The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-06-16
jury disagreed.
 However Falls co-defendant

However Falls co-defendant. Thomas w. Miller, Harding's alien property custodian, was convicted and served time in Atlanta peniten- tiary. The senate's investigation of Daugherty's affairs was frustrated by the fact that 1t found the records of the bank headed by his brother, Nal Daugherty. had been burned. Nal Daugherty was recently convict ed of encouragement of bank affairs in Washington courthouse, Ohio.
 The senate also encountered diff- culty in learning where Fall got the $1OO,O00 which he received from E. L. Doheny. Fall first said he receiv- ed it from E. B. Mclean, publisher of the Washington Post. Mclean confirmed that statement but later said he had given Fall checks for the amount but that they were re- turned uncashed and that he had merely sought to ''go down the line for a friend"
 One of Harding's closest Marion friends, D. R. Crissinger. Hardings s governor of the federal reserve board, later became associated here with F. H. Smith Investment com pany which encountered legal diffi- culties and some of whose officers were recently convicted of fraud. Crissinger protested he knew noth- ing about the alleged questionable activities of this concern and he still remains one of Marion's most respected alumni.
 Through all of these years a little group of loyal friends at Marion, the old cronies some of whom used to gather with Harding once a week for a social game of "penny ante" have always remained loyal and it was these men who became resent full at the delay at dedicating the Harding memorial. Feeling became so bitter that Harry M. Daugherty who had never been friendly to Hoover and who was not in favor of Harding bringing Hoover into the cabinet, forced the Harding Memo- rial association to adopt resolutions severely criticizing those responsible for the delay and proposing to drop the matter entirely. Hoke Donithen, Marion lawyer and close friend of Harding, was equally indignant.
 There also was considerable in- dignation on MT Hoover's side at some of the individuals involved in this. MT Hoover did not wish to dedicate the memorial until the Fall case was disposed of, he told some intermediates, because he would not go to Marion without saying that he thought of some who had taken advantage of Harding.
 The committee twas so insistent however and the matter became such a general subject of comment in Ohio that MT Hoover consented to going without waiting until the last of the Harding cases had run its course.
 The little group of faithful friends at Marion are still on hand-Jim Prendergast, jovial lumber man, whose adventures with washtub while returning home from party one night have become a classic in Marion; Orley Rapp. the comedian of the gang; "Gink" Schroeder, Frank Huber and Charley King. the big Marion steam shovel mana crowd of genial hosts.
 They put the punch into the old
 front porch campaign because no pilgrim to Marion in 1920 ever fell into their clutches in vain. They could never believe what some peo- pie said-that Harding was nomin- ated because he was an easy-going colorless man who would take or ders amiably. They regarded the senate investigations as the muck
 raking of disgruntled democrats. Whatever they do believe about the Harding scandals they don't blame Harding for anything except for be- ing too loyal to his friends and too blind to their faults.
 They were the men who put on