Attempting to Link Cal
vin Coolidge With Al
leged Oil Conspirators;
Washington, March 4.—A tele
gram signed “Calvin Coolidge
Administration,” addressed to
Edward B. McLean, publisher of
the Washington Post. v;ac read
into the oil scaddal records as
the foremost sensation. In com
mittee, it developed today, the
telegram was sent from Wash
ington to Palm Beach while Mc
Lean was there wit h former Sec
retary Fall as his guest. The
telegram read:
4‘January 12.—E-. B, MoLean,
Palm Beach, Florida: Prescott
is away. Advise Slemp, whom
I shall confer.
“Calvin Coolidge.”
Slemp, secretary to the Presi
dent. was in 'Honda at that time
and he has already testified that
he at/tended several dinner par
ties with McLean.
Senator Heflin, on the floor of
thte-Senate this afternoon, read
a. telegram produced before the
• oil investigating committee, in
executive session, from Ira Ben
Germany Must Pay
Billions on Account
Sinking of Lusitania
"Washington.—Under the award of
the German and American mixed
claims commission, involving in part
claims arising from the sinking of the
Lusitania, the German government
must pay billions of dollars in repara
tions for losses sustained by Americans
* through death or injury of property in
that disaster, according to the decision
just handed down by Warren Parker,
umpire of the commission, in fifty-seven
cases, representing only the first group
of claims._
Says Coolidge Lacks
j Intestinal Stamina in j
Handling Daugherty
Washington, March 7. — Attorney
General Daugherty, on his arrival to
day from Florida, went direct to a
Cabinet meeting. “I'm feeling better
than 1 have for five years,” he said,
’•‘though the newspapers say I’m a very
sick man.”
Wheeler, in a speech in the Senate
yesterday, 'declared that Daugherty
had intirnida'tfed'Coolidge, “for we all
know that the President of the United
States, for sdma unknown reason, has
not had the intestinal stamina to ask
him for that resignation.”
I?la/.o Christ, under hoods to appear
before the district court at its recent
term in Fairbanks, and who failed to
make appearance, was arrested in Se
attle on February 14. Christ was un
der bonds to appear for violation of the
prohibition laws. The officer, with
Christ in charge, is reported to have
left Seattle on February 16*- headed for
Fairbanks.
f ——————
Walter Stephens and Austin Horner,
driving separate teams, were among
:day s arrivals from McGrath
nett, one of the Post owners, to
McLean. The message read as
follows;
“Saw principal and delivered
messages, tie-said greatly ap
preciated and sends regards to
you McLean. There be no rock
ing boat, no resignations. He
expects reaction from unwar
ranted political attacks.-'7
Heflin continued; “i think the
■principal’ referred to here is
President Coolidge. ” -
Coolidge’s second telegram to
McLean at Palm Beach, dated
February 12, said;
“Thank you for your message.
You have always been most con
siderate. Mrs. Coolidge joins
me in sending kindest regards to
Mrs. McLean.’’
A special grand jury will be
impaneled here on April 1 to
consider the evidence brought
out in the oil inquiry.
Coolidge declined today to turn
over the tax returns of "Sinclair
and Doheny, as requested by the
oil committee.
Humiliating Work to
Ask Release Disrep
London, March 7. — Sir Auckland
Geddes, addressing the Pilgrims So- j
ciety on the Anglo-American liquor!
problem, declared that if he were an ,
American he would be a prohibitionist,
adding that he found it most humiliat
ing while ambassador at Washington
“to go week after week to see'the Sec
retary of State and ask for the release
of some disreputable British craft en
gaged in landing stock which anybody
should oe ashamed to land.”
Foreign Flashes
London.—) Vernier Macdonald, in a !
letter to Premier Poineaire, says the !
people of England regard with anxiety 1
what appears to be the determination ;
of France to ruin Germany and domi- ‘
nate the continent. ;
Skutan.—Premier Zogul of Albania
was severely wounded today as ha was
entering the hall of the national assem
bly, the result of six shots, fired by a
student, which hit the right arm anti
left foot.
