THE KUSKO TIMES
VOL. IV. NO. 12
TOKOTNA, ALASKA. SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1924.
PRICE 25 OEiNTk
Daugherty Investigation
Indicates Criminality in
Department of Justice
Washington.. March 10.—Sec
t tary of the Treasury Mellon’s
name was brought into the
‘ Daugherty investigation today
by Gaston B. Means, a former
Department of. Justice agent,
who said that, for President
* Harding, he investigated mat
ters connected with certain per
* mits having to do with violation
of the Volstead act.
“Jess Smith wanted us to
catch Secretary Mellon,- and we
* caught him,” said Means,- who
declared that Harding wanted
the information. “The first tune
he slipped through our lingers.”
Means, who-is under indict
* ment in a liquor case, when
asked if he wanted immunity,
replied; “I waive immuftity. I
ask no quarter, and will give no
< * quarter.”
Means further testified this af
ternoon that in February, 1921,
in the old Bellevue E^otel, in
Washington, he received from
“a Japanese representing Mitsui
v & Go.” one hundred thousand
dollars to stop government pros
ecution in*the Standard Aircraft
case arid that he turned the
* money over to the late Jess W.
Smith, Daugherty’s “bumper
aud friend.’’
Washington. — Testifying be
fore the Daugherty investigating
committee this afternoon, Means
said that Jess Smith told him
that Harding. Hughes, Daugh
erty and McLean attended a pri
' vate showing of the Dempsey.
*■ Carpentier tight pictures at Me
s Lean’s Washington home, de
spite the fact that it was a viola
1 tion of the federal law to show
the motion picture film from
. New Jersey, where the fight
took place, in Washington. The
witness also averred that it was
< for- Jess Smith he collected be
’ tween $80,000 and $35,000 in con
nection with the various show
ings of the films.
Washington, Mar. 18.—F. C. Quimby,
> of New York, the motion picture man
who was under contract with Tex Rick
ard to make the films of the Dempsey
Carpentier fight, testifying before the
Daugherty committee, confirmed the
statement of Means that the pictures
had been shipped out of New Jersey, in
> violation of the law, and shown in
Washington before Harding, in addi
tion urseveral members of his Cabinet,
i including New, postmaster general.
Quimbv said the pictures had oeen
shown in twenty-two states under a
secret plan, Rickard assuring him that
there would be no trouble, whereupon
Senator Ashurst asked: ‘‘Didn’t you
know the Department of Justice was a
department of easy virtue?”
Washington, March 11». -Secretary of
State Hughes, who was named by
Means as one of the audience in which
Harding and other government offi
cials viewed the Dempsey-Carpentier
fi^ht film in^Washington at the home
of McLean, said today he had not
known that the pictures were to be
- shown when he went to the McLean
dinner, or that;the films were brought
into the District of Columbia in viola
tion of the federal statutes.
Washington, March 20.—The name
of Daugherty was directly linked with
the Dempsev-Carpentier fight films
deal in testimony today before the Sen
ate investigating committee when Ger
ald O. Holdridge, a former Department
of Justice agent, testified that Jap
Muma, New York correspondent for
the Cincinnati Enquirer, and one of
those named as interested in the ar
rangement, has “practical-]y accused”,
| the attorney general himself as being i
heard in the “conspiracy” to show the j
pictures throughout the country with
out interference from the Department
of Justice. The witness declared Muma
also said that Burns, chief of the de
partment’s bureau of investigations,
was “staudiug in” on the leal.
Washington, March 2!.—Tex Ilick
-ard was grilled for three hours today
before the Daugherty investigating
committee. The witness admitted hav
ing 'shipped the Dempsey-Carpentier
fig-ht films into various stales in viola
tion of the law, and said that he had
employed Lawyer Uaion, an intimate
friend of Daugherty, as his attorney in
handling the films.
“You are the same llickard who said j
in New York you would bet a million
dollars they ‘wouldn’t get.’ Daugherty
Senator Wheeler remarked.
Subpoenas were issued today for Sec
retary of Treasury Melloo and Secre
tary of War Weeks by the Senate com
mittee investigating Daugherty.
Telegraphic Ticks.
New York.—Tbe British steamship
Oduna was seized at her pier yesterday
afternoon on orders from the Treasury
Department. Large quantities of mor
phine and whisky were found aboard
and confiscated. Eight members of the
crew were held.
