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VOLUME 35—NUMBER 241

OIL PROBERS AWAIT SINCLAIR

G. 0. P. CONTINUES BATTLE TO SAVE MELLONPROGRAM Democrats Score Big Victory Over Opponents in House ✓ Vote, bulletin By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Democrats scored their second victory in two days when the House this afternoon adopted the Garner stock dividend tax by a vote of 162 to 112. Profits from the sale of stock dividends, regardless of when the stock is sold, would be subject to tho regular income tax rates, under the amendment. &?/ United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Having killed the Mellon plan and written the Garner income tax rates into the revenue bill, the Democratic-Progressive coalition in the House today stood its ground a§ainist efforts of the administration forces to reverse his action. Republican Leader Longworth today said he had not abandoned the fight, as the parliamentary situation is such that there is still a possibility of forcing the adoption of a compromise which would not destroy the Mellon program How Tax Bill Stands As x result of vote of 222 to 186 in the House late yesterday- the income •.ax schedule now stands: 1. Normal taxes on incomes up to $5,000 are 2 per cent; 4 per cent between $5,000 and SB,OOO and 6 per cent above SB,OOO. 2. Surtaxes beginning at 1 per cent on $12,000 are graduated to 44 per cent on $92,000 incomes. o. Personal exemptions for single persons are S2jDOO and for heads of families $3,000. While the original plan proposed ly Representative Garner, Texas, was !o make his entire program retroactive to as to give taxpayers a cut on the iaxes to be paid this year on their 1923 income, it is understood that he has abandoned the idea. a result the Garner plan to give a 25 per cent rebate <?n 1823 incomes seem assured cf adoption. Reduction Possible This would mean that taxpayers would make out their income tax return on March 15 this year on exactly the same basis as last year, with the same rates applying, but would be entitled to reduce the tax 25 per cent when they paid it. With the adoption of the Garner plan in the “committee of the whole House’’ the fight will lag until the bill gets into the House proper. Democrats intend to support most of the administrative features of the bill. When the bill does come before the House proper, Longworth intends to force a record vote on his substitute for the Garner plan. It provides for a 25 per cent cut in both normal and surtaxes. It proposes the Mellon normal rates of 3 and 6 per cent and a maximum surtax of 3714 per cent on incomes of 5100,000. AUTO STRIKES’TWCfCARS J. M. Rhodes, Driver, After >Aiident. J. M. Rhodes, 2406 N. Capitol Ave., was charged with operating an auto while intoxicated, today, after the ca he was driving struck cars owned by Sam Goldberg, £47 N. Capitol Ave., and R. H. Owers, R. R. C., Box 196, In front of 535 N.. Capitol Ave.

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Daugherty May Be Forced to Resign mBBBSBAL. 1 >tmm * Mr Jr ’ HARRY M. DAUGHERTY Washington reports say-Harry M. Daugherty will be asked to resign as Attorney General if any connection with tlie Teapot Dome affair is shown.

THREE MURDERED BT SLATER WHO COMMITS SUICIDE Illinois Butcher, Believed Insane, Wipes Out Entire Family, 811 United Press HOMER. 111., Feb. IJO.— Luis Kuntz, G 5, a butcher, exterminated a family of three, nine miles from here following a family qudTrel, according to a report made to the coroner nmdefoday by Constable Elliott. Kuntz, using a rifle, shot and killed Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Whistle %nd their 18-year-old daughter and'then killed himself. Occurred Tuesday The bodies were discovered early today at the Whistle horde, and indications are that the killings occurred some time yesterday. The affair was precipitated by charges made by the Whistle girl against Russell Kuntz, son of the slayer. Kuntz. who has a shop here, walked nine miles to the Whistle home. According to the story reconstructed by Elliott, Kuntz found Whistle in the barnyard. He shot Whistle between the eyes. Shoots Himself Then going into the house he found the girl dressing. She was pulling on a stocking when Kuntz shot her through the head. He then met Mrs. Whistle coming from her bedroom. She was in her nightgown. He shot her through the heart. Kuntz then went back to the barn, where he sat down, placed the rifle between his feet, the muzzle to his head and pulled the trigger. Elliott believes the aged man was made temporarily insane l*y the charges made against his son. The Whistle girl charged Russell with being the father of her unborn child, Elliott said.