Luxor. -The tomb of Tutankhamen
was forcibly opened by the Egyptian
government, aud is now under guard
of a long line of soldiers.
Dresden.—In the Saxony Diet Tues
day afternoon communists bombarded
the prime minister with ink bottles,
boo its and cans.
Constantinople.—Ismet Paeha has re
signed as Turkish premier. The de
posed caliph has departed "or Switzer
land. _
Fred Milligan, from Flat; with the
outgoiug mail, arrived Monday, con
tinuing to McGrath on Tuesday.
Leon G. Loomis left >vsat»rday for
utabie British
McGrath
W. J. Bryan Ejects .
a Few Statements
On Current Affairs
Washington, March 3 William J,
Bryan issued a statement, tonight, de
nouncing the Mellon tax plah as a
scheme to relieve the rich at the ex
pense of the poor He declared the
graft of Sinclair and Dohenv small in;
comparison with what predatory inter
ests of the country have secured under
republican administration.
Strain a Very Severe
One, Says LudendoWT
Munich. — General .hudendorff, on
trial for treason, charged cammuniats
and Jews with breaking up the father
land, adding: “T am just an ordinary
citizen, and ray heart has grown old
from the strain of war and fighting
against enemies -r. home.’
Telegraphic Ticks.
Santa Monica, Calif.—One hundred
officer*! of the army air service hopped
into overalls today and commenced the
work of building a clubhouse to accom
modate the round-the-world ‘liers who
on March 1G expect to take the air for
Seattle and Alaska on the *irst leg o?
the trip.
Ottawa. -The cross-Canadian section
of the British aronnd-the-world flight
of the Royal Canadian air force an
nounced today that it ;ontemplates the
airmen touching Canada first at Prince
Rupert, after crossing from Japan via
the Aleutian islands and the coast of
Alaska
Seattle.—Carl Ryberg confessed Mon
day that he killed Mrs. Laura Mma
mev, 75, and attacked her husband.
Joshua. 76, with an ax, because Mrs.
Rvberg secured a divorce at the in
stance of the Mummeys.
Vancouver.—Walter Brain well, an 1
employe of the institution, was arrest- ;
ed Monday, charged with complicity in
the recent holdup of Manager Ander
son, of the Imperial Bank.
Seattle. -Edna Gray, iO years, was
drowned early this morning when an
aato in which uhe was riding with1
George Hancock, Jr., plunged into
Luke Washington.
Seattle. -Mrs. Flora S. B right, wife
of L. H. Wright, wire <Tiiof of the
Western ruion Telegraph Company,
committed suicide by asphyxiation.
Monday morning.
Washington. —The House on Monday
night passed the tax reAision bill,
which is a compromise, between the
Garner rates and those proposed by
Mellon.
Washington. -A detachment of ma
rines has been landed on the coast of
Honduras to act as a consular guard to
protect the lives of Americans.
Oakland.—William Lair Hill, 85, a
pioneer of the Pacific, and former ed
itor of the Portland Oregonian, died
Tuesday, of pneumonia
San Francisco.—Tbe democratic state
central committee has dropped Doheny
as a member and endorsed the candi
dacy of McAdoo.
Tacoma. -Dr. C, P. Balabanoff, a
prominent physician, was arrested to
day, charged with selling morphine.
Los Angeles.—General. O. E. Adams,
past national commander of the G. A.
R., dropped dead- Monday.
Dept, of Justice Code
Was Used to Transmit
Messages to McLean
Washington, Mar. 1.—William
J. Burns, head of the secret ser
vice and chief of the Department
of Justice bureau of investiga
tions. wDL1 be summoned before
the Senate oil committee to ex
plain whether the Department of
J ustice confidential code was used
in telegrams exchanged between
Edward B. McLean and his em
ployes regarding .oil investiga
tions.
Burns, according to transla
tions of messages submitted to
the committee today, was named
in one of the secret messages as
having tipped McLean, through
an employe, that the Department
of Justice wav investigating Mc
Lean. The second message in
dicated that McLean was being
advised of every move regarding
the investigation of Fall, Doheny
and Sinclair, aud of his own re
lations with T all.
