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o o The Weather Prediction iftr; heavy frost. Maximum yestertljiy 47 Minimum today 35 lTtxljiilullon " 16 IL TRIBUNF. Weather Year Ago Maximum 4 Minimum as EBFORB Daily Twenty-third Yer jv-kly Pifty-mth Vr MEDFOBD, OKKtJOX, Tl'KSDAV. APRIL :!, lifJS Today ORDER fl-C AS SECRETARY HOOVER WOULD APPEAR IN 1929 M "utn tar t . No. 12. . 5 ADRIFT IAD IN ni r nrr:uru' ilhiihiz.v nn uinr Here's Another Week 500 Acres of Floor Swift's Good Idea As the Pole Shifts " By Arthur Brie bane J rpyrlght, 1927, by New York i Evening Journal, Inc.l Last week broUerse bou-ilit null sold 5!i00,0i.H more shares in nny previous week in stiiek exchange liistory. j j The week closed with a mild sellinp iittark. Yesterday yon knew how this week started. lenrs tell you ''stocks are too liih" and some of thorn are. The bulls say ''stocks are not polling at their full value," and 4 Bat is true of some of them. The wise man studies values. buys what he knows he ean pay j for, just as he would buy laud, or an automobile, and leaves i the gambling fireworks, and j headaches, to the foolish. Huston having modified an j unwise restriction on building, will soon possess the biggest store and office building in the world. liuilt in terraces on the "set back" system, the great struc ture in Park Square will con tain 20,000,(IO1 feet of floor space. That is equivalent to nearly five hundred acres of j floor in one building. ft means great possibilities of jjiereased city revenue, and, fa cilitating contact for husiness men, it means great saving of time. Ten thousand people in one New York City building is not unusual, and every such unit menus enormous saving. Swift & Compnny increase Troin $i;r..UOO,000 to $100,000. DTK) the amount of insurance on their 40,0(1(1 employes. Swift's and the men share the cost. Insuring workmen was called j rank socialism when Jiismarek, j l.llri conservative nma.ed Ku- Villa const rniii, rope liy Ins oiti-age pension laws. .Vow insuring workers becomes a part of intelligent ntodern business. fireat industrialists realize that the men are also an impor tant part of the plant. Noliile flving over the North . . ' n , Pole in his dirigible, will drop I near the pole a wooden cross, blessed by the pope and con taining n letter in the, pope's handwriting. It would have been desirable to make the cross of material more lasting than wood. Thou-i sands of years hence, when the earth's changing position shall have given us another North j Star, and made the polar re- j gions warm, it would have in-1 waiting for favorable weather an . i .i r ,., in i other aspirant for trans-Atlantic .teresled another race of men to honor(j was ,,r()0nllllK a mysterious find the interesting relic ot our dtiy. George Remus was a bootleg ger, somewhat temperamental. Jn fact his temper was violent. He killed his wife, shot her dead in spile of her pitiful . . a, :,,ii: peuls for mercy. Hut, lutein-, g-nt and forceful, he convinced .instiee that he was insane, lie ; went to the insane asylum for! RUN. Germany. April 3.-(i O - i Herr Klose. who was In charge of n little while, and, having now ; the m,hanics who awaited the ar eonvinccd 'justice that he has ' rival S? the German Gremen at . . I Dublin, has returned to Herlin and recovered bis sanity, he is lot i hjB r,.ason for doing so is cloaked out. The next chapter will be ill- lercstinp;. IT there are 4.oon.on0 IdleLJn A mnrle-i db t Via TtomnrratN HV. bAnbinn iA ntt-t Itotkiihlirnna or oniv 1.670.000 as the Hepnbllcann t He ail that Arthur fPler. say. is not this the time to Inauyu- j ho wan reported to A e left iuh rate the five-work-day week? t J. did not come to Herlin with t him. Akcd whether Spindler had Kfffclenry in machinery hn ad-lelt Ireland. Klone naid: f vnnced more rapiO; than demand "It Isn't up to me to aasentVr for workers. J deny." The work that 100 men did in , Ihe automobile Induntry ten years ago Is done by 30 men now. (Continued