New York.—Grover C. Bergdoll, no
torious slacker, is declared to be ne
gotiating through the Uearst organiza
tion to return from Germany and serve
his sentence.
Herrin, Ills. — Ninety-nine indict
ments have been returned in connec
tion with the murder of Constable Cae
sar Cagle and rioting at Herrin in Feb
ruary.
Tokio.—A dispatch from Petropav
lovsk, via Vladivostok, Friday, stated
that seventeen volcanoes on the penin
sula of Kamchatka are in eruption.
Rome.—King Mlniauue! landed at
Fiume Thursday, thereby completing;
its formal annexation to Italy.
Washington.—President Coolidge to
day appointed Hughes Gibbon, of Cali
fornia, as minister to Switzerland.
New York.—Thirty-four million dol
lars in income tuxes were paid Satur
day by New Yorkers.
Rome.—The UiDg Friday bestowed
upon D’Annunzio the title of prince.
Li. B. Walbridge and R. T. Llirseh,
after several months on the Outside,
were among today’s arrivals, headed
for the scene of their operations on the
Lower Kuskokwira. They continue to
Ophir tomorrow.
Curtis D. Wilbur, Cal
ifornia Jurist, to Be
come Navy Secretary
Washington, March 1 f>.-—President
j Cool id ge has asked Cuittis-, D. Wilbur,
chief justice of the supre-me court of
California, to become .Secretary of the
Navy, and the jurist has wired his ac
ceptance.
San Francisco.—President Coolidga
j telegraphed Judge Wilbur: “You seem
| to be the man needed for the Navy and
| am immediately drafting A'ou.”
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TEMPORARY
INJUICTION
Against Further Devel
opment Work Teapot
Dome Oil Reserve.
Cheyenne, March !5.—-Federal
Judge Kennedy today granted a
temporary injunction against
further development work by
the Mammoth Oil Company on
the Teapot Dome'oii reserve.
Judge Kennedy named Rear
Admiral Strauss, of the navy,
and A. E. Watts, vice president
of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil
Corporation, as joint receivers
for the Teapot Dome property,
pending final outcome of present
litigation.
Washington Notes
Washington.—Senator Shipstaad has
introduced a resolution in the Senate
calling: upon Secretary of State Hughes
to explain what policy or program he
has for the adjustment of the four bil
lion dollars war debt, of Fiance to the
United States.
Washington.—The four army air
planes selected to make the around-;
the-world flight have been named by
Major General Patrick, -thief of the
army air service, after the cities of
Chicago, Boston, Seattle,and \'ew Or
leans.
Washington.—The Couzens resolu
tion calling for investigation of.the bu
reau of internal revenue, which han
dles all federal tax matters, passed the
Senate on Tuesday, and the committee
will begin functioning at once, with
Senator Watson as chairman.
Washington.—Senator Cuuzens, of
the Senate committee investigating the
bureau of internal revenue, said today
that Means would be called to amplify
bis charges against Secretary Mellon.
Washington.—Daugherty has issued
a statement of wholesale denial of the
Means charges. Mellon declines to
make comment.
Falling from the center of the
bridge crossing the creek at the upper
end of town, little Elsie Ri^k was se
verely hurt last Wednesday night.
The little one fell almost headmost on
the ice below, from the impact of
which she received a bad gash over
the right eye and possibly injured a
portion of the nasal structure. She
suffered extremely for a couple of days,
but at last accounts was reported some
what. better’
How American Marines
Were Used to Rid Tea
pot Dome Tresspassers
Washington, March 15.—IIow
American marines cleaned Tea
pot Dome of trespassers after
the oil reserve had been leased
to Sinclair was described today
to the Senate oil committee by
Major General Lejeune. com
mandant of the marine corps,
who said that orders tor the ac
tion were issued by Roosevelt,
then acting secretary of the
navy.
Roosevelt testified that the re
quest for cleaning the Dome
catne from Fall, who was quoted
as saying that he and Harding
wanted “squatters’' ejected.
Characterising the sending of
marines to Teapot Dome as an
“outrageous use of oil forces, ’
Senator Walsh charged that the
armed forces were used because
Fall and Sinclair did not wish to
precipitate court action, in which
would be raised the : uestion of
the validity of the lease. “You
Alaska Girl United
in Secret Marriage
Seattle, Marco ' i Cornelius T.