SUICIDE ATTEMPT FAILS Mother of Three Takes Heart Stimulant Instead of Poison. Because tablets she believed were poison, were heart prescribed -for her husband, Mrs. Daisy Garten, 22, of 34514 N. Liberty St., mother of three small children, failed in an attempt to end her life early today, according to police. Mrs. Garten was said to he despondent because her husband. Frank Garten, had been taken to a hospital for the second time within a year and her family was destitute. According to police, the Veterans of Foreign Wars have aided the family. ‘ROBBER’ TAKES $1,200 Butler Man Claims He Lost Sum in Confidence Game. B/t United Press KENDALLVILLE, Ind., Feb. 20 Lodal authorities today questioned A. I. Richmond, 23, of Butler, who claims he was robbed of $1,200 in a confidence game. Richmond says he borrowed the money and brought it here to invest in a; lumber deal with a man giving the name of Fred Gilmore. Richmond said a stranger met him on the street, drew a gun and took the money. Authorities say Richmond is using the “rchber” as a ruse to get away with the borrowed money. ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES Coroner Investigating Fatality Following Automobile Crash. Coroner Paul F. Robinson is . investigating death of Fred Dietz St., 1854 S. East St., at city hospital today., Dietz was injured Jan. 10 when the car in which he was riding, driven by his son, rFed Jr., skidded and rolled down an embankment in the 2200 block on Madison Avej, accord(pg to police. • ■ ,

LOUDEN SLAYER IS HELD Charles Henry, Colored, Confesses to Murder of Motorpoliceman on Night of June 14, 1923, ‘I Hope They Send Him to the Electric Chair’, Declares the Widow of Slain Man, y Charles Henry, 23, colored, 2405 Paris Ave.', today confessed to the murder of Motorpoliceman Jesse Louden June 14, 1923, at Central Ave. and Sixteenth St., detectives said. Louden started to enter a doorway next to a store at the corner in response to a burglar alarm. A shot rang out and Louden fell.. The assailant escaped, Louden died June 18, 1923, at the Methodist hospital. Henry was arrested Feb. 7 after months of relentless search by Louden V comrades. '

According to police, Henry dropped a hint concerning the shooting of Louden which eventually gravitated to detectives. He was arrested at his home. He was placed under a 810,000 vagrancy bond. Today the full confession was made, officers say. Gun Obtained at Bar “I was in a poolrocm at TwentyFifth St. and Northwestern Ave., Wednesday, June 13 at 5 p. in.” Henry’s confession reads, according to officers. “At one end of the bar stood a colored boy. Two pOliMmen came in. He took a gun from his pocket and put it in a box under the bar. When the policemen left I got the gun and hid it under a fence near the poolroom. I got it a half hour later. “About 7:30 I went over to Douglass Park and met a girl friend. I took her home about 2 a. m. and started west on twenty-fifth St. Sqpie colored boys called to me to stop. I ran east to Central Ave. and got on SLIPPERY WALKS CAUSE CASUALTIES Three Men Suffer Injuries to Head, The first casualty investigated by police because of the siippery sidewalks was the result of a fall by Alexander Ford, 501 N. Liberty St., in front of his home Tuesday. He was taken to the city hospitAj with a fractured skull and several fractured ribs. Police ordered ashes placed on the pavement. Omer Brown,. 936 Bellefontaine St., is improved at the city hospital from injuries to the head received when he fell on slippery pavement on Monument Circle. Dr. Andrew Ward, who was taken to the Methodist Hospital from his home in Danville, Ind., after he suffered injuries to the head in a fall on slippery pavement Tuesday, remained in a serious condi lion. hospital authorities said. BLIZZARD HITS NEW YORK City Digs Way Out of Winter’s Heaviest Snow. Bn United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—An army of 2,000 hastily recruited men battled New York's first real blizzard of the year. Sleet and snow, driven by a gale which swept this section throughout the night, left a trail of thoroughfares blocked with drifted snow, suburban highways almost impassable, and train schedules delayed. POLICE FIRE ON TRUCK Bullet-Ridden Machine or Injured Men Sought in Suspected Coal Theft. Police today searched for injured men and a truck with bullet holes in the rear. Several shots were fired at a group of men by Motor Policemen' Dillane and Paul, who answered a call from the Union railway that they were stealing coal. The men jumped in the truck and drove away. Their trail was lost at Morris St.