on w Four) TAX CASE RE-ARGUED Supreme Court Springs Sur-, prise In Action Where; State Is Seeking Cut, From Grant Money This County Interested. SALHM. Ore., April 3. (A') The supremo court to!:ty sprung a sur prise by ordering a re-argument lo be held Thursday morning of this week, in the Oregon-California railroad land grant tax refund case. The case of the state against the county court for .Marion county in volves the question whether the state Is to share in the refund under the congressional ael, or whether the land Riant counties are to reeeive all of the money which in the ultimate total will he about SlO.etiO.euu. The case was first argued Janu ary 117 anil for weeks interested of ficials and attorneys have expected an opitiion among the regular Tuesday list of supreme court de cisions. If Marion county loses in its effort to prevent the siuto ot Ore son from collecting a snare in the Oreyon-Culit'ui nia grant land tax refund. It would mean that .lack son county would he forced to pay the state approximately $iir o.UOO or in other words (he price it would take to huild a new county court house, which Is to he con structed in five years, said City Attorney John Car kin. The case of the state versus Marion county was urfiued first two months ago. If Marion county is unsuccessful, Jackson county could resort to a separate suit to prevent the collec tion liy the state. DISSENSION AND WEATHER DELAYS prni.lX, Ireland. April W) A ""V tM, and unfavorable weather held the German plane lltremen.ln its hangar at llaldonnel airdrome today while the belief rew that there had been some hitch in the fliers' plans for the flight to America. Arthur Spindler, who had come in the plane from Ger many as the co-pilot, left Dublin and it was thought that Colonel James Fitzmaiirice, head of the Irish Free Stale air force, would replace him at the controls when the trans-Atlantic hop was made . llaron Von Huenenleld paced the , ffei, nke cng0d animal and kept' Ills plans for the future, of which he Is the sponsor, to hlmseit. Colonel Kitzmaurlce, with the baron as a passenger, made a prac tice flight yesterday. This led to the report he was to replace Spin dler, although the Irishman and Laldonnel authorities denied It. For an hour before the Junkers Plane took off "; t Hint; v.,ifiaiii ""tin ... and was shown how to operate the plane, instruction was carried on ...(.I. ,.1.1 e n floriMn ll.I'nf Hull I dictionary and the sign language, j theTolrrnans continued plane near Paris Sergeant Detroyat. noted French pilot and friend of Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, hopes to he the first lo attempt the Paris to New York fll?ht this year by taking off early this month. His plane is a copy of Lindbergh's "Spirit of St. l.ouis." The sergeant flew from Villa Cou- blav to l.ehourget to consult ex- np-jperts regarding bis earth inductor i compass. uen piiuioK'd nicis ou- Ran (o f,aher u, ,, tne j plane and flew off without reveal- in mystery. have nothing to say for the j press." he told the Asw hited Press ; correspondent, who traced him to ! the North Gexinan Lloyd office this ; morning. whoie affair con- ' cerns me only, not even North Ger- I ttlfln IJoyd. firrgtin W'caihrr Kalr ton ikM t and Vdnedny. I lien w fronts tonk-ht. 1'resh j north weft winds on the coast. Here is a new photo of Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, snapped while leaving a cabinet meet in at the White House. Hoover supporters hope this may be a familiar peso In 1929, WASHINGTON. April II. (PI Hailing Herbert Hoover as a man ; ; who has "stood more nearly behind every principle enunciated by our , 'farm organizations than any other man .he knew of in public lite." ! Oscur K. l.radfuie o: .veuia, fur- nier president of the American Farm Hureati Federation, today , came out for the commerce secre- tary for president. In a formal statement made pub- lie by the Ohl Hoover for president j cointniltee.. Mr. llrudfute analyzed