Evening star., 1928-01-06
HEARST DOCUMENT
ERRORS TRACED
MisspeI|ings and Wrong
Punctuation in Papers
Found Same as AViIa's.

By the Associated Press.
Alter naval experts had pronounced
the code messages In the Hearst Mfxi-
can documents tn bc spurious, the
Senate committee investisat ting The
authenticity Of the papers was told TO-
day Of singular" error which ap'
peared in the documents and which
Misuel Avita. who procured them for
William Randolph Hearst. hahituaii%
made in his own writings.
CaroIos V. Cusdchs. former naval
intt lIIrence officer and a committee
assistant. said that in the documents
at,hrcyiation at the word listed aif'
pcared as I'd comma,
Made same Mistake.
II asked SIR. Aviia 10 write Tor ms. ~
ne said .sfhis ahh1 ,yiation wfts used
several times. lie always used
comma and made the same unusual
error as appeared in the MeNiean
documents.
t.usachs said he had found more
than 700 omitted accents. NJ missu@Ii-
I'D words, 100 misplaced accents ana
no regard for punctuation In the
Hearst documents.
J. f. Bresnahan. OF the Western
Union Telegraph 90, reported mat All
records of the transfer OF money over
the wires we're available and no record
whatever had been found Of the trans
initial Of money from Mexico ~ AT
iuro NJ ELIAS. Mexican consul gen
eral In New York. AZ the Hearst uocu-
mcnt pnrporsed IN show,
Rubber Stamp Wrong.
The word "vaiiia," meaning volisc
ar pouch was miSpeiled on the stamp
used on some Of the documents. Gu
sachs said lie said IL Was spelled
"beit!a.
John Page, Hearst reporter. VINO
worked with Avila, was asked earlier
today to spell this word and he spelled
IL BELLA" the same as II appeared
on the documents.
Code messages in the Mexican doc
uments published IN Hearst news
pa apers, were described as "fake% 10"
day by United States Navy experts.
,'ontir 4. II. Struhle. In charge OF
The code and signal section "f IN"
Navy, pronounced the code messages
nnd their apparent TRANSACTIONS as
"'mere nonsense
\ to~dnv Investigation was maze
into the seven published MESSAGES
and TRANSACTIONS. Comdr, Strt,hle eN'
ntainea and every means kneVn 10
| The Navy failed In 'hreak the s"~
| called code
Calls story Lie,
Arthur EtiaN Lane, chief "t Inc
Mexican affairs division "f the Nta'e
| Department and former htHt Seo''"
| tary of the American emhaHaF W.
Mexico told the rolnmf'''o .na
Asiln offered To get sum" M'A'
can documents for tho American en-
! bassy These were refused, Lane s"'"
lie branded nv II "lie" the story si'"'
I he had offered to sell ih'"r'""''""
! about American affairs, -,
/ Frank Y. Mclaughlin, or the T.,
| Mol Petroleum 20, In MeAlcn, hhn
! .nid A.tm cnmo To him with an "he'
I Ia sell information passtna het"@e'
| Amtn ssasiur sheffield anh S"tfe'aiH
| Kellogg, and that Aeih had nald w
! .aae was nNhihhis, ,n
! s"rhat ls Just a plain lie. " Mr lane
! said as the comtntteemeu ianGht"
j For 200 peaoa, Alt Lame aaid ANha
/ offered 10 get al original ot a Wt'V'
u,rnottiua 10 have hoen sent 10 Inv
| governors of Mexican states. The the
| u,,aal was declined by i,ahe, Nh"
added that the American embassy
once nhtainea The release "t AN'ia
| frnm Jail
Game IN Embassy.
| The department uiiicial Fatd tha'
| Page frequently game with ANtta !"
! The embassy IN connection With dooa'
/ mants, -,
"Nhn made these dnuumahtsF
! Chairman Reed asked
Il dnnt know Lane replied, 'hnt
have noticed that many nf All,
tiearata Documents anheaf ~ nave
h,,en written hy the same perann, AZ
/ though The papara parpnrted to totne
FRAN many ditatent offices and pot'
/ Aanh
Taking The atand, i'aae sala he was
! told by Amlaaasa,lnr ssheiileld that the
| Amha ssadar understand President
tiallea hah written letter aenouno'
| Ing him,
nile gave ms Ia understand. with
,tlt saving ST." faae said. that he
/ ,l,uld like Ia gel the islter, ntfafat
u have Asila ght the leitar was
I ,led away for snme tine When |
aiurued, understood that Amhassa.
~ ahaiiield had the letter"
Isapa was aaain asked la tell Whn
Nn him thsN ieltnr nutppt,ina 20
ee been hsni by aunatuf La t'allalie
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