Juvenile Court to Crusade Against Pupil Smokers

rpn IGARETTE-SMOKING by I I some children in public | schools is increasing to such an extent that a vigorous campaign to stop cigarette sales to minors will be instituted at once, Charles Downey, juvenile court probation officer. said today. “In some schools as many as onethird of the boys and a few of the girls habitually use cigarettes,” Downey said. “Some affidavits will be filed, charging child' neglect and contributing to delinquency, under the law forbidding salq §1 olgarettes to minors. 7 ’

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Widow’s Hope! mHOPE they send Charles Henry to the electric chair,’’ declared Mrs. Jesse Louden, 109 Palmer St., today when informed that Henry had confessed to the murder of her husband. “You can't blame me. can you?” she questioned. “If they had been in a gun battle it might have been different; but to shoot him down In cold blood ” Mrs. Louden shuddered.

a street far. I rode to Seventeenth St., got off and walked to Sixteenth St. Then I walked to Alabama and Sixteenth Sts. and hung around a while. Then I returned to Sixteenth and Central. Waited to Enter Store * “I loafed around for a while, Waiting to get Into the store. I heard someone coming and dodged Into a doorway. Somp one started in and I fired ono shot. “I ran through alleys and got hack to Northwestern Ave., where I threw the gun behind a sign board. I then went home. I didn't know it was a policeman until the next day in the poolroom. 1 Detectives Thomas and Landers, assisted by Officer Frank Seifert, Louden's partner, worked together under the direction of Inspector Mullin to apprehend Loudens slayer. Frequent trips to Cincinnati, Louisville and other cities were made to run down clews. Henry today was taken to the scene of the shooting by Inspector Mullin and Detectives Thomas and Landers. He refused at first to comply with their demand to enact the shooting over again, but finally consented, the officers said. • A reward amounting to $1,214.25 offered by citizens and firms for the slayer will revert to the police pension fund. Under the rules of the Organization all rewards earned by members of the departments do not go to the Individuals. Louden Returned Fire Louden, who was 49 years old. was shot eariy in the morning of June 14, 1923, as he and his partner, Frank Seifert, entered a hallway adjoining a drug store at Sixteenth St. and Central Ave., while investigating a reported attempt to rob the drug store. The wounded policeman was the first out of the a.utomobile when he and Seifert drove up from substation No. 1, Ashland Ave. and Twenty-First St. As Seifert followed his partner, he heard a shot. Although mortally wounded, Louden fired four shots as he and Seifert attempted to catch the bandit, who returned the lire and escaped, running east In Sixteenth St. Not until the bandit had escaped did Louden tell Seifert he was wounded. Seifert assisted his partner into the automobile and then called police headquarters. Within a few minutes, police were scouring the town for the policeman’s assailant.* Many suspects were arrested in the next few days, but all proved alibis or did not tally with Seifert’s description of the murderer. Louden, who had been on the fc.lice force since 1913, was survived by a widow, a daughter, Miss Blanche Louden, and agfson, Jesse Louden .A. The Louden hdWe is at 309 Palmer St.

Downey’s announcement followed receipt of a letter from teachers of School No. 43, Brightwood, naming twenty-on© .boys, between.,the ages of 14 and 16, as habitual smokers. Nine of the boys have court records. “Wo have a decided gang of cigarette smokers,” the letter read. “Several of the boys are smoking so excessively that their school work is seriously hampered. W© need your help in handling the situation.” f ; Downey said he had received nu-

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CARS DESTROYED IN |£P EIRE Greenwood Garage Burns Second Time, . i By Timet'Special GREENWOOD, Ind., Feb. 20. Thirty-two automobiles and four busses were burned in a $60,000 Are which destroyed the garage of the Greenwood Motor Transit Company here early today. The Are was discovered about 2 a. m. It was impossible to save any of the contents of the building. Tho transit company operate the Red Bus line between here and Indianapolis. The four busses burned was the entire property of the company. T. W. Quinn and J. O. Horner, the owners, state the loss Is partially covered by insurance. The thirty-two cars were property of residents here. A garage on this site burned June 8, 1923. and # *vas rebuilt recently by Harry McCormick, the present owner. MAN SEEKS~ ALIMONY Spouse Says Wife Kicked Him Out Week After Wedding. By United Press SOUTH BF.ND. Ind,. Feb. 20.—William L. Ream. South Bend, values bis “blasted romance" at $4,500. In a cross complaint to his wife’s divorce suit on file here. today. Ream deX! anded a dlvorco and a $4,500 alimony. Ho charges she kicked him out, of Ills home a week after their wed<ling, that she obtained, an restraining him from visiting his home and she Used the furniture and washing machine he gave' her, but denied him the right. ARREST IS INVESTIGATED KikliofT Inquiring Into Reported Clubbing of Taxicab Driver. Police Chief Rikhoff today is investigating the arrest of Donald Ewing, 21, of 133 W. Vermont St., taxi driver, who is charged with resisting an officer and parking in a safety zone. Trafflcman Willis, who made the arrest. is said to have clubbed Ewing and to 'have torn his coat off- getting him from the cab, according to nolrce. Ewing add. others said that he stopped the* cab by the safety zone to allow passengers to alight. When he refused to move on promptly, the arrest followed, police say.