I ' GRIEST POSTAL BILL BLOW TO ,, uov. rauerson wires rro- test to Oregon Solon- Would DonblP C0it Of VVUUIU UUUU1U OUl Ul nft:i:n oi, i nrt-M Mailing BOOkS tO PatrOnS In Rural Districts. SA1.KM, Ore., April 3. fP) Gov ernor Patterson has telegraphed to the Oiet;on conuressiunal delega tion a protest against the 'Gifest postal bill which passed the house yesterday. The Kovernor s ntten STATE Hon was called to the bill by Miss ' committee on arrangements of the Cornelia Marvin, state librarian. Parly's national committee went who sees in the measure a menace over plans for the gathering in to mail order lilu-ary service. June. "Under Ihe proposed system," ' William M. Hutler, chairman of Miss Marvin said today, "many I "e national committee, said the costs are lowered but the cost on I snb-eomnilttee probably would clenr books sent from free libraries to i's tlecks of all other matters be patrons Is doubled. The present '"re taking up the election of the rale is five cents for the first I temporary convention chairman. pound and one cent for each addl- ; tional pound. There are practical- i ly no shipments from libraries of less than one pound and a half. It therefore Increases from one to ! two cents n pound the cost ot each j book mailed to country patrons of I libraries, and on hooks mniled 1 from the slate library to its son I branches and depository throughout the slate." stations ! i TO HELP SOLVE Spectacles Only Clue to Identity of Portland Am nesia Victim Scores Visit Strange Case at Police Station. PORTLAND. Ore.. April S "' t'nable to gain any clue to the Identity of a man about 35. who, ASK AS MYSTERY MAN Is on iheir hands as a victim oftadrivln-; snowstorm today that amnesla. police today Invoked the aid of an optician who examined the man's glasses and furnished a detailed description. t heck by opticians and op- tomlrists of their records might furnish an identification, cnld lr. : Arthur W. Huhndrof, who gavel the police this description: KtKht eye X 143."OX0. Left eye H f,(X S.50XS0. 1 The ghiKse?'. fitted about two; yen is ago. ar flat corn pound i ' 3S !)' 42 leaf Inserts, rlin of shell. I j d.'irk cable frame hridge. j j The vbtim stays at the police j station nK'kintr while downs of ! persona vivlt him In attemptH at 1 I establishing hi- identity. He has ! , been nt the station since Kurd ay, i when he appeared and tobJhe j officers that he had lost his memory and did not know his I n n name. j SANTA BARBARA, Col., Apr. 8. ji'i colonel chnrl'-s IJndbergU i hopped off here headed sout h shortly before non totlny. He j d'd not announce his dr-Mlnntton. 1 but It wai believed to be Ean DU-go. the cabinet officer's record from the viewpoint o: the farmer and defended his course an food admin- istrator in dealing with war-time ! wheat and pork situations. In ! every essential detail, except the I equalization lee, he added. Hoover' "has been a supporter of the oh- j jectives and principles of farm re-: lief." ! As for the fee, Hradfuto said, that "large numbers of our best i informed and thinking farmers also ; disagree with the provision." , G. 0. P. KEYNOTER KANSAS CITY, AlP) Senator Simeon D. Fess of 0hi0 today was named as tempo- i rary chairman of the republican i national convention and will do- liver the ke'note Pecn nt the party RathPrlns here In June. Tll(-' Ohioan, a staunch Hiipporter ' of the CnolhUe administration, was : chosen lor the post by the sub-com-mitteu on arranRcments of the re-1 publican national committee meet-; ing here to complete final plans for i l he convuntioii. i KANSAS CItTTTmo.. April Wl Selection of a temporary chairman lor the republican na- j tional convention was delayed here today while members of the suh- K" will act as the keynote . speaker. He thought the keynoter . would he named late today. ! Mr. Hutler and other members , of the sub-committee refused to discuss the various party leaders under consideration for the post. I but indications were that the ; rhoice had narrowed down to Sena- j 'or Simon D. Fess of Ohio. Senator , i Frederick II. Cillett of Massaehu- I setts and CfKiriai 11 Moses nf Vew ltampshire. Louis . Shouse, manager of AK II PU A DM AM niuninrn nnui KF FRIFFl MY;iinn Pnumnul , Mo'.. April 3. convention hall, presented plans to ' of "The Dinile," Diamond Joe Ks Ihe sub-ocoininlttee showing a to-1 pusilo, the night of March 21. "The tal of !2.5l!o seats for the enliven- j Dinile," a ward worker for the Ken tion. In the arena where the dele-! alor Deneen republican group, fell iales, alternates, press mid con- under a rain of shotgun slugs fired volition officials will be seated, ! by three men who have not been there will bo accommodations for ! identified. One of four men ar- :Stili. The three galleries for spec tators will have ftllill seats. A large portrult of President Coolidge will be the only picture used in decorating convention hall, Mrs. Alvin T. Hurt, nalional com-' mittee woman for Kentucky, an nounced today. lK .1: The picture will be placed behind UTAH BLANKETED BY HEAVY SNOW! SALT LAKE CITY. April 3. Iff') Northern 1'tah was In the grip of threatened tnteruptlon of wire com- attendant upon today's city elec munlcatlons and Ihe movement of! Hun in litis municipality, which ad air miffl. Joins Chicago on the southwe. Salt l'ike City at S a. m. was nn- Gangslers were touring the der a blanket of three Inches of ; streets with but little show of In- : snow. The storm showed no signs of abating, " ESCAPES SLK , j MAIEHIIFIKM). Ore., Apr. 3- f-Ti Hurled to the nhoublrs In a slide on the Htxn river road. Ma rion Ziimwjilt, Curry eounty ninth-! I'KXDI.KTON. Ore., Apr. 3. ? er, escaped death tol;iy by work- A miniature cyclone yslerdiiy Ins his way down the mountain- j nfU'rnoon, following n hmivy rain side. Jtint as he freed himself nfnr n''tir 1'rnntilla In the went end f the edi;- of the river, another slid'-j the county, tnvo up trees and occum-d at the same plaee where I shrubs and overturned two nuto he had been. ' nioMls. Its pnth was s:iid to have Three persons were burled alive: been to 3o fevt wide. It last tttthe aame place In 18&0. Ud forfcveral mlnuteg. Replying to criticisms thai Hoo ver hurt the American farmer by fixing the price of wheat at $-.-') i a bushel during the war, the for-, nier farm lepreseutative said the ' secretary hail no part in the eon-: ferenco which did set the price I and requested the appointment of; the price commission only when Kuropean nations which had been j buying- t American products com-' billed their purchasing to stop com-', petition and to force the price down to S 1 .50 on the farmer. V " I CHICAGO BOMB r . i i i I i r- ,J J OUSptJUl, JclllUU Oy rKUUiai Agents, Said to Have; rnnfpccpri M ii r Hp i uuniebbuu ivi u r ue i a Gang Leader Named Expect Many Arrests. C1IICOjX April 3 MP1 Six 3.-'n."rdcrs and several' bombings. In-j eluding those lit the homes of fnited Stales Senator Deneen and Circuit Judge John A. Swansea. dULUI un may lie solved through urrosisl,, telephone call here. ' made by fetleral operatives last I The boat, which broke anchor night. and drilled to sea in tho storm, One man arrested, whose Iden- and hail I n missing since Hal- : tily was withheld, was understood unlay, when it went lo the aid to have confessed to Culled Stales of Ihe Helen It. Sterling, nppar- Dislrlct Attorney Johnson and I'at' cully was riding the storm safely , Koclle of tile .'iovei mucin's special i and was awailing a chalice to intelligence unit. tnai ne itinni- pated in half a do.eu murders anil many bombings. In each case, the reported conlession said, he acted j causing hardship In trying to nailer the direction of Lorenzo Ju-j cross the bar. liano, described as a gang leader,! I'tve men are aboard the boat. under federal Indictment for liquor i A towing smack was on Its law violation. j way to aid the lifeboat this morn- Through several hours of ques-liug. It was believed ihe boat tiouing, Jullano