tea. L
am not running on a wet plank for
I am not in favor of the repeal of
the Volstead Act. I am convinced
however, that the Volstead Act as
it stands now cannot be satisfactor-
lily enforced"
Representative Elliott has accept
ed Miss Whites challenge and will
run for denomination on a strictly
dry platform. opposed to any change
in the law.
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6O-DAY TERM GIVEN

Man Gets 5000 Fine. Sentence, ON
LiqOur Charge.
Albert Nash, sol Il. Court St. was
fined 5000 and sentenced sixty days
on Indiana state Farm on a blind
tiger charge today in municipal
court. >
Fred Leacock. 772 Ketcham St.
was given a suspended thirty-day
iail term and 500 fine.
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DECLARATIONS
OF CANDIDATES
COME in RUSH
Only Two Days Left for
ASpirantS to File at
StatehouSe.

With only two days remaining for
congressional and State legislative
primary candidates to file declara-
tions, the office of Secretary of State
Frederick E. Schortemeier was del
uged today with applications.
Morris Greenleaf, 617h S. Illinois
ST., a Republican, filed notice Of his
candidacy for the Seventh district
congressional nomination. John Cor
rigan, 543 Dorman ST., a Democrat,
filed as primary candidate for Ma
rion County Juvenile Court judge
and Vinson Manifold, 81 Sherman
DR., a Republican, filed for Marion
Circuit Court judge.
Would Be Representatives
Two candidates for State Repre-
sentative from Marion County filed.
Adam s. Larson, 1926 e. Thirtieth
ST.. a Republican, and Floyd e. VIII
liams, 316 N. Gladstone Ave-, a
Democrat. Herman l.. Seeger, 1927
Olive ST.. fled for the Republican
nomination for State Senator.
Byron X. Elliott, 81 w. st. Joseph
ST., Marion County deputy attorney
general, filed notice OF his can
didacy for the Republican nomina.
ton for judge of Marion Superior
Court Room Four.
Democrats fling for the State
Senate were Tod Whipple, Portland,
and Andrew e. Durham, Green
castle. Chris H. Kassendick OF
Versailles, a Republican, filed for
the Senate.
Candidates for House
Democratic candidates for the
House were Oils j. Jamison Of Lin.
ton; John NJ. Fields, Kokomo; Allen
r. Bemenderfer, Goshen; Henry A.
Link. Waterloo; Robert Grieve,
Rockville: Edward B. Edwards
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DO NOT STEP
OUT in STREET
Warning Against Practice of
Motorists Given.

Beware Of stepping from your auto
into the street. was the warning to
motorists today of Todd Stops, Sec
retary.manager of the Hoosier Motor
Club.
MANY accidents and accidents
narrowly averted reported to the
club said Stops, caused by driv-
ers absent-mindedly opening the door
next to them and stepping right into
the path of an oncoming vehicle.
Sometimes a door is knocked off and
sometimes the motorist is knocked
down and seriously hurt as a result
of his carelessness.
TOO much needless haste is caus-
ing the accident toll to mount higher.
1t takes but a second to get out of
an automobile next to the curb, and
a second lost for the sake Of safety
will not inconvenience anyone"
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| seek his fortune, and each time he
had come back penniless and in bad
repute. An inauspicious start, per-
haps? It may have seemed SC at
the time, particularly to his rough
old father, who wanted him to con-
tent himself with a blacksmith's
life.
Mussolini entered newspaper work,
rising at last to the e~ditorship of
the official Socialist organ, Avanti.
And then the war broke out.
Mussolini for War
Here came Mussolini's break with
the socialists. The socialist party
was all for neutrality. Mussolini
cried loudly for entrance in the war,
on the side Of the allies. He was
expelled from the socialist party; he
continued to shout, this time through
the columns of the Milan paper,
Popolo d. Italia, of which he became
editor.
Italy finally entered the war. Mus
solini's agitation had helped. And
when war was declared Mussolini
was one of the first to c%olunteer.
He saw active service with the
Bersagliere, being wounded twice
and scorning a safe behind-the-l lines
job that a politician offered him. He
was decorated for bravery.
After the war he went back to his
newspaper. Gone Were his socialistic
leanings. The tide Of communism
began to run high among Italian
workers. Mussolini scowled. Ten
years previously he would have
cheered.
Strikes became almost daily events.
The government seemed powerless.
Industry was paralyzed. And Mus
solini banded together a few dozen
friends, sturdy young war veterans,
into a black-shirted organization that
was to become known throughout
the World-the Fascist.
Gaining Power
The Fascist slowly gained
strength. They drilled. They be-
came a compact unit, welded to-
gether by perfect discipline and by a
unanimous regard for Mussolini, the
leader. Their o at first were
sporadic-directed against a small
town strike here, a minor radical
weekly newspaper there. AS al
ways, Mussolini preferred action to
words, SO the Fascist used clubs and
revolvers rather than pamphlets.
The reaction to the war-born
radicalism that had swept Italy was
setting in. More and more people
focked to the Fascist. The body
became stronger and aver stronger.
Then came the climax. A nation
wide strike was called in the sum
mer of 1922. While the government
Fascist put it down. Then, in
triumph, the black-shirts moved on
Rome, captured" it, turned states
men out Of ofice-and Mussolini be-
came premier.
From then on the tale is familiar.
Bit by bit Mussolini gathered power,
such as no ordinary premier ever
neld, lnCo MS nanuS. one by one the
constitutional limitations were swept
away. The Fascist, ~nominally Estate
police" and national guards" be-
came the army, answerable only to
Mussolini. Opposition newspapers
were suppressed. The parliament
became a collection of puppets, mov-
ing in obedience to the scowling
dictator who pulled the strings with
only a pretense at concealment.
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Scout Mayor
Asked Some
Hard Ones
Finds, During Hour in Of
flee, Why Chief ExeCu-
tiveS Go South.