merous other . complaints from school teachers and parents. “Anyone. who sells or gives cigarettes,, under any circumstances, to a child under 16 may be fined SSOO and given six months in jail,” Downey said. “The penalty for selling to children between 1C and 21 may be as much as SIOO and sixtv days. “I have a list of dealers who, - it is said, have violated the law, and will invest'gat© immediately. Some parents probably will be ■ called to court, also, to explain why their

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Obedience “Stick 'em up’.’’ Herman Osborn, 24, of 962 Elm St., replied that he had no money. He was searched. The two youths who had placed a gun in his face at Buchanan and Wright Sts., Tuesday night were disappointed. “Go home, and don’t look back,” they said. Osborn obeyed, according to police.

OAVISTAKESOVER ANDERSON’S JOB Anti-Saloon Head Plans to ‘Dry Up’ New York, By United Press NEW YORK, Feb. 20.—Arthur J. Dilvis, new superintendent of the New York State Anti-Saloon League, moved Into the league's office here today—and prepared to take up the fight to “dry up the greatest city in the world.” Davis is described as a man with a sense of humor. He “likes the theater and will smoke any kind of a cigar.” I T e is five feet, eight inches tall and weighs 230 pounds. The new superintendent will continue the New York prohibition fight where it was’ left off by William H. Anderson when the former superintendent resigned after his conviction of third degree forgery in connection with the league's books and his subsequent sentence, to the penitentiary now pending appeal. HERRIN SALOONS CLOSED Court Issues Jnjunclions at Request of Ivlan. , , By United Press EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Feb. 20 Forty-seven temporary injunctions, closing as many saloons in Herrin and Marion. Williamson County, were issued today by Federal Judge Engli iii here, on affidavits sworn by S. Glenn Young, leader of Ku-Klux Klan liquor raids in that county. , Fifty informations charging violating of the Volstead law were filed against Williamson County residents by Young and his assistants. HOURLY TEMPERATURE 6 a. m 22 10 a. m 24 7 a. m 23 11 a. m 24 8 a. m 23 12 (noon) 24 9 a. m 22

children have been allowed to smoke. "You would be surprised to know how many really small boys, from 8 years on up, use cigarettes. They come from all sorts of homes. The mothers invariably are shocked and refuse to believe their sons arc guilty, although they usually believe it of their sons’ playmates. “Most of the youthful smokers come from homes in which the father smokes and the boy often cannot understand why he must go to court for something dad does aW.”

Millionaire Expected to Appear Before Investigating Committee on Monday Lease Questioners Believe Holder Has ‘The Whole Story’ and They Want It

Oil Quiz Developments

Developments during last twenty-four hours in Teapot Dome investigation: Attorney General Daugherty refusedjo leave Cabinet despite demands for his resignation. Senator Pat Harrison, Democrat, Mississippi, demanded resignation of Theodoreßoosevelt, assistant secretary of Navy, in speech in Senate. Announcement made that Harry F. Sinclair will be called to testify before Senate investigating committee Monday. Senator Davis Elkins, Republican, West Virginia, admitted he dealt in large way in Sinclair oil stocks. E. L. Doheny says $100,000,000 could be made off of oil leases over period of twenty to twenty-five years with an investment of $500,000,000 required. ' By PAUL R. MALLON __ , United iress Stats Correspondent WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Harry F. Sinclair, back from Europe, will be called to the witness stand Monday in the oil scandal inquiry, Chairman Lenroot of the Teapot Dome committee announced today. The committee believes Sinclair has “the whole story” and ft intends to compel him to tell it. Lenroot said he saw no reason for issuing an immediate subpoena for Simjiair, who arrived in New York today. The chairman has been informed that Sinclair will communicate immediatelv with the committee and agree to appear on Monday.

