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The Weather
Prediction iftr; heavy frost.
Maximum yestertljiy 47
Minimum today 35
lTtxljiilullon " 16
IL TRIBUNF.
Weather Year Ago
Maximum 4
Minimum as
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Daily Twenty-third Yer
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MEDFOBD, OKKtJOX, Tl'KSDAV. APRIL :!, lifJS
Today ORDER fl-C
AS SECRETARY HOOVER WOULD APPEAR IN 1929
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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
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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
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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.
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RECORD SET FOR
AERIAL STOCK
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In the common stock of the Wright
Aeronautical corporation to a new
high record at $K!0 started another
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gains In the other speculative fa
vorites ran from S2 to $10 a share,
with trading again lo largo volume.
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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)