Woldo, 27, and Mary M. riolzheimer,
18, daughter of Judge Willim A. Holz
henner, of Alaska, both University
fltndents, ware secretly married last
Friday and ar.e now huneyinooniug in
the San Juan islunds. it was rsvealed
today. The groom is a son of former
Congressman Waldo, of New Cork, but
now a resident of Pasadena, Cal. The
bride * parents have extended forgive
ness,
160 Bodies Recovered
From Castlegate Mine
Salt Lake.—The bodies of cue hun
dred and sixty miners, who perished In
the Castlegate mine explosion last
week, have been recovered The bodiss
of two others are still niissiog.
Leaving today for Nenana, on their
way to the Outside, were Mr. and Mrs,
George F. Kilroy an l three little ones,
all being passengers of bleary Martella.
Mr. Kilroy and family will, go direct to
Untie, Mont., Mr.* Kilroy,'s former
home.
Charlie Goebel, after a number of
weeks iD the Tolstoi section, arrived
Monday and is spen ing a few days in
town before leaving for the scene of his
summer operations in the Mixon sec
tion.
1 George Mutchler, Miss Florence Gra
ham aod Miss Mary Mareelle, from
Flat, who arrived Monday aod left
Wednesday for McGrath, returned here
yesterday afternoon.
Hugh Matheson, of Flat, was a yes
terday arrival, and left this morning
for Nenaua to meet-his brother Alex,
following which both will return to
Flat. __
H. K. Carlisle, agent of the Fair
banks land oHice, otter a business visit
here of several days, left Tuesday for
McGrath homier! for Fairbanks.
learned in school. ’ VValkh said
to the witness, “that oil power
is always subordinate to the civ:;
' power in the United States/'
“Yes," Roosevelt replied.
Replying to a question by Dill,
I Roo3evelt admitted he had asked
j Sinclair to give Archie a job.
Roosevelt further-said that Hard
in" had approved his sending Off
marines to Teapot Dome.
That Attorney General Daugb
ertv, Senators Curtis and Elkins
| and C. B. Slemp, present-seere
, tary of President Coelidge, were
! among public officials who had
transactions in Sinclair or Dc
heny oil stocks around the time
the leases of the naval oil re
serves were made, was disclosed
before the oil committee today
by Louis P. Honda, federal trade
commission accountant, who ex
amined the booke of a number o'
brokerage houses. Daugherty
handled one thousand share* o'
the stock
Soldiers’ Bonus Bill
Passed by Hous*
Watbiogwii, Mareis 10.—The Cone*
tod by passed the soldiers’ bonce toll
by a vote of 355 to 34. The toil! ere
rides for paid-up 20-year endowment
oolieies and cash payment to veteram
not entitled to more thaw ftSO In adjust
ed compensation.
Senate Ratifies Rum
Treaty With Britain
^Washington.—The benate late tod a*
ratified the treaty between the Uniter.
States and the British government; •
giviag America authority to search
and seize British rum ships wttbto 12
miles from shore.
B.llv Eones, *e;.ea.ger of the Jouee
Transportation Company, and Ceor»®
McKenzie and Gob Roberson, arrived
today from Yankee. Sir. Jones reports,
that the last of the Cawtn <Jfc Arne*
dredge material is r.ow on Canes -.reels,,
ready for assembling. The freighting
outfit is scheduled to leave during lb*
coming week for Opbir.
Commissioner V&ederpool has ap~
j ,)OiOted the following .judges of election
for the primary election to be held op
j April UUth:
For McGrath- -William Bristol! Jo*
j Wills, Jack McDonald
I For Tokotna -Gus tlollikson, Chrk
! Peterson, Jake Es tel man.
_
Monday departin' s for McGrath, fol
lowing: their return here from OpJhii
were Deputy Marc.bal McMullen, Cob
flat c, Walter Stephens, Louis Clack
burn. Miss K. -Marsh, Mrs. Charlo*
Koenig:, Freda Koenig;-, Moody Green
.Fred Dubois returned Wednesday
from a trip to McGrath, whither h®
went on urgent business matters.
•W. T. Widnoat, left Tuesday for Afc
Grath, on bis way to Medfra.
•G. W. C. Glass, daces *creete,- v«r&*
amopir today’a arc! vale