Senator Walsh of Montana, the chief Investigator, had asked that Sinclair be met with an immediate subpoena as soon as he step* from the boat. Senator Adams, Colorado, Democrat, in Walsh’s absence, urged that the subpoena he issued. Oil Man Is “Busy” “Mr. Sinclair says he is a busy man and I’m afraid he will think he is too busy to appear before the committee,” Adams said. Walsh will return for the resumption of hearings Monday. Here is the evidence wanted from Sinclair: 1. Whether or not he loaned more than $25,000 to former Secretary of the Interior Fall; whether he advanced money to any other person or persons for influence in connection with the leases. 2. "What be knows about a sl,000,000 slush fund alleged to have been raised In New York through big oil interests, to cover stock losses of Government officials. 3. Whether or not he was “blackmailed’’ by any' one who has prior information regarding the sudden increase in wealth of

Daugherty Will Be Asked to Quit if Oil Connection Is Proved

By United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Attorney General Daugherty will be asked to Resign from the Cabinet if he is connected by one specific fact with the Teapot Dome oil scandal. Unless he is so connected by evidence turned i p ly the Senate Committee, his resignation is not likely to be asked by President Coolidge. This information was from reliably intormed quarters today. At the same time it was indicated Daugherty was preparing a statement, replying to the sensational charges made in the Senate late yesterday by Senator Wheeler, Montana, author of a resolution for a Senate investigation of Daugherty’s administration. Wheeler charged that the department was protecting crooks; that Jesse Smith, a friend of Daugherty, who committed suicide here a few months ago, accepted money in connection with cases before the department of justice; that Daugherty was a friend of E. L. Doheny and Harry F. Sinclair, lessees of the naval oil reserves; that Daugherty and E. B. McLean, owner of the Washington Post, conferred here Sunday and before that at Palm Beach. McLean has figured in the Senate investigation and it now under subpoena to appear again. Daugherty went to the White House shortly after noon for a conference

Senator Elkins of West Virginia Admits Dealing in Sinclair Stock

Bi) United Press WASHINGTON, Feb. 20.—Senator Davis Elkins, Republican, West Virginia, today told the United Press that he had dealt in Sinclair oil stocks through Benkard & Ca., the New York br, kors whose ”books were examined yesterday by the Senate Teapot Dome Committee. Elkins’ name was found on the books, it has been stated. Elkins said he bought and sold .several hundred shares of Sinclair cil stock. "Certainly I bought wad sold Sin-

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FaU about the time the leases were made. Whitney Testifies The testimony of Sinclair w£.s regarded as the crux of the Government case and may vitally offset the criminal prosecutions in contemplation. Harry- Payne Whitney, millionaire New York sportsman who was associated with Harry F. Sinclair, testified before the committee In executive session this morning. He was accompanied by his lawyer. Whitney was questioned by members of the committee as to his purchases and sales of Mammoth oil stock. Whitney told the committee that he now owns more than 100,000 shares, which he accumulated from various sources. He was before the committee half an hour. Through “leaks” from the commit-tee-room the name of the Senator alleged to have been found on the books of the Benkard brokerage concern in New York was disclosed. It is considered likely that he will soon ask permission to appear before the investigating committee and explain his speculations. Activity of the committee again was behind closed doors.

with President Coolidge. White House attaches said Daugherty asked for the appointment^ Gives Out Statement After leaving the White House Daugherty announced in a statement that he welcomed the opportunity to meet any charge against his administration of the department of justice. “I have read the speech of Senator Wheeler delicered in the Senate yesterday,” said Daugherty's statement. “He makes certain charges against me in my official capacity as attorney g. neral of the United States. These charges are made in general terms. I deny each one of them specifically and I know the facts and they have at all times been available to the Senator, yet neither the Senator nor anyone for him has asked me or the Department of Justice for inforn ation in reference to the charges n ade. “He has been misled and at the proper time the truth in regard to all these matters will be given to the public. These charges were all exploited before the judiciary committee of the House last winter in the impeachment proceedings against me and after a long and careful search and investigation, the committee by a vote cf 2 to 1, party lines being forgotten, declared them to be unfounded.”

clair oil stocks,” said Elkins. “I dealt in several hundred through Benkard Jfe Cos. and I don’t care who knows it. I buy and sell any kind of stock I want. There is no law against, it and my office does not prevent my dealing, in stocks. Senator Denies Pool “I did not have any tip from any one on Sinclair oil and I did not go into any pool. If I had gone into a pool, I would probably have lost more money than I did. “I have not the time nor the money to deal extensively In stocks, but 1 (Continued on Page t)