last night denied I would be unable to cross tho bar any complicity in any slaylngs or I mull this evening. launhliKS. i The government Indicated in 1 brief o itnt'f icln I cnimiw.iil (hut Iwi- j sides the Deneen, Swansea bomb- ' ings. they had solved tho slaying rested with Jul hi no wan Arthur Forshan, Identified oh a federal umler-cover agent, who "sold out" to Hie 'iiing anainst whom he was supposed to obtain evidence. Names of others' arrested were not made public pending the mopping up of the entire gang which Is believed Involved in a long serif of capital crimes. BULLETS FLY IN CICERO ELECTION j CICKRO. III.. April 3.- (;Vi One ! man was reported sot and beaten i by AI Capoue 'inngslers In strife : lerference from the Cicero police department. AI Muzintls and v'll Ham I'radowskaH were the men beaten. Ihe man reported Klain here was submitted by IoiTTr Al was not fdenlifii-d. though the commissioners a Awed L nns rmuun J m. i - Lifeboat Crew, Missing Two Days On Angry Waters, i Rescued After Harrowing ! Experience Landing of Craft Next Problem. r'I.OI!l:('K, Ore April 3. UP) The Siuslaw const guard station lifeboat missing Sunday and Mon- j day, landed at the st'aiion about ( iu:4V o'eloek this morning, all five I men aboard alive. The boat was plainly seen at a. is o'clock tossing about In the rough waters ai timber. Thesta-lot Hon is about u quarter of a mile inside the bar. The men were reported In fair condition, considering the expert- ences they have gone through. towing smack Immediately rled out to the llrVlnmt when it I came inin wiKht. The l.oul with Hh isseiiKers, Captain Stitt, j KImer I'eterson, Clyile Heal, Mur om .Mci rcuuic, ami jou liermutrut, has been buffeted about the past three days in the worst sea local residents have ever seen. Today the storm had abated somewhat and the sea was much calmer, following the worm that iiiK-u .Moiiciay wnen waves couit! : be seen at Florence, which Is two miles front the water und the wind was blowhiK at a 7.r-mile ale. A northwest wind was whipping the water fiercely, making the landing of the little life, hoat a difficult (ask. i i rent relief was felt here when tho ,M,at waH Hl'en- Thu m,M''y f KiiH limi r,Mt WUM ,m. on lMmt at the time of the disappearance and great anxiety was felt as to whether the men could hold out In tbt-ir battle against the storm. All the men live here or nearby. Guardsman Deal has relatives at Junction City. L kiVihnb. e rll j.J The power lifeboat of Ihe Kllislaw l I ,'""M' , u;"a station was sighted ' . ' eiience at s.i' The bar was impassable but the seas were calm- yesterday ing today. A shift in wind was VEST FAILS TO STOPJJLLETS Oklahoma Prosecutor Has Quarrel With Sheriff Over $62 Bill and Appears With Pistol to Collect Near Death in Hospital. MADII.L, Okln., Apr. 3. (VP) Failure of a coat of armor to stop a bullet has left County Attorney Kim near death and his erstwhile ! friend, Sheriff Kd Long, under technical arrest. Long Hhot Kim when the attor ney took exception to l bl'l pre sented to the county comTulsHlonciH by the sheriff, und witnesses de clared , appeared clad In steel ar mor and armed with a pistol. The argument Ntarted when a bill for ',2 for bringing n jwioner the claltn, Kim ami Long contlnu- l t'Airgue. Finally Kim rushed from the room, shouting ho "would Kirn soon rennneared in the doni clad in armor that cnvetA-d his chest and back. He carried a pis tol. Karl Ay red, real estate broker a'tendirm the session, said l,onr ord'-red thn attorney to hnlt, and when he continued to nd vii nee tho I sheriff drew his pistol and fired apparently tryinjf to shoot the gun from the attorn'-y's hand. MILAN, April 3. (fl) Premier Mussolini arrived here unexpect edly today and received TewTIk Kushdl Mev, the Turkish forekn minister, for a long1 conference at the pa lac eof the prefecture, ni ii i pt nnnnp buLLtl m. i Imrjrisnnpri Grand Dranon WKr i Imprisoned Grand Dragon Pictures Evans as Insti-i gator of Murder and