Douglas daily dispatch., 1926-11-02

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tends that the Nichols company is
party to a giant conspiracy to i'm
lrort foreign copper and close down
American mines. Douglas proceeded
to explain that he had bought stock
IN the Nichols company to keep it
from being sold to undesirable part
les; that the Nichols company was
refining i'm large part orc from Can
ada and the United Verde Extension
Mining company of Arizona and that
it refined ore from Belgian con-
cern having holdings in the Belgian
Congo, only because American re-
filming was necessary to properly
purify the metal.
Douglas denied that he had sought
! to influence Arizona newspapers for
Hayden's candidacy with money, ad-
mtting, however, that he at one time
held a mortgage for $22,500 on the
Prescott Courier, edited by w. p.
stuart.
"Then you didn't attempt to die
tate to Stuart or control his poll
cies?' Croaff asked
mol" doomed Douglas. Besides,
he's uncomfortable"
Cameron counsel tried throughout
the night session to prove that
certain fund had been set aside in
The Phoenix National bank or the
! Phoenix Savings Bank and Trust
company to meet expenses incident
to the campaign of Ellinwood and
Lewis Douglas. Douglas denied this.
It endeavored also to prove that
Douglas had tried to set i'll motion in
the state a large movement for the
defeat of Cameron through his In
fluence as a copper king. Douglas
is acting president of both the Phoe-
! NIX National and the Savings and
Trust company.
Publishers Quizzed
! The rest of the night session was
taken up with testimony of news
paper business managers and pub
fishers at the behest of Cameron
counsel. Most of the witnesses testi-
fled that the checks paying for
advertising inserted in their news
papers we're signed by w. p. Stuart
! of the Courier.
Other witnesses to be called for
the hearing here, which promises to
last until after election day--in which
case adjournment VIII be taken Tues
6ay-are Mike Cassidy, former pro-
hibition enforcement officer; Hender-
son Stockton, one of the managers
of Ellinwood's primary campaign;
Sam Applewhite; Cleve Van Dyke,
publisher of the Miami Silver Bell
and a Cameron supporter; Carl Clin-
ton of Albuquerque, N. M; Senator
Cameron; Ralph Cameron, Jr., ana
Hoval Smith of Bisbee, secretary and
general manager of Camcron's cam
pa;gn.
! Senator King Sunday afternoon
about faced the investigation of wit
nesses and for two hours grilled John
/, II. Towles, collector of internal rev..
eDues and a Cameron appointee
The investigator called upon the
internal revenue collector for a com
Plete record of mis- receipts and dis
bursements from April OF this year
up to and including October 81,
! when Towles testified that he hao
paid for most of the Cameron ad-
vertising with money given him by
E. w. Campbell, secretary 20 Sem
ator Cameron, and had likewise IN
Cured bills. Some of these bills,
! he added, were not yet paid ana
were included in $1,S54.5J which he
had paid out personally.
! Towles denied that any one In hts
office contributed money to the
Cameron primary or general election
campaigns, and assured Senator King
that he had never solicited any
A EDetaiI'' Man
"How many republicans are there
in your officer" King asked.
about 10 or 12."
"Any democrats?''
"One.'
"And you nave absolute authority
+ to discharge any employer
"Yes.''
| Towles said thet Hoval Smith was
treasurer and general manager Of
the Cameron campaign committee, OF
which Campbell was the other mem
Der. He himself, he said, held no
official position unless he could be
called "detail' man.
The record of expenditures sub
mitted to Senator King Dy Towles
ishowed that $1,97S.SO had been ex-
pended out of money given him by
! Campbell.
Reverting to the contributions made
ty Arizona postmasters, King drew
from Towles that Charles Alden,
CAOD0 postmaster, hdQ contributed
billboard advertising. No record of
this expense, he said, was kept
! Alden also contributed 10 the cam
pa.gn motion picture advertising
Towles said, because Alden owned
theatre in Globe. The postmistress
at Mesa, near Phoenix was induced
to get several of her friends to con.
tribute toward the defraying of ex-
penses of running a Cameron adj
Vertising in q Mesa weekly newsv
pape, Towles admitting under ques-
tioning.
Wrote Postmaster
And you wrote letters to post
masters in the state?" King shot at
the witness.
We'll, if you put it that way
"Did you or didn't you%' thundered
Ring.
Yes
Bring me copies of every letter