The Senate late-today adopted
the Wheeler resolution ordering
an investigation of Daugherty,
which will be made by a com
mittee of five, -leaded by Brook
hart.
Washington, March ’. The
Teapot Dome committee is eo>
deavoring to establish the au
thenticity of telegrams purport
ing to have been ordered sent by
Burns, head of the secret ser
vice, tipping Edward B. McLean
Big Ones NantcJ in
Large Refunds Made
By II. S. Treasury
Washington, March 4.—Refunds ag
gregating 5124,000,000 on las payments
were mad:: by the 7.'re»sary Depart-!
sent for »bn year endisg Jane 30, as- j
cording to a report of the department
to the ways and means committee,
Those receiving the largest refunds
were E. L, Doheny, Cornelius Vander
bilt, Payne Whitney, K. Oliver
taan and Charles ft. Crane
U. K. Carlisle, representative of the
Fairbanks Land Office, was among to
day’s arrivals, and will make a short
visit in this section, while giving at
tention to matters connected with that
oflice.
Aviator Eiison is scheduled to make
his next flight from Fairbanks to Mc
Grath on March 12, weather permit
ting. ____
Peter Demoski, with the incoming
mail, arrived Monday and continued to
Ophir on Tuesday.
Sam Hounan returned to Ophir on
Tuesday, going over with Henry Mar
tella.
Mail t’rtrrier Fred Lemon, with ibe
incoming mail, arrived today.
Knut Wickstrom, from ,Ganes creek,
was a Tuesday arrival.
- 1 ■ ■ ---
Harry Brink was a yesterday arrival
from McGrath.
that the Department of Justice
was investigating him. In this
connection Senator Caraway
charges that Daugherty turned
over the secret code of the De
partment of .Justice so that the
criminals in Florida might com
municate with the criminals ir
the Department of Justice
Washington, March !>,—Mr&
Jessie Duckstion, wife of Me
Lean’s private secretary, told,
the Senate committee this after
noon that W. J. Burns, chief of
the bureau of investigation of
the Department of Justice, fur
nished her the Justice of Depart
meet code which was used tc
transmit messages to McLean a
Pakn Beach. She is a speeia
agent of the Department of Juc
tice.
Washington. — A. Mitchell Saline
testiiied before the oil committee tods,'
the eiroumstaoces of bis retention a-,
attorney for Edward B. McLean in the
cil inquiry. "X did cot hare a living
soul working on Senator Walsh, ’ Ps,
icer aaid, when euestioned about i#k
grams to McLean.
Testifying that he never uci repr?
seated ft T ^heny, Palmer aaic
smilingly “L rather regret that, cor
aidet ing the sir* of the fees he paid.’
John P. Maior, of the managemen
of McLean's Washington Post, testify
ing before the committee, sr/ore tba.
the copies of messagee sent over the •
wi-e to McLean at l’ake\ Beach hat
heea destroyed.
Forbes Indicted, May
'Peach’ and Implicate
Several Congressmen
Chicago.—C. K. Forbes, deposed <11
reotor of the war veterans’ bureau, and
J. W Thompson were indicted by the
fedepa! grand jury here this alt*?r.ccoEi
Thompson for giving bribes, and
rcrbee for accepting them.
Following hie iddictnicnt. Forties in
dicated that he intends to confess anf
implicate several, members of Con
gress.
A session of the district court *.
not be held at Flat on April i. .<» ppev
ously announced, according to word Ti
aeived here. Instead, however, It is
understood that the date for convening
at that place hac besn net for July 24,
- srry Fratiki returned -hero Monday
from a business trip to Anchorage emc!
Fairbanks, spending a week at the for
mer place and four days at the latter
A ugust Smith tked Andy White re
turned Tuesday to their headquarters
up tb* Toltotna.
—•- i ...
• L‘ B.T-oomis, N. C. manager, vas a
Thu sday arrival, returning yesterday
to McGrath.
• Dolph Mespeit, who came Monday.,
"eturned to Ophir on Tuesday.
d Nollette, Yankee creek, we* s,
Monday visitor.
Faster day in this year of 10S* faW*
on Anril 20th,