why Indianapolis mayors so
South.
Walter Johnson, 3112 Belle
fontaine ST., an Eagle Boy Scout,
learned the answer to that question
today between IL a. m. and noon,
as he acted as the city's chief
executive.
But his decisions we're plausible
to City Controller William c, Buser,
who was at his elbow as a loyal
counsellor.
FavOrs Band
Mayor" Johnson, for instance,
favored continuation Of the Police
and F1remen's Band, with the un'
Outstanding, however, that the
ciefs Of the police and fire depart
ments would agree It would not In
terfere with the service.
The chief executive insisted Il.
Walter Jarvis, parks superintendent,
state when the tennis courts would
be opened and Jarvis proclaimed
April 2.
johnson decided parks department
finances would not permit operation
Of Fairgrounds all year round and
besides the ground is too soft"
Traffic Ordinance
Orville Scott, Buser's assistant,
was sent to the traffic inspector fol
lowing submission of a proposal to
eliminate the one-way traffic rule for
Meridian st.
Inflated values commented
Mayor" Johnson on a requisition
for tires submitted by City Purchas-
ing Agent John Collins.
Whether children under twelve
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Kokomo; Grover Bishop Kokomo;
Harry T. Ferguson, Jefferson;
vile; Arthur Reglein, Chesterton;
Thomas J. Davis, Elwood. and VIII
liam o. Boren, Cynthiana-
Republicans filing for the House
were Charles NJ. La Toilette, Evans
Vile; G. r. Turnbull, Michigan City,
s. Milton Beckwith, South Bend;
Thomas Grant, Lowell; Albert j,
Wedeking, Dale; Harry w. Brown,
New Albany; Presley H. Self, Farm
ersburg, and Ray F. Abbott, Ham
mond.
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ACTORS IN SHOOTING
Argument Over Alleged Debt; Wound.
ed Man in Hospital

Eddie Lemon, 30, Negro, Of Balti'
more, Md, Is held in city prison 60.
day in default OF n $4,000 bond
charged with assault and battery
with intent to murder, and Charles
Howard Olden. "a, Negro, OF New
York city, is IN the city hospital In
a critical condition with a bullet
wound I'm the abdomen.
The pair, both members OF a mu'
steal comedy show "Steppin' Babies
playing at a local thcater, sci In
diana Ave, nre said 20 have en-
gagged in an argument over money
that Lemon Is alleged to owe Olden.
Nine women and three mon wilt
nesses told Serst, Dan Cummings
that Lemon pulled the gun from his
pocket, shot Olden and then hit him
on the head with the butt of the gun
Witnesses were held under $500 va
grancy bond.
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must buy bicycle licenses was al
most a puzzlcr
ASK the legal department for an
opinion" was the final decision.
Buser. acting mayor while Duvall
tours in the South, resumed his
status as city controller for the hour
OF the proceedings,
Alfred Chouinoard, is. OF 100 w
North ST., an Eagle Scout and holder
OF forty.two merit badges, acted as
Governor from 1 until 2 p, m. today,
Charles Shields, 16, OF 375S Park
Ave, member of Troop SO, an Eagle
Scout and holder Of thirty-one merit
badges, was chief Of police from IL
noon until ] D. m Scouts directed
traffic on downtown corners at noon
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FLORISTS WILL MEET

Indianapolis florists, meeting with
the State Florists Association next
Tuesday night at the Smith & Young
Co. store. 500 N. Capitol Ave., will
discuss plans for a cooperative dis
play at the Home Complete Show,
April 10 to II at the State fair
ground. The affair will be the April
meeting Of the State association.
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BuiIdinQ Permits

land. $&224. ifoo' $500 'rac'-
s2i8. Ills fefo0 90 o "arman'
John Heffacker, v Linden and
s4 Maosry Brans0n' addition 1920 carrollt0n'
Harry Sargent. addition. 1909 N. Capt.
J. J. Cole. move. 1912 College, $500.
Charles Eaton. garage. 1915 Parker.
Charles Eaton. dwelling. 1915 Parker.
John Fernkas. door. 1765 Howard. $500.
T. 3. Holiday. dwelling. 551S Carroll
B. Holiday. garage. 5a1s Carrollton,
&c. Heinrich. repair. 2137 N. Capitol,
-. j. Runvan. garage. 1431 E. Vermont.
Morris Jahe. repair. 339 N. Noble. $3.50.
Stanley johnson. move. 1857 W. New
IL. j. Jones. addition. 1928 s. Belmont,
William Coos. dwelling. $685. Hoyt.
George NJ. Risk. dwelling. 1o14 Troy,
Thesie Rockingham. addition. 1885 Union.
Floyd Meleck. garage. CHA Evanston.
Western ts oil. oil R sS GGS Company. garage
William Bqrleson. heater. 1921 E. Thir'
Fred Henry. garage. s21 W. Thirtieth.
Oval & Foster. addition. 700 W. Wash
ington. $4,000.
The best bird singers have sober
cnlnred nlunape
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BIZ United Press
RICHMOND, Ind, April Miss
Esther Griffin White, local newspa-
per woman, today denied she was
seeking the Republican nomination
for Congress on a wet platform.
She said she favored only modi-
fication and not repeal of the pro-
hibition law.
Miss White, who is opposing the
denomination of Representative
Richard N. Elliott of the Sixth Dis
trict, declared her stand for modi-