The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1928-01-27
L In AH HEARST AND OIL.
IN FORGERY EXPOSURE
By LAURENCE rom

~ LA = NHNCE TODD, Fed. Press
Washington = Who was A.
who framed the Hearst for@o .ne man
sought to break off Anoasg erleS that
ii rnito WIN c,t Mexico, to embroil +bo
t Int'e C states In quarrel with Janan 1
tbi H. oaaI geu senators and editors in
Cl ll,% UouiICly We're receiving hnoe
sums sun" DIS corrupt retainers from Pres
lCe4C Gales, and that renrasont 81
C I"t DIS pa KING worldwide red
10y with the mexican treaSnrI,9 i0u
Connection between the AI,orin
Oh opel atots in Mexico. the la+o O. "a
Iilez revolt and the Hearst fo 1.r ~
was established in the cIos;noe r ,a,i'5
uIeS OF the hearings conducted h. M 81 :
senate committee investipatinn ~ t the
Ao1geries. N'ledIlhg the
miguel Avila, who sold the boo,,-
ooC uinehtS to Hearst, and WHO 49, DTe 10
&c! himself active in the Conoo~ 'l ~
Splracy' testified that he made III bir
IIISI move to secure access '' 4 nus
Tor 1loa an acknowledgement in New
tbc n oo "lleF ne had met an emplove Of
With 0T Gau ula If general in, conference
agents. 'iie Oh Gomez
nt-olts by the Senate committee 70
oecu- concessions from AviIIa an ~
ION joan Page, his associate in f S,lu
9eIIXy.:t1,foKing, were unsuccessful
WIN OBVIOUS gentleness the oo,,,
IN mad eased former an1Lose 49,
0ieIIleld and former first Sect $500 VI,
lane lane OF the American embacCT
1eAlcO City out of the rieId ~
SulIy. Both officials had adnitiod
H:eeClhg Avlla. She1field's own t[So
ttlInoHy mad contradicted himself IL
llau IiFSt Professed that he had not
seen the documents in Mevico l,oi
Ihen that he had seen some Of +L anu
and pronounced them to anneo,. ' tIelL
ulne although he doubted tbo 81 gu
ments they made. 'i'e state
- =: r. Bresnahan, from the auditors
ol.icG Oh the Western Union TeIe-
e 81 testified that search of files Of
an messages from Mexico in the nepl
i covered by the dates of the al
Legeo messages and transfers Of
money published by Hearst showed
Ollat no such messages were sent and
no Such sums, or amounts that won1G
Include them, were transmitted
EaIller testimony from tvpewriter
experts indicated that most of 80
documents, purporting to come from
Various Various government offices in Mexico
lily and New York, were tvped INV
TWO machines. Paper manufactured
whose product was used in the forged
documents Informed the committee
mat they never had sold paper to the
Mexican government. W 'ii0
Joseph DeCourcey, former New
lork Times correspondent at Mevico
CITY, later expelled, declared he had
employed Avila to introduce him to .
Mexican secret service man who nroI
cured for him a photostat of a dozen
ment In the Mexican government files
needed by the Times in defending .
damage suit. This paper proved he
Sald, that Robert H. Murray. former
New York World correspondent, was
paid $4,000 for representing Gen
Obregon in Washington when Obre-
CONS government was seeking recog-
, tIhe Times, protesting to print all
the news that's fit to print. did NOT
stress the relation between its cor
respondents bribery of officials in
charge of Mexican government conf
Dental documents and the deportation
OF this correspondent from Mexico!