Debaucher of Justice! Called a Nero With An- archy Leanings. MILLIIXIKVII.LK, (la., April 3. W) l'hillip Kox, serving a life sentenco in the state prison farm here for the "murder of W. S- I'oburn in 1!I23, denied last night that the slaying was instigated by H. . Kvnns. imuerinl wiyju-d of the Ku Klux Kian. I "It's all rot." he said when told the deposition of 1 c. ste- : phenson, former grand dragon ot 'Indiana "There Is not a word lot truth in the accusation and I can't understand why Stephenson I should make such a statement. the course of business while I wuh employed nt the Imperial ' palace 1 met Stephenson. i,ut KO far as I can remember, wo never passed more than a dozen words. This much Is certain, there is absolutely no foundation for the charge that Kvans had anything to do with tho shooting of Coburn." IMTTSlllJltll. 1'a., April 3. (p) Charges that lllrani V. Kvans, im perial wizard of the Ku Klux Klau, instigated a murder ure contained In a deposition obtained for use in a suit to prevent the Klan from functioning In Pennsylvania. The deposition was mado by David C. Stephenson, former grand dragon of the Klan ia Indiana, In bis cell nt Michigan City, Inil., where bo Is serving a life sentence for the murder of Madge Oberholt zer. Stephenson brands Kvans as "the murderer' 'of Captain William S. Coburn, an attorney of Atlanta, who was put out of tho way be- cause liu was Komt? to urlng out rf jnnrHe, ' " "Tlw. aclnal muriler " Stenhensnn nvpn)i ..ws)1 C1)nlmpd by phll ' Fox, who was incensed after Kvans had told him he could prove Co- burn had made derogatory remarks about Mrs. Fox." When Fox Hutd he waH Rolnj? to kill 1,'ohuf" tho deposit ion pro ceeds, lOvnr.d told lilm : "Colonel SinimotiH Ih juat rh deeply involved and If he was koIiik to kill Coburn he miKht as well make a good job of It and kill Hlmmons, too." Colonel W. J. Simmons preceded Kvans as imperial wizard. The deposition avers that gunmen were sent to kill those opposed to the unseating of SImmonH and Kvans finally nt tho job at $1000 a month for life. Tho deposition duRcrihea Kvans na nn "uncultured, uncouth, vulgar Individual, like Noro, drunk, grasp ing at every straw In an efrort to Identify hia name with something of national importance. HtephenHon claims he was the victim of an "Kvans-fixed jury of which at least two members wore paid smuH nf money in exchange tor, thoir guilty verdict." Asked liow Kvans controlled the courts, Stephenson answered: "Prior to the elections, Evans picked out the man he thought apt to win and bound him to a promise lo be guided by the wishes of the Imperial wizard." The magazine article, "Why the Klan Fights Smith," Is analyzed by Stevenson as an article not written by KvaiiH, who, he says, "la Intel lectually inca pubic of producing such nn article." Ho nvers Kvans believes himself "the Mussolini of America," with a distinct leaning toward anarchy. Governor K. Jack-ion of Indiana Is described by Stephenson as "not only a member of the Klan, hut one who had dreams of ficcomlng president nf the United States, and, ho continued, Kvans had Jackson on the dotted line of an agreement which would dispose of the spoils nf his office If elected. WASHINGTON, April 3. (P F. Triibee Havlson, assistant secre tary of war for aeronautics, and Major General James K. Feehet, chief of the army air corps, landed at llidlliiH field today at 5:15 p. m. on their return from the I'miuma canal w here they Inspected army aerial defenses. The fliers took off .this morning from Montgom ery, Ala., on tho final leg of their Might. 4 RECORD SET FOR AERIAL STOCK NKW YOHK. April 3. (A1) A sensational advance of $30 a share In the common stock of the Wright Aeronautical corporation to a new high record at $K!0 started another wild bull movement on tho New York stock exchange today. Early gains In the other speculative fa vorites ran from S2 to $10 a share, with trading again lo largo volume. w m mm m M, Protests Against Lease to Sinclair Sent to Harding, Weeks and Hoover Intro ducedSen. Lenroot and Smoot Deny Fall's Im plications. WASHINGTON, Apr. 3. ( Hlrch Helms of New York testified toiluy before the senate oil com mittee that In the spring of 1922 he protOHteil to 1'rpnident JIardins, Secretaries WeekH and Hoover ftnd Attorney General Daugherty UKuiiiHt the lealiiK of the Teapot Dome oil reserve to Harry Hin du ir. In his testimony at the Fall- Slnclalr trial- wnlcn was read into the record, Helms said he had sent telegrams about the Teapot Dome lease to a cabinet officer. "Which cabinet officer did you send telegrams to?" asked Senator Walsh. ' Secretary Weeks (the late John P. Weeks), AUorney General Daugherty and Secretary Hoover," Helms replied. The witness also said he had sent a telegram to President Hard ing on April 22, 1922, this was read Into the record, protested against the closing of the Teapot Dome lease without permitting his company to bid on the reserve. Apparently there was no reply, and two days Inter Helms tele graphed to George B. Christian, then secretary to President Hard ing, making a further protest. Helms' testimony was asked for after the committee had decided to offer to Senator Smoot of Utah and former Senator Lenroot of Wisconsin, an opportunity to nn swer ohargeM of Albert B Fall that a senator, a former senator and a former cabinet officer had advised him to write the famous McLean letter. This biter had J K B. McLean, Washington pub Usher, as the source of the $100,. 000 Fall obtained from K. U Do heny. The message to Weeks was dated on April 20, 1 fl 22, and nwked him, If he were Interested, to use hln Influence in tho premises. The tetter 'to Daugherty was similar to the one sent Weeks, as was the one sent to Mr. Hoover. Weeks replied that no doubt the president would, receive Helms. "For good reason, I cannot be come Involved in the controversy,". Weeks added. Helms, who mt the time was vice president of the Texas Pacific Coat and OH company, said his company had attempted to lease Teapot Dome. He testified he first learned from Albert B. Fall that Sinclair hal closed a contract for tho Wyoming reserve. The telegrams to the cabinet officers said: "Have just sent following tele grnm to President and if you are Interested hope you will dlscusH matter with him. Telegram quoted as follows: " 'Will it be convenient for you to grant me a few moments on either April 25th or 6lh with ref erence to the proposed develop ment structure of Teapot Dome In Wyoming. "'Have Just heen advised by Secretary Fall that this matter is closed but feel that my company should have had opportunity to have made bid upon It as we re quested such an opportunity six months ago and were then advised by both the interior and navy de partments that development would not be considered for a long time, and furthermore we requested same opportunity a few weeks ago and then understood that we would have such an opportunity to sub mit a competitive bid. Please wire collect here.' " Helms Identified a copy of a letter dated May 1, 1922, sent him by Christian A. Herter, assistant to Secretary Hoover. Herter said it had been noticed that In his telegram Helms had stated "the arrangements In regard to the Tea pot Dome had been approved by Mr. Hoover." "I wish to advise you," Herter wrote, that Mr, Hoover at no time had any knowledge of any arrange ments that were pending In thia connection." Helms testified that he also had discussed the Teapot Dome with Mr. Chrlstla, President Harding's secretary. Ho said he never received a re ply to his telegram to Dnuphery. Hclmn told She committee he saw Secretary Hoover after he had attempted to arrange for an In terview with President Harding. He said he believed Hoover had done what he could. It was his understanding thnt Hoover had gotten In touch with Secretary Fall. "When was It you discussed the matter with Hecretarty Hoover?" asked Senator Brntton, democrat. New Mexico. (Continued on Pace four)
